Our society may act like a boiling and melting pot for individuals with varied ideas, concepts, religious, cultures, races and unique attributes that are hard to find in other communities. However, the social context or immediately the social and physical settings in which people live and events occur, determine influences key aspects of people such as their social lives. Social factors such as social traditions, values, and beliefs as well as the level of literacy in the community significantly affect human life by setting ethical standards that should be observed by all individuals in the society. As a result, a hate crime is widely influenced by the social and cultural environment in which an individual lives in. However, despite the efforts
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According to Inta Dzelme who conducted research to establish psychological effects of hate crime, hate crimes are an expression of animosity not only to the victim but the entire social groups, and this may have a psychological impact for both the little ones and the adults of the social group. Statistics suggests that hate crime is mostly directed towards persons who are already marginalized in a number of ways in the society mostly based con prejudice. Victims of hate crime suffer from mental health, and it is believed that’s hate crime hurts more than other general crime. On the other hand, Gothenburg University publication on the philosophical aspect of hate crime, the author states that hate crime is often influenced by the age of human and social conflicts with deep psychological and cultural origins. Thus, when the hatred and intolerance date ages back, there is the likelihood that the hate crime committed will have serious consequences compared to recent hatred. It is worth noting that individual, as well as groups reaction and response to hate crimes, is mainly influenced by the mental health and strength of the victim and the whole group as the victim. Psychologists believe that this genre of attack happens in two levels, the physical attack and identity attack where self-esteem of the individual is severely damaged. Thus, in most …show more content…
In most cases, when such attack occurs, individuals revert to unfortunate tendencies of protecting their own or rather revenging, but this is not the solution. To treat the consequences of hate crime as well as trying to prevent their occurrences, there is the need to follow a five a treatment phase that involves:
Event containment and safety – this stage involves of developing techniques and ways of preventing an occurrence of a hate crime and maximizing individual safety.
Assessment of client-event characteristics – this stage deals with nature and characteristics of both the victim and the attack
Addressing diversity in the counseling alliance – this stage involves the effort of the psychologists and the public in general to create awareness of the importance of diversity in society as well as minimizing chances of development of hatred and intolerance in the society.
Acute symptoms reduction – this stage evaluates symptoms of an impending attack as well as symptoms of individuals suffering from an
According to Inta Dzelme who conducted research to establish psychological effects of hate crime, hate crimes are an expression of animosity not only to the victim but the entire social groups, and this may have a psychological impact for both the little ones and the adults of the social group. Statistics suggests that hate crime is mostly directed towards persons who are already marginalized in a number of ways in the society mostly based con prejudice. Victims of hate crime suffer from mental health, and it is believed that’s hate crime hurts more than other general crime. On the other hand, Gothenburg University publication on the philosophical aspect of hate crime, the author states that hate crime is often influenced by the age of human and social conflicts with deep psychological and cultural origins. Thus, when the hatred and intolerance date ages back, there is the likelihood that the hate crime committed will have serious consequences compared to recent hatred. It is worth noting that individual, as well as groups reaction and response to hate crimes, is mainly influenced by the mental health and strength of the victim and the whole group as the victim. Psychologists believe that this genre of attack happens in two levels, the physical attack and identity attack where self-esteem of the individual is severely damaged. Thus, in most …show more content…
In most cases, when such attack occurs, individuals revert to unfortunate tendencies of protecting their own or rather revenging, but this is not the solution. To treat the consequences of hate crime as well as trying to prevent their occurrences, there is the need to follow a five a treatment phase that involves:
Event containment and safety – this stage involves of developing techniques and ways of preventing an occurrence of a hate crime and maximizing individual safety.
Assessment of client-event characteristics – this stage deals with nature and characteristics of both the victim and the attack
Addressing diversity in the counseling alliance – this stage involves the effort of the psychologists and the public in general to create awareness of the importance of diversity in society as well as minimizing chances of development of hatred and intolerance in the society.
Acute symptoms reduction – this stage evaluates symptoms of an impending attack as well as symptoms of individuals suffering from an