Transcultural Competence

Jerry Glover, Harris L. Friedman, W. Gerald Glover

Globalization and diversity are the rules today, and professionals must be positioned to meet the challenges - and enjoy the benefits - of interacting successfully with clients and colleagues from different cultures. Transcultural competence is the ability to adapt to sociocultural settings anywhere in the world, domestically or internationally, with or without prior knowledge of the cultural orientations of the people and societies one is encountering. The concepts Glover and Friedman delineate and the applications, assessment tools, and intervention approaches they provide in this cutting-edge book draw on case studies that illustrate commonly encountered cultural dilemmas in a variety of practice areas. The framework offered herein is formulated to be immediately practicable for consulting and organizational psychologists and a range of other individual consultants and community...