Disparities in Student of Color Education and Resulting Racial Microaggressions: Can MFT Training Programs Do More?

Abstract It appears that most of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) literature is written for white therapists and their experiences with clients. This impacts the MFT educational experiences of students of color. When students of color are engaged in classrooms, internship experiences, and supervision groups not crafted for their unique experiences with clients as it pertains to race, power dynamics, and other differences highlighted in the therapy room, students are left to decide for themselves how to address these issues in therapy. Furthermore, the lack of literature and discussion in training programs, and the microaggressions that are left unattended and unprocessed may lead to alienation in education and fatigue among persons of color in the field. Surveys were sent to students in MFT graduate programs across the United States and Canada to discern whether and with whom they experienced racial microaggressions in their training programs. The results indicate that many MFT students of color and whites are aware of microaggressions and are impacted by them. Students have opinions about ways to make MFT training programs more inclusive by decreasing microaggression experiences for student therapists

Percepciones y concepciones sobre cultura institucional en los actores de la Instituci?n Educativa Fundadores Ram?n Bueno y Jos? Triana en Girardot

78 P?ginasLa presente publicaci?n evidencia los resultados de una investigaci?n que determin? e interpret? las percepciones y concepciones sobre Cultura Institucional de los directivos docentes, los docentes y los estudiantes de la Instituci?n Educativa Fundadores Ram?n Bueno y Jos? Triana de Girardot en el a?o 2012,dentro de un estudio de tipo mixto que busc? identificar todos los rasgos culturales que ha generado la Instituci?n como ente social aportando elementos te?ricos y metodol?gicos al estudio de la Cultura Organizacional. Para ello, se tuvieron en cuenta tres categor?as que respondieron a cinco ejes: la concepci?n de los valores, las percepci?n de los valores en la realidad, la correspondencia de la misi?n y la visi?n, los rituales en la Instituci?n y las tradiciones, mitos y leyendas en la Instituci?n. Para tal fin se tuvieron en cuenta dos momentos; primero, se realiz? un estudio de Redes Sem?nticas Naturales que utiliz? los cinco ejes como est?mulos generadores; por otra parte, se utiliz? la entrevista para corroborar el estudio cuantitativo tomando como punto de partida las tres categor?as planteadas. Se encontr? que el respeto es el valor que mejor desarrolla la manera de ser de las personas seg?n la concepci?n de los actores de la Instituci?n Educativa, pero en la realidad es el que m?s se infringe por lo que el precepto y la realidad tienen un significado opuesto. Por otro lado, se evidenci? heterogeneidad en la percepci?n de los docentes, directivos docentes y estudiantes frente al impacto que genera la misi?n y la visi?n de la instituci?n. Finalmente, se interpretaron los rituales, tradiciones, mitos y leyendas que ofrecieron una identidad propia del plantel con el fin de fortalecer los que contribuyen a su buen funcionamiento cultural y transformar la concepci?n de las acciones consideradas como negativas. This publication evidences the results of a study that determined and interpreted perceptions and conceptions about institutional culture of school administrators, teachers and students of Institucion Educativa Fundadores Ram?n Bueno y Jos? Triana of Girardot in 2012, within a mixed type study sought to identify all cultural features generated by the institution as a social entity providing theoretical and methodological elements to the study of organizational culture. To this purpose, three categories were considered responding to five axes: the conception of values, the values perceived in reality, the correspondence of the mission and vision, the rituals in the Institution, and traditions, myths and legends in the Institution. To this end, two moments were considered: first, a study of natural semantic networks that used the five axes as stimuli generators, on the other hand, the interview was used to corroborate the quantitative study taking as its starting point the three categories proposed. It was found that respect is the value that best develops the way of being of the people according to the conception of the actors of the educational institution, but in reality it is the most widely violated so the precept and reality have meaning opposite. On the other hand, it was made evident heterogeneity in the perception of teachers, school administrators and students against the impact that generates the mission and vision of the institution. Finally, it was interpreted the rituals, traditions, myths and legends that offered a campus identity in order to strengthen those who contribute to its best cultural operation and transforming conception of the actions considered as negatives.1. PLANTEAMIENTO DEL PROBLEMA 14 1.1 CONTEXTUALIZACION DEL PROBLEMA 14 1.2 DESCRIPCI?N DEL PROBLEMA 14 1.3 FORMULACION DEL PROBLEMA 16 1.3.1 Pregunta Principal 16 1.3.2 PREGUNTAS SECUNDARIAS 16 2. JUSTIFICACION 17 3. OBJETIVOS 18 3.1. OBJETIVO GENERAL 18 3.2. OBJETIVOS ESPEC?FICOS 18 4. MARCO TEORICO Y CONCEPTUAL 19 4.1 ANTECENDENTES 19 4.2 HACIA EL CONCEPTO DE CULTURA INSTITUCIONAL 20 4.2.1 Concepciones sobre cultura institucional 22 4.2.2 Enfoques o perspectivas de la cultura Institucional 22 4.3 LA CULTURA INSTITUCIONAL HECHA VALORES Y PRINCIPIOS 26 4.4 LA MISI?N Y LA VISI?N EN EL MARCO DE LA CULTURA INSTITUCIONAL 28 4.5 TRADICIONES, MITOS, RITOS Y CREENCIAS EN LA ESCUELA.29 5. METODOLOGIA 33 5.1 TIPO DE INVESTIGACI?N 33 5.2 T?CNICAS E INSTRUMENTOS. 33 5.3 PARTICIPANTES 33 5.4 PROCEDIMIENTOS 34 5.5 LA ENCUESTA 36 5.6 T?CNICAS Y PROCEDIMIENTOS DE AN?LISIS DE LA INFORMACI?N 36 6. RESULTADOS 37 6.1 RESULTADOS PARA LA PALABRA EST?MULO: CONCEPTO DE VALOR 37 6.2 RESULTADOS PARA LA PALABRA EST?MULO: VALORES Y PRINCIPIOS EN LA REALIDAD 42 6.3 RESULTADOS PARA LAS PALABRAS EST?MULO: MISI?N Y VISI?N COMO IMPACTO 48 6.4 RESULTADOS PARA LAS PALABRAS EST?MULO: TRADICIONES, MITOS Y LEYENDAS EN LA CULTURA DE LA I.E. 56 6.5 RESULTADOS PARA LAS PALABRAS EST?MULO: RITUALES EN LA CULTURA DE LA I.E. 62 7. CONCLUSIONES70 REFERENCIAS 7

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