Cultural Differences Between Diversity And Racial Groups

One’s environment has a huge impact on the person’s morals and upbringing. The culture that surrounds individuals allows and leads these individuals to join a specific social status or class. A person’s goals and aspirations can be attributed to the individuals that person surrounds themselves with. Culture and ethnic diversity leads one to have different religious, linguistic, and social background. The human race is so diverse and interesting due to the ethnical diversity that surrounds us. Different regions in the United States acquire different mindsets, food preferences, and everyday lifestyles.

Diversity becomes a cornerstone to the local recovery community, as treatment moves from statistical data into the actual process of treatment. This is where the local community thrives in creating options to the treatment process, modeled after particular client needs. Though treatment is designed to be multi-cultural, there is still support communities available that are modeled to a culturally biased society. Burrow-Sanchez & Wrona (2012) states that Latinos are projected to make up 29% of the population by 2050 and currently report a rate of 14% of substance use disorders compared to 12.7% of Caucasians. Drug use is not discriminatory by any means, but stereotypical beliefs often segregate individuals based on ethnic, gender, religious and sexual orientation. Due to this fact there are treatment options that cater to a more specific group, in hopes of creating a more diverse culture in recovery. Scheneider-Corey, Corey & Corey (2013) establishes that counselors must understand the many types of client populations in order to design effective group treatment programs tailored to meet the specific needs of the client. As such the therapist establishes groups based on the cultural diversity of the clients, yet understands that at times specific groups catered to religious, gender, or race may be more beneficial to the client. The therapist becomes familiar with the local community available to the client and willing to communicate the best care options

The aforementioned authors described that ethnic, and culturally diverse populations pose the possibility of being at a higher risk for developing substance abuse related issues, making it imperative that substance abuse providers take into account the specifics surrounding the increase of diverse populations within the United States. Conveying the logicality that substance abuse providers have the prospect of engaging and treating these diverse populations, causes a need to administer effective treatment options that can be gained through sufficient training and preparing to work with diverse populations. Lassiter and Chang (2006) found that one professional organization The Association of Multicultural Counseling Development (AMCD) holds the belief that counselors that become competent within diverse populations will have the awareness, knowledge, and skills that are required to sufficiently provide services to these individuals with diverse cultural backgrounds. They noted that logically, counselors that practice with cultural competence display fewer practices that support stereotypes and biased viewpoints and practices within the duration of treating culturally diverse individuals. Establishing the ideology that eliminating practicing based on stereotypes and biases, often assures

So today I am supposed to stand here in front of you guys and talk to you about cultural diversity. What exactly is cultural diversity you ask? It’s the diverse varieties of different ethnic groups within a society. So with that being said I would like to take this time and share with you some of the background of my cultural background, which is Italian. I wanted to cover the important topics such as, their movement to the U.S, The Mafia, and most importantly.. their food!

I hail from the hearth of cultural diversity in the United States of America, New York City. Therefore it wouldn't be a surprise that all of my conscious life, I've been surrounded by different cultures, backgrounds, and views divergent from my own. Even though the sheer fact that my hometown displays an ability to thrive in a vibrant community, I don't believe that speaking about it alone would be sufficient enough to express why I would be able to fit into a vibrant community analogous to one of the most prestigious universities in the world, Rutgers University.

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Individual Final Assignment- What information about diversity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to others in ways that you may not have in the past? Have you learned something new about your own racial, ethnic, or cultural history? Trends in immigration will continue to shape the demographics of the United States. What will the U.S. population look like in the year 2050? Why do you think so? What challenges does the United States face due to the diversity of its people? What are the benefits of such a diverse society? How can we foster a climate of acceptance and cultural pluralism in the United States? In what ways do the media perpetuate stereotyping and prejudice? Provide examples to support your

I was very young when I had my first encounter with cultural diversity. At the time I thought I was the only person that had experienced things like this. When I was five years old my family, father, mother, and sister moved from Illinois to California. This didn’t really mean much to me at the time I didn’t remember much about being in Illinois. The first thing I did remember was that it wasn’t cold here. Next was the house it was big. After a couple days there I was enrolled in school, this was the early 60’s East Los Angeles. The school like my neighborhood was all Black/Negro. I felt comfortable. After three months we moved to West Los Angeles. Here was where things would start to change. First my neighborhood, on a block of thirty

Multicultural competence is defined as acquiring the essential skills in order to interact successful with individuals of diverse cultural or ethnic backgrounds (Holcomb- Mc Coy & Myers, 1999). Multicultural competency in counseling helps clinicians diminish the deeply rooted assumptions of a particular group and enables them understand their own values and gain a better perspective and empathy to successfully respond towards the needs of diverse populations. Clinicians are able to learn and recognize the importance of a client’s culture and the therapeutic relationship. In which they serve as advocates to ensure the therapeutic relationship and service provided is accessible and equitable. As a therapist gaining an understanding of

It is imperative for educators to critically examine their own, beliefs and attitudes related to difference and diversity because an educator needs to be able to understand his own values before he/she can begin to understand those of other people. According to Learner Guide Module 3.1, our beliefs, values and attitudes are what we use to make sense of the world around us. (Reflect on own cultural identity and biases, 2016). Additionally, our values, beliefs and attitudes are created based on experiences that have happened to us. Acknowledging these experiences and then accepting that others have had different experiences is an essential aspect of understanding diversity and differences.

As a counselor working in a Community Health Center you will encounter clients from all walks of life. Some of your clients will be socioeconomically disadvantaged, some will be tall or short; black, white, Asian, or Australian. Some will be extraordinarily wealthy and some will be missing limbs. What they all will have in common is that they are all people who come from different walks of life and have a substance abuse problem or mental health condition. As a counselor you will need to diagnose and develop the most affirmative treatment plan possible for that client. To effectively diagnose a client and create an affirmative treatment plan, the counselor must first examine the client as a whole.

Often counselors are ineffective with culturally diverse clients since they see cultural differences as shortfalls instead of strengths. Also, counselors will regularly disregard to discuss a client’s issues with regards to current social issues confronting the client. Counseling experts create hindrances in counseling when they do not think about client’s issues with regards to educational, economic, social, political, legal, and cultural frameworks. The shortfall perspective, combined with a disregard to address social background issues, can delay the diverse counseling process. This delay in diverse counseling can also be seen when it comes to counseling competence and poverty beliefs. Counselors are prepared in diversity and multiculturalism

As long as we as a society believes in race, we will continue to see differences. These differences are fictional of course but still weigh upon people in everyday life. Stereotypes are a venom that spread though spoken word and media. Everything that we see as a part of race is a construct of society, thus not a true fact or even a part of human reality. While it is important to respect society and its regulations, it is a sin to treat and distinguish others as different because society tells you too. While we as humans will never fully rid ourselves of the concept of race we can try to atone for the sins of the past that mar our minds, media and history books. One day perhaps we may be able to see everyone as equal and still respect an individual’s

I think if the U.S. had a more ethnically sensitive society that no one would would follow religion or tradition anymore. Some struggles with U.S. becoming more ethically sensitive are acceptance, speech patterns, and following tradition. There are some good points about our nation being culturally diverse such as…. Being exposed to other cultures, shown different lifestyles, and meeting new people.

Multicultural concerns are increased concern among addiction recovery professionals. Some of the employers require therapists to get training in multicultural issues. Some of the employers require their staff to attend multicultural training in the form of continuing education classes. These training sessions can help therapists become more efficient in dealing with their clientele base and therefore provide more effective treatment. Some common issues that the therapists must be aware of and be trained in can include: