Cultural Responsiveness
Also called: culturally responsive practice, contextual fit
Definition
Adapting assessment, goals, procedures, language and materials so they fit the client's and family's culture, values, language and circumstances. Where cultural humility is the stance, responsiveness is the action — the concrete changes made to services so that they work in this family's life and are acceptable to them.
In plain language
Changing how you deliver services so they fit the family's culture, language and daily life. The doing, where humility is the attitude.
Example
A program's food reinforcers are chosen from what the family eats, and materials are available in the language spoken at home.
Not cultural responsiveness
Delivering the same protocol to every family regardless of language or routines.
Commonly confused with
See also
Written from
- bacb-ethics-code-2022 — Cultural responsiveness standards
Written from the ethics code's cultural-responsiveness standards, in our own words. No text reproduced.
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