Training Intervention Virtual Roundtable Presentation

Annotated Bibliography

Kimberly H. Morgan

CED-525: Cross Cultural Consideration in Counseling

October 7, 2018

Dr. Shelia Witherspoon

Aleandri, G. (2015). Autobiography as educational scientific tool in penitentiary. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 197, 4-9.

The article considers the applicability of the cultural autobiography among the people in prisons. According to Aleandri, creating one’s autobiography is the most critical self-training strategy. This is because telling one’s story entails taking a moment for one’s self to recharge and give free reign to the emotions and to be shared with them. Therefore, the article is significant as it provides an insight into the importance of allowing others to learn and understand a person through the reading of their experience and past activities. Based on the study, it indicates the advantages that a psychiatric may have while treating a person whom they have a clear understanding of what might have transpired in their lives; both as children and adults. It is necessary for determining what people ought to alter to people and what not to.

BEŞE, A., & TANRITANIR, B. C. (2016). Way to Self-Identity: Examples from African-American Cultural Writings on Problems of Integration. Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences, 20(1), 45–54. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=115175608&site=ehost-live

The article is about the African American way of ensuring self-identification while in the foreign land full of the majority people. Bese & Tanritanir state that the past life of the blacks as slaves and in oppression have a significance on impacting their inability to present themselves before others. The Jim Crow law was to ensure that they were separated from their fellow white citizens. Therefore, cultural biography has brought about the autonomy and the freedom that they lacked to express themselves and even talk about their experiences. Thus, the article is quite useful to the study; considering that the study is based on the inequality between the majority and the minorities. It will be used as a source of information on the factors that promote inequality in the United States, as well as the anticipated change with the use of autobiographies.

Farrell, Laura, et al. “Autoethnography: Introducing ‘I’ into Medical Education Research.” Medical Education, vol. 49, no. 10, Oct. 2015, pp. 974–982. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/medu.12761.

This is a medical article that focuses on autoethnography; a strategy that allows clinician-educators to conduct a study about their culture and share the findings with others. In this case, the authors consider it necessary to include the cultural autobiography that identifies and differentiates each one of them from the rest. Hence, it becomes easy to allocate duties and topics to research. One’s experience determines his/her ability to perform the task given to them. For that reason, the article is quite relevant and can be applied in all sectors. Employers in all industries can use the applicant’s cultural autobiography to determine their ability and capabilities in the organization. In the study, it will be used to provide insight into the relevance of writing one’s experience and including cultural factors as a way of selecting a well-performing employee.

Hang H. (2015) Cultural Autobiography: A Tool to Multicultural Discovery of Self.

The article considers cultural autobiography as a way of ensuring self-expression and reflection. It enables people as well as those around them to develop some sense of understanding from the inside to the outside. It includes understanding the hard pleasant moments that one have ever had in life. Thus being in a position to treat them as per their expectation and in a manner that causes no harm to them. For people like psychiatrists that deal with the mental problems in the society, it is necessary to have a record of the past events that one has undergone. Thus being in a position to offer them the appropriate help, it is useful to the study because it elaborates on how the autobiography concept can be used to integrate the aspect of multiculturalism.

Hollinsworth, D. (2013). Forget Cultural Competence; Ask for an Autobiography. Social Work Education, 32(8), 1048–1060. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2012.730513

Hollinsworth states that management practices seek to standardize and routinize practices through the evaluation of processes and work in a formulated manner, with the aim of minimizing risks and being cost effective. Therefore, cultural competence has become the source of expert knowledge and skills. For instance, social workers are continuously encouraged to an emphasis on the social and cultural biography to ensure that they understand what matter in their client’s lives. Thus, they will be able to offer assistance as required and meet their needs effectively. The article is essential in the study as it brings about the cases of ensuring that all services meet the requirements of the client. It gives an understanding of how professionals like psychologists can increase their effectiveness through the use of the cultural autobiography to learn and understand their patients. It promotes the need for harmony between the client and the service provider.

Leavitt, L., Wisdom, S., & Leavitt, K. (Eds.). (2017). Cultural awareness and competency development in higher education. IGI Global.

The Authors of the article state that cultural autobiography gives people an opportunity to present their heritage as well as identify factors that make up the cultural identity. These include one’s race, nationality, ethnicity, social class, geography, together with their gender orientation. The ability to put down the unspoken words on the paper is the first step in enjoying privilege and dominance in the society. The article is relevant to the study, the authors argue that the major reason for preparing a cultural autobiography is to allow others to reflect on how everyone in the society participate in the perpetuation of the privilege. Since it relates to my study topic, it will be used as the basis for the research. It gives clear insights on the privileges that comes with personal identification to others. It cans also be used to indicate different factors that determines one’s way of treatment in the American society.

Mihaela E. (2018). Teachers' Cultural Autobiography as Means of Civic Professional Engagement. Educational Philosophy and Theory. Accessed from https://eric.ed.gov/?q=cultural+autobiography&id=EJ1172642

The article presents the way the author moved from being a communist to capitalist, as well as from the system of banking to the teaching of the oppressed to problem-posing education. According to Mihaela, personal experience is a way of emigrating internally as well as a part of a struggle through self-actualization and self-understanding. Again, he proposes that the justice system may allow children from cultural and ethnic backgrounds to practice m the diverse backgrounds to be able to exercise the transfer of knowledge from personal to the local perspective. The process is not only for an individual but also for the benefit of others. The article is relevant in that it stipulates the relationship between the cultural autobiography and one’s ability to perform in the society. Thus, it can be a good source for explaining how the experience influences the wellbeing of an individual; especially when interacting with others. It enables one to understand their ability in different fields and positions.

Neumann, C. B., & Neumann, I. B. (2017). Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology: Autobiography, Field, Text. Springer.

The publication by Neumann & Neumann states explains cultural autobiography from the employment point of view. According to the authors, predetermined information enhances preunderstanding among the interviewers. This increases the level of knowledge among the employers especially concerning the experience of the job. As a result, it minimizes time consumption during the interviews. About the case study, the article is quite relevant and significant. It states that people ought to understand the capability and skills of others for them to judge on their ability to perform their designs. The information can be used to address the cases of assumption and discrimination that see the African Americans being considered unworthy and incapable of performing quality tasks. Cultural autobiography is also necessary to ensure that people remain sensitive to words and actions against others

Shakur, A. (2016). Assata: an autobiography. Zed Books Ltd.

The publication is on the autobiography of the author, which helps the reader to understand the society that people live in. The author explains how the racial discrimination she experienced during her childhood, as well as a black woman, affected her way of life. She argues that racism is the primary factor for promoting the need for identity among the Black people. She explains several experiences that she believes made her be the target for the police. The publication provides a general explanation on why people need to know the life people have led before judging or treating them in a particular manner. About the study, it will help bring into light how cases of discrimination among people can result in the prevalence of social and psychological issues. Thus, with the understanding, it is easier for the practitioners to understand the most appropriate way to handle the problems.

Wang, Q. (2016). Why should we all be cultural psychologists? Lessons from the study of social cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(5), 583-596.

Wang calls attention on the psychologists to focus on the need for cultural autobiography while providing counseling. According to him, it is not enough for the personnel to have an understanding of the cultural psychology. Among the reasons he stipulates for the need of the autobiography is that cultural psychology is only concerned about finding the group differences and not similarities, it is worried about the analysis of group-level and not the fundamental processes of psychology. Though it is relevant, the article will not be used as the basis in the study. However, it will provide adequate knowledge on the influence of inspirational autobiography on conducting activities among the professionals. The knowledge obtained will be used to describe why there are still cases of bias in social services; thus leaving the minorities suffering. Inequality stimulates the provision of differentiated services; especially in the United States where there are the majority and the minority.

References

Aleandri, G. (2015). Autobiography as educational scientific tool in penitentiary. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 197, 4-9.

BEŞE, A., & TANRITANIR, B. C. (2016). Way to Self Identity: Examples from African-American Cultural Writings on Problems of Integration. Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences, 20(1), 45–54. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=115175608&site=ehost-live

Farrell, Laura, et al. “Autoethnography: Introducing ‘I’ into Medical Education Research.” Medical Education, vol. 49, no. 10, Oct. 2015, pp. 974–982. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/medu.12761.

Hang H. (2015) Cultural Autobiography: A Tool to Multicultural Discovery of Self.

Hollinsworth, D. (2013). Forget Cultural Competence; Ask for an Autobiography. Social Work Education, 32(8), 1048–1060. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2012.730513

Leavitt, L., Wisdom, S., & Leavitt, K. (Eds.). (2017). Cultural awareness and competency development in higher education. IGI Global.

Mihaela E. (2018). Teachers' Cultural Autobiography as Means of Civic Professional Engagement. Educational Philosophy and Theory. Accessed from https://eric.ed.gov/?q=cultural+autobiography&id=EJ117264

Neumann, C. B., & Neumann, I. B. (2017). Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology: Autobiography, Field, Text. Springer.

Shakur, A. (2016). Assata: an autobiography. Zed Books Ltd.

Wang, Q. (2016). Why should we all be cultural psychologists? Lessons from the study of social cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(5), 583-596.