Gender, Race and Stereotypes

Identify the steps or levels on the cultural competence continuum. Provide two specific ideas a sports psychology professional can do to move up to a higher cultural level competence.
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As you read the paragraphs below, reflect back on the table of cultural competency continuum levels to consider how the ideas in the discussion might affect a sports psychology professional in each of the levels. By doing so, you will easily discover more than two specific ideas that a sports psychology professional can apply in order to move up to a higher cultural level competence. All sources that I used are listed after my discussion for your reference.

According to Cross, Bazron, Dennis, and Isaacs (1992), cultural competency develops in stages along a continuum. The levels are as follows:

1) Cultural Destructiveness

• Purposefully destructs culture
• Dehumanizes or sub-humanizes minority clients
  2) Cultural Incapacity
• Holds paternal posture toward “lesser” races
• Believes in the supremacy of the dominant culture
  3) Cultural Blindness
• Holds philosophy of being unbiased
• Believes that helping approaches traditionally used by the dominant culture are universally applicable
• Behaviors reflect a well-intended liberal philosophy
• Ignores cultural strengths, encourages assimilation, and blames the victim for their problems
• Views differences from the cultural deprivation model which asserts that problems are the result of inadequate cultural resources
  4) Cultural Precompetence
• Realizes own weakness in serving minorities and attempts to improve some aspect of service
• Desires to deliver quality services by asking “What can we do?”
• Has begun …