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Chapter 8

Diversity and Social Justice in

Group Work

Prepared by: Nathaniel N Ivers, Wake Forest University

 Diversity

 Social Justice

 Stages of Social Justice

 Enhancing Social Justice in Groups

 Challenges of Culturally Diverse Groups

 Types of Diversity-Related Groups

 Myths about Multicultural Groups

 Goals of Diverse and Multicultural Groups

 Leadership in Culturally Diverse Groups

 Increasing Cultural Competence

 Diversity

 Associated with race, ethnicity, language,

culture, gender, socioeconomic class, sexual orientation, religion, ableism, and disability

(Diller, 2014)

 Relates to people who differ widely in regard

to their lifestyles and worldviews and where differences in communication styles,

messages affect the way in which groups are set up and conducted (Conyne et al., 2000; Shechtman & Perl-Dekel, 2000)

Social Justice

differences among people

of power, resources, and obligations in

society of all people” regardless of their

background (Hage et al., 2010, p 103)

“empowerment, self-determination,

advocacy, and change” (Singh & Salazar, 2010, p 97)

Stages of Social Justice

 Stage 1: Naivety

 Stage 2: Multicultural Integration

 Stage 3: Liberatory Critical Consciousness

 Stage 4: Empowerment

 Stage 5: Social Justice Advocacy

(Ratts et al., 2010)

Enhancing Social Justice in Groups

 “Be intentional about having diversity of group membership and avoid representation/token members of a marginalized community”

 “Use structured activities to talk about issues

of privilege and oppression”

 “Facilitate consciousness raising and create

awareness of social justice in group members

by processing issues of oppression in the

moment”

(Burnes & Ross, 2010, p 171-175)

Challenges of Culturally Diverse

Groups

 Group leaders must understand the

subjective and objective experience of group members (Tate et al., 2013)

in ways that are culturally congruent (DeLucia-Waack, 1996, p 218)

“acknowledge, explore, and use group member differences to facilitate change and growth” (DeLucia-Waack, 1996, p 218)

Types of Diversity-Related Groups

 Culture-Specific Groups

 Interpersonal Learning Groups

 Other-Content-Focused Groups

(Merchant, 2009)

Myths about Multicultural Groups

 Discussion of racial or cultural differences is offensive to group members and is best never mentioned.

diversity is not needed.

seldom, if ever, affect the process and

outcome of task and psychoeducational

groups.

 Group work theories are appropriate for all

Goals of Diverse and Multicultural

Groups

Goals often fall into the following categories:

 Remediation

 Prevention

 Task orientation

 Intra- and Interpersonal Processes

Goals of Diverse and Multicultural

Groups

Three common goals:

1 To understand the situation that brought the person to the group from a cultural perspective

2 “To approach all events and behavior in the

group from a functional perspective”

3 “To help members make sense of “new

behaviors, beliefs, and skills within a cultural context”

(DeLucia-Waack, 1996, p 171)

Leadership in Culturally Diverse

Groups

 Cultural Awareness

 Consciousness regarding issues of culture that influence group members’

backgrounds

 Comfort with one’s own identity

 Ability to empathize with culturally

different group members

Increasing Cultural Competence

 Consult with minority counselors about

working with groups they may already be

serving

sensitive traditions

 Take note of needs and issues of minority

groups

training

(Johnson et al., 1995)

Increasing Cultural Competence

 Examine your family as a place where you learned about culture and relationships

with others (Ivey et al., 2014)

 Engage in didactic and experiential

education

Working with Different Cultural

Populations

 2014 US Census Bureau Data on

Race/ethnicity:

 African American: 12%

 Native American: 1%

 Asian American: 5.6%

 Hispanic: 14%

 European American: 65%

 Two or more races: 2%