Teaching Cultural Competency for Working with Jewish Youth
摘要
This chapter provides a roadmap for any clinician or supervisor who will be working with Jewish youth and families. It outlines five key domains of knowledge essential for effective practice: (1) the concept of Jewish ethnicity unrelated to religion; (2) the different religious movements in American Jewry and associated issues of education, dress, culture, and values; (3) holidays and their language and rituals; (4) intergenerational trauma and modern antisemitism; and (5) clinician preconceptions and/or anxieties. Common questions supervisees of non-Jewish background have asked will be described and answered, along with case examples in all five domains, and a glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish words that may arise in working with Jewish youth.