Research diversity competent practice that can be applied to serve diverse and disadvantaged and/or oppressed populations. Diversity competent practice involves developing knowledge, values, and skills that will allow the Human Services Professional to serve that population in a manner that is comfortable for the client. The paper will address the following areas:
1) Describe the history of the population, especially in the U.S., its strengths, and the primary characteristics by which members are identified. Describe formal and informal mechanisms in American society that cause or reinforce discrimination and/or oppression (past and present). Describe attitudes and stereotypes (current and historical) of the dominant culture toward the population and the impact of these attitudes on the population (psychological, physical, political, economic, social, etc.).
2) Review what the literature has to say about their topic and what’s currently being done to address it. A minimum of two paragraphs describing what the literature has to say about this issue and what’s currently being done to address it is required. Provide at least 5 sources; among those, 3 must be articles from academic journals or historical chronicles.
3) Describe privileges and advantages that dominant groups have over the population (male privilege, white privilege, heterosexual privilege, wealth or class privilege, etc.). Identify personal and professional values and beliefs held by most human service professionals that are relevant in becoming diversity competent. Describe how these values or beliefs might influence the helping process.
4) Provide clear discussion about faith integration, including verse(s) from Scripture. Further, identify at least two direct and two indirect intervention methods that should be used with your population and describe how these would be used to serve them in a diversity competent manner. Additionally, identify knowledge and skills regarding relationship building, assessment, planning, action, evaluation, and termination that are necessary to become diversity competent. Student provides clear conclusion, including personal reflections about entering the profession of human services.
5) Paper contains all of the following: 1) Is APA Formatted with no errors 2) Integrates 7 or more academic peer-reviewed references, 3) Contains no grammatical errors.
This paper should be 6-8 pages in length (plus a title and reference page). No abstract necessary. Please remember proper in-text citations to maintain academic honesty. Specifically, the paper should include in-text citations according to APA formatting standards.
