CRITERIA 3
Biases: Describe one’s past or present biases toward others of different cultures.(25%)COMPETENCY
Analyze multicultural issues in psychology and the importance of multicultural competency in the profession.
NON_PERFORMANCE
Does not describe past or present biases toward others of different cultures or strategies for improving one’s cultural competency related to bias. Self-awareness through honesty, depth, variety, detail, and/or nuance is not present.
BASIC
Briefly describes at least one (1) bias toward others of different cultures or strategies for improving one’s cultural competency related to bias. Self-awareness through honesty, depth, variety, detail, and/or nuance is not present.
PROFICIENT
Adequately describes at least two (2) past or present biases toward others of different cultures and one strategy (per bias) for improving one’s cultural competency related to these biases. Self-awareness is evident through honesty, depth, variety, detail, and/or nuance.
DISTINGUISHED
Comprehensively describes at least two (2) past or present biases toward others of different cultures and one strategy (per bias) for improving one’s cultural competency related to these biases. Self-awareness is evident through honesty, depth, variety, detail, and/or nuance.
COMMENTS:
You did a good job explaining your biases. Unfortunately, you didn’t comprehensively discuss strategies to address all of the biases. What cultural competence strategies will you employ that are behavioral, measurable, and professional to increase your cultural competence? For example, let’s say that you wanted to get competent in hypnosis. What would you do in order to learn how to use it with patients? Would you simply remain open to learning about hypnosis or “educate” yourself? How would you actually take action to gain competence? Now, apply that same logic to getting culturally competent.
