ACKNOWLEDGING Family Identities & Expertise

“Dialoguing with families promotes culturally responsive environments,” says parent Josephine Lorya-Ozulamu. We invite dialogue with families to understand their expertise and experiences, which include those related to their cultural backgrounds.

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In this section, you’ll explore strategies to effectively partner with the families of individuals with whom you work by acknowledging the entirety of who they are: their social identities, values, lived experiences, traditions, wisdom, etc. This is an ongoing, critical part of your practice because:

  1. Acknowledging families’ backgrounds is central to offering support tailored to them and their beliefs
  2. Acknowledging families can positively influence behavioral health outcomes and quality of life.

This lesson facilitates practice:

  1. Explaining how family members’ identities, values, lived experiences, and expertise are central to authentic, full family partnership,
  2. Prioritizing family members’ values to guide and determine support processes, and
  3. Describing, recognizing, and implementing the skills of encouraging partnership, compassionate responding, and demonstrating understanding.

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