There are many concerns for therapists when treating clients from a multicultural population. Learning how to effectively work and communicate with clients from a culturally diverse population is part of the therapeutic process of the therapist. Therapists have received special training in areas of expertise that helps to improve the outcome and the performance of their client dramatically‚ simply because they have gain insight about the client‚ and the ability to address the client’s needs. This
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Paper #2 Identity in America Anna Lisa Raya is a Latina college student going through problems of being judged for being a Mexican American. She doesn’t know the Spanish language which makes it hard for her to fit in with the other Spanish speaking people in her college. She says that she is “stuck in a black hole of an identity crisis”. I personally believe that we and only we can decide what our identity is. (Raya‚ Anna Lisa 1-2) Only you choose your identity‚ not your friends‚ role models
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Education can be used to empower or disenfranchise anyone. With knowledge‚ a person has the power to become informed about their surroundings and petition for changes‚ but without it people lose that ability. Education can be structured to give the illusion of helping‚ but can leave out important aspects that would truly help the person. This type of structured education stops people from helping themselves out of bad situations. African Americans were often faced with this discrimination. African
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Education and the Knowledge Society At Odds With The Draconian Mindset Education is the backbone of any country‚ person‚ and society. It is very vital as it frames the life of an individual and also the world around them. Education is to receive knowledge. Knowledge is to know things around us; this helps us understand things better. Knowledge or education has no limit and no end. Education has been quoted in different ways by different people – but the one thread they have in
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How to Manage a Multicultural Team Working as a manager for a multicultural team is an exciting endeavor. However‚ it presents a lot of challenges that can prove taxing to a manager who has little or no experience at all in handling people of different cultures and beliefs. In order for a manager to effectively manage a multicultural team‚ he has to rid himself of prejudices and biases that can hinder his objectivity. A good manager should be able to garner respect from people of different cultural
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Neuroscience at Harvard University‚ Lisa Genova has written numerous fiction novels themed around her speciality of Mental Health and targeted at both teenagers and adults. Lisa’s inspiration to write ‘Still Alice’ was for two reasons; firstly distress over witnessing but being incapable of preventing her grandmother being ‘disassembled’ and turned from a vibrant and intelligent woman into someone who neither recognised herself nor her life. Secondly‚ whilst studying Lisa became fascinated in understanding
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race‚ religion‚ etc. Ethnography opens up discussion about how emotions are responses to our surroundings. Lisa Tillman’s reflection on her journey aims to help people understand that her experience has been guided by the stigmatized idea of bulimia. The concept of suggests that people’s perceptions can be challenged by critically analyzing how our bulimia conversation defines our culture. Lisa Tillman proves that it is crucial to go “beyond” emotions to explore how one’s experience confirms many social
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As a correspondent for National Geographic Explorer and Oprah‚ Lisa Ling has fearlessly ventured into crime-ridden cities and maximum-security prisons. But the journalist’s most harrowing assignment took place last December‚ when she walked on to The View (where she had cohosted from 1999 to 2002) and revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage in the summer. "I made a career of telling people’s stories‚ but it’s very difficult to tell my own‚" says Ling of her decision to go public. "But women
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Multicultural issues are an indisputable part of counselling‚ and the counselors need to prepare well to meet the needs of different populations and serve them optimally. Every individual exists in social‚ historical‚ political and economic contexts and this calls for an increased understanding of these contexts on the behavior of the individuals. The Guidelines on Multicultural Education offer Psychologists a guidance on the changing needs of society and continuing evolution of psychology. The specific
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English Teaching A. The role of College Education in Philippine Society 1. College education has always been looked upon as the main source of potential leaders in various fields of endeavor in the country. 2. Parents look to college education as the passport to a better job‚ ultimately to a better life. 3. Industry has depended much on the output of college education for its manpower needs. 4. Many students do not consider their education complete unless they have finished a college
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