ABSTRACT

Today, social workers serve a growing number of clients who are culturally and linguistically diverse. The importance of cultural competence in the quality of social work is evident. There is a greater need for different educational models and approaches to enhance the teaching of cultural competence in social work students. The present research study was carried out as an intervention study with a pretest and posttest design, with both experimental(n = 29) and control(n = 29) groups. For this study, we developed the Cultural Competence Education Model (CCEM) in the context of Turkey by examining various preexisting social work education models. We used CCEM in the intervention phase of the study. The results of this study confirm the effectiveness of the CCEM. In particular, the data obtained from the pretest and posttest measurements show that the content of the training contributes to the cultural knowledge, self-awareness, awareness and cultural sensitivity of the participants on pressure and diversity. To conclude, the study provides offers recommendations for the development of basic knowledge for cultural competence skills and culturally effective practices in the future, and concludes with a call that additionally calls for the integration of integrating cultural competence education into the general social work education curriculum.

摘要

今天，社会工作者为越来越多的文化和语言多样化的客户提供服务。文化能力对社会工作质量的重要性是显而易见的。更需要不同的教育模式和方法来加强社会工作学生的文化能力教学。本研究是作为一项干预研究进行的，具有前测和后测设计，实验（n  = 29）和对照（n = 29) 组。在这项研究中，我们通过研究各种先前存在的社会工作教育模式，在土耳其的背景下开发了文化能力教育模式 (CCEM)。我们在研究的干预阶段使用了 CCEM。这项研究的结果证实了 CCEM 的有效性。特别是，从前测和后测测量中获得的数据表明，培训内容有助于参与者对压力和多样性的文化知识、自我意识、意识和文化敏感性。最后，该研究为发展文化能力技能和文化有效实践的基础知识提供了建议，