Cultural Awareness & Humility | TCE #021

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Cultural Awareness & Humility | TCE #021

Please note that this was recorded in January prior to the current world pandemic.  

In this episode, RyanO and Dimitri invite Onaida Sanchez and Shane Spiker on to talk about Cultural Awareness and Humility in Applied Behavior Analysis. Links mentioned are below the contact form, and please reach out to us on Twitter or Instagram with your thoughts! Did you know you can call into the show here 24/7?

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Cultural Awareness & Humility | TCE #021

Links for Today

• 0:00:48 Guest and Topic Introductions!

• 0:00:54 Check out Onaida Sanchez

• 0:02:08 Check out Shane Spiker

• 0:02:32 Check out a summary of the ABAI 2019 panel What’s Culture Got to Do With It?: Essentials of Supervision

• 0:04:04 Topic Change: Defining elements of culture, and why this topic is important!

• 0:07:55 Selection by Consequences by B. F. Skinner (1981)

• 0:14:18 Check out the US Behavior Analyst Workforce: Understanding the National Demand for Behavior Analysts for more statistics on BCBA employment

• 0:18:20 Check out Extremism in Florida: The Dark Side of the Sunshine State for more information on the prevalence of hate groups in Florida

• 0:27:01 How to Rethink Human Behavior: A Practical Guide to Social Contextual Analysis by Bernard Guerin

• 0:29:37 Check out the Larry P. v. Riles case

• 0:29:37 For more information on the Larry P. v. Riles case check out Racial Discrimination in IQ Testing - Larry P. v. Riles by Daniel Wade (1980)

• 0:31:40For more information on learning disabilities and culture today check out Telling It Like It Is: The Role of Race, Class, & Culture in the Perpetuation of Learning Disability as a Privileged Category for the White Middle Class by Wanda Blanchett (2010)

• 0:31:55 For more information on delayed diagnoses in racial minorities check out Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Identification of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders by Mandell et al. (2009)

• 0:32:40 Examples of biases in cognitive science, speech therapy, teaching, etc.?

• 0:33:29 Check out Episode 48 on Implicit Association testing from the Why We Do What We Do Podcast

• 0:33:50 Check out this link for more information on the research at the University Nevada Reno in Relational Frame Theory, Implicit Bias, and Medicine

• 0:35:15 Check out this link for more information on the Implicit Relation Association Procedure (IRAP)

• 0:39:55Topic Shift: Bidirectionality of cultural awareness and context

• 0:46:14 The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

• 0:46:24 The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray

• 0:47:30 Check out this fact sheet on criminal justice statistics and racial disparities

• 0:47:39 For more information on suicide rates in the LGBTQ+ community check out Suicide and Suicide Risk in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations: Review and Recommendations by Haas et al. (2010)

• 0:53:30 Check out this link for more information on Pastafarians (i.e., Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster)

• 0:53:58 Check out the Church of Bob (The Church of the SubGenius)

• 0:54:16 For anyone wondering - that is exactly what I was thinking! I've got you listeners! - Danielle

• 0:54:35 The Assessment and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cultural Examination by La Roche, Bush, and D'Angelo (2018)

• 0:55:15 Developing the Cultural Awareness Skills of Behavior Analysts by Fong et al. (2016)

• 0:56:31 If Behavioral Principles are Generally Applicable, Why is it Necessary to Understand Cultural Diversity? by Hayes and Toarmino (1997)

• 0:59:49 White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (2018)

• 1:00:22 White by Bret Easton Ellis (2019)

• 1:00:35 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (1991)

• 1:03:28 An Invitation to Feminist Ethics by Hilde Lindemann

• 1:09:40 Cultural Basis of Social ‘Deficits’ in Autism Spectrum Disorders by Perepa (2014)

• 1:11:10 Topic Shift: Scope of competence, cultural awareness, and cultural humility

• 1:18:50 Developing the Cultural Awareness Skills of Behavior Analysts by Fong et al. (2016)

• 1:19:15 The Assessment and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cultural Examination by La Roche, Bush, and D'Angelo (2018)

• 1:22:05 Check out this link for an example of Jimmy Fallon's Google Translate Songs

• 1:23:48 Topic Change: Recent BACB changes for international certificants

• 1:23:50 Check out the BACB's announcement on Global Certification

• 1:24:10 Check out Episode 3 of the BACB's Podcast - Refocusing BACB Support of Global Certification

• 1:24:35 Check out Bridget Taylor's Bio from the BACB

• 1:33:01 Check out this link for more information on the report suggesting the increase in the use of Spanish in the U.S.b y 2050

• 1:33:45 Check out the American Psychological Association (APA)

• 1:35:00 Topic Change: Training practices in cultural awareness and sensitivity

• 1:37:20 If Behavioral Principles are Generally Applicable, Why is it Necessary to Understand Cultural Diversity? by Hayes and Toarmino (1997)

• 1:39:40 Check out Unlikely Allies | First Rainbow Coalition

• 1:42:51 Specific Goldiamond references related to culture?

• 1:43:20 Cultural Psychology by J. R. Kantor

• 1:44:10 Changing Cultural Practices: A Contextualist Framework for Intervention Research by Anthony Biglan

• 1:44:31 The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World by Anthony Biglan

• Additional Resources:

  • Cultural Safety: Respect and Dignity in Relationships (Video)

  • Free webinar and additional resources on cultural safety

  • List of self-assessments on cultural sensitivity

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Special Thanks

• Dimitri for being a homie willing to tackle this beast of a podcast with me and Danielle for listening early to provide feedback and show notes! :)

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