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LATINO CULTURAL COMPETENCY IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
| Title: | LATINO CULTURAL COMPETENCY IN SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. |
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| Name(s): |
Menendez, Liana, Author Leon, Ana, Committee Chair University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2015 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | Cultural competence serves as resource for social workers and other helping professionals to improve service delivery by using approaches that are compatible with the client's cultural values and beliefs. As the Latino population continues to grow, understanding the culture has important implications for social work practice, advocacy and research. There is a dearth of cultural competence training and educational programs that seek to effectively identify, address and meet the unique cultural and linguistic needs of Latinos. With the growing population and a lack of culturally responsive services, clinicians familiar with the Latino culture and Latino cultural competency training and education programs, disparities among Latinos will continue to steadily rise. It is important for social work students and clinicians to receive advanced training in understanding the diverse needs of Latino populations. The purpose of this thesis is to review the existing literature to identify culturally competent practice methods and examine efforts to prepare social work students and clinicians to work with the Latino population. A search was conducted using PsychINFO, PubMed, Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) and Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) databases. Key terms used in the searches were"cultural competency training", "cultural competency education" and/or "social work/clinician" coupled with terms Hispanic or Latino. This thesis concludes with some considerations for integrating Latino cultural competency into the social work curriculum. | |
| Identifier: | CFH0004747 (IID), ucf:45346 (fedora) | |
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2015-05-01 B.S.W. Health and Public Affairs, School of Social Work Bachelors This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): |
Latino Hispanic cultural competence social work culture social work education |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004747 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
