› Cultural/racial identity • When assessing clients and families it is important to understand them within a cultural context. This includes not only race
or ethnicity, but also cultural factors specific to the client or family’s region of origin, language, and time of immigration if relevant. The client’s experiences of racism and discrimination are also hugely important to understanding the client’s perceptions of his or her cultural and racial identity and how he or she relates to and interacts with social systems and the larger society
–Current cultural/racial identity: the race or ethnicity the client identifies as; whether he or she wishes to marry or form relationships within his or her own race or culture –Immigration: why the client or his or her family/ancestors immigrated, when immigration took place, whether the family
immigrated together or at different times, whether the client/family maintains relationships or connection to the country of origin, legal status, primary or preferred language of client and family members, challenges faced during immigration or adjustment to the new community