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Week 7 Discussion: Diverse Populations and Individual Differences 11 Unread replies 22 Replies Please note that this discussion has two components: 1. Describe at least three specific steps you will take to learn about the needs of diverse populations and those with individual differences. 2. Do you see areas where you might be at risk of judging based on your own personal values? What are those areas? How can you protect clients, patients, research subjects, or students from being affected by your values? Be sure to incorporate information from this week's studies into your posting. Response Guidelines Please respond to at least two other learners. Remember to respond thoughtfully and respectfully. Ask questions for clarification, suggest helpful resources, share experiences, and move the discussion forward. The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect by taking the time to learn and understand the full range of an individual's human characteristics in their socioecological, historical, and cultural contexts. As well as understanding that each person, family, community, and societal group has a uniqueness; being open to that uniqueness allows for a more straightforward concept of the ways of being but also ways of knowing that individual who is from a different social construct as your own (Crisp, 2010). To facilitate acceptance and respect for the diverse population, I will serve as a Clinical Psychologist and ensure their needs are met on an individualized basis, I will work with each client intentionally to relate respectfully to those qualities and human characteristics/conditions that are different from my own or considered outside the groups to which I belong. In order to purposefully understand the person as a whole instead of subjectively based on differences alone. Additionally, I will work to not minimize differences but rather affirm the existence of those differences and reflect on how those constructs are assigned to oneself to better understand a client's need. Moreover, I will remain open to the concept of “not knowing” and the commitment to lifelong learning about human diversity and ways to interact with those different from myself and the groups to which they belong. By not only holding myself to a standard of understanding but also the agency with which I work as well as the employees/colleagues (I may be conferring with on a client's behalf) also maintain those same standards of respect and understanding to best serve the client's individual needs.

Holding myself to such a standard to understand others requires me to also safeguard clients I work with from my own potential bias. I have been working as a clinician for the past 12 years, and as a white male in his 40s, I am aware that personal, cultural, and institutionalized discrimination creates and sustains privileges for some while creating and sustaining disadvantages for others (Crisp, 2010). Personally, I recognize my potential for certain biases that may exist based on the environment I was raised in as well as from working closely with the population I have spent the majority of my clinical career serving. One such bias is towards perpetrators of violence or victimization of women and children, and in order to not subject clients to my personal values or biases, which may create discrimination in how I would provide clinical services, I have learned to compartmentalize those views and not project my values or principles into client care. Sometimes this is difficult to do, but I found that meeting a client where they are and not incorporating a judgment based on past behaviors assists me in being able to set those views aside and approach each client from a purely therapeutic context. Even though I may have strong beliefs about the treatment of women and children, I also know that differences in belief systems and expectations of behaviors can be skewed by trauma. So, I focus on the trauma experienced instead of the behaviors exhibited (or are a result of that trauma) when working with clients with whom I may have potential bias. Moreover, I continually educate myself on understanding and acknowledging my potential biases by taking self-awareness classes on privilege, and cultural sensitivity, as well as speaking regularly with colleagues to receive feedback and guidance when I find myself struggling to not inject my personal values or beliefs onto others. Reference: Crisp, R. J. (Ed.). (2010). The psychology of social and cultural diversity. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.library.capella.edu/lib/capella/reader.action? docID=819468

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