Case Studies and Reflective Tools
Reflective Tool: Culturally Responsive Reflective Supervision Prep
Choose one family from your caseload that is culturally different from you that you don’t have the strongest relationship with.
Describe this family’s culture and ways of being.
What are some of the systemic power dynamics that may be at play in your interactions with this family?
What are some of the challenges that this family may have had with the legal, educational, and medical settings they have encountered? What stereotypes and/or biases might representatives from these systems have about this family and their identity?
How do you feel when you see this family’s name on your schedule or when you pull up to this family’s home?
- Where do you think these feelings come from?
- Are there implicit biases or cultural mismatches that may be contributing to these feelings?
Describe a recent interaction with this family that didn’t go as you would have liked it to.
What had you planned? What happened? Where did it go sideways?
What are the cultural mismatches (including in communication, views of childrearing and disability, and general ways of being) that were at play in this interaction?
What implicit biases or power dynamics may have impacted this interaction?
The next time you see this family, how might you approach this same outcome in a more culturally responsive way?
What steps can you take between now and the next time you see this family to improve your relationship and interactions?
