Published In
Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Subjects
Social work education, Social workers -- United States, Social work -- Research -- Citizen participation, Community development, Cultural awareness
Abstract
Although cultural humility is frequently emphasized in social work education as a lifelong commitment to reflection and action, there are few examples of what this looks like in practice—particularly outside the scope of clinical health settings. This paper situates the need for practitioner reflections on cultural humility and offers an autoethnographic case study of efforts to cultivate cultural humility in myself and among participants in a neighborhood-based action research project. I consider cultural humility from three relational positions: holding oneself accountable, creating conditions for cultural humility within groups, and acknowledging how group members co-create conditions for cultural humility.
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33409
Citation Details
Thurber, A. (2020).Cultural humility in community practice: Reflections from the Neighborhood Story Project. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 26(2), 75-88.
Description
Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping is a double-blind peer-reviewed open access multidisciplinary journal published with no author fees by the Cleveland State University School of Social Work.