Cultural competence claims, “I’m the expert.” Cultural competence is viewed as expertise. Cultural humility claims, “You’re the expert.” Cultural humility is viewed as communicating between cultural barriers, indicating that a client is their expert on their culture and mind.
Tervalon and Murray-Garcia (2012) cite an assumption where providers who view their practice as culturally competent will consider their expertise over their client’s culture. Cultural competence will create a caring and compassionate practice that respects a client’s culture, as well as a commitment to listening or learning, but limitations exist. To practice cultural humility is to maintain a willingness to dismiss what one knows, or what one thinks one knows, concerning …show more content…
Practicing “cultural humility” is the key. Dr. Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia describe cultural humility as a lifelong process of self-reflection and self-critique. The starting point for such an approach is not an examination of the client’s belief system, but rather having health care/service providers give careful consideration to their assumptions and beliefs that are embedded in their own understandings and goals of their encounter with the client. Training for cultural competency, with its emphasis on promoting understanding of the client with her/his ‘own culture’, has often neglected consideration of the providers’ worldview. In practicing cultural humility, rather than learning to identify and respond to sets of culturally specific traits, the culturally competent provider develops and practices a process of self-awareness and …show more content…
And adding in the lifelong self-reflection process of cultural humility is key to improving care. Therefore, as Dr. Tervalon and Dr. Murray-Garcias state in their paper, Cultural Humility versus Cultural Competence, “Cultural competence….is best defined not as a discrete end point but as a commitment and active engagement in a lifelong process that individuals enter into on an ongoing basis with patients, communities, colleagues, and with
Tervalon and Murray-Garcia (2012) cite an assumption where providers who view their practice as culturally competent will consider their expertise over their client’s culture. Cultural competence will create a caring and compassionate practice that respects a client’s culture, as well as a commitment to listening or learning, but limitations exist. To practice cultural humility is to maintain a willingness to dismiss what one knows, or what one thinks one knows, concerning …show more content…
Practicing “cultural humility” is the key. Dr. Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia describe cultural humility as a lifelong process of self-reflection and self-critique. The starting point for such an approach is not an examination of the client’s belief system, but rather having health care/service providers give careful consideration to their assumptions and beliefs that are embedded in their own understandings and goals of their encounter with the client. Training for cultural competency, with its emphasis on promoting understanding of the client with her/his ‘own culture’, has often neglected consideration of the providers’ worldview. In practicing cultural humility, rather than learning to identify and respond to sets of culturally specific traits, the culturally competent provider develops and practices a process of self-awareness and …show more content…
And adding in the lifelong self-reflection process of cultural humility is key to improving care. Therefore, as Dr. Tervalon and Dr. Murray-Garcias state in their paper, Cultural Humility versus Cultural Competence, “Cultural competence….is best defined not as a discrete end point but as a commitment and active engagement in a lifelong process that individuals enter into on an ongoing basis with patients, communities, colleagues, and with