Describe the personal cultural background you identified from the creation of your cultural genogram.

Describe the personal cultural background you identified from the creation of your cultural genogram.
Describe the cultural elements that have shaped your own identity development and the development of your social lens through which you interpret the social environment.
Describe the people in your life who were influential in forming your identity.
Critically reflect on your beliefs, values, and attitudes and how they have shaped your experiences.
Analyze whether or not you adhere to these values and customs, for example:
What were the advantages and disadvantages of your ascribed or attained identities?
How did you come to grips with your identities?
Who helped you during this journey?
Are there issues you are still struggling with? If so, elaborate.
Describe your experiences with difference and/or alienation.
Identify at least three negative attitudes, beliefs, or feelings you have about the groups we will be discussing this semester (which are noted in the syllabus). Each of the attitudes must be about different groups of people. If you cannot identify three attitudes, you need to look harder.
For each of the above, identify the origins of each and how each was influenced by factors such as your ethnic or racial heritage, gender, family structure, socio-economic class, parents’ sexual orientation, religious/spiritual beliefs, images in the media, personal experiences, or anything else you think is relevant. For each negative attitude, you should identify at least one origin/influence.
Critically reflect upon privilege you have benefited from, as well as forms of oppression you might have experienced.
Describe how privilege and oppression have shaped your values, beliefs, intentions, and attitudes.
Describe how your own self-identity has hindered or fostered your ability to “understand multiple worldviews”, and how you hope to expand, modify, and/or shape your professional identity as a social worker in order to effectively engage with others impacted by oppression and/or marginalization.
Discuss how you hope to manage your personal/professional biases as they might arise in practice.
Provide a summary of your learning from the development of your own cultural genogram and critical self-reflection.
Again, your paper must be 7 pages long (not including your title and reference pages). It must be typed and double-spaced in APA format. Your cultural genogram may be embedded in the paper, or you may upload it to this assignment in a separate file. Feel free to be creative in writing this paper. You may also feel free to use “I” language, as this paper is about you.

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