Exploring culture Certified peer specialists will support people who have different cultural identities, worldviews, norms, beliefs, and values. The mental health and substance use services system, including certified peer specialists, are working toward providing services in a manner that take everyone’s own culture into account. This is advocacy and accountability. Certified peer specialists must be familiar with how areas in the cultural iceberg (below) interact within and among individuals. CULTURAL Surface culture
Food Flags Festivals Fashion Music Art Games Dance Crafts Performances Literature Celebrations Language
Communication styles and rules facial expressions gestures eye contact touching personal space tone of voice body language handling and displaying of emotion conversational patterns in different social situations Approaches to...
Notions of… courtesy and manners friendship leadership cleanliness modesty beauty
religion courtship marriage raising children decision-making problem-solving Attitudes toward...
elders adolescents dependents rule expectations work authority cooperation vs. competition Relationships with animals age sin death
Concepts of… self time past and future fairness and justice roles related to age, class, family, etc.
Deep culture
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