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Rebecca Bajulaiye 

RE: Discussion 2 - Week 5 

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The case of Charo.

Tori DeAngelis (2015), defined cultural competency as “the ability to understand, appreciate and interact with people from cultures or belief systems different from one's own” (as cited in American Psychological Association website). Social worker needs to be familiar with the normative cultural values affecting interactions with their clients from different cultures. While it is impossible to know everything about every culture, social worker must learn about important cultural values that can stop progress. The ability to provide appropriate and effective care to members of various cultural groups rests on a set of attitudes, skills, policies, practices that is needed in achieving such goals. I am a bit familiar with Hispanic culture as I have worked many years with people of different cultural background. I know that Hispanics placed a strong emphasis on family as a major source of one’s identity and sense of belonging that is intense and limited to family and friends only. As a social worker cultural awareness is very important as it is necessary to fully understand how a different set of beliefs, values, and religion or lack thereof affect client’s perspectives and their personal views on the services and interventions. 

Knowing that Charo lacks family support and knowing that her family is very important to her, I would ask her if her family in Mexico have access to internet and if she will like to video chat with them and that way she will not feel alone. I will also suggest getting a laptop to her as everything is online now such as job search, filling applications and she can even self-taught herself the ESL through YouTube, google, and also learn how to navigate through the net. I will also want to know what she considered to be her major priority/goals she will like to work on first?

References.

 National Association of Social Work (2015). Standard indicators for cultural competence in social work practice Retrieved on 110/6/2017 fromhttps://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=7dVckZAYUmk%3D&portalid=0

Plummer, S.-B., Makris, S., & Brocksen S.M. (Eds.). (2014). Working with Survivors Abuse and Trauma: The Case of Charo in social case work studies: (2014). Retrieved on 10/30/2017 from https://class.waldenu.edu/bbcswebdav/institution/U+SW1/201810_05/MS_SOCW/SOCW_6002_WC/artifacts/MSW_Charo_CaseStudy.pdf

Tori DeAngelis, T. (2015). In search of cultural competency. Vol 46, No. 3. Retrieved on 11/8/2017 from http://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/03/cultural-competenc

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