Human Diversity

Abstract

The purpose of the essay is to explore different topics that help shape the social work field. We will explore five topics, which are first phase of treatment, legal and ethical issues, practice theories and intervention, human diversity, and DSM IV IR review.  With knowing and understanding these following topics, it will give a sense of procedures that social workers must familiar and or aware of.  This paper will focus on human diversity and dealing with people of various of culture.

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In social work literature, the term diversity is used because many worldview differences are the result of factors other than a person country or origin.  In this nation, there are certain groups that are not always thought of distinct culture but in each case their member share a world view that mainstream or dominate culture.  Examples of these groups are African American, Native Americans, and groups with distinct characteristic based on their lifestyle and experience with discrimination and prejudice. These groups include the elderly, homosexuals, person with physical discrimination refers to negative behaviors directed toward other people based on certain characteristic such as their race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.  Prejudice directed toward other people based on their, race ethnicity, and sexual orientation. 

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First in some cultures, the concept and process of psycho therapy is unfamiliar or really unaccepted African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans tend to rely on help form family members and to use outside resources as the last resort.  Therefore needing or seeking help form a mental health professional can engender fear, shame, or other discomfort and to further facilitate the development of rapport, you should attempt to show trustworthiness early on.  Creditability refers to the client’s perception of your ability to be a trustworthy and effective helper.  With a culture dissimilar client, you often need to achieve credibility.

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This can be done by acknowledge your differences to the client and demonstrating that you are sensitive and respect her cultural background and you can understand her problems within a culturally relevant framework.  In some cases a diverse client will have difficulty trusting a therapist especially a white American therapist because she has had negative experiences with the mainstream culture and with governmental agencies and institutions.  If a client level of cultural mistrust is so high that culturally similar therapist is usually indicated. Next variation in nonverbal communication pattern can result in misunderstand between you and a client from a different culture.

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You must avoid misinterpreting culturally appropriate non-verbal behaviors. Such as a unwilling ness to make direct contact as indicators of pathology, hostility, or lack of attention.  In addition many non white individuals do not place a high value on verbal communication and believe that body language, facial expressions and non word sounds communicate as much as actual speech.  The client’s cultural background must be taking into account during assessment and diagnosis.  Certain behavior and interaction patterns consider adaptive in a clients culture maybe considered adaptive in your culture and vise versa.  Interpreting this behavior as pathological or conveying that you disapprove of it would demonstrate a lack of sensitivity toward the cultural values.

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When a client is diagnosis of a mental disorder requires the present of clinically significant stress or impairment that is not merrily and respectable response to a particular event.  You must evaluate a client’s emotions behavior and so forth within a context, which includes her background experience. When working with immigrants and refugees, particularly those from Asian nations, you should be familiar with social displacement theory.  This theory proposes that immigrates and refugees usually fell happy and optimistic when they arrive in the United States, but there after experience a period of depression, confusion, and frustration.

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They are likely to display the most server help problems at the end of the first year through the third year after moving to the United States, immigrates and refugees who were exposed to traumatic events in there country or origin or while escaping to the United States may develop symptoms that meet the criteria for PTSD.  Finally, you and the client form another culture may have different beliefs of cause of physical illnesses, mental symptoms and other problems.  Such perception can influence willingness to accept a diagnosis and treatment.  In terms of treatment, some typical treatment goals and problem solving solutions maybe culturally insensitive a non-white client.