Social Work with Diverse Populations

Every culture has healing activities

• Hope
• Helper Attractiveness
• Client Mastery/Control
• Rites of Initiation
• Cleansing experiences
• Existential Realization -- Insight
• Physical Interventions
• Worldview respect
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Hope

The more hope the client has about the power or potential for help in the healing relationship, the greater the chances for the healing interventions to be effective

Helper Attractiveness (Carl Rogers)

Warmth, competence, empathy, kindness, concern, genuineness

Client Mastery

Empowerment

Enabling the client to reduce frustration and anxiety

Rites of Initiation

Changing old behaviors and accepting new behaviors

Cleansing Experiences

Guilt is a universal human experience

sweating/restitution

Insight

meaning-making

awareness

Physical Intervention

medication

behavioral health treatments

surgery

therapeutic touch