Typically, examining mental health cross-culturally involves simply transposing Western assessment tools with no examination of their validity [ 22].
Becoming culturally competent involves a broad spectrum of interventions and strategies, requiring various degrees of adaptation, from marginal changes to radical ones [ 8, 9, 24- 27] (see Table 1).
When you have children, culturally you become involved in their life.
Well you know I was born [in Cuba] and I spent the first five and a half years of my life there, but I've been very involved culturally with my heritage.
Cross-cultural adjustment involved splitting the DIF-affected items by country, producing a scale with both etic (culturally-general) and emic (culturally-specific) items.
The findings suggest a multidimensional health promotion programme design for ageing persons with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, involving culturally and linguistically modified activities and health information that should be provided by professionals with a person-centred approach.
One of the complications arising in the study of eastern European arts is the fact that the countries involved are culturally borderline, having an affinity with Roman Catholic Europe in the West (exemplified by the ex-votos in the brilliant Czech glass painting) and with the Byzantine Empire in the East.
It acknowledges the challenges and risks involved in culturally diverse group-work, but offers strategies for turning these risks into opportunities for deep, experiential, and enjoyable learning.
If health professionals do not feel a responsibility to adapt, they are less likely to be involved in culturally competent health care.
