Practice 6 Cultural Humility: Looking Inward
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Abstract
Melissa, Sandra, and Jessie introduce cultural humility as a foundation for establishing culturally safer therapeutic relationships with all clients. Jessie positions cultural safety within its historical context, clarifying the inseparable connection between clients’ sense of safety and (a) historical and ongoing sociocultural oppressions and injustices and (b) each therapist’s sociocultural positioning. The authors suggest that cultural safety is inherently decolonizing because it necessitates therapists’ self-awareness of their own cultural identities and positionalities, social locations, and relative power and privilege. Cultural humility is further enhanced through genuine curiosity and care about clients’ intersecting cultural identities, including their socially constructed views of self and their personal and collective identity narratives. The authors point to cultural humility as relational responsiveness to the fluidity and situational nature of cultural identities. Therapist self-awareness of the subjectivity of worldviews is essential to recognizing and challenging their own potential for ethnocentrism and cultural encapsulation, which is a significant barrier to enhancing cultural safety. Reflective practice is introduced as an essential foundation for maintaining a sense of cultural humility. Reflective practice includes honest self-appraisal of values, beliefs, and assumptions, which inevitably emerge within counsellor-client relationships. Understanding how culture and social justice shape these relationships through cultural humility is a starting place for cultural safety. Melissa, Sandra, and Jessie are grateful to be supported in this chapter by these additional co-authors: ● Gurmukh Aujla reflects on diverse views of the self and the implications for professional practice, drawing on his own ties to Eastern worldviews. ● Lisa Gunderson shares portions of her own identity narratives as a Black, Jamaican immigrant who grew up primarily in the U.S. and who continues to forge her identity as a Black woman. ● Taya Henriques and Gina Wong challenge the often-unconscious and pervasive discourse of mononormativity. Counsellors who carry this bias with them into therapeutic relationships may undermine client cultural safety and well-being.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.015 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".