Cultural Humility: Video Analysis

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Cultural humility can be defined in a multitude of ways. The way in which a person defines cultural humility depends upon several factors, such as their cultural background, life experiences, personal biases and environmental influences. As stated in the video (Chávez, 2012), cultural humility is a multidimensional concept consisting of the following dimensions: lifelong learning and critical self-reflection, recognizing and challenging power imbalances for respectful partnerships, and institutional accountability. In order to achieve cultural humility, social workers, as well as those in other professions, must keep an open mind and have a willingness to learn new things about the cultures of others throughout their lives. Social workers must …show more content…

According to the video (Chávez, 2012), achieving cultural competence implies that you are all knowing and all powerful. Personally, I see cultural competence as an academic subject that many people attempt to perfect in a classroom and master without really understanding its usefulness in the real world. On the other hand, cultural humility requires people to relish in the unknown and enjoy not knowing everything about every person they encounter. As indicated in the video (Chávez, 2012), cultural humility is an approach or tool that you use that requires you to take into consideration where the client is coming …show more content…

Social workers are placed in a unique position to recognize the effects these power imbalances have on the diverse clientele they encounter and advocate for the social change that is required to challenge these imbalances. In the social work profession, so many people come in with issues they cannot overcome alone. The majority of these issues result from a lack of power and resources on their part and/or the oppression they have to suffer through and try to overcome. Social workers must realize that a person’s cultural background, ethnicity, race, and various other aspects of who they are may place them in a minority group that is discriminated against and held down by the oppression caused by the more powerful groups in society. Although social workers will never be able to eradicate every social issue that exists, the important thing is that we try to make social change and work to implement social policy that will, ideally, minimize the gaps that divide people in our

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