SW 312 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: John Wiley & Sons, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Class Discrimination
14 Sep 2016
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Chapter 8: barriers to effective multicultural clinical practice. Traditional social work and mental health services are imbued with monocultural assumptions and practices that disadvantage, or deny equal access and opportunity to, culturally diverse groups. Language barriers: there is overlap between these three main categories. Linguistic barriers often place culturally diverse clients at a disadvantage. All theories of counseling and therapy are constructed based on theorists" assumptions concerning the goals for therapy, the methodology used to invoke change, and the definition of healthy and unhealthy functioning. Social work counseling and therapy have traditionally been conceptualized in western, individualistic terms. Most theories share certain common components of white culture in the values and beliefs they reflect. Counseling and therapy are used mainly with middle- and upper-class segments of the population: culturally diverse clients do not share many of the values and characteristics seen in both the goals and the process of therapy.
