I believe that a client's cultural background may impact how a psychologist undertakes a forensic examination in various instances. Based on my personal experience, I have one query.
What impact can cultural influences have on forensic psychology practice?
Culture helps to determine what are considered normal patterns of behavior between men and women, among generations, and the expected social roles in families and other groups. Clarifying how cultural background affects individuals' capacity to form a criminal intent or control their behavior may allow a better determination of level of culpability and guide appropriate sentencing. However, framing behavior as culturally influenced may also stereotype and stigmatize specific groups. To avoid this, culture must be fully understood.
Becoming familiar with the cultural background of an individual is crucial to the therapeutic relationship. Even in research, it was fairly commonplace to use the acronym WEIRD standing for: Western Educated Industrialised Rich and Democratic.
It's become apparent that this is not the best way to approach psychological research and now researchers tend to try and diversify the people entering studies.
Ignoring cultural backgrounds would lead to answers that only apply to certain groups of people. What may be culturally 'normal' with one individual may be unacceptable to another individual. Thus for the forensic psychologist to truly understand the motives of the individual, it's crucial to be fluent in the cultural and ethnic background of the individual.
Culture play important role. Like many psychologists don't know how to handle black trauma because they did not experience it.
Some times psychologists tell their South Asian clients to talk about their feelings to parents but in South Asian culture children tend to suppress their feelings in order to make parents happy and proud. They are told to suck it up and do what their elders planned for them.