Incorporating Cultural Humility and Cultural Humility Guidelines into the Psychotherapy Supervision Relationship: A Pledge and a Promise
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https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.v34i126.38689Keywords:
cultural humility, supervision, multiculturalism, social justice, psychotherapyAbstract
How do we as psychotherapy supervisors most effectively integrate a culturally humble stance into the supervisory experience? Concrete examples of how to best address that integration are needed. I subsequently provide one such example, the incorporation of cultural humility guidelines into the supervision agreement and supervisory relationship from its outset. That guidelines incorporation serves three purposes: (a) to foreground cultural humility in my practice as a supervisor, making a pledge and a promise to my supervisees that I as their supervisor will forever strive to approach our work from a culturally humble stance; (b) to introduce and orient supervisees to, and better prepare them for, the incorporation of cultural humility into their own therapeutic practice; and (c) to ideally galvanize and deepen their ever-evolving sense of culturally humility as that practice proceeds. Cultural humility is defined, and a set of supervisor-focused, supervision-adapted cultural humility guidelines is proposed. This perspective is presented in hopes of generating further discussion about integrating cultural humility into the psychotherapy supervision relationship and enlivening and invigorating its practice.
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