These experiences strengthened my decision to pursue a career in health-related profession that mainly focused on serving the underserved community.
However it was not until I moved to California seven years ago that I realized that lack of cultural diversity in the field of psychology was actually hurting the victims from other ethnic backgrounds. For the past three years, I have been working with a minority group that helped me better understand the need for cultural diversity in this field. I have come to realize that there are strong traditional and cultural barriers that prevent patients of African-American background to open up and voice their feelings. They usually express their emotions believing that family issues and problems must remain within the family alone. A person from a different ethnic background may not be able to fully comprehend these psychological and cultural barriers and hence the need arises to have more people from minority groups in this field. The victims of other cultures suffer when the practitioner fails to understand their concerns, their inability to express themselves and their traditional...
" Working alliance as a concept has been well developed in the personal counseling literature and, in particular, the psychoanalytic counseling literature noted by Pattona and Meara (1992). Psychoanalytic concepts are relevant for a broad range of problems in everyday life including educational and vocational indecision - these psychoanalytic concepts have been slow to influence both the career and personal counseling literature for reasons that have more to do with the
People Management, The Mantra for Success: The Case of Singhania and Partner Recruitment and Selection People form an essential part of the organization. The efficiency and quality of its people determines the outcome of the organization. Therefore choice of right people and placing them at right place becomes necessary. Hiring comes at this point of time in the picture. Hiring is a strategic function for HR department. Recruitment and selection shape the
Work-Related Attitudes: Prejudice, Job Satisfaction, And Organizational Commitment Area of the Study: A worker's attitude heavily impacts his behavior and his performance in any organization. A positive attitude results in an increase in overall productivity for him and the organization because of the feeling of optimism, pride and job satisfaction. A negative attitude will result in negative behaviors which will then lead to job switching or lack of productivity. There are many
He knew his father wouldn't approve. In "What I Wouldn't Do," the narrator tells of a whole string of "drifter" jobs, which occupy her until she moves on to another. The jobs are quite different one from the other. She doesn't seem to hate these jobs, nor does she love them either. She gets what she can out of them. For example, she says, "Cleaning houses was fine, dusting the
In the end, those new highways will be just as congested as the current ones. This option appears to fill the benefits of both the stadium and the education options, at least in the short run. The long-run benefits of more highways are questionable, whereas the long-run benefits of better education are not. The no new taxes option argues that by keeping taxes low. There are some perceived benefits of
At which point, they were seen as a neutral between the two different sides. ("Egypt Revolution," 2011) The protestors played a role in the conflict, by pushing for various changes to take place. This is despite the fact that they were: attacked, some of their key leaders were sent to jail and access the Internet was shut down. Yet, despite these different obstacles the underlying message would spread through the
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