Explain whether research has shown that social workers are culturally competent and the implications of this fact for social work education.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: The limited research that has been done on this topic has suggested that social workers are culturally competent. It has also suggested that cultural competence does not vary by type of social worker. The fact that social work students tend to enter social work education with basic cultural competence suggests that they could be better served with an advanced level of training on this theme.
Learning Objective: 3-9: Report on the question of the extent to which social workers have been found to be culturally competent in survey research.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Are Social Workers Culturally Competent?
Difficulty Level: Hard
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