Culturally Competent Social Work Practice With Immigrant Populations

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Ortiz Hendricks ◽  
Elaine P. Congress
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Immigrant Populations

scholarly journals Equipping Social Workers to Address Spirituality in Practice Settings: AModel Curriculum

10.18060/32 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Hodge
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Spiritual Beliefs ◽  
Value Conflicts ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Spirituality Training

While there is growing interest in incorporating clients’ spiritual beliefs and values into social work practice, several studies have shown that social workers lack the necessary training to address spiritual issues in a culturally competent manner. This paper addresses this need by providing an annotated spirituality training course for use in various settings. Topics or domains covered in the curriculum include ethics and values, research and theory on spirituality, the nation’s spiritual demographics, the cultures of major spiritual traditions, value conflicts, spiritual interventions, assessment approaches, and the rights of spiritual believers. A number of potential assignments are offered,which are designed to promote practitioner self-awareness, respect for spiritual diversity, and an enhanced ability to assess and operationalize spiritual strengths to ameliorate problems in practice settings.

scholarly journals Reflection on teaching effective social work practice for working with Muslim communities

10.18060/172 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khadija Khaja ◽  
Chelsea Frederick
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Effective Counseling ◽  
Work Psychology ◽  
Muslim Communities

In many academic departments like social work, psychology, and psychiatry there is a growing consensus that teachers need to instruct students to be culturally competent especially if they are going to be effective helpers with diverse populations. Multicultural instructional counseling methods are imperative if we are to ensure that our students of counseling are well prepared to work with diverse families, particularly those from Muslim backgrounds. In this narrative the author writes about the challenges of teaching non-Muslim students effective counseling techniques with Muslim families. Culturally innovative teaching methods are illustrated to facilitate students’ learning how to be effective counselors with Muslim communities.

Social work perplexity: Dissonance, uncertainty, and growth in Kazakhstan

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Chappell Deckert ◽  
Terry L Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Mutual Transformation ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Immigrant Populations ◽  
The World ◽  
Meaningful Relationships

Social work pioneer Jane Addams wrote of her experiences living and working with immigrant populations at the Hull-House in Chicago. In her writings, she describes a state of perplexity in which her personal and professional assumptions about the world were transformed through her interactions with that community. Perplexity is a liminal or in-between state of being in professional social work practice settings, which encourages the recognition of uncertainty, honors the dissonance between past assumptions and new understandings, and creates opportunities for meaningful relationships, personal growth, and social reform. This approach employs methods of mutual transformation through individual interpretations of experience, and holistic, critical practice. Our article argues that perplexity offers a useful alternative to social work approaches primarily based in mastery and expertise and is a good fit for the complex and diverse practice situations common to social work. By providing opportunities for truly collaborative understanding, engaging perplexity in social work is an innovative alternative to more linear, cause-and-effect thinking in the field. Specific elements of perplexity are discussed and paired with a case example from social work practice in Kazakhstan with implications for social work practice in other contexts.

Reshaping the social work education system toward cultural competency: The Hong Kong case

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 316-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gizem Arat ◽  
Narine Nora Kerelian
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Education

Hong Kong is a self-branded international city in Asia. Culturally competent service delivery for ethnic minorities is a nascent arena in the social work profession within the territory. This article attempts to depict the ways in which ethnic groups are situated within local social work practice, reviews the Hong Kong context of a culturally responsive social work profession, and proposes a framework for a more inclusive social work curriculum. In this framework on culturally competent social work education, the authors argue that social harmony and social justice are not mutually exclusive, calling for a (re)conceptualization of social harmony inclusive of social justice.

Religious Fundamentalist Families in School Social Work

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Yates
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Religious Literacy ◽  
Religious Fundamentalist ◽  
History Of

This article describes issues related to culturally competent social work practice with religiously fundamentalist families in public school settings. It addresses the history of religious fundamentalist identities, the complexity inherent in such identities, and the nature of fundamentalism. A review of issues related to culturally competent practice in educational settings is offered. Recommendations informed by spiritually sensitive and strength-based approaches are discussed. Challenges to working effectively with religiously conservative and fundamentalist families in educational settings are also explored. Emphasis is placed upon the practitioner’s role in developing spirituality-sensitive therapeutic relationships by improving religious literacy, developing enhanced self-awareness, and approaching clients from a perspective of cultural humility and a lens of intersectionality.

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