Cultural Humility: Challenging Assumptions We Make in the Workplace
Overview
Regardless of the program setting, organizations must strive to offer clinical services that are culturally sensitive to the service recipients. With an ever-changing demographic of clients, building cultural humility among community mental health staff has to be a deliberate and planned goal. This training focuses on skill-building in four competencies: ethics and values, self-awareness, service delivery, and language diversity. In addition to providing services to diverse service recipients, most community mental health and outreach programs are also staffed by a broad range of individuals, each with unique communication styles and values. The quality of services offered often depends on the degree to which effective communication takes place among all levels of staff, and certain critical sentiments can get lost in translation when staff members are unable to effectively exchange points of view. In this training, experiential exercises will be used to illustrate the concept of culturally bound frames of reference and how to use awareness of these frames to heighten cultural sensitivity. At the end of this training, attendees will be better equipped to offer culturally sensitive services and to effectively communicate points of view.
Learning objectives
- Define cultural humility
- Compose programmatic considerations to ensure cultural humility is addressed
- Explain why cultural humility is a process that is never fully realized
- Recognize the characteristics of a dominant system and how they relate to power and privilege
- Describe how culturally-bound frames of reference can impact mental health providers’ assumptions about and perspectives of clients
Professional credit
- This activity offers the following types of credit: APA
- 5.0 CEs are available.
- Additional details can be found in the activity document for this resource.
Training times
This training is provided at the time(s) and format(s) shown below.
Date | Time | Format | CE Credits | Availability |
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January 27, 2025 (Monday) | 9:30 am - 12:00 pm (for all dates) |
Virtual |
5.0 CEs
| Space available |