Cultural humility is a process that reflects personal and cultural stand, which addresses self-awareness and sensitivity to other people’s cultural issues. It offers a better understanding of other cultures that are distinctive and are characterized by factors such as cultural openness (Hook et al., 2017). Besides promoting cultural humility, challenge such as lack of consistency in tolerating clients with different cultural beliefs and values has increased. Some cultural issues that are essential to people may take longer periods to gain significant growth and refinement.
Cultural or religious aspects decrease the levels of cultural humility tolerance between doctors and their clients. For instance, the Christian faith expresses its beliefs and culture different from other religions, and therefore therapists should consider negotiation methods when delivering medical services. Through negotiations, medical disputes rising can be solved timely to promote unity. In addition, efforts by psychotherapists to create good relationships with their clients have attributed to more ways of understanding religious and cultural differences.
Secondly, denying and dismissing clients’ perspectives is another challenge affecting cultural humility promotion. Clients with different degrees of emotional or physical denial in their lives require distinctive medical therapy to reduce the level of distress. Various cultural and religious faiths have different beliefs regarding medical execution. Intercultural differences can challenge the therapists’ ability to maintain a collaborative environment because of conflicts.
Therapists who work in conflict-based areas can mainly use the mediation method in the implementation of the challenge to achieve peace. Through mediation, therapists can be motivated to achieve their medical goals by attending to their clients often hence initiating good interactions, which promotes teamwork. It is crucial to facilitate a strong working relationship between physicians and clients, which leads to better therapy outcomes (Mosher et al., 2017).
References
Hook, J. N., Davis, D. E., Owen, J., & DeBlaere, C. (2017). Cultural humility: Engaging diverse identities in therapy. American Psychological Association.
Mosher, D. K., Hook, J. N., Captari, L. E., Davis, D. E., DeBlaere, C., & Owen, J. (2017). Cultural humility: A therapeutic framework for engaging diverse clients. Practice Innovations, 2(4), 221–233.