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APA Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI)

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APA Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI)

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[Syllabus] CCPS MC Internship Seminar 2025

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[Syllabus] CCPS MC Internship Seminar 2025

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[Syllabus] CCPS Group Therapy Seminar 2024

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[Syllabus]  CCPS Prac Multicultural Seminar 2023 Fall

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[Syllabus] UCLA Multicultural Psychology Training Seminar

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[Syllabus] UCLA Multicultural Psychology Training Seminar

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[Syllabus] Ball State University Social Justice Training 2016

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[Syllabus] Ball State University Social Justice Training 2016

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This guide aims to raise awareness, guide learning, and support the use of culturally sensitive terms and phrases that center the voices and perspectives of those who are often marginalized or stereotyped.

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APA Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI)

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Multicultural Guidelines: An Ecological Approach

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The concept of Intersectionality was introduced by Kimberle Crenshaw in an article in 1989. It refers to the overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination. It is simply the idea that multiple identities intersect to create a whole that is different from the component identities. These identities that can intersect include gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, mental illness, and physical illness as well as other forms of identity.

Intersectionality is essential to our understanding of gender and sexual diversity because gender and sexuality is impacted by other social categories. Not just in some cases, but in all cases. It helps us study of how our social categories intersect and how these intersections impact experiences, structures of power and oppression. It examines how social categories such as gender, race, and ethnicity overlap and shape our experiences, our life outcomes, and our views of the world.

Before we attempt to understand how intersectionality operates, let's look at some key terms:

- Sex refers to the categories into which humans and most other living beings are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions. It goes beyond the binary - including within its fold male, female and intersex.

- Gender is a social construct. It refers to the internal perception of one's gender, and to how an individual labels themselves depending on how much they align or don't align with what they understand their options for gender are. Common gender identity labels include man, woman, gender queer and trans among others.

- Sexual orientation is a term used to denote the type of sexual, romantic, emotional or spiritual attraction that one has, as their capacity to feel for others. It is generally labeled as the gender relationship between the person and the people they are attracted to.

Sam Killerman's Genderbread person is perhaps one of the best ways to explain and understand what gender identity, expression, sex and attraction amount to. Although the diagram below is pretty indicative, let's take a moment to understand how each aspect of one's identity operates.

Gender identity flows from a spectrum of a-gender, or no gender, and extends towards a state of identifying as a woman, or, a state of identifying as a man. Gender expression, which refers to the expression of one's gender through dressing, appearance and personal grooming, tends from no gender expression, towards feminine and masculine. Biological sex, which refers to the classification based on reproductive systems, is a spectrum too. In terms of romantic and sexual attraction, one may be attracted to women / females / femininity, to none at all, or to men / male / masculinity, or, fall anywhere on the spectrum. Combinations of any of these can culminate in unique experiences of identity.

The CRIAW / ICREF's Intersectionality Wheel is perhaps the most interesting graphic description of how intersectionality operates.

The innermost circle comprises unique circumstances of privilege and power that come with one's personal, unique identity: for instance, what family you belong to, what opportunities you've had, what you've done with these opportunities and what exposures you've been privy to.

This is then compounded by a second layer, which comprises personal identity aspects: these things are a mix of identity factors that can change (age, education, occupation, social status, religion etc.) and those that cannot change (skin colour, indigeneity, caste, work history). In combination with unique circumstances of power, privilege and identity, your personal identity factors can create a very unique experience for you - one that's anywhere between marginally and markedly different from those of others.

Next, we have types of discrimination that impact your identity: such as racism, ableism, ageism, discrimination, heterosexism, sexism, among others. Merely possessing a certain identity is all it takes to determine whether one falls at the receiving end of discriminatory treatment. The basis for discrimination is often a combination of historical practices of discrimination, radicalized perspectives, ignorance, demonization and fear psychosis around certain identities.

The final layer comprises structures that either augment, or keep existing discrimination alive: economy, globalization, war, education systems, politics and such.

When these factors interact, we find ourselves in a place where our personal identities (with or without unique privileges, powers and identities) interact with social forces that operate certain kinds of discrimination, which are propped by social structures that keep this discrimination alive.

Intersectionality is essential to our understanding of gender and sexual diversity, both of which are certainly impacted by other social identities. In order to create diverse and inclusive spaces, be it at work or in public spaces, we should be open minded enough to be willing to think about difference, power and oppression in increasingly complex ways. It gives us ways to understand conceptually how multiple identities intersect, and produce understandings of difference that impact our lives.

If we have intersectionality driving our perceptions, policies and legislations, we will be able to see that multiple oppressions lead to "circumstances" that affect the choice-consequence axis. Let's look at this through the example of the experiences of a Dalit Woman in India.

For the uninitiated, "Dalit" refers to a caste in India. As a community of people, they have faced years and years of oppression and marginalisation, and are placed vulnerable at the bottom of the hierarchical ladders of India's caste system, class segregations and gender identities.

If feminism was not intersectional and looked at her from a choice-consequence dimension, it would view the Dalit Woman as one identifying as a Woman; as one who is vulnerable to violence; as one who is, well, like other women. Intersectional feminism, however, would see her differently.

Vulnerable as a woman, disenfranchised as a caste, marginalised as a caste, isolated and oppressed in society and therefore, even more vulnerable than most other women. And there are numbers, facts, stories and truths to back this correct understanding of a Dalit Woman's position. There is enough and more in the form of evidence to show you exactly how Dalit Women are exploited, oppressed, discriminated against, isolated and vulnerable to violence.

In a nutshell, not only are they dominated over by men in the power relations of a patriarchal social order, but are also fighting against a toxic hegemonic pillar of power in the form of caste, and coping with the poverty that comes in with a progressively divisive class system. This establishes the circumstance.

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The concept of Intersectionality was introduced by Kimberle Crenshaw in an article in 1989. It refers to the overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination. It is simply the idea that multiple identities intersect to create a whole that is different from the component identities.

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-Review the edited syllabus content
-Consider the rationale for the rest of the 1st semester topics (3ish)