The past 2 decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the global migration of health care providers, along with an increasingly diverse patient population. Since culture fundamentally influences all healthrelated behaviors, an understanding of patient perspectives, values, beliefs, and approaches to health and well-being is critical to ensuring the best possible health outcomes. In addition, pr...

Achieving cultural competence in the care of a patient who is a member of an ethnic or racial minority is a multifaceted project involving specific cultural knowledge as well as more general skills and attitude adjustments to advance cross-cultural communication in the clinical encounter. Using the important example of the African American patient, the authors examine relevant historical and cu...

In this study, the directed (deductive) content analysis approach was adopted to explore the components of translator trainers’ competencies through in-depth individual semistructured interviews conducted with 10 expert Iranian translator trainers at different universities around Iran. Theoretical model was the translator trainer profile proposed by The European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Gr...

Acknowledgements The authors of this Toolkit have benefited greatly and drawn from the work of many others in the fields of mental health services and cultural competence. has generously lent the Toolkit project team her expertise in mental health services and cultural competence and has provided invaluable input on the design and focus of the Toolkit. Early work on the Toolkit also involved co...

My mission was clearly scripted: to treat the seriously mentally ill—those unfortunate individuals with schizophrenia, manicdepressive illness, depression, and serious anxiety disorders. After expending plenty of time, money, and effort learning conventional American medicine, I needed to deprogram myself from its reliance on deductive reasoning to solve medical problems while in Zimbabwe. I ne...

The current project sought to develop the Mexican Intercultural Competence Scale (MICS), which assesses group-specific skills and attributes that facilitate effective cultural interactions, among adults of Mexican descent. Study 1 involved an Exploratory Factor Analysis (N = 184) that identified five factors including Ambition/Perseverance, Networking, the Traditional Latino Culture, Family Rel...