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Social and Cultural Paper Outline

Amber Hope

Grand Canyon University: MHW-510-Ethics and Cultural Diversity in Mental Health and Wellness

December 11, 2019

Social and Cultural Paper Outline

Topic: Personal biases regarding culture

I. Introduction

1) People from different cultures view each other through a different lens.

2) Cultural differences may be seen in;

i. Ethnicity

ii. Race

iii. Socioeconomic status

iv. Religion

v. Sexual orientation

vi. Gender Orientation

3) Cultural Bias is a psychological condition of individuals and societies.

4) Cultural competency is the solution to remove the cultural bias from society (Abuwala, 2019).

5) Thesis Statement:

“A cultural bias develops when people view their own culture as a standard and compare the other cultures with it, considering other cultures having low values.”

II. Definition of Cultural Diversity

1) The cultural diversity is also called multiculturalism.

2) Cultural diversity teaches to respect, acknowledge, value, regard, recognize and empower the people belonging from multiple cultures (Erasmus, 2019).

III. Body Paragraphs:

1) Topic Sentence 1:

i. To study cultural biases, cultural archives serve the best purpose (Grout, 2019).

2) Topic Sentence 2:

ii. Cultural bias is becoming a major reason for causing depression and mental fatigue among nations (Tanaka, 2019).

3) Topic Sentence 3:

i. The Global cultural view makes it necessary to study the cultural values in a better way than they were studied before.

ii. Interactions among the cultures have been triggered.

4) Topic Sentence 4:

iii. This is important to counsel the diversity of the culture to remove cultural biases (Sue, Sue, Neville, & Smith, 2019).

5) Topic Sentence 5:

iv. Wellness plan for the care providers is also necessary because they can then easily provide help to others if their self-help plan is effective.

IV. Conclusion

1) Cultural Bias arises when people in societies consider themselves superior.

2) It creates depression among societies.

3) It disturbs the cultural and social fabric.

4) Biasness must be removed to make the societies peaceful.

5) The self-care plan of service providers is also important to be designed.

References Abuwala, A. (2019, February 13). What Is Cultural Bias? Retrieved from Worldatlas: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-does-cultural-bias-mean.html Erasmus. (2019, December 12). WHY IS CULTURAL DIVERSITY IMPORTANT? Retrieved from Erasmus: https://www.partnershipinternational.ie/why-is-cultural-diversity-important/ Grout, H. (2019). Archiving critically: exploring the communication of cultural biases. Spark: UAL Creative Teaching and Learning Journal. Sue, D., Sue, D., Neville, H., & Smith, L. (2019). Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Tanaka, J. (2019). Culture and Psychotherapy. Wiley Online Library.