For Sasha!

Weekly Assignment 2

I use our first two readings as evidence of both the courage required and investment needed to become culturally competent.  The Arlington reading is evidence of some soul searching by the Arlington school district and clearly the result of some honesty about their issues.  The Delgado reading shows the impact of the investment of only ONE hour of cultural competence training on nurses. 

Using these two readings provide some insight as to why the identify both courage and investment.  You answer should have four (4) parts:

Arlington :  insight on courage (1) and investment (2)

Delgado: insight on courage (3) and investment (4)

You may use quotes from the reading or excerpts but make sure to also use your own words when describing your thoughts. 

Weekly Assignment 3

Explain the following statement:

 

Disproportionality results from disparities.

 

Find an example of a disproportionality in any type of human services and provide your thoughts on what disparities may have caused that disproportionality. 

Weekly Assignment 4

After reviewing our reading and the power point lecture, focus on the individual cultural competence skills presented.  As you start to move towards cultural competence which ones worry you the most.  An honest review of which skills you might struggle with the most is critical in your journey.  So please rank them in order of difficulty for your and justify your answers.  1. should be the skill you think you will struggle with the most and 5. should be the skill you think you will struggle with the least. 

Mona

Weekly Assignment 5

Imagine you have to tell a friend about Diller's Dimensions of Culture.  What would you tell her about each of them.  What example would you give to your friend from YOUR culture to help them understand what each dimension means.

Weekly Assignment 6

Read the following story.  After you have, create a list of the characters in order of approval, with the first being the one you most approve of and the last being the one you least approve of.  Once you have created your list, look at it and provide what in your culture or your values made you create the list in the particular order.  Then consider if someone created an exact opposite list from yours- what would you initial impression be of that person (which of your values would they offend?).

 

The Parable

 

            ROSEMARY is a young woman about 21 years old. For a long time she has been engaged to a young man named HERNANDO, and she is coming from a great distance to meet him for their scheduled wedding. The problem she faces is that between her and her betrothed there lies a river. No ordinary river, mind you, but a deep, wide river infested with hungry crocodiles.

 

            ROSEMARY ponders how she can cross the river. She thinks of a man who has a boat, whose name is SVEN. She approaches SVEN and asks him to take her across the river. SVEN replies, “Yes, I’ll take you across the river if you’ll spend the night with me.”

 

            Shocked at this offer, she turns to another acquaintance, LEE PAI, and tells him her story. LEE PAI responds by saying, “Poor ROSEMARY, I understand your problem, but I don’t see how I can help. It’s really your problem, not mine.”

 

            ROSEMARY, in desperation, decides to return to SVEN and spends the night with him. In the morning SVEN takes her across the river. She completes her journey and arrives in time.

 

            Her reunion with HERNANDO is warm, but on the evening before they are to be married, ROSEMARY feels compelled to tell HERNANDO how she succeeded in getting across the river. HERNANDO responds by saying, “I can’t believe you would do such a thing. I wouldn’t marry you if you were the last woman on earth.” And he banishes her as a soiled woman.

 

            Finally, at her wit’s end, ROSEMARY turns to our last character, SEIICHI. He listens to her story and says, “What a terrible thing to happen. Rosemary, I don’t love you, but I will marry you.” And that’s all we know of the story.

Weekly Assignment 7

After reviewing the power point and watching Lion please answer the following:

 

As an adult Saroo struggles with is cultural identity?  Explain why? What issues do you think Saroos struggles with the most?

 

What do you think would have happened if Saroo did not continue his search for his biological family?

 

 

What was your strongest take-away from this movie that you think can help you in improving your understanding of cultural identity development?

Weekly Assignment 8

“Making the invisible visible” is a common phrase when discussing microaggressions. Having watched Dr. Wing Sue and read the reading, explain the context and purpose of the phrase?

Weekly Assignment 9

Please find an article about "institutional racism." Post a short description of the article for your classmates, including your own thoughts, and also provide the link to the article (or cut and past if there is no link).

Weekly Assignment 10

How might the concepts of privilege/white privilege assist you in providing efficient service to your clients?  Describe the link between understanding privilege and providing human services. 

Weekly Assignment 11

For helping to be culturally competent, it must be freewheeling, bilateral and experiential.  Explain those concepts.  How do they make room for culture?

Weekly Assignment 12

Lum's Chapter 7 divides the skills required to maintain a cultural competent practice into various processing and conceptualization skills.  For each set of skills I have pulled a concept or two (2) that I ask that your briefly describe:

Contact Process Skills:  What is "Professional Self-Disclosure." What levels of self-disclosure exists?

Problem Process Skills: What is "Problem Orientation" and "Reframing the Problem." Why do they make us more culturally competent?  What is an "Inductive Approach?"

Assessment Process Skills: How does spirituality and culture fit into this skill?

Intervention Process Skills.  Define micro, meso and macro interventions.

Evaluation Process Skills.  Why does Lum say that "different cultures have different ways of saying goodbye.”

Weekly Assignment 13

Use the list of Cultural Competence skills provided by the National Association of Social Workers.

Pick 2 skills.  Pick a population (teenage girls in rural area, aging population in inner city, any population). Now imagine a practical exercise or service for that population that furthers the goal you have selected.  In other words, though we can talk a lot about what we should do- what does it actually look like.  So use your imagination and without any monetary constriction think of a practical way to show the skill you selected.  You should have two exercises one for each skill.