logging in or signing up Culturally Sensitive Approaches Sabatini Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 117 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: February 24, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Culturally sensitive approaches: Culturally sensitive approaches Catharine Humphrys 17.2.03 Ethnicity: Ethnicity Common ancestry through which individuals evolved shared values & customs Tied to & transmitted by family Transgenerational Reinforced by community Sense of identity Factors influencing ethnicity: Factors influencing ethnicity Migration Economics Race Class Religion Politics geographySlide4: Ethnicity influences family life /personality/sense of belonging/historical continuity: Patterns behaviour, thinking, feeling, life choices, celebration of holidays & rituals, attitudes to life/death, illness and health Language and customs influence whether or not a symptom is labelled as a problemEthnicity training (Mc Goldrick, Giordano): Ethnicity training (Mc Goldrick, Giordano) Therapist understands her own ethnic identity Assess importance of ethnicity to clients and families Validate and strengthen ethnic identity Be aware of/use client’s support systems Help family resolve ‘value’ conflicts Pros and cons of being in same ethnic group as client Race and Racism: Race and Racism An issue of political oppression Not cultural or genetic Ignatiev (1995) states: “no biologist has ever been able to provide a satisfactory definition of ‘race’.” The invisible knapsack of White privilege Pro-racist ideology Colour blindness Cultural dimensions in Family Rx: Cultural dimensions in Family Rx a set of common adaptive behaviours and experience derived from membership in a variety of different contexts: Ecological (rural/urban) Religious values Ethnicity & nationality Migratory pattern/acculturation stage Partake in similar historical moments Therapeutic task : Therapeutic task People differ in : Experience of pain What they label as a symptom Communication about pain/sx Beliefs about cause Attitudes to helping profession Treatment desired/expectedFamily Myths : Family Myths Normal families are problem free Normal families are/should remain INTACT Maintain traditional male/female role division (counter: supermums do it all) The nuclear family is isolated from extended family Hansen, Falicov (1983) Errors ‘agents of change’ make: Errors ‘agents of change’ make To assume the presence of a problem in family is necessarily a sx of family pathology Fail to recognize family strengths/misjudge them, as dysfunctional We fail to note family pathology in assuming a ‘problem free’ family is normal You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Culturally Sensitive Approaches Sabatini Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 117 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: February 24, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Culturally sensitive approaches: Culturally sensitive approaches Catharine Humphrys 17.2.03 Ethnicity: Ethnicity Common ancestry through which individuals evolved shared values & customs Tied to & transmitted by family Transgenerational Reinforced by community Sense of identity Factors influencing ethnicity: Factors influencing ethnicity Migration Economics Race Class Religion Politics geographySlide4: Ethnicity influences family life /personality/sense of belonging/historical continuity: Patterns behaviour, thinking, feeling, life choices, celebration of holidays & rituals, attitudes to life/death, illness and health Language and customs influence whether or not a symptom is labelled as a problemEthnicity training (Mc Goldrick, Giordano): Ethnicity training (Mc Goldrick, Giordano) Therapist understands her own ethnic identity Assess importance of ethnicity to clients and families Validate and strengthen ethnic identity Be aware of/use client’s support systems Help family resolve ‘value’ conflicts Pros and cons of being in same ethnic group as client Race and Racism: Race and Racism An issue of political oppression Not cultural or genetic Ignatiev (1995) states: “no biologist has ever been able to provide a satisfactory definition of ‘race’.” The invisible knapsack of White privilege Pro-racist ideology Colour blindness Cultural dimensions in Family Rx: Cultural dimensions in Family Rx a set of common adaptive behaviours and experience derived from membership in a variety of different contexts: Ecological (rural/urban) Religious values Ethnicity & nationality Migratory pattern/acculturation stage Partake in similar historical moments Therapeutic task : Therapeutic task People differ in : Experience of pain What they label as a symptom Communication about pain/sx Beliefs about cause Attitudes to helping profession Treatment desired/expectedFamily Myths : Family Myths Normal families are problem free Normal families are/should remain INTACT Maintain traditional male/female role division (counter: supermums do it all) The nuclear family is isolated from extended family Hansen, Falicov (1983) Errors ‘agents of change’ make: Errors ‘agents of change’ make To assume the presence of a problem in family is necessarily a sx of family pathology Fail to recognize family strengths/misjudge them, as dysfunctional We fail to note family pathology in assuming a ‘problem free’ family is normal