S W 313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Family Therapy, Acculturation, Intercultural Competence
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Cultural bias and insensitivity are ethical issued and avoiding them requires cultural competence. Cultural competence being aware of and appropriately responding to the ways in which cultural factors and cultural differences should influence what we investigate, how we investigate and how we interpret out findings. Simply seeking representation of minorities does not ensure that we get it. Cultural competence in research in social work and allied fields is a relatively recent development. Recruiting and retaining the participation of minority and oppressed. Potential reasons to explain the difficulties in the recruitment and retention of participants from minority and oppressed populations: Poisoned climate for research created by previous studies that were conducted in a culturally insensitive manner. The perception that the research question may have value for the larger society but have little value to a particular minority group. Members of a particular group are likely to distrust research in general or members of the majority culture in general.
