Week Six

Question 1

What is Cultural Safety?

Answer 1

Understanding of others’ health beliefs and practices to avoid discrimination

Question 2

What is Cultural Competency?

Answer 2

Aware of own cultural identity

Question 3

What are Features of Culture (6)?

Answer 3

Learned: experiences

Adaptive: change over time

Dynamic: change by new demands

Invisible: apparent through elements of cultures (ie language)

Shared: similar beliefs

Selective: boundaries for behaviours (separate outside and inside)

Question 4

What is Structural Vulnerability?

Answer 4

Risk for negatives because of income, politics, societal hierarchies

Question 5

What are the “Ask about” and “Required to” for Structural Vulnerability?

Answer 5

Ask about:
- financial, environment, social, legal, education, discrimination

Required to:
- trusting environment, respect, advocate, prevention, resources, networks

Question 6

Approaches to Diversity?
“Asked” and “Therapeutic Relationships”

Answer 6

Asked:
- Awareness
- Skills for cultural assessment
- Knowledge to understand worldviews
- Desire to be competent

Building Therapeutic Relationships:
- Optimism
- Mediating presence
- Motives
- Social
- Intentionality
- Professional boundaries

Question 7

Groups at Risk for Health Disparities (9)?

Answer 7

• Indigenous People
• Recent Immigrants
• sexually diverse
• homelessness
• mental illness
• low literacy
• rural
• age
• poverty