Culture and Family-Centered Practice
Author: Goetz, Kathy
Date Published: 1996
This report discusses the developing of cultural knowledge within individuals to becoming culturally competent. This report goes into what a family-centered professional should know about the different cultures and how they work as a culture, plus what information they should worry about or question. This discussion contains several types of information with which professionals in the field should be familiar, and that agencies that work with families should institutionalize. Topics that have important implications for child-rearing and child protection and are frequent sources of misjudgment and misdiagnosis are described.
Date Published: 1996
This report discusses the developing of cultural knowledge within individuals to becoming culturally competent. This report goes into what a family-centered professional should know about the different cultures and how they work as a culture, plus what information they should worry about or question. This discussion contains several types of information with which professionals in the field should be familiar, and that agencies that work with families should institutionalize. Topics that have important implications for child-rearing and child protection and are frequent sources of misjudgment and misdiagnosis are described.
