Cultural competence and social justice form the twin pillars of contemporary social work education, aiming to prepare practitioners who can engage ethically and effectively with diverse populations.

Social workers who learn how to support patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors have a good chance of providing quality care, BCSSW Professor Karen Bullock said at the School’s annual ...

“Cultural competence” was coined by anthropologist James Green in 1982, and then disseminated to the fields of medicine (see Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998), social work, psychology, psychotherapy, ...

Despite being a cherished ideal in psychotherapy for decades, the term “cultural competence” has become increasingly flawed. While largely well-intentioned, it has poorly accounted for the power ...