I'll spare my experiences since the only actual university course I took in "diversity" was as an undergraduate. My mental health training has not been at an actual school-Argosy and now an "institute" attached to a religious school but with all the trappings of what Argosy had.
I just want to know people's thoughts/experiences with what is taught as "diversity" in the mental health profession, especially academia and how much of that is expected to be taken into the real world. My current class has a text that lists slavery as a "uniquely American institution" for instance, a statement so absurd it stopped me cold and caused me to create this thread. So much of what is taught it desperately needed, why the need to take it to absurd extremes? I really don't get it. I'll spare you the research paper options for the class, all, and I mean all, of which deal with the toxic effects of white culture, either in and of itself or as it has caused harm to other people's and cultures. Not to say those issues are not real and should be studied, but when that is the only option for serious study in a "diversity" class... I'm left shaking my head at why this "liberal" profession wants to hand the white nationalists sets of talking points they can repeat ad nauseum on faux "news."
Okay, rant over, wishing you all the best in the coming nuclear winter. Let's hope some of us are still around when the radiation fades in about 10,000 years.
I just want to know people's thoughts/experiences with what is taught as "diversity" in the mental health profession, especially academia and how much of that is expected to be taken into the real world. My current class has a text that lists slavery as a "uniquely American institution" for instance, a statement so absurd it stopped me cold and caused me to create this thread. So much of what is taught it desperately needed, why the need to take it to absurd extremes? I really don't get it. I'll spare you the research paper options for the class, all, and I mean all, of which deal with the toxic effects of white culture, either in and of itself or as it has caused harm to other people's and cultures. Not to say those issues are not real and should be studied, but when that is the only option for serious study in a "diversity" class... I'm left shaking my head at why this "liberal" profession wants to hand the white nationalists sets of talking points they can repeat ad nauseum on faux "news."
Okay, rant over, wishing you all the best in the coming nuclear winter. Let's hope some of us are still around when the radiation fades in about 10,000 years.