The Intercultural Development Continuum is a developmental model made up of five orientations toward cultural differences and similarities. It is a culture-general model, which means that it …

The IDC provides a structure for understanding how people experience difference. Five stages of development describe how a person sees, thinks about, and interprets events happening …

Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC) Becoming interculturally competent is a developmental process. No one is born interculturally competent and people don’t build this …

Progression of intercultural development traverses a continuum, i.e., the Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC), from monocultural to intercultural, marked by five stages: …

The intercultural competence development strategy for Acceptance is to help individuals or groups interact across cultures in ways that expand their knowledge about cultural differences, …

What is the Intercultural Development Continuum? The Intercultural Development Continuum (IDC) is a model used in the IDI to aide in understanding your organizations orientation toward …

Aug 15, 2025 · Intercultural competence is not an innate trait but a skill that can be developed over time. The intercultural development continuum provides a framework for understanding …

We talk with Sidney Van Dyke, the director of health equity and language access at Regions Hospital. She goes over the five mindsets along the Intercultural Development Continuum and …

The intercultural development continuum is a theory created by Mitchell Hammer (2009) that helps demystify moving from monocultural to intercultural approaches.

While Bennett (1986) included six stages in the model, the most frequently used version of this framework, known as the intercultural development continuum names five stages: Denial, …