OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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We are all cultural beings; our “identity and self-definition are fluid and complex” and the “multiplicity of [our] societal contexts” shape our identity and self-definition (APA Multicultural Guidelines, Guideline 1). CAPS staff embraces the challenges essential to developing cultural humility as clinicians and as an organization through the consideration of our own complex identities, associated power dynamics, and anti-oppression practice. While each of us at CAPS engage with varying levels of knowledge, skill, and cultural humility, we strive to incorporate culturally tailored and ecologically relevant assessments and treatments in our practice (APA Multicultural Guidelines, Guideline 5).
CAPS Staff is committed to work towards growing as a multicultural organization through diversifying the organization, seeking input from diverse constituencies, and working to best serve systematically non-dominant populations in our community.
Interns are supported in their multicultural development through professional issues seminar, which includes various topics of diversity, the option to participate in rotations focused on working with diverse students, and the opportunity to outreach to student groups. Given that the development of cultural humility and multicultural competence are dynamic and ever-evolving, we treasure the active exploration of new ideas and perspectives as well as re-evaluation of familiar and un-examined assumptions and commitment to anti-oppressive practices.