Deck 1: Culturally Responsive Strengths-Based Therapy: The Journey

Question 1

Culture shapes and influences how one views the world. This is what researchers call ______.

A) multiculturalism
B) implicit bias
C) worldview
D) diversity

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 1 focus on?

A) ethnic/racial minority groups
B) gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities
C) immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers
D) multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 2 focus on?

A) ethnic/racial minority groups
B) gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities
C) immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers
D) multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 3 focus on?

A) ethnic/racial minority groups
B) gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities
C) immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers
D) multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research

Question 5

The basic competencies for culturally responsive counseling can be grouped into all of the following categories EXCEPT ______.

A) awareness
B) attitudes
C) biases
D) skills

Question 6

______ is used to describe a therapist that lacks understanding of a client's culture and the influence of the client and counselor's culture on the therapeutic relationship.

A) Cultural encapsulation
B) Cultural ignorance
C) Cultural deficit
D) Cultural worldview

Question 7

Viewing American Whiteness as the standard, believing that anyone can achieve the American dream if they try hard enough, and conceptualizing pathology as located within the individual rather than within the larger environmental context are examples of ______.

A) monoculturalism
B) cultural encapsulation
C) ethnocentrism
D) cultural relativism

Question 8

Dr. Lois, a White female counselor, is greeting a new patient in her office. Her patient, Ms. Clark, a middle-aged African American female, described that she was coming to counseling because she was struggling with being a single parent to her three children. Unlike her other clients, Dr. Lois did not ask when or how she became a single parent, but rather began counseling her in a solution-focused way. When she learned that Ms. Clark's husband, and father to the three children, was killed in a car accident on his way home from work, Dr. Lois reconsidered her treatment plan. Dr. Lois' lack of assessment, which led to a less effective treatment approach for Ms. Clark, is an example of ______.

A) explicit bias
B) implicit bias
C) monoculturalism
D) lack of cultural awareness

Question 9

What is the IAT?

A) a multicultural competence treatment modality for minority clients
B) a multicultural competence assessment for counselors
C) a test designed to reveal conscious attitudes
D) a test designed to reveal unconscious attitudes

Question 10

Culture has the ability to influence and organize the brain.

Question 11

Culture is often viewed as the "silent intruder" in the therapeutic relationship.

Question 12

To achieve cultural competence, a therapist should reach a high level of knowledge of all cultures.

Question 13

Race and ethnicity are synonymous.

Question 14

Racism lives deep inside our brains.

Question 15

What is culturally responsive therapy? How does culturally responsive strengths-based therapy (CR-SBT) differ?

Question 16

The text describes five major barriers to cultural competence. List these barriers and give an example of each.