Psychopathy and Culture: Culture-Bound Syndrome

Each person is unique with different gifts, abilities, and struggles. Counselors are committed to walk with individuals on their journeys to growth and healing without judgement.

As a school counselor in practice, my philosophy of the role of the school counselor is that school counselors play a tremendous role in the life of their student and is very important for us, school counselors to be aware of our role in the students’ life. We play a big role in their development of different areas such as personal development, career/academic development, and social development. Therefore, what guide me to this career is that I want to be able to advocate for my students, and to help student succeed not only academically but also mentally, socially and to provide them with the tools that they need to be successful in life.

Culture-Bound Syndrome is a combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms that are disease only within a specific society or culture. The symptoms for Culture-Bound Syndrome are as listed: Headaches, screaming spontaneously, stomach pain, loss of consciousness, and fatigue. There are several of different groups that are effect by certain syndromes such as African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, Nigerians, Haitians, and Hispanics, arctic and subarctic Inuit. Just to inform you that just because you belong to a certain group doesn’t mean you are going to have it, but there is a chance you may suffer from it. By learning the syndrome and symptoms you will have a greater understanding for the syndrome your group may suffer from. Also you would be able to inform others and grant them some knowledge on it as well.

6. From this interview, what can give us insight into communicating across cultures or across work

cultural syndrome, cultural idiom of distress, and cultural explanation or perceived cause (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). These concepts will aid in facilitating a counselor’s in understanding and describing their client’s dialogue and experiences. Culture syndrome are a cluster of behaviors or symptoms that may or may not be considered an issues but recognizable to an outsider. Cultural idioms are shared community concepts of expressing a wide range of disorders due to communal conditions rather than considering the issue a malady however, they are not symptoms, syndromes, or perceived causes (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Certain Western cultural disorders may or may not be more acceptable of various prevalence’s or spectrums than other cultures. An example, would be some cultures would not consider evaluating the severity of

Culture bound syndrome is a broad rubric that encompasses certain behavioral, affective and cognitive symptoms associated with certain cultures. It may be unreasonable to except one term to describe different concepts. In medicine and anthropology, a culture bound syndrome, culture specific syndrome is a combination of psychiatric symptoms that are considered to be recognizable disease only within a specific culture (Singh, 2011). The symptoms derived from the usual behavior of the individuals associated with the culture and are the reason many stress/distress activities. However, the available information and literature on these conditions suggest that at least some of them are/have been more widely prevalent than being considered. There

Multicultural and diversity is an important topic in counseling. Counselors provide a service to everyone, regardless their nationality, gender, sexual preference or ethnical background. All counselors are held to a high ethical standard, rather they are school, family, and marriage, mental or spiritual counselors. Counselors must be competent to work effectively with members of society who are culturally different from themselves in order to avoid risk engaging in unethical conduct.

With the diversifying population in America’s schools, a profession school counselor should be culturally competent to meet the needs of all students. “The transformed professional school counselor is culturally competent, respectful of human diversity, and a school leader in ensuring that oppressive systemic barriers to academic, career, college readiness, and personal/social development are removed (Erford, 2015, p. 173).” A school counselor needs to have a deep understanding of a variety of cultures to meet the personal, emotional, developmental needs of a student using individual and group interventions while being aware of their cultural and spiritual needs.

The counselor is involved with the recognition, understanding, and accepting of the others difference and subjectivity. Even though counselors attempt to achieve this type of relationship most do not always achieve this level of relationship or the relationship is short

I hear you say counselors might be responsible for helping with testing and other duties such as scheduling. I can remember being in middle school and going to the counselor office to make changes to my class schedule. Counselors take on a lot or responsiblies working in an educational setting. Counselors have to help students transiting from elementary to middle school into the routine of changing classes, having their own locker and the changes made to their body. I can remember being in junior high school and every year each student would receive a care package. Many middle schools do not have the resources to help prepare students in middle school for puberty changes, which can cause some student to change their career path of what they would like to be in the future.

While interviewing a client, I need to make sure the interview environment is comfortable and there are no disruptions. My client should feel safe and aware that only the client and I will hear whatever he/she has to say. Next, I should focus on my questioning skills. I should know what the right questions to ask are and what are not. I do not want to ask my client irrelevant questions, when it’s not important. However, good questioning can allow me as a social worker to better understand the issue that is going on with my client. Lastly, I need to focus on active listening during an interview. More so, this is a combination of talking and listening. Active listening helps clients feel heard and understood. Mostly, it’s used for the social worker to reflect back to the client what he/she just said, in order for the client to know the social worker is listening and is understanding the

Serving students with different backgrounds, personalities, or beliefs may not be the easiest thing to do, as their thought process may differ. Therefore, it is essential for school counselors to find healthy ways to build on a school counselor-student relationship. There are several characteristics or behaviors that I feel school counselors should have, that helps them maintain a relationship with their students. Students can be more willing to open-up their thoughts or accept suggestions when the school counselor is a good listener. A lot of the times, we can think that we have to do all the talking, but is necessary to step back and listen at the students first. Also, school counselors must be friendly and easy to approach. Students can feel more comfortable with individuals they like and accept. In addition, it is essential for all school counselors to appreciate diversity. It is important for school counselors to

The term culture-bound syndrome was included in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) which also includes a list of the most common culture-bound conditions (DSM-IV: Appendix I). Included in DSM-IV-TR (4th.ed) the term cultural-bound syndrome denotes recurrent, locality-specific patterns of abnormal behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV-TR diagnostic category. Many of these patterns are naturally considered to be illnesses, or at least afflictions, and most have local names. Although presentations conforming to the major DSM-IV-TR categories can be found throughout the world, the

There are many different types of interviews and one way of viewing them may be to plot them on a continuum from highly structured and more prescriptive at one end to unstructured and highly flexible at the other. It is important not to confuse flexibility with a lack of rigour. On the contrary, the researcher must engage with a number of principles and must wrestle with key understandings in order to generate data and provide

Counselors are sensitive to the cultural diversity of families and respect the inherent rights and responsibilities of parents/ guardians over the welfare of their children/ charges according to law. Counsellors work to establish, as appropriate, collaborative relationships with parents/ guardians to best serve clients.