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The five chapters that I read from Ethnicity and Family Therapy (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto, 2005) where about Native Americans, Native Hawaiian families, British West Indian families, and Haitian families (2-4 & 8-9 chapters). I was very excited about this assignment and very much enjoyed reading about these cultures. Any and all details I can learn about Native Americans I find really enjoyable. These details will help me with my current job as well. In the Native American society, if an individual is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), they may be known as “Two-Spirit” (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto, 2005). This is a contemporary term that some of the Native started to give LGBT’s which roughly means that …show more content…
When someone marries into the family they are just that, family. When a person is married to that family, they become a sister, brother, father or mother. There is no “in-law” or legal attachment with the name. It is a bond of a family and an extension of family. Native Americans are also very much in tune with earth and link all their thoughts with earth. They respect all animals, plants, water, and living things. They also respect acts of Mother Nature and understand that forces of nature (natural disasters) happen and need to be respected as well. They understand without Mother Nature, there would be no life (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto, …show more content…
They believe that if they do not honor their “loa” appropriately bad fortune would come to them and their family (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto, 2005). One thing I read that I could see impacting a family therapy session was nonverbal communication with Native Americans. I was so glad I read this as I know I am one of those people that if no one is talking after I have asked a question, I wonder what is wrong. I never thought about I would be responding to silence and how a client would think about it. I know I would think about it as possible resistance and now I know that it may be something else and see it in a different light (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto, 2005). Another thing that I think that would impact a family therapy session would be with the British West Indian families and their form of punishment and corporal punishment. It was even mentioned that Jamaican immigrants have ran into issues having to explain themselves to authorities about their ways of punishment. I think this would be a difficult area for me being a mandatory reporter. I would want to respect my client and not want to disrespect them in any way. I think that would have to be a judgement call I would have to make looking at the physical and evaluating the mental status of the child though (McGoldrick, Giordano & Garcia-Preto,

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