Walden University Factors of Race and Ethnicity in Professional Practice Paper
Depending on the community you choose to serve, racial and ethnic identities—as well as differing personal worldviews—may influence your approach to professional practice. Your approach to establishing rapport with your clients might determine how receptive they are to your assistance in resolving their presenting concerns. Your clients’ perceptions, biases, worldviews, and experiences regarding their own racial and ethnic identities are factors you must consider. Race and ethnicity across and within racial groups, as well as across and within ethnicities, may have a significant impact on your professional practice. How might your own understanding of race, ethnicity, and racism influence your relationship with clients? How might your clients’ perceptions of your racial and ethnic identity affect your approach to establishing and maintaining rapport?
For this Discussion, review this week’s Learning Resources, and consider how the topics of ethnic identity and racial identity impact the population you selected for your Multicultural Population Research Paper. Then consider the factors of an ethnic and racial identity relevant to your professional psychology context for the population you selected. Finally, think about one strategy for establishing rapport with multicultural competence.
With these thoughts in mind:
Write an explanation of factors related to race and ethnicity that you would need to consider when establishing rapport with clients from the population you selected (Asian Americans). Further, explain how the factors of ethnic and racial identity, given your own identity (African American), might affect how you interact and develop rapport with clients from the population you selected.
Readings
·Bartoli, E., & Pyati, A. (2009). Addressing clients’ racism and racial prejudice in individual psychotherapy: Therapeutic considerations. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 46(2), 145–157.
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·Cardemil, E. V., & Battle, C. L. (2003). Guess who’s coming to therapy? Getting comfortable with conversations about race and ethnicity in psychotherapy. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 34(3), 278–286.
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Garretson, D. J. (1993). Psychological misdiagnosis of African Americans. Journal of Multicultural Counseling & Development, 21(2), 119–127.
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