Reference no: EM133747146
Questions:
1. What culturally appropriate intervention strategies and techniques can you use when working with diverse clients? If you have used interventions in the past, please discuss your success or failure with your interventions.
2. What are some historical issues that influence the way people of color, women, LGBTQ individuals, the elderly, and individuals with disabilities are treated in society?
3. What institutional barriers may prevent some diverse clients from utilizing social services?
4. How can Ethnocentric Monoculturalism be oppressive to people of color, gays, lesbians, and women?
5. Can you grow up in the U.S. and not inherit biases and stereotypes? How are biases and stereotypes communicated?
6. What are some of the ways that society has communicated that people of color are the center of society's ills (i.e. welfare, poverty, crime, and so on).
7. How has the history of slavery, cultural genocide, and the "melting pot" theory impacted the mental health of people of color? Institutions? Race relations?
8. Identify a list of possible microaggressions that can be committed related to race/Ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, and ability.
9. If microaggressions are reflections of a worldview of inclusion-exclusion, superiority-inferiority, and so forth, what do microaggressions tell you about the unconscious perceptions of marginalized and oppressed populations?
10. Why is the "color blind" ideology considered to be the "new racism"?