Diversity Essay Written Comps

Things to include

ADDRESSING (me, client, interaction)

Racial/White Racial Identity Model (me, client, interaction)

Mcintosh White Privilege

Context driven framework (if applicable)

5 Faces of Oppression (if applicable)

Bronfenbrenner

Acculturation Model (if applicable)

Cultural/historical/political factors

Cultural explanation of problems/how does it all impact presenting problem?

ADDRESSING Framework

Age, disability status, religion, ethnicity/race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, indigenous background, national origin, gender

White Racial Identity Model

Phase 1:

Contact (colorblindness)

Disintegration (discomfort, growing awareness)

Reintegration (reinforce stereotypes)

Phase 2:

Pseudo-Independent (shameful)

Immersion/Emersion (positive self identity, finding likeminded white people)

Autonomy (Positive white identity, openness, no shame)

Black Identity Development Model

Pre Encounter (lack awareness, internalized oppression)

Encounter (experience that impacts persons current view of self)

Immersion-Emersion (immerse in black culture, withdraw from dominant culture)

Internalization (idealistic expectancy toward anything black)

Internalization and commitment (social change/justice involvement)

Minority Development Model

Conformity (rejects their culture for dominant culture)

Dissonance (questioning, conflicting messages)

Resistance and immersion (endorse minority views, reject dominant)

Introspection (cognitive dissonance about identity)

Integrative Awareness (desire to end oppression, positive self identity)

Acculturation

the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture

Acculturative Stress

stress resulting from the need to change and adapt a person's ways to the majority culture

4 Modes of Acculturation

assimilation, integration, separation, marginalization

Assimilation

taking on new culture completely, not identifying with culture of origin

Integration

keeping original culture and incorporating new culture

Separation

keep culture of origin, reject dominant culture

Marginalization (acculturation model)

reject both dominant and origin cultures

5 Faces of Oppression

exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, violence

Exploitation

the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work. transfer of labor to benefit one group

Marginalization (5 faces of oppression)

people are confined to margins of society, expelled from useful participation in society

Powerlessness

little opportunity to develop and exercise skills

Cultural Impericism

dominant society is the norm, anything else is deviant

Violence

one fears random attacks without motive other than oppression

Context driven framework

dominant culture mismatch

developmental mismatch

personal contextual mismatch

aces/nles

diminishing defense adaptiveness

Dominant culture mismatch

mismatch between persons culture expectations and dominant culture

Developmental mismatch

mismatch between developmental level and demands of society

Personal contextual mismatch

neurodiversity, mismatch between neurotypical society and neurodiverse experience

Diminishing defense adaptiveness

defenses are no longer working to help person adapt

ACES/NLES

traumatic experiences in childhood/later in life that impact ability to function/create higher risk for mental illness

Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory

1. You

2. Microsystem (family, school, peers, work, church)

3. Mesosystem (family, school, peers, work, church)

4. Exosystem (Economic, political, education, government)

5. Macrosystem (Overarching beliefs and values)

6. Chronosystem (Dimension of time)

Microsystem

immediate environment- family, school, peers, work

Mesosystem

connections between microsystems

Exosystem

consists of social settings that do not contain the developing person but nevertheless affect experiences in immediate settings

economics, politics, education, government

Macrosystem

consists of cultural values, laws, customs, and resources

Chronosystem

historical changes that influence the other systems, time