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Assignment:

1. What is your cultural worldview, and how might it help and hinder your work with culturally diverse clients? What particular role has ethnocentric monoculturalism played in the development of your worldview and the worldviews of members of cultural minority groups?

2. How can you apply the multidimensional model of cultural competence in your work with culturally diverse clients? How might it assist you in identifying potential social work interventions?

3. How do organizational and institutional forces enhance or hinder the development of cultural competence? What macro-level roles can social workers assume to combat these systemic forces? Which of these roles are you most comfortable taking on?

4. If the basic building blocks of cultural competence in social work practice are awareness, knowledge, and skills, how do you believe and hope to develop in these three areas of competence throughout your professional career? Can you list the various educational and training activities you will need to undertake to work effectively with a client or client system that differs from you in terms of age, race, gender or gender expression, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, religious or spiritual beliefs, or ability.

1. Considering that microaggressions include unintentional slights and insults, have you been guilty of committing micro aggressive acts?
2. Can you identify how you have committed microaggressions related too race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and disability?
3. Compile a list of possible microaggressions you have committed. Can you explore the potential hidden messages they may have communicated to the recipients?
4. It is often said that microaggressions are reflections of a worldview of inclusion- exclusion, superiority-inferiority, and so forth. What microaggressions tell you about your unconscious perceptions of marginalized and under presented groups?
5. If microaggressions are mostly outside of conscious awareness, what must you do to make them visible? What steps must you personally take to stop microaggressions?
6. What solutions can you offer that would be directed at individual change, institutional change, and societal change?
7. How does the clients stage of racial consciousness affect the social work helping relationship?
8. What types of conflict and or challenges may confront a white social worker when working with a client of color at the resistance and immersion stage of the R/CID model/ How might they perceive one another? How might they respond too one another? What issues are likely too arise in the social work helping relationship? What needs too be done for the social workers to be effective?
9. Can you discuss the other stages of the R/CID model and the implications for a White social workers and a client of color working with one another?
10. Can you discuss other stages of the R/CID model and the implications for a social worker of color and a client of color working with one another? Consider some of the issues that would emerge if both are at differing stages of racial/cultural identity development?
11. Does a social worker of color have to be at the integrative awareness stage to be helpful to a white client?