Assignment task: Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum,
Read Chapter 5: Loue, S. (2022). Diversity, cultural humility, and the helping professions: Building bridges across difference.
- The full-text version of this ebook is available through the University of Arizona Global Campus library.
- Read Chapter 6: Transforming Learning Through Cultural Humility in Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions: Building Bridges Across Difference.
- Read the webpage article Cultural Humility Cultural Competence and Why Providers Need Both.
- Read the article Rethinking Cultural Competence: Shifting to Cultural Humility.
- View the video How 'White Fragility' Reinforces Racism.
In your initial discussion post,
1. Describe the differences between cultural competence and cultural humility.
2. Discuss the factors that limit uncomfortable discussions of race and privilege associated with White fragility.
3. Identify three pitfalls and challenges that may hinder the attainment of cultural competency while maintaining implicit bias and stereotypes.
4. Select two examples from your life (work and home) in which you did not use cultural humility and the negative outcomes that followed.
5. Describe two solutions that will encourage you and your classmates to adopt sensitivity towards people from different races, classes, ethnicities, religions, and so forth.