Analyze the role of cultural immersion experiences in developing cultural humility
Week 11 Immersion Experience, Cultural Humility, and Ethical
As an advanced human services professional practitioner, you have a responsibility to serve without discrimination, to be knowledgeable about and open to the groups in the communities you serve, and to be informed about social issues that affect service users. Throughout this course, you have applied cultural humility and ethical reasoning to cases and have conducted your own research on a culture in your community. These exercises and experiences can be used as a foundation for cultural humility and ethical competence in your current or future practice.
This week, you will reflect upon your personal journey through this course, paying particular attention to your immersion experience. You will examine how the immersion experience may have assisted you in understanding other cultures and diverse populations and in developing cultural humility. You will also reflect on areas of future growth and development related to ethical competence and cultural humility.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
Analyze the role of cultural immersion experiences in developing cultural humility
Assess areas for improvement related to ethical competence and cultural humility
Analyze the relationship between ethical competence and social change
Analyze the relationship between cultural humility and social change
Learning Resources
Cultural Humility
Diller, J. V. (2019). Cultural diversity: A primer for the human services (6th ed.). Cengage Learning.
Chapter 20, “Closing Thoughts” (pp. 442-447)
Tarver, S. Z., & Herring, M. (2019). Training culturally competent practitioners: Student reflections on the process. Journal of Human Services, 39(1), 7–18.
Tervalon, M., & Murray-García, J. (1998). Cultural humility versus A critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 9(2), 117–125. https://doi-org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/10.1353/hpu.2010.0233
Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals
National Organization for Human Services. (2015). Ethical standards for human services professionals. https://www.nationalhumanservices.org/ethical-standards-for-hs-professionals
Social Change
Discussion 1: Reflecting on Your Immersion Project
I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?
~James P. Spradely, The Ethnographic Interview
In completing your Immersion Project, you observed an event or gathering of a particular culture, completed a dialogue with someone from that culture, and crafted an analysis and presentation of your insights and findings. In this Discussion, you will step back and reflect on the process itself and how it may help you understand other cultures in general in the future and develop cultural humility.
To Prepare
Review your Course Announcements for possible information related to this week’s .
Review the Learning Resources on cultural humility. Revisit the definition of cultural humility and strategies to develop cultural humility.
Reflect on your immersion experience. Consider how the experience assisted you in understanding and respecting other cultures in general and helped you further develop cultural humility.
By Day 3
Post a brief description of the culture in which you immersed yourself. Next, explain how the Immersion Project assisted you in understanding and respecting other cultures in general and helped you further develop cultural humility.
