That examination begins with a journey toward greater awareness of our cultural selves.ScenarioWhile working through your internship at the Riverbend City clinic, you are also enrolled in a classroom experience as part of your internship requirement.

 

Sue and Sue (2016) observed that each of us is “born into a cultural matrix of beliefs, values, rules, and social practices” and this has a “powerful influence” over our views of self and others (p. 50). At the same time, according to McGoldrick and Hardy (2019), “all families, not just ‘minorities,’ are seen as embedded in and bounded by class, culture, gender, and race” (p. 22).

With that in mind, to fully grasp the dynamics of every type of family, it becomes important to examine the way organizing contextual factors like those just mentioned are defined by society at large. That examination begins with a journey toward greater awareness of our cultural selves.ScenarioWhile working through your internship at the Riverbend City clinic, you are also enrolled in a classroom experience as part of your internship requirement.

Your program strives to deliver excellent training and has embraced a real commitment to preparing students for effective and ethical work with diverse populations. As such, the subject of cultural competence is infused throughout the curriculum.

Your internship course is no exception; hence, you find that you have been assigned to write your own cultural autobiography as a way of bringing greater awareness to your worldview and how that may affect your therapeutic relationships and the therapy process.

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