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cultural competence  

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  • Cultural competence is a set of fitting behaviors, attitudes, and policies in a system, agency, or among professionals that facilitate the system, agency, or professionals to work successfully in cross-cultural situations (King, Sims, & Osher, 2000). Ethnoscience is concerned with people's formation and understanding of diverse phenomena. [Source: Dictionary of Multicultural Psychology: Issues, Terms, and Concepts; Cultural Competence]

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