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Doubling the Cloak of (In)Competence in Client/Therapist Interactions
Author(s) -
FITZGERALD MAUREEN H.,
WILLIAMSON PETER,
RUSSELL CHERRY,
MANOR DEBRA
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
medical anthropology quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.855
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1548-1387
pISSN - 0745-5194
DOI - 10.1525/maq.2005.19.3.331
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , cloak , narrative , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , optics , physics , metamaterial , linguistics
Cultural competence is used (often implicitly) to make decisions in human service settings. When therapists make decisions about whether or not a particular service will be offered, they place themselves in a position where their own competence can be judged. Using narrative data on independence and the elderly, we apply Edgerton's idea of the cloak of competence to demonstrate this doubling effect.