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Why are rituals important? |
-have a causal impact on people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. -People engage in rituals with the intention of achieving a wide set of desired outcomes, from reducing their anxiety to boosting their confidence, alleviating their grief to performing well in a competition – or even making it rain. |
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To be Culturally Sensible one must have an Awareness of... |
a. Cultural values of origin (own)
b. Therapeutic orientation (theory of health/wellness/healing) c. Professional worldview |
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Knowledge of Cultural Sensibility |
a. Anthropological expert or Universal posture
b. Culture of origin 1. Values 2. Rituals and practices c. Within culture diversity 1. Ethnic identification 2. Acculturation 3. Migration |
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Skills of Cultural Sensibility |
a. Communication
1. Adjusting language b. Indigenous practices c. Externalizing the problem 1. Recognizing cultural disruptions 2. Reframing the problem situation 3. Deconstructing labels d. Culture as intervention: e. Reinstating abandoned rituals/practices 1. Creating stability f. Co-creating new rituals (transformation) |
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Cultural Sensibility: Things to Consider |
Don’t believe everything you think
Don’t believe everything you see Language and words do matter |
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Cultural Encapsulation |
The inescapable tendency to define reality according to one set of cultural assumptions, while being impervious to their constraints and limitations.
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Assumptions and Prior Knowledge |
Can act as possible constraints to solving a problem |
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Constraints |
Prior knowledge is the main resource that a problem solver can bring to bear on a problem.
Prior knowledge produces unconscious biases that might influence perception and/or encoding of a problem. When a problem solver faces a very unfamiliar or novel type of problem, there is no guarantee that prior knowledge will be relevant or helpful. |
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Western Psychology and Western Culture |
insidious nature to:
Sever individuals from their cultures of origin Communities Cultural connections Critical dimensions Price of admission |
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To succeed in Cultural Sensibility... |
We want to learn to de-activate or relax the constraints imposed by the automatically activated BUT unhelpful knowledge.
It is OK to question (at times): conventional wisdom dominant cultural knowledge common logic |
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Language and Words |
When we engage in language we are not engaing in a neutral activity -Dell (1980) Grammar is inherently metaphysical because it delineates how aspects of "reality" are related. -Western language--> leads speakers to believe that their grammar objectively reports the true structure of the world. -Hopi Language --> relational grammar that describes the world in terms of process (verbs) |
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Paradigm Shift |
Change without transformation As helpers we need to become fluent in: - The diverse vocabularies - THe diverse histories Transform our lens of experience -Rule to change the rules |
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Culture |
-The sum of attitudes, customs, and beliefs that distinguishes one group of people from another. Culture is transmitted, through language, material objects, ritual, institutions, and art, from one generation to the next. -mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive, meaning that people are shaped by their culture and their culture is also shaped by them |
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Ethnicity |
-belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. |
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Race |
A group of people identified as distinct from other groups because of supposed physical or genetic traits shared by the group. |
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Nationality |
the status of belonging to a particular nation. |
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American |
of, relating to, or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants. |
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Melting Pot |
a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc., are mixed together Can lead to loss of culture |
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White Priviledge |
a set of advantages and/or immunities that white people benefit from on a daily basis beyond those common to all others.
can exist without white people's conscious knowledge of its presence and it helps to maintain the racial hierarchy in this country. |
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The Link Between Diversity and Intellectual Freedom |
Intellectual freedom provides the vehicle
Diversity provides the moral compa |
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Minority Identity Development |
History Shapes Identity In the West it is assumed that “names reflect reality” From the context of Chinese culture comes a basic rule which Confucius called the rectification of names based on the belief that from the right name the right reality should follow. |
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Process of Migration |
1. Preparatory stage
2. Act of migration 3. Period of overcompensation 4. Period of decompensation 5. Transgenerational Phenomena |
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Bicultural Idenity Model |
Bicultural identity is the condition of being oneself regarding the combination of two cultures.
A person starts to take on characteristics of the new language and culture which in turn combine with the old and create a new hybrid identity. People can be Strong in both, Weak in both, or Stronger in one than the other. |
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Ecosystemic Model |
Microsystem: Refers to the institutions and groups that most immediately and directly impact the child's development including: family, school, religious institutions, neighborhood, and peers.
Mesosystem: Interconnections between the microsystems, Interactions between the family and teachers, Relationship between the child’s peers and the family Exosystem: Involves links between a social setting in which the individual does not have an active role and the individual's immediate context. For example, a parent's or child's experience at home may be influenced by the other parent's experiences at work. The parent might receive a promotion that requires more travel, which might increase conflict with the other parent and change patterns of interaction with the child. Macrosystem: Describes the culture in which individuals live. Cultural contexts include developing and industrialized countries, socioeconomic status, poverty, and ethnicity. A child, his or her parent, his or her school, and his or her parent's workplace are all part of a large cultural context. Members of a cultural group share a common identity, heritage, and values. The macrosystem evolves over time, because each successive generation may change the macrosystem, leading to their development in a unique macrosystem. Chronosystem: The patterning of environmental events and transitions over the life course, as well as sociohistorical circumstances. For example, divorces are one transition. Researchers have found that the negative effects of divorce on children often peak in the first year after the divorce. By two years after the divorce, family interaction is less chaotic and more stable. An example of sociohistorical circumstances is the increase in opportunities for women to pursue a career during the last thirty years |
