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Lesson 3 Becoming Interculturally Competent

This document discusses the importance of cultural competence for recreation therapists. It provides an overview of Milton Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity, which outlines a continuum from ethnocentric to ethnorelative ways of experiencing cultural difference. The model includes stages of denial, defense, minimization, acceptance, adaptation, and integration. Understanding this model can help recreation therapists understand how to become more culturally competent in their work and move from ethnocentric to ethnorelative perspectives.

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Lesson 3 Becoming Interculturally Competent

This document discusses the importance of cultural competence for recreation therapists. It provides an overview of Milton Bennett's developmental model of intercultural sensitivity, which outlines a continuum from ethnocentric to ethnorelative ways of experiencing cultural difference. The model includes stages of denial, defense, minimization, acceptance, adaptation, and integration. Understanding this model can help recreation therapists understand how to become more culturally competent in their work and move from ethnocentric to ethnorelative perspectives.

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Becoming

Interculturally
Competent
Role of Cultural Competence in
effective practice
In order to provide person centred care and services:
• Recreation Therapy services must be culturally relevant
and able to meet the needs of groups served.

• The Recreation Therapist must understand the complex


nature of culture and personal identify.

• Services must promote understanding, and respect for


people from diverse backgrounds.
Becoming Culturally
Competent

Further
Socialization Changed Education /
Ethnocentric Ethnorelative Cultural
Diversity Perspective or Increased
Thinking Thinking Competence
Education Attitude Knowledge of
Cultures
Homework
• Read Milton Bennetts Article “Becoming Inter-Culturally
Competent”.

• Found in My Canvas
Milton Bennett’s Article
• He wanted to explain why some people seemed to get a lot
better at communicating across cultural boundaries while
other people didn’t improve at all.

• As people became more inter-culturally competent it seemed


that there was a major change in the quality of their
experience, which he called the move from ethnocentrism to
ethnorelativism

• He believes there are six distinct kinds of experience spread


across the continuum from ethnocentrism to ethnorelativism.
Denial, Defense, Minimization, Acceptance, Adaptation and Integration.
Different ways in which people react
to cultural differences
• The more ethnocentric orientations can be seen as ways of
avoiding cultural difference, either by denying its existence,
by raising defenses against it, or by minimizing its
importance.

• The more ethnorelative worldviews are ways of seeking


cultural difference, either by accepting its importance, by
adapting perspective to take it into account, or by
integraing the whole concept into a definition of identify
Covid Group Work
Homework: Journal Article: Becoming Interculturally Competent.
Milton J. Bennett
• Sit in groups of 4
• Arrange tables in groups of 4 facing each other

• Using the DMIS Chart, Work through the stage of the


Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS)
at your assigned table.

• 5 – 7 minutes at each table – until chart is complete


Group Work
Homework: Journal Article: Becoming Interculturally Competent.
Milton J. Bennett
• Sit in groups of 6
• Arrange tables in groups of 8 facing each other

• Using the DMIS Chart, Work through the stage of the Developmental Model
of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) at your assigned table.

• When given the signal from the instructor,


• Green moves ahead (clockwise – increasing in number 1 - 6),
• Red moves backwards (counter clockwise – decreasing in number 1 - 6)

• Move to your next table and form a new group when the instructor directs
you to move.

• 5 – 7 minutes at each table – until chart is complete


Let’s Take it Up Together!
Where are You?

• Which stage are you in?


• Are you in different stages with different groups? Why do
you think that?
• If you want to move along the cultural competence
continuum what do you need to do to get there?
RT Professionals have a
responsibility to
• become aware of and deal with their own biases,
stereotypes, and assumptions that undergird their
practice

• become aware of culturally different clients values and


worldviews

• Develop appropriate intervention strategies that take


into account the social, cultural, historical and
environmental influences of culturally different clients.
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References
• Bennett, M. J. (2004). Becoming interculturally competent. In
J.S. Wurzel (Ed.) Toward multiculturalism: A reader in
multicultural education. Newton, MA: Intercultural Resource
Corporation.

• Lum, D. (Ed.) (2007). Culturally competent practice. A


framework for understanding diverse groups and justice
issues, third edition. Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher
Education.

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