Cultural Humility as Mental Health Providers
Across
- 4. Willingness to receive feedback about cultural missteps.
- 5. Creating environments where clients can express identity without fear.
- 7. Ensuring all clients feel welcomes and valued.
- 10. Foundational attitude toward clients' identities and lived experiences.
- 11. Essential relationship element built through respect and openness.
- 12. Working with clients as partners in their care.
- 14. Treating every client as inherently worthy.
- 15. Commitment to fair treatment and access for all clients.
- 17. Acknowledging limits of one's own cultural knowledge.
Down
- 1. Conscious recognition of power dynamics and social context.
- 2. Taking action to challenge inequities affecting clients.
- 3. Ongoing practice of examining one's own biases and assumptions.
- 6. Openness to learning from clients rather than assuming expertise.
- 8. Lifelong process required to practice cultural humility.
- 9. Taking responsibility for correcting harm when it occurs.
- 13. Core skill for understanding clients' cultural perspectives.
- 16. Understanding experiences from the client's point of view.