We’ve all heard about cultural competence in clinical practice. And while it’s important, it’s also not enough.
So today, Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD will get into some first steps in becoming an antiracist practitioner.
What are your biggest takeaways from what you just heard? Please let us know by leaving a comment below.
I appreciate this video so much. We watched this as part of a class in my Master’s OT program at St. Kates in St. Paul, MN. In general I have taken in some education about anti-racism, but not from a practitioner perspective as much. I understand how the overall health-care system takes part in systemic racism and I hope to not contribute to that in anyway when I am in practice. I really like the idea of validating a patient’s experiences of not being heard, or dismissed due to prejudice. We know this happens much more to ethnic minorities and I think it’s important to take a step back and ask about a person’s previous experiences with health care workers, ask how they understand their condition/illness/disability, etc. and what they know about themselves and what works for them. This is good practice for all patient interaction, but especially as part of the way to practicing cultural humility to me.
Thank you for this talk.
Good measure of awareness when looking for a therapist as well as a great interview question!!! “What are your thoughts about the impact on racism/white supremacy on mental health?”
Such great examples that Dr. Bryant-Davis used! Being able to link how someone feels in other situations to how someone might feel that has experiences racism was very helpful. The healing that can happen when we receive affirmation from the offending party, even If we were not the perpetrator, but just have a similarity to the perpetrating party, was also encouraging to hear. Thank you for this video, I found it to be inspiring and enlightening.
The question left me with one word: shame
Thank you for this video, Dr. Bryant-Davis. I liked the example you provided regarding intention vs impact and why it is impact that matters. Also, I had not yet heard the term cultural humility and I appreciate the opportunity to learn it.
Thank you — very good things to be aware of and I am so glad we are having these conversations.
That was validating!
A recent conversation with two colleagues at work raised the issue that a white person cannot truly understand what it feels like to have the subjective experience of racism. I have attended Cultural Competence training and information sessions and I cannot remember being asked the question “what would it feel like to have the experience of being racially vilified?” I continue to feel disappointed when people keep making the statement “All Lives Matter”, in response to the “Black Lives Matter” campaign. Of course all lives matter, however, this campaign is about anti-racism.