PSY1040 Portfolio: Cultural Responsiveness & Self-Awareness
Course Code and Name
PSY1040: An Introduction to Cultural Safety in Practice
Assessment Item Number and Name
Assessment 2: Portfolio
Assessment Item Type
Portfolio
PSY1040 Portfolio: Cultural Responsiveness & Self-Awareness
Due Date & Time
Tuesday, 29 April 2025 (Week 12), 11:59pm
Length
2000 words – an average of 400 words per task.
Marks and Weighting
Marked out of: 100
Weighting: 50%
Assessed Course Learning Outcomes
CLO1: Explain the complex nature of culture and how it shapes behaviours, emotions, beliefs, values, ethics, and our
understanding and experience of health and wellbeing.
CLO2: Display personal cultural self-awareness through critical self-reflection and assess its impact on interactions with
others.
CLO3: Explain the need for cultural safety with reference to the historical and contemporary experiences of people of diverse
cultures in health and human service settings.
PSY1040 Portfolio: Cultural Responsiveness & Self-Awareness
CLO4: Describe the relevance of interprofessional understanding and practice to ensuring culturally responsive and safe
professional practice, with reference to the relevant codes of ethics and practice standards.
CLO5: Apply the concepts of cultural responsiveness and cultural safety and explain the role of critical allyship and effective
advocacy for culturally responsive and safe behaviours in the workplace.
Rationale
Culture is multifaceted and influences human experience and world views in a variety of ways. Health and human service
professionals require an understanding of this complexity and personal self-awareness of their own cultured self to be able to
be culturally responsive with service users and colleagues. The portfolio assembles student responses to a range of tasks
across the trimester to demonstrate this knowledge and personal insight.
Task Instructions
Throughout the trimester, you will complete a series of tasks embedded in the weekly online modules and compile these into
a single APA-formatted Microsoft Word Document for submission. You must include a title page that follows APA 7th
formatting standards as part of your submissio