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Intercultural self-awareness exercise
Reflecting on your cultural affiliations and recognising the influences and behaviours that you have experienced as a result make you realise how these events determine your own perceptions and actions.
How we communicate with victims, assess risk in DV and work well in interprofessional teams depends also on biases and prejudices which are also shaped by culture. Self-reflection is closely linked to cultural responsiveness. Integrating exercises to assess one’s own cultural self-awareness is thus crucial.
Reflecting on experiences from childhood to adulthood can aid in considering personal struggles and privileges throughout life.
Look at this video and reflect on the questions being asked.
Here are the questions:
1. Where were you born? What area are you from?
2. What countries/regions does your family come from?
3. How long have you lived here? What has brought you here and what has made you feel welcome?
4. What is important to know about how you grew up?
5. Have you ever felt different from others because of your beliefs/ethnicity/race, etc. In what contexts/settings?
6. What is your socio-economical status now, what was it before? How did this influence your experience of the society/culture you grew up in?
7. Did you have more friends with diverse cultural backgrounds when you were younger or nowadays and why is that so?
8. How do ethnicity, age, family, experience, education, socio-economic status, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. impact your interactions with your patients? Can you give an example?
9. Do you know how your patients want to be treated or do you assume they want to be treated by your cultural standards, i.e. are you acting more often according to the golden rule that is ‘to do unto others as you’d have them do unto you’ or to the platinum rule, that is ‘to do unto others as they’d want done unto them’.
10. Achieving cultural competence and cultural humility involves a commitment to learning over a lifetime. Can you give examples from your professional context to demonstrate your commitment to this process?
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Good to read
In the provided resource, you will discover a series of vignettes illustrating how multiple agencies collaborate in various cases of domestic violence to produce positive outcomes for victims and survivors:
- Hale, H., Bracewell, K., Bellussi, L. et al. The Child Protection Response to Domestic Violence and Abuse: a Scoping Review of Interagency Interventions, Models and Collaboration. J Fam Viol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-024-00681-4
Additionally, the following source offers insights into interagency cooperation in child protection responses to domestic violence:
- Stewart SL. Enacting Entangled Practice: Interagency Collaboration in Domestic and Family Violence Work. Violence Against Women. 2020 Feb;26(2):191-212. doi: 10.1177/1077801219832125. Epub 2019 Mar 11. PMID: 30854943.
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