For this week’s discussion forum, you will examine the cultural differences related to age and how they impact doing culturally competent work in human services. You will examine a different generation than your own, as well as examine your own areas of growth for working with different generations.
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Future Directions of Care Management: Care Management in a World of Many Cultures.
In your initial discussion forum post,
Describe the impact of age on cultural competence in the health and human services field.
Choose a generational group that is different from your own.
Identify at least two ways this cultural group might be different from your own based on research and scholarly sources.
Discuss why those differences are important when doing multicultural human services work.
Describe one personal area of growth for working with a different generational group.
Discuss how you will work on this area of growth.
Be sure to use at least two scholarly or credible sources to support your responses. For help with this, review the Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sourcesguide.
Guided Response: Reply to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. In your peer responses, try to reply to students who chose a different generational group that you chose and provide additional ways in which a human service worker can provide culturally competent services to their chosen population, using the resources to back up your ideas.