Deck 2: Cultural Meaning Systems, Cultural Trust, and Cultural Humility

Question 1

A(n) ______ perspective is culturally specific.

A) emic
B) etic
C) monocultural
D) ethnocentric

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A(n) ______ perspective is culturally universal.

A) emic
B) etic
C) monocultural
D) ethnocentric

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Why did CACREP institute a requirement of teaching neuroscience in counselor education?

A) to maintain consistency with other mental health profession's training programs
B) to demonstrate the minimal overlap between neuroscience and culture
C) to allow counselors to integrate neuroscience into clinical work
D) to allow counselors to pursue research in this area

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Eastern cultures tend to place a higher value on ______ brain information processing, whereas Western cultures tend to place higher value on ______ brain information processing.

A) collectivistic; individualistic
B) individualistic; collectivistic
C) left; right
D) right; left

Question 5

All of the following are levels of the Tripartite Model EXCEPT ______.

A) individual
B) group
C) system
D) universal

Question 6

How does a child first learn about culture?

A) from their own neural pathways
B) from their parents
C) from their school
D) from their community

Question 7

What is cultural countertransference?

A) the relationship between a therapist and client who are from two different cultures
B) a therapist's transaction with their communal culture
C) mix of intersecting beliefs and experiences that take place consciously and unconsciously within the therapist
D) the interactions between individual and community cultural characteristics

Question 8

Acculturative stress occurs when ______.

A) individuals consciously or unconsciously try to adapt to the values of a different culture
B) individuals in power try to maintain boundaries between themselves and others
C) individuals who are marginalized try to overcome boundaries set forth by those in power
D) individuals consciously decide to identify with the mainstream culture

Question 9

Which of the following is a strategy that therapists can engage in to reach across the cultural divide with clients?

A) using a multiculturally sensitive structured interview
B) soliciting cultural stories
C) psychoeducation
D) diagnosis

Question 10

Which of the following terms is defined as ". . . a clinician's ability to understand and respond sensitively and appropriately to a client's cultural story and the cultural context of his or her presenting problem?"

A) cultural trust
B) cultural sympathy
C) cultural competence
D) cultural empathy

Question 11

Cultural competence is influenced by neural pathways that have been created by cultural interactions or lack of cultural interactions.

Question 12

Each person develops an attachment to their own culture.

Question 13

Although ethnic identity is powerful, it is less powerful than one's individual personality.

Question 14

Cultural compatibility between the therapist and client improves the therapeutic relationship.

Question 15

Describe the iceberg concept of culture and why it is important for counselors to understand.

Question 16

What is the Tripartite Model? List and briefly describe each of the three levels.