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Objectives:
Identify cultural issues in sexual assault case studies
Define terminology related to cultural humility
Identify cultural barriers to care following sexual assault
Definitions:
Culture:
Culture is a learned
complex, integrated
System that includes
beliefs, knowledge,
skills, art, law, morals,
customs, and
language that is
transmitted
from generation to
generation. As a
learned set of traits
culture is transmitted
by both formal
education and
imitation. Culture
guides thinking,
decision and action in
a patterned way.
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Culture is adapted to
the environment and
subject to change
Culture relevant:
significant, logical connection to a role, group, system
Culture relativism: the
ability to view the belief
and customs of other
peoples within the
context of their culture
rather than the
examiner's.
Cultural humility:
An attitude which
incorporates a lifelong
commitment to self-
evaluation and critique,
to redressing the power
imbalances in the
provider-client (sic)
dynamic, and to
developing mutually
beneficial and
non-paternalistic
partnerships with
communities on behalf
of individuals and
defined populations.
Ethnocentrism: the
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By Donna Morgan, CNM, MSN
Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nurse/CNEP
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