Question 1

________ is the belief that one's worldview is the norm and universal.

Accepted Answer

A)  Ethnocentrism 
B)  Ethnorelativism 
C)  Racism 
D)  Enculturation A

Question 2

How would a counselor assess a client's worldview?

Accepted Answer

A counselor can assess a client's worldview through a variety of methods, which are often integrated into the counseling process. The assessment of a client's worldview is crucial as it influences how they perceive their problems, their behavior, and the potential solutions. Here are some steps and techniques a counselor might use to assess a client's worldview:

1. **Intake Interviews**: During initial sessions, counselors often conduct a comprehensive intake interview. They ask open-ended questions to understand the client's background, including their cultural, religious, and philosophical beliefs, which can give insight into their worldview.

2. **Active Listening**: Throughout the counseling process, the counselor practices active listening, paying close attention to the client's language, metaphors, and stories. These verbal cues can reveal underlying beliefs and attitudes about the world.

3. **Questionnaires and Inventories**: There are specific tools designed to assess values, beliefs, and worldviews. These might include formal assessments like the Worldview Questionnaire or the Values and Beliefs Scale.

4. **Cultural Assessment Tools**: Counselors may use cultural assessment tools to understand how a client's cultural background and identity influence their worldview. This can include exploring aspects such as individualism vs. collectivism, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance.

5. **Life History**: Exploring a client's life history can provide context for their current worldview. This includes discussing their upbringing, significant life events, and the influence of their family, community, and broader society.

6. **Narrative Approaches**: Encouraging clients to tell their life stories can reveal their worldview. How they construct their narratives, the themes they emphasize, and the meaning they ascribe to events can all provide insights.

7. **Reflective Techniques**: Counselors may use reflective techniques, such as mirroring the client's language or summarizing their statements, to help clients articulate their beliefs and assumptions.

8. **Exploration of Values and Beliefs**: Directly exploring values and beliefs through conversation can help the counselor understand the client's worldview. This might involve discussing the client's views on religion, ethics, human nature, and the meaning of life.

9. **Therapeutic Exercises**: Assigning specific exercises, such as journaling or reflecting on certain prompts, can help clients articulate aspects of their worldview that they may not have previously considered.

10. **Feedback and Clarification**: Providing feedback and asking for clarification can help both the counselor and the client gain a deeper understanding of the client's worldview. This can be an ongoing process as the counselor and client work together.

11. **Observation**: Nonverbal cues, such as body language, eye contact, and emotional responses, can also provide information about a client's worldview, especially in relation to authority, interpersonal relationships, and emotional expression.

12. **Integration of Theoretical Frameworks**: Counselors may use various psychological theories and frameworks to understand and interpret the client's worldview. For example, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) might focus on the client's belief systems, while humanistic approaches might emphasize the client's subjective experience and personal growth.

Assessing a client's worldview is a dynamic and ongoing process. It requires sensitivity, respect, and an understanding that a person's worldview is complex and can change over time. By gaining a comprehensive understanding of the client's worldview, counselors can tailor their therapeutic approach to be more effective and culturally appropriate.

Question 3

Janet Helms formulated theories of racial identity development in which individuals achieve a sense of self that is integrated and satisfying. She developed identity models for:

Accepted Answer

A)  Asian Americans, Whites, and Blacks 
B)  Latinos/Hispanics, Whites, and Blacks 
C)  Whites, People of Color, and Blacks 
D)  Blacks, Whites, and Biracial individuals C

Question 4

What questions would a counselor ask a client to obtain a better understanding of the relationship between cultural identity and worldview?

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Question 5

_____________ is a status/stage in Janet Helm's model of White Racial Attitudes Towards People of Color in which there is a complete acceptance of both strengths and weaknesses of the dominant White society, and the individual is no longer threatened, completely at ease with being White and takes on an advocacy role to eliminate oppression.

Accepted Answer

A)  Reintegration 
B)  Autonomy 
C)  Integration 
D)  Independence

Question 6

Derald Wing Sue proposed that worldview can be conceptualized as psychological orientations that intersect to create four different value orientations that influence a person's attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. In Quadrant 1 of his framework the individual:

Accepted Answer

A)  Believes that he/she has very little control over the environment. 
B)  Views poverty and inequality as something that "just is". 
C)  Sees himself/herself as agents of change. 
D)  Values success, independence, power and has control over all aspects of life.

Question 7

Give an example of how worldview is influenced by gender.

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Question 8

Janet Helm's model of identity development involves various statuses in which individuals undergo a transformation process of racial identity formation. These statuses are:

Accepted Answer

A)  Preencounter, Encounter, Immersion/Emersion, and Internalization 
B)  Preencounter, Disintegration, Reintegration, and Autonomy 
C)  Peencounter, Encounter, Contact, Disintegration and Internalization 
D)  Contact, Disintegration, Integration, and Autonomy

Question 9

According to William Cross's Theory of Nigresence and Black Identity formation the stages are:

Accepted Answer

A)  Preencounter, disintegration, pseudo-independence, and autonomy. 
B)  Preencounter, encounter, immersion/emersion, and internalization. 
C)  Contact, disintegration, immersion, and independence. 
D)  Preencounter, encounter, immersion, and consciousness.

Question 10

Arredondo and Glauner's model of Personal Dimensions of Identity involves various dimensions that interact which allows counselors to understand clients in a:

Accepted Answer

A)  Fragmented and individual manner 
B)  holistic manner 
C)  contextual, holistic and individual manner 
D)  contextual manner

Question 11

________ is the way in which each individual sees, interprets, and gives meaning to the world. It is also based on an individual's unique life experiences.

Accepted Answer

A)  Cultural identity 
B)  Individual worldview 
C)  Personal identity 
D)  Ethnic identity

Question 12

________ is the individual's identity influenced by unique life experiences, often referring to one's "individuality".

Accepted Answer

A)  Cultural identity 
B)  Cultural worldview 
C)  Ethnic identity 
D)  Personal Identity

Question 13

Compare and contrast ethnic/cultural identity development for Asian Americans, Jewish,, Latinos/Hispanics, and Native Americans. What are the distinctive features of each ethnic group?

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Question 14

Kluckohn and Strodtbeck's value orientations framework is based on differences in worldviews among cultures. One of the five components of the framework consists of:

Accepted Answer

A)  Time, place, cultural traditions, and individualism 
B)  Time, collectivism, and individualism 
C)  Humans are good, bad or both 
D)  Locus of control and responsibility

Question 15

Describe how you would work with a 15 year old, biracial Japanese and Black), male client who is having some difficulty making friends in school. What are the specific developmental issues one would need to consider?
Instructional Strategies and Exercises

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Exam 3: Worldview and Identity