Summary paragraph thumbnail of the years since the Báb declared.

something he must have written. There is no other informative reference to this on the web.

I would argue- cultural humility is not just a construct separate from cultural competency, but is also a component OF cultural competency as well. Maybe that is nit-picking, but I feel it might be important. Similarly, we can say that tomatoes is a separate thing from spaghetti sauce- and we shouldn't confuse the two - but it also is a part of spaghetti sauce- such that you don't actually have spaghetti sauce unless you have tomatoes in it. It's part of it.

I don't love "supersede". I might prefer, accommodate. Webster's: 1a: to cause to be set aside b: to force out of use as inferior 2: to take the place or position of 3: to displace in favor of another

Might be a valid construct for scientific purposes- but I don't vibe with it. Maybe we can do better or find a better definition in this paper or else-where.

this comes down to everyone having the right to be treated like an individual, and the importance of practitioners being aware of and in touch with the fact that assumptions actually must be made at times- but we must work at being good at our assumptions being reasonable, modest, well-informed, and even then- being prepared to hold our assumptions lightly which means checking them out, and being willing to let go of them when they turn out to be wrong or out-lived.

what would be good and bad examples of this? of course also - we can't always have prior knowledge or we'd know everything. There will always be things to learn and what we know - there was always a 'before we knew that'.

People might think of diverse as shorthand for "not the ethnic majority", but in reality we are talking about the broader diversity of the human condition, like what Deborah Tannen refers to when she says that all communication is cross-cultural - even that between siblings who have different friend groups, communication patterns, assumptions and body language from one-another.

this is kind of a thesis here. I probably agree with it. At the same time - I think that humility is probably foundational. Without that, your competency doesn't get you far, and you are going to need the humility piece to get the competency.

Some clients will actually fight you to put you in a power position over them. There is something which they may find relieving or conforting in surrendering that empowerment, or perhaps they just believe they don't have the right to expect a non-heirarchical relationship with their counselor. Often when we are asked for advise as counselors it is actually a bid for the permission for the client to surrender their will, intentions and decisiveness to you. That may have characterised familiar abusive relationships for them in the past. Or it may be a way for them to avoid looking inside or taking up their power. But if you give advice too readilly - you might end up responsible if things don't turn out right. What if things don't turn out right for them because it wasn't what they wanted and they get hurt- even if they don't blame you for this- you might actually be to blame. Cultural humility is partly having the ability to recognize that we can accompany and help people quite a lot, but we can not rescue them or think for them, or want for them or know better for them. We are actually fighting for a capacity within the therapeutic relationship- to build connections of equality and empowerment.

Yes but I think it is important to appreciate that we are not just concerned with marginalized people. Everyone has a culture which can make complex a seemingly simple interraction and it is this dynamic that we must be committed to working with in every relationship. "A pause in the wrong place, an intonation misunderstood, and a whole conversation went awry" (Passage to India 305)

I like this. It reminds me of how when I have visited other countries I was often as surprised by what I learned about myself (which I didn't know because - growing up with it in my culture, I had taken for granted) as I was by what I learned about other cultures. I think we must want to become better at that self-learning peice- thinking of things in terms not just of learning how "they" are, but equally in terms of learning "how I am". Are Chinese people often more frugal, or are Americans (and am I) often a bit on the spendy side?

this suggests to me that in all situations, as clinicians and now as students we should be looking carefully at everything we are taught to practice and preparing to question or and develop further.

Here's Rogers again

In fact there will be occasions in which the counselor may be able to help the client gain insight into the clients' own culture actually. It's just important that the counselor work with care and skill in order to do so accurately. One of the problems with cultural competence on it's own is the very conceit that we could develop rules, expertise or proficiencies that always work. We can't. We need to maintain an attitude that is adaptive, flexible and open to diverse contexts, possibilities and learnings.

this is an important point to include perhaps.

This points out the Rogerian aspect- origin one might almost say, of the concept of cultural humility.

I like that definition actually

this is precisely the problem I have with our book indicating we should be experts.

the way this is phrased might give a practitioner pressure to affect an expertise which he does not yet possess which can lead to trouble. Additionally - it doesn't leave room in the attitude of the practitioner to be a learner because the social worker should already have the knowledge base as opposed to committing to a process of leaning and listening.

might cite the cultural arrogance of the program that looks for ADD youth in First Nations communities and medicates them, as opposed to a more client-centered approach.

"encompass knowledge" - the thing to pay attention to here is - cultural knowledge is infinite in volume, ever-evolving, contextual, and finite in it's application.

so the trumpet-blast refers to that conference in which Tahirih unveiled herself.

This is similar to Christ's abrogation of the Torah/Sabbath.

From what I can tell, means "the royal Ulama"

Who was this? Where is there some info on it?

purpose/subject of the book