Week 5
Psychopathology for Social Work
Walden University
Culture sensitivity increases the probability of a therapeutic relationship by enhancing
trust and improving commination between clinicians and patients (Branch, 2000). Culture
refers to systems of knowledge, concepts, rules, and practices that are learned and transmitted
across generations (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Also American Psychiatric
Association (2013) states, culture includes language, religion and spirituality, family structures,
life-cycle stages, ceremonial rituals, and customs, as well as moral and legal systems. Cultures
are open, dynamic systems that undergo continuous change over time; in the contemporary
world, most individuals and groups are exposed to multiple cultures, which they use to fashion
their own identities and make sense of experience (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
Culturally responsive care increases service utilization and reduces premature
termination (Diaz, E., Anez, L., Silva, M., Paris, M. & Davidson, L., 2017).The Cultural
Formulation Interview (CFI) is a set of 16 questions that clinicians may use to obtain
information during a mental health assessment about the impact of culture on key aspects of an
individual’s clinical presentation and care (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). According
to the American Psychiatric Association (2013), the CFI focuses on the individual’s experience
and the social contexts of the clinical problem. The CFI is helpful when there is difficulty in
judging illness severity or impairment, difficulty in diagnostic assessment owing to significant
differences in the cultural, religious, or socioeconomic backgrounds of clinician and the
individual, disagreement between the individual and clinician on the course of care and limited
engagement in and adherence to treatment by the individual (American Psychiatric Association,
2013).
, When speaking with my partner, there was consideration of the schoolwork, my
partners’ life outside of school and her boundaries as well as mine. Speaking further with my
partner, I learned who is multi cultured with Latino and African-American descendants. I am an
African
American woman. I do believe there is Indian heritage and Caucasian on my maternal’s
grandmother side. Culture does not mean only the color of your skin, but it’s everything around
you and what you stand for. When engaging my Partner, I tried to incorporate the evidence
based practice, Engaging Learning Environment (ELE) model. It was a work place support
model, but I thought it could be utilized in a school working environment as well. The study was
proposed to encourage middle managers’ workplace learning, by using modern pedagogical
approaches (Lonkaa, K., Ketonen, E., Mrttinen, K., & Talvo, M, 2019). The new Finnish
national curriculum emphasizes the need for modern broad-based expertise that includes
working life skills, as well
as entrepreneurship and ICT skills (Lonka, 2018). The intention is to educate a new generation
of citizens who are fluent in learning such skills, while helping the existing generation on how to
deal with complex and ill-defined problems that confront them on a daily basis (Lonka, K.,
Ketonen, E., Mrttinen, K., & Talvo, M, 2019).
My partner and I agreed that school on the graduate level is similar to another job,
because of the time consumption, responsibility and dedication put into your school work. In
life and in the social work field there is continuous learning present. My partner and I stayed
connected through the resources provided by our school such as the collaborative feature on
blackboard as well as modern technology such as texts, emails and zoom. Today the ideas of
networked, systemic and distributed learning have become increasingly popular, since many
complex problems call for collaborative efforts and smart tools (Trilling & Fadel, 2009).
Workplace and School place learning is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon
(Tynjala,
Psychopathology for Social Work
Walden University
Culture sensitivity increases the probability of a therapeutic relationship by enhancing
trust and improving commination between clinicians and patients (Branch, 2000). Culture
refers to systems of knowledge, concepts, rules, and practices that are learned and transmitted
across generations (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Also American Psychiatric
Association (2013) states, culture includes language, religion and spirituality, family structures,
life-cycle stages, ceremonial rituals, and customs, as well as moral and legal systems. Cultures
are open, dynamic systems that undergo continuous change over time; in the contemporary
world, most individuals and groups are exposed to multiple cultures, which they use to fashion
their own identities and make sense of experience (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).
Culturally responsive care increases service utilization and reduces premature
termination (Diaz, E., Anez, L., Silva, M., Paris, M. & Davidson, L., 2017).The Cultural
Formulation Interview (CFI) is a set of 16 questions that clinicians may use to obtain
information during a mental health assessment about the impact of culture on key aspects of an
individual’s clinical presentation and care (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). According
to the American Psychiatric Association (2013), the CFI focuses on the individual’s experience
and the social contexts of the clinical problem. The CFI is helpful when there is difficulty in
judging illness severity or impairment, difficulty in diagnostic assessment owing to significant
differences in the cultural, religious, or socioeconomic backgrounds of clinician and the
individual, disagreement between the individual and clinician on the course of care and limited
engagement in and adherence to treatment by the individual (American Psychiatric Association,
2013).
, When speaking with my partner, there was consideration of the schoolwork, my
partners’ life outside of school and her boundaries as well as mine. Speaking further with my
partner, I learned who is multi cultured with Latino and African-American descendants. I am an
African
American woman. I do believe there is Indian heritage and Caucasian on my maternal’s
grandmother side. Culture does not mean only the color of your skin, but it’s everything around
you and what you stand for. When engaging my Partner, I tried to incorporate the evidence
based practice, Engaging Learning Environment (ELE) model. It was a work place support
model, but I thought it could be utilized in a school working environment as well. The study was
proposed to encourage middle managers’ workplace learning, by using modern pedagogical
approaches (Lonkaa, K., Ketonen, E., Mrttinen, K., & Talvo, M, 2019). The new Finnish
national curriculum emphasizes the need for modern broad-based expertise that includes
working life skills, as well
as entrepreneurship and ICT skills (Lonka, 2018). The intention is to educate a new generation
of citizens who are fluent in learning such skills, while helping the existing generation on how to
deal with complex and ill-defined problems that confront them on a daily basis (Lonka, K.,
Ketonen, E., Mrttinen, K., & Talvo, M, 2019).
My partner and I agreed that school on the graduate level is similar to another job,
because of the time consumption, responsibility and dedication put into your school work. In
life and in the social work field there is continuous learning present. My partner and I stayed
connected through the resources provided by our school such as the collaborative feature on
blackboard as well as modern technology such as texts, emails and zoom. Today the ideas of
networked, systemic and distributed learning have become increasingly popular, since many
complex problems call for collaborative efforts and smart tools (Trilling & Fadel, 2009).
Workplace and School place learning is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon
(Tynjala,
