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Cultural Competence Reflective JournalTotal marks: 10\% Due date: 11.03.2021 Length: 500 words excluding references Group Assessment: No Submission method options: Interact2 Journal TASK In this task you will be creating a reflective journal on cultural competence. After completing the learning activities in Topic 1 of this subject, you are to write a 500-word journal entry which reflects on your current understandings of yourself in relation to: your future profession; Indigenous Australian people’s relationships with the criminal justice system; and strategies that build culturally safe relationships. Use the content from Topic 1 and the following resources to support your reflection. These resources will assist you to engage critically with this task: 1. Ranzjin, Rob, Keith R McConnochie and Wendy Nolan, Psychology and Indigenous Australians: Foundations of Cultural Competence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) Introduction to cultural competence 2. Murphy, Catherine, ‘ Australia entering ‘second convict age’ as imprisonment rates soar ’, The Guardian (online), 30 August 2019). Singer, Judy, et al,  You didn’t just consult community, you involved us”: transformation of a ‘top-down’ Aboriginal mental health project into a ‘bottom-up’ community-driven process   (2015) 23 (6) Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 614-619Consider the following questions to frame your journal entry but provide a synthesised response, written in a formal and respectful manner: 1. How would you describe your cultural competence after reading ‘Introduction to cultural competence’? 2. Using the media article as a starting point, what is your understanding of Indigenous Australian people’s relationship with the criminal justice system? 3. Work with the Singer et al (2015) article to discuss strategies that provide positive outcomes when working effectively in Indigenous contexts.   RATIONALE This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s: · be able to reflect critically on social, cultural, and institutional impact on their profession, including assumptions stemming from the history of legislation and interactions with Indigenous Australian peoples and communities. · be able to demonstrate knowledge of Indigenous community protocols and the major issues and strategies relevant to working effectively in Indigenous contexts. This task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of cultural competency and Indigenous Australian people’s relationship with the criminal justice system. This will build an understanding of how to work effectively with Indigenous Australian peoples within their professional practice. Assessment 1 is a short diagnostic task that allows students to practice working with credible sources and writing in a formal and respectful manner. Constructive feedback will be provided that students can use in subsequent assessments MARKING CRITERIA AND STANDARDS Criteria HIGH DISTINCTION 8.5-10/10Copyright Notice: WARNING This material has been reproduced and communicated to you by or on behalf of Charles Sturt University in accordance with section 113P of the Copyright Act 1968 (Act). The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further reproduction or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Do not remove this notice Reading Description: Ranzijn, R., McConnochie, K. R., & Nolan, W. (2009). Introduction to cultural competence. In Psychology and Indigenous Australians : foundations of cultural competence (pp. 3- 12). South Yarra, VIC : Palgrave/Macmillan. Reading Description Disclaimer: (This reference information is provided as a guide only, and may not conform to the required referencing standards for your subject) Introduction to cultural competence Introduction Cultural competence is essential if we are to work effectively with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.Western psychologists (and most Australian psychologists today are from a Western cultural background) are reasonably culturally competent when they work with Western clients or communities, since they share aspects of the same culture and therefore know the culture of the Western client. However, many Western psychologists have a poor understandin~ of non-Westtrn cultures. This may result in misunderstanding, miscommunication and reduced effectiveness of treatment and intervention. If a non-Western potential client, who may need psychological intervention, feels that a Western practitioner or therapist does not understand them or is not sensitive to their cultural differences, they may be deterred from attending an initial appointment or, if they have managed to come once, they may not come again. In extreme cases, a practitioner who is culturally incompe tent may do more harm than good. People are culturally diverse in a large range of attributes, including ethnicity, socioeconomic background, gender, sexual orientation, and level of physical or intellectual ability. (Culture is explored in detail in chapter 2.) So, even a Western psychologist working with a Western client needs to be culturally competent if the therapist is, say, a heterosexual male and the client is, say, a homosexual woman. This book focuses on cultural competence in relation to Indigenous Australians . However, we hope that what you learn will help to make your work more effective no mat;i:er who you encounter in your working life.We hope it will also help to make you a more culturally competent person in your everyday social life. Emergence of interest in cultural competence Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest worldwide in the concept of cultural competence (sometimes called cultural competency), and this interest seems to be ill.creasing. A growing number of health and human service professions hav