Hi everyone,
In regards to when I felt out of my depth. I felt out of my own depth was when I moved from the South to the North. At the time they were still covering the civil war. The North and South have very different ways of teaching that subject. Also they both have very different processes of education. When I first started to attend school in the North, teachers would actually ask if I were "stupid" "dumb" "special needs" "etc." just because I was not taught the topics they were going over. I also noticed when I lived in the South, there wasn't much of a care for overly high standard of fashion. For me, where I lived, it was really just getting a pair of jeans that didn't have stains on them, and a clean shirt and you were okay. …show more content…
You can learn about culture by: 1) forming a good relationship with your supervisor so they may be willing to help you and guide you or teach you about a culture they may have learned about that you have not. 2) Having a diverse set of friends with different types of culture than your own and trying to learn or be a part of their cultural traditions, or even simply so much as asking them about their culture. 3) Keep track of your emotional responses to clients or other individuals with different cultures and have an open mind to their beliefs and ideas. And 4) Accepting the fact that you don't know everything there is to know about a culture and you will never know every single culture in the world. I especially think this is important because, too many therapists will assume they know what a client is talking about, or how a client sees something just because they read a book or talk to "that one friend they know, whos apparently supposed to represent everyone in their culture." Therapist should accept the fact they don't fully know their clients' culture, and they never will. But through talking with them and exploring (not curiously learning) they may develop a good sense of what their culture is and what it is
In regards to when I felt out of my depth. I felt out of my own depth was when I moved from the South to the North. At the time they were still covering the civil war. The North and South have very different ways of teaching that subject. Also they both have very different processes of education. When I first started to attend school in the North, teachers would actually ask if I were "stupid" "dumb" "special needs" "etc." just because I was not taught the topics they were going over. I also noticed when I lived in the South, there wasn't much of a care for overly high standard of fashion. For me, where I lived, it was really just getting a pair of jeans that didn't have stains on them, and a clean shirt and you were okay. …show more content…
You can learn about culture by: 1) forming a good relationship with your supervisor so they may be willing to help you and guide you or teach you about a culture they may have learned about that you have not. 2) Having a diverse set of friends with different types of culture than your own and trying to learn or be a part of their cultural traditions, or even simply so much as asking them about their culture. 3) Keep track of your emotional responses to clients or other individuals with different cultures and have an open mind to their beliefs and ideas. And 4) Accepting the fact that you don't know everything there is to know about a culture and you will never know every single culture in the world. I especially think this is important because, too many therapists will assume they know what a client is talking about, or how a client sees something just because they read a book or talk to "that one friend they know, whos apparently supposed to represent everyone in their culture." Therapist should accept the fact they don't fully know their clients' culture, and they never will. But through talking with them and exploring (not curiously learning) they may develop a good sense of what their culture is and what it is