Family
Jul. 26, 2023
What is cultural competence?
We are more biased than we realize and these blind spots can make us contribute to injustices without having any intention of doing harm.
Gitu Bhatia
Psychotherapist
Gitu Bhatia, Psy.D., is a psychotherapist who provides professional consultation to family law attorneys and judges; president of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, and co-organizer of Cultural Competency.
We have shifted from the paradigm of cultural competence to cultural humility. Cultural competence often implies incompetence and raises people’s defensiveness. Most of us who help families get through a difficult time in their lives are not racist or consciously operating on stereotypes. However, we all have grown up with overt and covert messages that make us vulnerable to having some implicit and explicit biases in our thinking. Implicit bias refers to the process...
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