[DOWNLOAD] "Working with Hindu Clients in a Spiritually Sensitive Manner." by Social Work * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Working with Hindu Clients in a Spiritually Sensitive Manner.
- Author : Social Work
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 206 KB
Description
When working with nonmainstream populations, effective service provision is often contingent on the practitioner's level of cultural competence (Mizio, 1998; Poole, 1998). Cultural competence is predicated on developing an awareness of the two worldviews involved in the counseling dialogue, the consumer's and the practitioner's (McPhatter, 1997). Not only should workers strive to develop an empathetic understanding of consumers' reality, but workers should also seek to acquire an awareness of their own culturally informed assumptions (Wambach & Van Soest, 1997). Based on the new awareness, social workers can implement interventions that are congruent with the consumer's beliefs, values, and practices. Lack of cultural competence can have serious ramifications, particularly when working with religious traditions that practitioners may not be familiar with, such as Hinduism. Not only is effective practice impeded, but harm may occur. Reddy and Hanna (1998) emphasized that practitioner application of typical Western secular values and related interventions with Hindus in counseling settings my cause "confusion and further negative affect." Indeed, whereas Goodwin and Cramer (1998) found that 80 percent of the 70 Hindus in the study would use a counseling service, they also found that 76 percent of respondents "were insistent that the counselor should be someone who understood their culture intimately" (p. 422).