The Importance Of Cultural Competency Enhancing

Cultural competency enhances services provision; however, it is very unlikely to be able to offer a one size fits all approach given the ever-changing demographics and acculturation of groups. Drawbacks in cultural competency trainings is falling into over-generalization (Healey et.al., 2017, p.22.) While studies and models move towards guidelines that enhances and entrenches cultural competency models through multifaceted platforms, there is a fine line in falling to the same tribulations we are trying to elude. As our competency increases towards understanding other cultures our ethics should be the compass that supports our work, otherwise “when we don’t know what to do, we do more of what we know” (Bolman & Deal, 2013, p. 7). As a result,