Psy 622: Cross-Cultural Counseling Daryl M. Rowe, Ph.D. Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education

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Psy 622 Cross-Cultural CounselingDaryl M. Rowe,
Ph.D.Pepperdine UniversityGraduate School of
Education Psychology

• Introduction/Overview
• Understanding Culture Knowledge is better
  than riches

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Introduction to Me

• Background/experiences
• Research interests
• Community interests
• Clinical practice
• Approach to teaching

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Who are You?

• Expectations of the class
• Efforts willing to put forth
• Goals
• professional/personal
• related to this course in next 10 years

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Overview of the Course

• Demographic changes
• All counseling requires cultural competence
• Five purposes
• Introduction to the literature re the theory and
  practice of cultural competence and cultural
  psychology
• Develop awareness of personal biases and their
  impacts
• Increase knowledge about various cultural
  strengths/resources for treatment strategies for
  particular groups
• Examine ways to integrate cultural competence in
  professional life
• Understand ethical issues related to cultural
  competence
• Expose you to combination of theory, applications
  challenges

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Texts

• McGoldrick, M., Giordano, J. Garcia-Preto, N.
  (Eds.) (2005). Ethnicity Family Therapy (3rd
  Ed.). NY The Guilford Press.
• Rosenblum, K.E., Travis, T.C. (Eds.). (2008).
  The meaning of difference American constructions
  of race, sex, and gender, social class, sexual
  orientation, and disability. New York, NY
  McGraw-Hill.
• Additional Readings per syllabus

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Requirements

• Consistent with graduate-level work
• Participation 20
• Cultural Immersion Reflection 15
• Cultural Interview 20
• Sociocultural Self-study 15
• Group Presentation 30

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Philosophical Approach to the Course

• Designed to help you intervene more effectively
• Commit to helping you develop
• Personal, social institutional values
• Beliefs attitudes that respect cultural
  differences
• Intellectual critical thinking abilities
• Highly developed interactive skills
• Symbolic, interpretive stance about self, others
  world

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Conceptual Approach to the Course

• Clinical psychology is/has been both
  culture-bound culture-blind (Lonner Malpass,
  1994)
• Culture-bound roots are firmly entrenched in
  European and European-American thought theory
• Culture-blind psychology has failed to consider
  factors, not found in the West, that influence
  the behavior of millions of humans

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Assumptions

• Discipline of applied psychology has been
  woefully inadequate in training culturally
  competent MHPs to work with increasingly diverse
  populations
• Faculty often lack training, insight motivation
• Many faculty are not well-meaning, e.g. dont
  think it necessary or worthwhile to examine these
  issues
• Cultural competence is a philosophical
  orientation NOT a specialty

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Assumptions (cont.)

• Delivery of human services requires fundamental
  respect for the rights, dignity worth of all
  peoples
• All training/treatment in professional psychology
  should be contextualized within the details of
  human existence
• Case vignettes
• Mock interviews
• Test protocols
• Theory application
• Cultural competence involves risk!!

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Recovery Oriented Perspectives

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  Administration (SAMHSA), adopted following
  definition of recovery (2004)
• Mental health recovery is a journey of healing
  and transformation enabling a person with a
  mental health problem to live a meaningful life
  in a community of his/her choice while striving
  to achieve her/his full potential

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10 Fundamental Components of Recovery

• Self-Direction
• Person-centered
• Empowerment
• Holistic
• Non-Linear
• Strengths-Based
• Peer Support
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Hope

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Cross-Cultural Competencies(Sue et al, 1982)
APA, Division 17

• Awareness of ones own cultural background
• Awareness of values limitations
• Knowledge of socio-political influences and their
  impact on persons from various groups
• Comfort with cultural differences

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Cross-Cultural Competencies(Sue et al, 1982)
APA, Division 17 (cont.)

• Specific knowledge about various groups
• Clear understanding of generic counseling
  assumptions
• Skills to intervene interpersonally and
  institutionally

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Cultural Patchwork Quilt Exercise
INSIDER VIEW
OUTSIDER VIEW
Major features of your own cultural group, based
on how you define the features
How others define the major features of
your Cultural group
FIXED VIEW
DYNAMIC VIEW
50 years ago
50 years from now
Major historical factors that have impacted
your cultural groups development
How your cultural group was defined 50 years ago
and how it will be defined in 50 years,
Cultural Group Designation