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Running head: REFLECTION ON CULTURAL COMPETENCE 1

REFLECTION ON CULTURAL COMPETENCE 4

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How would you describe your cultural competence after reading ‘introduction to cultural competence?

Cultural competence is a process that involves various steps when approaching various concepts of interest. In cultural training, there are also the training procedures where main issues arise from the target groups, such as the lack of specific strategies and skills that help in dealing with any indigenous context. The institution’s impact on the profession is very high, where it has provided the necessary resources for learning the topic. This is through the various learning materials and human power. The lecturer provided much information on how cultural competence is initiated and how it can be used by one in the professional field

Using the media article as a starting point, what is your understanding of indigenous Australian people’s relationship with criminal competence?

To my understanding of the information in the media article provided, I find that Australia’s indigenous individuals from the media information provided, then there is a noted negative and positive relationship of the indigenous people relationship with the criminal competence. The negative relationship is on the unfairness observed in some courts in dealing with some cases where there’s a noted plan of judging one side than the other. There is also discrimination in some communities in criminality cases where some specific groups of individuals are e said not to participate fully in court cases. For the positive relationship with the criminal competence, there are a noted reconciliation cases that are said to be not done through the dichotomous languages. Also, there is a positive relationship between those being favored by a particular case where they tend to show it for the favor to be done on them Singer, Judy, et, al, 2015 23 (6) Australian psychiatry 614-619.

Work with the Singer et al. (2015) article to discuss strategies that provide positive outcomes when working effectively in indigenous contexts.

These strategies include being patient strategy where according to the article, whenever there is patience between the individuals of the indigenous context, then understanding develop, which makes them work effectively with each other. Patience portrays traits of coping with most individual’s weaknesses and the strengths where one doesn’t disclose off any of the negative traits that might end bringing fights amongst the individuals. Another one is the transparency strategy which closely indicates much of the trust one has in another person. The article describes that there should be transparency in making plans for the future of the Australian environs’ indigenous individuals. It’s also displayed in the communication context and in dealing with the issues that need to be solved.

The article states that whenever somebody acts have no transparency, then there is no trust in his/her manner of dealing with the several issues being dealt with by the indigenous group. Another strategy is being trustworthy, which is the most arguable core element that governs the indigenous people’s relationship. The article explains that for trust to be built, it takes many years, but for it to be broken, a second is even enough to break it and take a long time to take it back to actual levels upon being broken Armour, D., Warren, E., & Miller, J. (2016) 44(5) Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 421-435. 

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Armour, D., Warren, E., & Miller, J. Working together: Strategies that support the cross-cultural engagement of Indigenous teacher assistants working in Indigenous contexts (2016) 44(5) Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 421-435. 

Lewis, M. J., & Stenlake, B. W. A working guide towards Debiasing higher education through the Affordances of Indigenous Australian cultural competence curriculum. (2020) Teaching Aboriginal Cultural Competence, 169-180. 

Singer, Judy, et, al, ‘“You didn’t consult community, you involved us”: transformation of a ‘top-down’ Aboriginal mental health project into a ‘bottom-up’ community-driven process’ 2015 23 (6) Australian psychiatry 614-619.