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Why Is It Important To Do This?

 

Two key features of the diversity focus in human services are

 

  1. cultivating cultural and personal self-awareness and
  2. developing the ability to take the perspectives of people
          very different from oneself. 

Inherent in human service studies is the fact that human service professionals in most cases come from more privileged backgrounds than do the people whose lives are the focus of intervention.  This reality must be addressed directly in human service education and every effort must be made to overcome the significant risks that this reality carries.

 

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.