Cultural humility — a respectful approach toward individuals of other cultures that continuously pushes one to challenge cultural biases — is an often-overlooked component of trauma-informed care. As a child clinical psychologist and mental health consultant, Allison Briscoe-Smith, PhD, leads trainings on cultural humility and trauma-informed care for organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Dr. Briscoe-Smith encourages those she works with to think of trauma-informed care and cultural humility as synonymous concepts, rather than separate ones. Oppression, she argues, is often the broader context in which trauma happens. “I have never really worked with people where trauma wasn’t housed in some sort of cultural context — poverty, mass incarceration, etc.,” she says. As a result, practitioners cannot provide trauma-informed care without paying attention to the underlying cause of the trauma they are treating.
[For more of this story, written by Meryl Schulman and Mariel Gingrich, go to https://www.chcs.org/cultural-...rauma-informed-care/]
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