Multicultural Key Strategies

Multicultural
Key Strategies

Multicultural Key Strategies

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PART ONE: BUILDING A MULTICULTURAL FOUNDATION

OW. Becoming Aware of Your Own Worldview - Larisa Buhin

OW1. Learning About Your Own Culture
OW2. Understanding Your Personal Worldview
OW3. Appreciating Your Own Multiple Identities
OW4. Presenting Options with Limited Bias
OW5. Accepting Responsibility and Tolerating Ambiguity
OW6. Recognizing Limits of Your Competence

TR. Creating a Culturally-Sensitive Therapeutic Relationships - Winter Hamada

TR1. Viewing Psychotherapy as a Cultural Encounter
TR2. Affirming Clients' Uniqueness and Diversity
TR3. Orienting Clients to Psychotherapy
TR4. Creating a Culturally Appropriate Collaborative Alliance
TR5. Anticipating and Responding to Clients' Internal Dialogue
TR6. Illuminating Differences and Similarities

CW. Understanding the Client's Worldview - Deborah Altschul

CW1. Learning about the Historical Context of the Clients' Culture
CW2. Exploring the Current Context of the Clients' Culture
CW3. Viewing Clients as Individuals
CW4. Appreciating the Clients' Multiple Identities
CW5. Understanding the Clients' Worldview
CW6. Clarifying the Impact of Culture on Current Functioning

PART TWO: ESTABLISHING A CULTURAL FOCUS

ID. Facilitating Cultural Identity Development - Jeff Brooks-Harris

ID1. Assessing Identity Development
ID2. Acknowledging Differences in Cultural Worldviews
ID3. Helping Clients Recognize Beliefs and Values
ID4. Processing Encounters with Oppression or Difference
ID5. Embracing Culture, Exploring Identity, & Cultivating Pride
ID6. Internalizing Culture and Valuing Others

SS. Responding to Societal Structures and Values - Shelly Savage

SS1. Examining Social Oppression
SS2. Considering Systems of Privilege
SS3. Identifying Social Messages
SS4. Exploring Moral, Ethical, and Spiritual Values
SS5. Facilitating Movement Toward Social Action
SS6. Supporting Informed Choices

CR. Utilizing Complementary Roles Beyond Psychotherapy - Andrea Nacapoy

CR1. Educating about Options
CR2. Consulting about Change
CR3. Advocating for Environmental Change
CR4. Integrating Spiritual Awareness
CR5. Facilitating Indigenous Support & Healing
CR6. Seeking Consultation with Cultural Experts

PART THREE: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CULTURE AND OTHER DIMENSIONS

CM. Cognitive-Multicultural Strategies - Dorje Jennette

CM1. Understanding Cognitions in their Cultural Context
CM2. Identifying Culturally Sensitive Alternative Cognitions
CM3. Exploring Cultural Schemas
CM4. Testing Hypotheses about Culture
CM5. Educating about Cross-Cultural Variations
CM6. Facilitating Cultural and Cognitive Flexibility

BM. Behavioral-Multicultural Strategies - Jill Oliveira-Berry

BM1. Understanding Actions in their Cultural Context
BM2. Illuminating Cultural Reinforcement
BM3. Setting Culturally Appropriate Goals
BM4. Prescribing Actions within the Cultural Context
BM5. Exposing Clients to Multicultural Experiences
BM6. Providing Cultural Skills Training

EM. Experiential-Multicultural Strategies - Kimberly Wagner

EM1. Attending to Feelings within the Cultural Context
EM2. Promoting Culturally Appropriate Growth
EM3. Communicating Respect, Empathy, and Positive Regard
EM4. Clarifying Self-in-Relation
EM5. Integrating Cultural Parts of Self
EM6. Examining Freedom, Choice, and Responsibility with Cultural Sensitivity

IM. Interpersonal-Multicultural Strategies - George Hanawahine

IM1. Recognizing how Interpersonal Relationships are Shaped by Cultural Contexts
IM2. Honoring Resistance that may be Culturally Appropriate
IM3. Understanding Past Interpersonal Conflicts within the Context of Culture
IM4. Understanding the Therapeutic Relationship as a Cultural Exchange
IM4a. Cultural Transference
IM4b. Cultural Countertransference
IM5. Helping Clients Adapt to Cultural Changes

SM. Systemic-Multicultural Strategies - Cristina Castagnini

SM1. Understanding Family Structures within Cultural Contexts
SM2. Identifying Culturally Influenced Family Expectations
SM3. Detecting Multigenerational Patterns within Varied Cultural Contexts
SM4. Illuminating Cultural Values that are Transmitted through the Family
SM5. Encouraging Change within Families that Fit Cultural Contexts