What Is Culturally Sensitive Practice

What Is Cultural Sensitivity and How Can It Help? Cultural sensitivity requires a set of skills for affirming diversity and embracing the values of people from different social or cultural backgrounds. … People aren’t lists, and caring for their unique needs is not a matter of completing a task or checking a box.

How do you practice cultural sensitivity?

1. Pay attention to one’s own prejudices and biases.
2. Listen to others.
3. Ask questions rather than make assumptions.
4. Cultivate knowledge about other cultures.

What is social and cultural sensitivity?

Being culturally sensitive implies that social workers are not only aware of differences, but they are respectful and accepting of the difference. They do not judge differences as good or bad. They strive to understand differences from an emic, within culture, perspective.