The Inclusionary Cultural Model

Schools of social work must educate students to perform as sensitive and knowledgeable professionals in multiethnic settings. The Inclusionary Cultural Model combines teaching traditional sociocultural theories with an experiential classroom component that enables students to move from an emic (Lum, 1986) process of cultural self-definition to an etic (Lum, 1986) perspective of acceptance and respect for the cultural systems of others.