Race Presentation

Definitions

Internalized oppression

* In Person-Centred theory the emotional disquiet of the client is because of internalized oppression. The conditions of worth are the influence of powerful others upon the client. Client’s fit themselves to this outside power and form an internalized self-concept in order to gain approval and acceptance, a self that is not authentic to the organismic self (Proctor, 2002).

* Mann (2010) backs this up from a Gestalt perspective stating the concept of introjection is the taking in of powerful messages from the world we have learnt to live in. Often introjections reflect the specific society and culture to which one is exposed. These ways of being are internalized and mostly operate unconsciously and are often the product of stereotypes.

Cultural Awareness

* Pedersen (Cited in McLeod, 2009) states that one’s culture is of key importance to the formation of self; the different life meanings associated with culture are often connected to the problems that the client experiences in the perception of self and living within that culture.

* “Everything that members of a culture do represents some aspect of what life means to them. And this meaning has historical roots, it has evolved and been shaped over many years.” (McLeod, 2009, pp.289

Race

* The term race first appeared in the English language in 1508, to refer simply to a category or class of persons, without any reference to anything biological (Miles1982) Whilst Race is a critical variable , the singular attention to race alone would appear to exclude the constructions of meanings that are attributed to other experience of ethnic minority identities through the concepts of culture and ethnicity rather than the conceptualisation of the notions of race could unwittingly reify race and give it is a legitimacy and potency, thus naturalising it is a social-biological idea(Mason 1996)

Diversity

* The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and...