cultural Humility

Instructions for Assignment As you read in the Campinha-Bacote Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Health Care, cultural knowledge provides only one component of a positive cultural encounter. You also need to incorporate cultural desire, awareness, and skill (Campinha -Bacote, 2002). Here is a link to her 2002 article: http://journals.sagepub.com.frontier.idm.oclc.org/doi/pdf/10.1177/10459602013003003 (Links to an external site.) For this assignment you will use popular such as novels, memoirs, autobiographies, and film to explore an insider view about life within the various cultures with which we work. As you read, we want you to consider all four components of the model, but particularly cultural awareness and cultural desire. In Campinha-Bacote’s model you read about cultural desire, a desire, on the part of the provider, to learn more about the culture of their clients and to provide care that is responsive to the client’s cultural needs. Cultural desire requires interest in other cultures as well as consciousness of our own cultural values and beliefs, cultural awareness. We want you to think about others and also to think about yourselves. We hope to stir up in you cultural desire in this assignment of personal reflection, as well as exploring your own cultural beliefs, values, and practices, cultural awareness. This assignment calls on you to write reflectively, examining the thoughts and feelings that the reading elicits in you. Through reflection we look critically at some component of our selves, providing an opportunity to consider our thoughts and feelings on what and how we have learned about the course content and about ourselves. Reflection and learning are closely linked; in order to participate in deep learning, we must not only understand new information, we must reflect upon what that new information means to us in the context of our individual lives and circumstances. This process requires that we examine how it is that we are personally affected by the things that we learn. We can review our reflections as our learning continues lifelong. Choose and read a book or film from the list. Choose one you have not read or watched previously, with a protagonist from a culture new to you. Most of these are available at public libraries and bookstores near you. If you wish to use one not on the list, check with your faculty that it will work for this assignment. It must give the perspective of a person (fictional or real) from a particular cultural group. And it must have a personal perspective, rather than be an anthropological treatise. Consider culture as “integrated patterns of human behavior that include the language, thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups” (Office of Minority Health, 2005). Enjoy the journey! 4. Keep notes as you read. Read for pleasure, and also with a critical eye. Think about what values, assumptions, and health beliefs you hold that are similar or different to those expressed by characters in the book. Think about what implications these notes have for communication in the clinical and in other arenas. Think about how you will respond to the questions in this assignment (given in the next step). 5. Use the Campinha-Bacote Model. Completing this assignment requires you to use this theoretical model to guide your practice, in this case increasing your skills in cultural humility and communication by applying the Campinha-Bacote model, described in the course readings. Address each of the following questions in one to two clearly written paragraphs: • Cultural Desire: What did you find surprising, intriguing, engaging, or exciting about the culture(s) highlighted in the book or movie you used? Identify at least two things. Focus on your reaction to positive attributes, values, or incidents were in the source that you did not expect to find there. Campinha-Bacote defines cultural desire as “the motivation of the health care provider to want to, rather than have to, engage in the process of becoming culturally aware, culturally knowledgeable, culturally skillful, and familiar with cultural encounters” (2002, p. 182). • Cultural Awareness: What did you learn about your own personal values and/or cultural beliefs as you read about those of others? Identify at least two things. Focus on identifying your own beliefs, values, or practices. Campinha-Bacote defines cultural awareness as “the self-examination and in-depth exploration of one’s own cultural and professional background” (2002, p.182).