MULTICULTURALISM AND CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK MODELS DEFINED (YOUR BEST!)

Person Centered A nonjudgmental unconditional positive regard of a person. It is the basis of therapeutic rapport.

Vulnerable populations People who are marginalized by the dominant culture through discrimination, racism, oppression and violence due to race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, age, or ability.

Person in Environment A holistic and comprehensive method for assessing clients beyond their physical and mental health to include their history, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity.

This includes the overarching impacts of racism and marginalization on vulnerable populations.

Systems Theory Daily interactions between a person, the community, and society at large in conjunction with a variety of factors that impact and react as transactions between subsystems: parents, friends, school, work, economic class, home, the environment, state and local policies.

Multiculturalism and Intersectional Framework Each social work clinical model defined on this page is strengths-based and builds upon the first, person-centered. Intersectionality recognizes that multiple aspects of discrimination place a greater set of barriers for each vulnerability making up the identity of a person. The multicultural perspective embraces the complete person, recognizes their cultural values, strengths and the vulnerabilities of intersectionality including implications of assimilation, acculturation and historical trauma.