Week 2 - Cultural Humility & Ethical Practice Flashcards
Describe why multicultural awareness is important?
• Awareness of our clients’ cultural background enables us to understand their uniqueness more fully
• We live in a multicultural world where every client encountered will be different from the last and different from you in some way
• Without a basic understanding you will fail to establish an empathic relationship with the client(s)
Multicultural Competence includes which 4 factors?
multicultural awareness, knowledge, skills, and action
*Counselling rests on an ethical foundation of multicultural awareness, knowledge, skills, and action
T/F - in terms of multicultural competence, it is your client’s responsibility to teach you?
False - it’s your responsibility to learn and seek knowledge
What does The RESPECTFUL interviewing model mean?
•R- religion / spirituality
•E – economic / social class
•S – Sexual Identity, sexual orientation, gender identity
•P – personal style / education
•E – ethnic / racial identity
•C – chronically / lifespan challenges and status
•T – trauma / crisis
•F – family background
•U – unique physical characteristics
•L – location of residence, language differences
To add to this list– ecological social work, we have to think about a land based perspective (how we are exploiting the world) – what do we ask clients about that.
What term is used to describe various social stratifications that exist (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, ability, age, socioeconomic status, etc.) that do not exist separately from one another, but are interwoven together.
Intersectionality
T/F - Our identities and the intersections among them are do not shift based on time, place, situation, and other pieces of context.
false
Unless you see yourself as a cultural and intersectional being you will WHAT
have difficulty developing awareness of others.
We need have have awareness of which 3 things? (hint - Assum, val, bia)
assumptions, values, and biases
What term is used to describe the way you and your client interpret humanity and the world.
Worldview
T/F - we need to have knowledge worldview of the client and their identity/practices
true
What are more than just insults, insensitive comments, or generalized jerky behaviour.
Microaggressions
What term is used to describe the kinds of remarks, questions, or actions that are painful because they have to do with a person’s membership in a group that’s discriminated against or subject to stereotypes.
Microaggressions
T/F - Microaggressions happen casually, frequently, and often without any harm intended, in everyday life
true
Cultural humility in counseling is:
WHAT practice, it’s not just knowledge like cultural competence
Nuanced
T/F - Cultural humility in counseling is aligned with SW values, intersubjectivity, inter-sectionality, bi-directional (mutual), collaborative
true
Cultural humility in counseling addresses WHAT – which mitigates therapeutic power imbalances. Be curious!
positionality
T/F - Cultural humility in counseling positively associated with therapeutic outcomes
true
Cultural humility in counseling creates a space for WHAT
learning!
Cultural humility in counseling addresses WHICH structures and works to dismantle these (i.e. racism a client has experienced)
oppressive
T/F - Cultural Humility is ever changing and should change - evolving
true
Cultural humility in counseling highlights that the relationship is cross cultural, takes away “WHAT”
othering
From the Danso Article:
T/F - Cultural competence is a framework capable of promoting respect for cultural diversity and difference
true
From the Danso Article:
T/F - Although cultural humility sounds semantically appealing and politically correct (from class this could be seen as a microsggression), it appears not to have greater practice advantage over cultural competence.
True
In terms of cultural competence, the term ‘competency’ invokes the idea of getting to a certain WHAT
endpoint where one is considered competent or proficient in another culture.
T/F - From the Danso Article, he says that cultural humility lacks conceptual clarity and a coherent framework; even the term humility is not clearly defined.
true, also say that cultural humility is essentially a repackaging of anti-oppressive practice
This this list part of Cultural Awareness, Cultural Safety, Cultural Competence, and Cultural Humility
•Examine one’s cultural beliefs, values, and ethnocentric views through reflective self evaluation
•Understand how culture shapes thinking, behavior, self-identity, and interactions
•Respect other cultures and their worldviews, acknowledging that no culture is superior to another
•Appreciate the impact of sociopolitical structures on minorities’ experiences of oppression
Cultural Awareness
This this list part of Cultural Awareness, Cultural Safety, Cultural Competence, and Cultural Humility
•Build working relationships in environments where clients feel comfortable
•Treat people with dignity and work from a position of respect, humility, and trust
•Validate and include indigenous epistemologies in working relationships
•Empower clients by engaging them as partners in the services offered
•Embrace the legitimacy of difference and diversity in human behavior and in society
Cultural Safety
Is the list below part of Cultural Awareness, Cultural Safety, Cultural Competence, and Cultural Humility
•Develop awareness of one’s cultural values, beliefs, and biases
•Gain knowledge of the normative behavior and beliefs of the cultural group
•Demonstrate ability to combine awareness and knowledge in professional practice
•Acknowledge diversity as normative and difference as resource, not problems to overcome
•Acknowledge culture as being fluid and dynamic
Cultural Competence
This list is part of which - Cultural Awareness, Cultural Safety, Cultural Competence, and Cultural Humility
•Understand self and other
•Recognize one’s prejudices and cultural misperceptions
•Engage in continuous self-critique
•Challenge power differentials in working relationships and in organizations
•Develop an attitude of not knowing and learn from the client
Cultural Humility
Commit ourselves to an ongoing process of compassionate self-awareness and inquiry, supported by a community of trusted and cognitively-diverse colleagues
a. Ongoing Self-Reflection
b. Seek others’ perspectives
Is known by what?
Cultural Humility, from Gottlieb article
Be open and teachable: strive to see cultures as our clients see them, rather than as we have come to know or define them
a. Be a ‘student of the client’
b. Willingness to admit a misstep; part of learning process
is known by what?
Cultural Humility, from Gottlieb article
Always bear in mind the social structures that have shaped reality as our clients experience it
a. Clients’ situation only understood when the systems they interact with are included
is known by what?
Cultural Humility, from Gottlieb article
In terms of cultural humility, culture is broadly and inclusively defined, encompassing any identity that holds “a common set of values, beliefs, or practices” that include what?
Includes:
skin color
ethnicity
religion
citizenship
gender identity
sexual identity
ability
size
socioeconomic status
addiction history
trauma survivorship
family constellation, etc
Cultural humility seeks to equalize WHAT
the power imbalance.
Describe Self-Determination in relation to Cultural Humility
We may offer things, but only the client knows what is best for them.
Morals creep into WHAT
ethics, so keep them at bay though so you can remain ethical (i.e. client needing the bathroom to use drugs)
The rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions
Is it ethics or morals?
Ethics
Principles or habits that have to do with right or wrong, dos and don’ts are ethics or morals?
morals
Do ethics or morals come from the social system - external
ethics, because society says it is the right thing to do
Do ethics or morals come from the individual (internal)
morals, we do it because we believe in something being right or wrong.
Do ethics or morals remain dependent on others for definition and tend to be consistent within a certain context, but can vary between contexts
ethics
Do ethics or morals remain consistent, but can change if an individual’s beliefs change
morals
Are ethics or morals governed by professional and legal guidelines within a particular time and place
ethics
Do ethics or morals transcends cultural norms
morals
Describe in point form the 11 OCSSWSW Social Work Code of Ethics
1- best interest of the client
2- intrinsic worth of clients
3- duties and obligations with integrity and objectivity
4- maintain competence
5- not exploit the relationship
6- protect the confidentiality
7- engages in another profession
8- not discredit the profession of social work
9- shall advocate for workplace conditions
10- shall promote excellence
11- shall advocate change in the best interest of the client
What governs the topic of data privacy, and how private-sector companies can collect, use and disclose personal information?
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
In Ontario, which sets out rules for the collection, use and disclosure of personal health information. With limited exceptions, the legislation requires health information custodians to obtain consent before they collect, use or disclose personal health information.
The Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA
What are the 5 limits to confidentiality?
1- Harm (self, others, children)
2- Subpoena
3- Government reporting (for serious occurrences)
4- Emergency situations - call 911
5- Need to know
