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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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The solution discusses gender, race and stereotypes. Specifically it identifies the steps or levels on the cultural competence continuum.

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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 ...

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