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.
