EDUCATION: Sample Workshop for Clinical Supervisors

Title: What’s Your Story? Building Cultural Capacity in Genetic Counseling

Duration: Available as 5 hour workshop, or longer (multiple days)

Potential Audiences: Clinical supervisors in health care training programs, practicing health care professionals, or instructional faculty

Objectives for 5 hour Workshop:
After this workshop, participants will be able to:

    1. Identify resources for enhancing cultural knowledge.

    2. Apply cultural and spiritual assessment tools to genetic counseling cases.

    3. Demonstrate cultural self-awareness, resulting in increased recognition of personal biases, limitations, and strengths when working with culturally diverse clients.

    4. Discuss ways to respond to racist or discriminatory remarks.

    5. Define ways to overcome barriers to effective student-supervisor communications.

    6. Brainstorm methods to resolve conflict in the workplace.

    7. List organizational changes that can help improve cross cultural communications.

Teaching Methods: Cases, small and large group discussions, PowerPoint slides, YouTube videos, vignettes from DVDs, internet sites, handouts, self-reflection questions, role-playing, goal setting

Lecture Topics and Discussion Questions:

    • What is your family’s immigration story?

    • Characterize your favorite client. What can we learn from reflecting on our preferences?

    • Which cultural groups are prevalent where you live and work? If you aren’t sure, how can you find out?

    • Discuss the culture of no culture in health care.

    • List health beliefs and your feelings about them.

    • List 5 or more dimensions of culture.

    • Compare and contrast diversity and cultural competence.

    • Discuss actions of health care providers that may cause cultural offense.

    • Discuss client actions that may offend health care providers.

    • What are health disparities? Give examples of health disparities in genetics.

    • Describe the cultural competence continuum.

    • Give examples of cultural humility in clinical practice. 

    • Give examples of stereotypes and discuss both their potentially helpful and problematic consequences in health care.

    • Discuss the concept of unearned privileges in modern culture.

    • Share how your work environment feels from the perspective of cultural diversity.

    • How do I address stereotyping or discriminatory remarks in the workplace?

    • Cite examples of racism in society and in health care practice.

    • Identify personal standing in the cultural competence continuum and set future goals.

    • Use cultural and spiritual assessment tools and counseling techniques to enhance provider-client communications and understanding in your practice.

    • List cultural and spiritual assessment questions.  Apply to case scenarios.

    • Discuss strategies for working effectively with medical interpreters. Apply to case scenarios.

    • Apply Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity to enhance clinical supervision.

    • Discuss ways to evaluate or measure cultural competence.

    • Discuss the meaning of organizational cultural competence and how it applies to clinical settings.

    • Have I asked myself the right questions?

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