Foundations of Cultural Humility
This concept emphasizes lifelong learning, self-reflection, and recognizing power imbalances.
Cultural Humility
This approach prioritizes partnership rather than authority in the helping relationship.
What is collaboration?
This MI principle aligns with cultural humility by centering the client’s perspective.
What is express empathy?
This system includes immediate relationships like family and peers.
What is the microsystem?
A client says, “You don’t understand my culture.” A culturally humble response would involve this.
What is validating the client’s experience and inviting them to share more?
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Unlike cultural competence, this approach rejects the idea that one can “master” another’s culture.
Cultural Humility
A culturally humble practitioner would avoid making these about a client’s identity.
What are assumptions or stereotypes?
In a culturally humble MI approach, this is guided by the client’s values, not the provider’s.
What is change talk?
Cultural humility here means understanding interactions between systems, like school and family.
What is the mesosystem?
A practitioner assumes a client’s behavior is “noncompliant” without context. Cultural humility would require this first.
What is exploring the client’s perspective (or asking about barriers)?
This is the process of examining one’s own biases, beliefs, and positionality in practice.
What is Self-Reflection
This involves acknowledging when you don’t know something about a client’s culture and asking respectfully.
What is cultural curiosity or humble inquiry?
This MI skill involves asking open-ended questions to explore cultural meaning.
What are open ended questions?
This system includes broader institutions that indirectly impact the client, like media or policies.
What is the exosystem?
In MI, a culturally humble practitioner would respond to ambivalence by doing this.
What is reflecting and exploring ambivalence?
Cultural humility requires actively addressing this dynamic between provider and client.
What are power imbalances?
This NASW value aligns with cultural humility by emphasizing dignity and worth of the person.
What is respect for dignity and worth of a person?
Cultural humility in MI requires avoiding this when a client resists change.
What is confrontation (arguing)?
Cultural values, societal norms, and systemic oppression are located here.
What is the macrosystem?
A client’s reluctance to seek services due to immigration concerns reflects influence from this system.
What is the exosystem (or macrosystem)?
This term refers to openness to learning from clients as experts of their own experience.
Client or Person Centered
This term describes adapting interventions to align with a client’s cultural context and lived experience.
What is cultural responsive practice?
This MI concept involves supporting autonomy while recognizing systemic and cultural barriers.
What is supporting self-efficacy?
Cultural humility in this system involves recognizing how time, history, and generational trauma affect clients.
What is the chronosystem?
A practitioner adjusts their communication style after learning a client values indirect communication. This demonstrates this.
What is cultural responsiveness grounded in humility?