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What is Multiculturalism?
y The word culture can be interpreted broadly, and can be associated
with a racial or ethnic group as well as will gender, religion, economic status nationality, physical capacity or disability, and affectional or sexual orientation. y Multiculturalism is a generic term that indicates any relationship between and within two or more diverse groups. y The multicultural perspective in human-service education takes into consideration the specific values, beliefs, and actions conditioned by a client s ethnicity, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, political views, sexual orientation, geographic region and historical experience with the dominant culture. y Multiculturalism provides a conceptual framework that recognizes the complex diversity of a pluralistic society, while at the same time suggesting bridges of shared concern that bind culturally different individuals to one another.
Issues and Ethics in the Helping Profession by Gerald Corey, Marianne Schneider Corey and Patrick Callanan
together as the objects of our experience instead of regarding them as subjects of experience with whom we might identify, and we see them primarily as symbolic of something else- usually, but not always, something we reject and fear and project onto them. To the non-disabled, people with disabilities and people with dangerous or incurable illnesses symbolize, among other things, imperfection, failure to control the body, and everyone s vulnerability to weakness, pain, and death. Susan Wendall
The Rejected Body by Susan Wendall
degree; these cultural practices foster demands to control our bodies and to attempt to perfect them, which in turn create rejection, shame, and fear in relation to both failures to control the body and deviations from body ideals. Susan Wendell
Disability Research indicated that ethnic minority persons have both higher rates of work disability and higher rates of severe disability y Demographic projections have indicated that the size of the ethnic minority population is increasingly rapid
that traditional counseling approaches and techniques have generally been ineffective when used with racial and ethnic minority individuals and that graduate training programs in counseling do not provide adequate training in multicultural issues to ensure that counselors have sufficient multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills to provide effective services to these individuals.