This course is the Treatment Improvement Protocol 59: Improving Cultural Competence which focuses on the essential ingredients for developing cultural competence as a counselor and for providing culturally responsive services in clinical settings as an organization.
This is part four (of 4) and the test will be on chapter 6 which emphasizes the concept that many subcultures exist within and across diverse ethnic and racial populations and cultures. It explores the concept of drug cultures, the relationship between drug cultures and mainstream culture, the values and rituals of drug cultures, and how and why people value their participation in drug cultures.