all right welcome back everybody we are moving along to week three of diversity in the family um some of you I recognize from the previous course um that I was teaching um so I hope that things are going well for you all in this course um I know there's a lot of material this week and to read and to go through so we're going to talk a little bit about that um and pacing yourself as you're going through your course es um many of you might not just be taking this course and might be taking other courses along with it so I want to encourage you to try to do your best in uh pacing yourself looking at the due dates ahead of time seeing when some assignments are maybe due on Saturday some might you do Wednesday um and for E all courses and kind of jot it down in your planner or you know um on your you know electronic devices however way you keep track of your um assignments so that you don't miss anything and that you're staying on Pace for all your work um let's see so go ahead and begin if everyone could mute um yourselves I was getting a little bit of feedback okay right so let's go ahead and begin so we are on week three of our course this week week um the focus is going to be on Power and privilege um the learning objectives for this week um by Sunday when you would have finished all the readings and all the assignments for this week um is that you would have been able to explain the P the influence of power and privilege on the family and on family therapy relate power and privilege to inequality and how it may influence therapy and explore the role of power and privilege in their own family of origin so in your own family of origin and how it may impact your clinical work so in all of these courses um and a lot of the work and especially in diversity um we're going to be looking again within looking at ourselves as well um we are in the field of um looking deeper into everyone that we work with so not only that with but within ourselves and kind of really feel see how the roles of different aspects of what we're learning um can come up in our in our work with others so really kind of looking into that this week this week um there are a lot of readings this week I know I understand that um you know this week is a little heavier on the reading uh for this course as long as well as a video a long video I do have two links also to videos um that I've downloaded I will be sharing those also with you um in this week um they're on the longer side too but they came from the publisher they're not going to be required material I'm not going to like pull from the exam or anything like that but just to kind of supplement for this week um because they came from the publisher and I think they're really good resources um on darald Wingo um so I will post those um if not today it might take a little bit to download and upload those because those are a little longer um for today I will definitely by the end of the day be able to give you this PowerPoint as well as your the recording for the PowerPoint um and then maybe if I can do it today and if it allows um then I'll upload those as well so but those are just additional resources so really the focus this week should be on chapters four and five of the Sue and Sue text as well as chapters 15 16 17 and 20 I know that's a lot um they are shorter chapters a lot of those are quicker chapters um so those four chapters along as well as the two from the counseling um the cultur diverse book and the video um conversations with great minds the first part um are definitely the required materials for this course for this week um so take a look at those I have highlighted a little bit of each of the sections a little bit for you but um it's kind of hard to do a lot of them um but I'm going to just kind of highlight a few points here and there the assignments that you have this week there's only two assignments so the lecture reflection if you guys have seen you know from the previous weeks it's basically you go in there and answer a question of what you felt about the lecture reflection what you learned what you kind of aspects it's your own personal thoughts about it so um really you're kind of getting those points for that the system will automatically give you that as long as you're giving a thorough response um now that is what's do this week as well as the privilege walk paper the privilege walk paper is where you're going to watch a 4-minute video and then you're going to prepare a 5 to 750w response addressing the following questions based on the video and what we have discussed in class What observations can you offer concerning how social class and privilege may be tied to Prejudice which of the statements in the video did you find the most meaningful or eye opening and why now that's your opinion right no one's going to take away from your own thoughts and opinion but tell us why explain kind of what what major you feel that that was more the most meaningful of everything that you saw in the video kind of resonated with you there um what thoughts were going through your mind as you watched individuals moving forward or backward in that activity this is a really powerful assignment um I know that um you know in previous courses that I taught there was one course that I was teaching um over the summer and the spring semester which had an in-person um Residency program it was an in-person residency for a weekend we did this assignment we kind of walked through everyone and it's a very powerful piece um so as you watch it I don't want to give away too much but as you watch it um I want you to think about what thoughts were going through your mind as you watched individuals among individuals moving forward or backward in the activity I encourage you if you haven't done so read this you know um this PowerPoint or this particular page in the PowerPoint or within the assignment before doing watching the video so you kind of really know what prompts that you're going to be answering to and maybe print it out jot it down as you're kind of going through like o oh oh okay and when you have a reaction in a thought um and how might an understanding of the concepts of power and privilege affect your personal and professional life okay what does that mean this is due by Sunday so you do have time for to do this assignment so it is not due by Wednesday it is not due Friday you have until Sunday midnight to be able to submit that um and upload that to the course you do not need to respond to peers none of that just upload your assignment there and it can be it's a 5 to 750w response um preferably it didn't specify in the assignment APA style I'm not going to take points off if it's not because it didn't specify but I would encourage you to try to do so um I'm not looking no Abstract title page body of paper and references if you um but it's not a mandatory thing because it didn't specify it was just more for practice um so that is a big piece for this week is just basically finishing those now the lecture of reflection the one thing that you could do is that one's an easy one to put aside quickly this week right you're all here watching the lecture being able to kind of talk about it maybe you want to pull from other aspects of things that you've looked at already for this weeks as work so you can car carve that one out pretty quickly the other one take some time and watch it's only a 4 minute video but I really want you to kind of put all your effort into really kind of understanding what it means for yourselves um now the readings there's a lot in the readings yes I'm going to go over chapter four and five of the Sue book um the the other text the revisioning family therapy um a couple of the chapters I'm going to highlight a few things on a couple chapters I'm not really going to go into because it's more reading based that I want you to just to kind of process that reading um I'll read you some excerpts that I thought were important um just kind of to great gain more of the concepts of this chapter of some of the chapters um this is the one the full counsiling session part one on microagressions and counseling at Marilyn and Al that's the one I'm talking about I'm going to includeed in the slides and lecture this week don't worry it's not a requirement to read it it just kind of aligns with this chapter chapter four on microaggressions and implications for counseling and Psychotherapy just so that you know that kind of another Avenue to look at it from um and I think there's one another one that I downloaded I can't remember the name of that one so whatever I have those are I'll highlight it as additional not required you know just if you want to kind of view those those will come uploaded as soon as I can because they're a little longer to upload um this chapter chapter four talks about microaggressions and implications for counseling and Psychotherapy so what I've done is I've kind of taken out some of the words and the key terms that are important to understand for this chapters microaggressions on page 68 you'll see microaggressions are the the everyday sight slights indignities put Downs insults and invalidations that marginalized group members experience in their day-to-day interactions with well-intentioned people who often are unaware that they have engaged in an offensive and demeaning manner okay so microaggression is basically an every it's can happen every day they're like little slights and put downs and insults to people that we don't even really recognize sometimes that we're doing macroaggressions okay is the systemic and in institutional forms of discrimination that impact an entire class of individuals so like an entire group of individuals they are said to reside in policies programs Pol practices and structures of Institutions that disadvantage or oppressed socially devalued groups while benefiting others so look at macroaggressions as more as impacting an entire subset of individuals entire class of individuals where mikro aggression is where you're doing it to a particular person micro assault is refers to a blatant verbal non-verbal or environmental attack intended to convey discriminatory and biased sentiments it this notion is related to over racism sexism heterosexism aism and religious discrimination in which individual will deliberately convey derogatory messages to Target groups so they're deliberately conveying these messages to the groups okay micro assault on page 71 as well this came directly from the text so kind of take a peek at that so we can help you kind of really kind of highlight what you're looking at like at the macro micro levels um chapter 4 talks about micro insults or unintentional behaviors or verbal comments that convey rudess or insensitivity or de or demean a person's racial Heritage their identity their gender identity religion ability sexual orientation um despite being outside the level of Consciousness conscious awareness the sub subtle snubs are characterized by an insulting hidden message something kind of like hidden in there kind of like a little jab on the side a little bit if you want to think of it that way micro insult micro invalidations they're verbal comments or behaviors that exclude negate or dismiss the psychological thoughts or feelings or experiential reality a group I just people just don't even think about it that these things could be in people and then maybe they say something or they act in a certain way and it's like oh I think that that's why this group would be acting a certain way or you know then just some key terms that are kind of important to kind of think about when we're looking at microaggressions as a whole um microaggressions I like this part on uh page 82 of the Sue book the implications for counseling and Psychotherapy they talk here about for us what do we do be aware that racial gender sexual orientation microaggressions are a constant reality in the lives in the lives of culturally diverse groups and they take major psychological toll they really impact people um psychologically be aware that everyone has engaged in and continues to engage in unintentional microaggressions for helping professionals these microaggressions may serve as an impediments to effective Multicultural counseling therapy and therapy so this is something that it happens you know we have to just be aware of what's Happening entertain the notion that culturally diverse groups may have a more accurate perception of reality than you do especially when it comes to issues of racism sexism pedos sexism try to understand World Views and sociocultural realities and don't be quick to dismiss or negate racial gender or sexual orientation issues if your culturally different client if your culturally different client implies that you have engaged in a microaggression aggressive remark or behavior engage in a non-defense of discussion and try to clarify the situation by showing that you are open and receptive to conversations on Race gender sexual orientation remember it's how the therapist recovers not how he or she covers up so you want to be able to be able to have a conversation with your clients when they challenge that when they have a thought that you know what I didn't like that behavior I didn't like that comment and it really bugged me and this and that have a very like open conversation not covering up any mistakes but being able to kind of really kind of understand you know and sometimes an apology you know my apologies you know it's like if I'm working with an Indian client and I'm from India as well and I can't assume that something is one way or another and if I say something that generalizes the population they're like wait a minute that might be you not me my apologies I understand yes every culture that may be the essence of our culture but doesn't necess mean that's an Essence within your family right or your perspective within the family or whatnot familiarize yourself with the literature on micro interventions and anti-bias actions that Target allies and bystanders can take to disarm them and to contribute to a sense of empowerment and self-efficacy so take a look at this page um page 82 in this chapter because I think it like kind of really kind of puts it together for us chapter five talks about socio historical privilege and oppression um again implications for counseling and Psychotherapy is what we're looking at on page 106 they talk about mental health practice is strongly influenced by historical and current psycho sociohistorical forces ah sorry mouthful um that impinge on issues of race culture and ethnicity so the therapeutic session is often a m m microcosm of race relations in our larger society therapists often inherit the biases of their forebearers right we do kind of often inherit those biases and ther presents a primarily European American activity represents um these failures can be seen in the Education and Training of mental health professionals can be seen as biased mental health literature and anation of pathology with differences so the genetic and cultural deficient models can perpetrate these vales when mental health practitioners are trained with the assumption that people of color are lacking the right genes or the right white cultural values to succeed in the US the culturally diverse model does not view people of color as deficient but recast differences as equally valuable variations and addresses the advantages of being bicultural and inherent value of differences okay so kind of really looking at what that means in terms of culture race sociohistorical forces you know and how does that that apply um chapter five talks a lot about social injustice counseling approach how it emphasizes that problems don't necessarily reside in individuals alone but it can be an external externally located in organizations and the social system a social justice approach has several overarch goals so it could be from the social system that one belongs in the overarching goals can be to produce conditions that allow for equal access and opportunity to eliminate disparities in education Healthcare employment and other areas that lower the quality of life for marginalized groups to encourage mental health professionals to consider individual group and Community institution and societal levels and assessment d nois and treatment of clients and the systems and to broaden the role of helping profession to include not only counselor therapist but Advocate counsel consultant psycho education educator um like changing the environment being a community worker okay so looking at Social Justice as a whole and also mental health professionals must be prepared to direct their folky of interventions to the individual professional organizational and societal levels kind of like what we've talked about clients are viewed not as isolated units but as embedded within their families social groups communities institutions and cultures as well as the major systems of our society if mental health practice is concerned with better the life circumstances of individuals families groups and communities then social justice is overarching umbrella that guides our profession so the welfare of a Democratic Society depends on equally accessing opportunity Fair distribution of power and resources and the empowerment of individuals and groups to determine their own lives to accomplish this goal therapist must be prepared to treat social and systemic problems and play alternative helping roles that have not traditionally been considered in therapy including organizational advocacy role so what does this mean like basically looking at the whole system not necessarily just looking at it as you know we're bettering their life their individual circumstances you're looking at the whole aspect of that culture that society and that it could have been passed down from Generations that we're looking at um you know and being able to kind of really look at the fair distribution of power there and resources what's considered fair in their culture and their group what's not know what could be impacting them chapter 15 um in the revisioning family therapy text um talks about white privilege and male privileg um the passage on 22 page 221 I'm going to read it over here to you um it starts with we usually think of privilege as being a favored State whether earned or conferred by birth or luck school graduates are reminded that they're privileged and urged to use their inviable assets as well the word privilege carries the connotation of being something everyone must want yet some of the conditions that they've described here in the work um to systemically overpower certain groups privilege simply confers dominance because of one's race or sex the kind of privilege which gives license to some to be at best thought less and at worst murderous should not continue to be referred as a desirable attribute such privilege may be widely desired without being in any beneficial in any way beneficial to the whole society so kind of how they're defining what privilege means um it goes on on page 222 to talk about um privilege May confer power it does not confer moral strength okay those who do not depend on conferred dominance have traits and qualities which may never develop in those who do then it go goes on to give some examples for you there so kind of take a peek at that um it's it's coming from a different P different perspectives of understanding um in this chapter you're also going to be hearing about um this there's a few pages that talk about like some of the conditions um kind of what went on in the past and history and what examples kind of can fall within this um area of when they're looking at White Privilege and male privilege so take a peek at that um there are a couple pages that really Define um some of those examples and chapter 16 17 and 20 16 and 17 really I haven't pulled directly from there because it's more about kind of reading the material really kind of going through the process of understanding chapter 16 talks about dismantling white male privilege within family therapy and then 17 talks about the inevitable whiteness of being white um and what that means um chapter 20 talks about white privilege pathological shame and guilt and pers per perversion of morality um one of the things on chapter 20 that I liked that I thought was going to be helpful is on page 295 there is a part here that I think is really helpful as a clinical application piece and asking yourself a few of the questions like on uh 295 it talks more about as a supervisor a consultant a trainer The Authority that the author talks about is granted to them by usefulness of the principles of theory and techn and the way that they base their teachings so my first it says my first test of authority is is what I am saying useful to my supervis you can also wonder like is what I'm saying useful to my client or the family system that I'm talking to the second test I must bear is am I holding on to some privileged information that makes me feel secure or less anxious and that in doing so prevents me from understanding better the person who is in front of me and the clinical situation that he or she is describing okay that's where you look at your sense of self in this therapist role right like am I holding on to some information here um that that kind of impacting me and working with this person really wholeheartedly being able to give them what they need the attention the time the the understanding of their world view and the third test is am I forming a relationship in which we both can do the psychological work we need to do what does that mean like you don't want to be able to do be doing your own personal work with your client right it's more of like being able to am I really allowing them that space to be able to have that therapeutic relationship with me to be able to do the psychological work and am I opening up to allow that space to happen right if I'm not and if I'm holding back and kind of not wanting to go certain areas of discussion let's say because of my own biases or my own idea of privilege or power like or maybe I just maybe the therapist decides I don't want to go there because I don't really want to know red flag that's you're not giving your client what they need at that point so there comes in more ideas of like privilege and power and being able to look into that so some of it some of this chapter is like really um it's hard to kind of pull out specific information about it without having you just read through the process and really understand the process this text I get I some feedback it is a little bit harder to kind of grasp and understand and a little harsher sometimes to read um I understand that um I have given feedback about that um but really kind of put yourself in the perspective of really understanding a different world viiew when you have clients from different cultures and race and ethnicities and different statuses within our culture so what does this mean what's how do I put this together in my role as therapist pause think and reflect about class and poverty within the family system poverty aspects Society whatever culture race all of those things within the family system like there's an element of pause a lot of times we as therapists want to rush through oh we have a 50-minute session we got to get something information it's okay pause really being in a space that may may be uncomfortable for your client may be uncomfortable for you but sometimes it takes that time and space to have that process engage in self-reflection these things are going to pull at you you're going to want to know more you have to look into yourself so that you're separating your biases and power and all that um and uncover and discover implicit biases that may occur allow that process to happen the more you allow it the better therapist you're going to be because you're going to be able to allow like understand not only yourself but you be able to kind of process that with your clients when they come in so the discussion um well actually this actually can be part of um the lecture reflection that you include um what resonated with you this week and this week's readings and video um are there any new skills that you have learned this week that will incorporate your future work and writing thoughts on social class for your future role as therapist uh like writing your own thoughts on social class and what does that mean in terms of your role as therapist okay it's just some things to kind of think about I know it's a lot I know it's kind of a little abstract today right um it's a little like on this like whole abstract big level but the readings will help you get more deeper in and the videos um so again there's only one required video this week I may post one to two this week additional reading uh additional watching but it's not required of you it's just a supplement our work okay as always I'll have office hours on Thursday if you need a spot you want to pop on let me know and I will reserve a 15-minute block for you if you need more than time than that then we'll adjust as well so no worries we'll figure it out if you can't do Thursday let me know we'll figure it out okay so pace yourself in your reading this week and um some of the chapters are shorter um but they're they're heavy they're rich in material they're really heavy in the process of what we're reading so so you may want to pace yourself throughout and just kind of take some breaks and kind of just whoa that was like even just a big paragraph I need to pull away for a minute you know what does that really mean okay but if you need anything you know where you can find me and um I won't keep you longer um than I need to so if you if anything comes up just kind of send something my way and we'll meet then okay all right take care everybody have a good week thank you you're welcome take care