A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility offers specific guidance to support students and practitioners in providing on-going, culturally-attuned professional care.
The book introduces a multicultural diversity-training model named the ORCA-Stance, an intentional practice which brings together four core components: Openness, Respect, Curiosity, and Accountability. Drawing from an array of influences, it showcases work with common clinical populations in a variety of contexts, from private practice to international organizations. Each clinical chapter offers a brief review of information relevant to the population discussed, followed by a case study using the ORCA-Stance, and a summary of recommended best practices. In each case, the practice of the ORCA-Stance is shown to allow relationships to become more culturally sensitive and, therefore, more effective.
A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility provides practical examples, research, and wisdom that can be applied in day-to-day clinical work and will be valuable reading for a wide-range of mental health students and clinicians who seek to continue their professional development.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Claudia Grauf-Grounds
Section I: Foundations
1. Cultural Diversity Training: A Brief Overview
Peter Rivera and Claudia Grauf-Grounds
2. The ORCA-Stance as a Practice Beyond Cultural Humility
Claudia Grauf-Grounds and Peter Rivera
3. Philosophical Underpinnings and Evidence for the ORCA-Stance
Don MacDonald
4. Clinical Populations Ethnically Different Clients
Michelle Naden, Kurt Johns, and Mary Moline
Section II: Common Clinical Applications
Introduction: How to Apply the ORCA-Stance in Clinical Work
Claudia Grauf-Grounds
5. Ethnically Different Clients: Inviting Creativity with Cultural Humility
Hee-Sun Cheon & Becca Seuss
6. Immigrant Clients
Mary Kelleher
7. Poverty and Homelessness
Heather Fisher
8. Queering the ORCA-Stance
Charlie Delavan and Brittany Steffan
9. Survivors of Trauma
Alissa Bagan
10. Substance Use Disorders
Jenny Johnson
11. Chronic Pain in Adults
Leslie Savage
12. Chronic Illness in Youth
Cassady Kintner
13. Body Size and Health: Using the ORCA-Stance to Counteract Weight Discrimination
Emily Rich
14. Sexual Struggles
Tina Schermer Sellers
15. Spiritual Struggles: Treading on Sacred Ground
William Collins
16. Children
Lahela and Kyle Isaacson
17. Tweens
Shannon West
18. Adolescents
Scott Edwards
19. Couples
Shawn Whitney
20. Divorcing and Step-families
Gerry Presar
Section III: Contextual Applications
21. Applying the ORCA-Stance to Parenting
Hee-Sun Cheon and Don MacDonald
22. Reflections on Growing Up in an ORCA Household
Tina Schermer Sellers, Chloe Sellers and Christian Sellers
23. Unpacking a Story of Race
Kenneth Jaimes & Kathleen Blair Smith
24. Family Therapy Training
Scott Edwards, Hee-Sun Cheon, Claudia Grauf-Grounds, Peter Rivera & Shawn Whitney
25. Family Therapy Alumni Reflections
Robin Moore, Marcus Comer, Rose Joiner, Christina Steere, and Delene Jewett
26. Ethical Dilemmas
Don MacDonald and Peter Rivera
27. Clinical Supervision
Lori Kimmerly
28. Collaborating with Churches: Strengthening our Communities of Meaning
Shawn Whitney and Tina Schermer Sellers
29. Collaborating with Physicians
Jackie Williams-Reade
30. Finding Meaning in Our Workplaces
Steve Maybell
31. Working with International Religious Organizations: An Explorer’s Perspective
Scott Green
32. Cultural Humility & Beyond within Your Own Context
Scott Edwards and Rachel Baska
About the Author :
Claudia Grauf-Grounds, PhD, LMFT, is Professor Emeriti in the Department of Marriage & Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University, and Lecturer/Faculty at the University of San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University, USA.
Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, is Associate Professor and Director of the Medical Family Therapy Program at Seattle Pacific University, USA.
Scott Edwards, PhD, LMFT, is Associate Professor in the Department of Marriage & Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University, USA.
Hee-Sun Cheon, PhD, LMFT, is Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Marriage & Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University, USA.
Don MacDonald, PhD, LMHC, is Professor in the Department of Marriage & Family Therapy, Seattle Pacific University, USA.
Shawn Whitney, MS, LMFT, is Assistant Director of the Center for Family & Couple Therapy, Human Development & Family Studies, Colorado State University, USA.
Peter Rivera, PhD, LMFT, is Assistant Professor and Director of Internships in the Department of Marriage & Family Therapy, Settle Pacific University, USA
Review :
"What a refreshing new look at culture and therapy! The model presented in this book is thoroughly relational and thus well-suited to the world of therapy. It's value-based and inspiring, it's field-tested with generations of students, and it's applicable to every clinical encounter within and across cultures. I'm grateful that this team decided to put decades of learning and experience into a book." William J. Doherty, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project, University of Minnesota, USA. He is co-author of Helping Couples on the Brink of Divorce: Discernment Counseling for Troubled Relationships.
"Reaching out across gaps of culture, language, and power, and having that reaching out welcomed, can be the hardest challenge a therapist faces. A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility answers that challenge with ORCA practices for moving openness, respect, curiosity, and accountability from platitudes to practices, from values to embodied acts, to create a safe space where mutual welcoming can occur." James L. Griffith, M.D., Professor and Chair, George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, USA. He is author of The Body Speaks: Therapeutic Dialogues for Mind-Body Problems and Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy.
"This timely book offers a welcome alternative to traditional content-oriented ¨cultural competence¨ training. The clinical applications of this novel process approach are wide-ranging, including ethnically diverse clients, body size and health, sexual or spiritual struggles. Practitioners, teachers and students in private practice, or in institutional and community settings, will change how they work with cultural diversity after reading this compassionate and practical book." Celia Jaes Falicov, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, University of California, San Diego, USA. She is author of Latino Families in Therapy, 2nd edition.
"What a great book! A Practice Beyond Cultural Humility brings together a diverse group of authors to explore how to integrate openness, respect, curiosity, and accountability into their work with clients. This will be a valuable resource for both clinicians and trainees for years to come." Joshua N. Hook, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North Texas, USA. He is author of Cultural Humility: Engaging Diverse Identities in Therapy.
"To read this book is to go on a retreat with these authors. First, they invite us into their circle, sharing the values that guide and inform the ORCA-Stance. If you resonate with these values, as I did, and want to embody them in your work, then settle in, for help is here. The authors engage us with challenging, enlightening exercises. Once we are warmed up, the middle chapters show us myriad ways to therapeutically enact this Stance. We are then shown ways to teach the ORCA stance. In the therapy and teaching narratives, the authors allow us to see them stumble and learn, for humility and grace are the heart of this work. Finally, in the campfire time of this retreat, they tell us how they have tried to live ORCA in their personal and family lives. I leave this retreat refreshed, ready to revamp my fall psychotherapy course, equipped to think ORCA when I meet with people who are suffering, and mindful of ways to be a better grandmother." – Melissa Elliott, M.S.N., L.M.F.T, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Virginia, USA. Family Therapist, Psychiatric Inpatient Unit; co-author of Encountering the Sacred: Talking with People in Therapy about their Spiritual Lives.
