Cultural Considerations for Counseling Immigrants and Refugees

Running head: CULTURAL CONSIDERATION AND ISSUES 1 Cultural Considerations Cristina Rivera Figueroa Grand Canyon University CNL--509 Counseling the Culturally Diverse Dr Charlotte, Crosland, September 16, 2020

Cultural Considerations for Immigrants and Refugees : When carrying out counseling session with immigrants and refugees, there are various problems one should put into consideration. For instance, individual counseling session with an immigrant who has limited English proficiency exhibits the power behind cognitive behavior. A. Immigrants (Documented/Undocumented ) A documented immigrant is a person who has legally moved from their home country to another country. An undocumented immigrant is a person who does not have the legal right to reside in a country other than their legal country of residence. Many immigrants have experienced some kind of trauma which led them to immigrate to a new country whether documented or undocumented. Therapists need to have an understanding of the experience that brought immigrants to leave their country, their migration experience, and the immigrant’s post migration adjustment (Bemak & Chung, 2014). Documented immigrants are more open to therapy and accepting help over undocumented immigrants Undocumented migrants will have the extra fear of being ousted back to their nation of beginning, including another level of injury the advisor will ought to work through to be able to bargain with wants of the client. B. Refugees : The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2016) defines a refugee as a “person outside his other country of nationality who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution.” People whom are forcibly displaced from their homeland and culture are now faced with forced acculturation. Therapists need to consider that there may be some resistance to the client’s new culture as well as the resulting trauma of being displaced. 2

Cultural Issues and Trends A. The Hmong in California: Hmong are one of the foremost later Asian worker bunches to come to the Joined together States. Their main domestic is within the northern mountain districts of Laos. The Hmong and other Laotian workers were made a difference by the entry of the Indochina Relocation and Outcast Help Act of 1975 in their endeavors to move after the Vietnam War finished. Hmong still battle with social character issues. The starting culture stun that happened amid there to begin with wave of migration brought about in a slower digestion rate than was expected, indeed in spite of the fact that a few more youthful Hmong Americans adjusted moderately rapidly. The Hmong have not surrendered their collectivist family structures and this has made a difference them accomplish a level of financial solidness. Like those of Vietnamese foreigners, Hmong families regularly pool assets and salaries in arrange to purchase homes, businesses, and cars. B. Cuban Americans in Florida: The history of Cuban movement to the U.S. is significantly distinctive than that of other foreigner bunches. In 1910, the number of Cubans living within the U.S. was assessed at a small more than 15,000. When Fidel Castro took control in 1959, the Cuban-American populace within the Joined together States detonated: 215,000 arrived within a long time quickly taking after the insurgency., “Latin American Immigration to the United States,” gives a history of Cuban immigration to the United States. Since President Obama announced renewed ties with Cuba in December 2014, the number of Cubans entering the U.S. via ports of entry has increased 78 percent, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. In fiscal year 2015, 43,159 Cubans. In spite of the truth that Cubans made up a 3

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moderately little minority exterior of Southern Florida, they rapidly got to be included in American well-known culture. Cuban performers bounced onto the developing waves of Latin jazz and Salsa picking up energy among Puerto Ricans in Unused York. Numerous built up major toeholds in American music and amusement businesses, making a difference spread Latin sounds and concepts past Latino gatherings of people and into mainstream American culture for the primary time. Cuban lawmakers found unused voting demographics within the United States, and Cuban commerce proprietors found modern clients. They grasped the correct to vote in American races and rapidly set up a political voice. In fact, to this day, Cuban Americans are the most politically active of any Latino group in the United States. Red the U.S. via ports of entry compared to 24,278 in fiscal year 2014. C. Hispanic Americans in the Southwest: Latinos are a differing community. There are numerous misguided judgments and generalizations around who Latinos are and approximately the history and nearness of Latinos within the Joined together States, counting the distinction between Latinos and Hispanics. Whereas Hispanic alludes to dialect and those whose parentage comes from a nation where Spanish is talked, Latino alludes to geology Especially, to Latin America, to people from the Caribbean, South America, and Central America. For Latinos, having a mental ailment or in fact getting counseling can be stigmatizing. Poor access to care due to low rates of insurance, immigration status, language and cultural barriers in healthcare which can include differences between provider-patient in explanatory models of illness and families as the gate keepers can limit entry into treatment (Cortes et al, 2008) administrations or comparable coordinates behavioral 4

treatment inside essential care might progress treatment get to and maintenance. Most profound sense of being and religiosity are moreover vital outlines through which mental wellbeing is caught on and tended to by numerous Latinos. Having a solid devout confidence can be defensive in lessening suicide endeavors and/or diminishing chance of liquor or substance utilize clutters for a few Latinos. Dreams of spirits and blessed messengers don't fundamentally infer psychosis. In a think about of hallucinatory encounters employing a broadly agent information base, Latinos were more likely to quality unidentified voices to their mental trips and clarified these encounters as relating to the domain of unidentified spirits, or strengths which at times serve as securities or give foreboding notices. Numerous of these subjects drop into the setting of mystic conviction frameworks predominant in numerous Latino societies and are not considered abnormal or uncommon. D. Kurdish Americans in Tennessee: Nashville has more Kurdish inhabitants than any other city within the U.S., with a populace of almost 15,000. They live generally in South Nashville, close Small Kurdistan off Elysian Areas Court, where numerous of them shop for dark tea and baklava at Newroz Advertise or mammoth stacks of new level bread heated in a brick stove behind Azadi Universal Nourishment Advertise. To better understand this diverse community, our story needed historical context, which is why we rode over to Tennessee State University one morning to chat with Kurdish professor Kirmanj Gundi, an administrator in the school’s education department. The Kurdish people were promised an independent state that never materialized and since then have been systematically marginalized and persecuted by numerous leaders of the nations they call home. By 1975, a Kurdish revolution attempt aimed at carving 5

an autonomous Kurdistan out of northern Iraq had failed, precipitating the first wave of Kurdish immigration to the United States. 6

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References: Bemak, F., & Chung, R. C. (n.d.). Counseling Refugees and Migrants. Counseling Across Cultures, 307-324. doi:10.4135/9781483329314.n18 Cortes Working with Latino/a and Hispanic Patients. (n.d.). Retrieved September 16, 2020, from https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/cultural-competency/education/best- practice-highlights/working-with-latino-patients Hispanics of Cuban Origin in the United States, 2011http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/06/19/hispanics-of-cuban-origin-in-the-united-states- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2016) Yearbook 2016. (2019, September 12). Retrieved September 16, 2020, from https://www.dhs.gov/immigration- statistics/yearbook/2016 7

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