Cultural Barriers in Counseling

Rushing to help a disabled person onto public transportation is always a well-intentioned action.

What is a significant psychological effect of the Conformity Stage on people of color?

Empirically supported treatments (ESTs) often include a diverse range of minority groups in clinical trials.

What must empirically supported treatments (ESTs) demonstrate to be considered effective?

What are the key relationship variables for effective therapy?

Which of the following has been described as the three major categories of cultural barriers that can lead to an ineffective helping relationship with culturally diverse clients?

During the resistance and immersion stage, the three most active types of affective feelings are guilt, shame, and anger.

Culturally adapted ESTs have been successfully used with Asian Americans experiencing phobias.

Feelings of being brainwashed by the forces of White society would most likely be found in what stage of the REC identity developmental model?

When counselors unwittingly impose monocultural standards without regard for differences in lifestyles and cultures, they may be engaging in:

The basic building blocks of cultural competence in clinical practice are ______, _____, and ______.

Covert sexism is:

Which of the following is an example of an environmental microaggression?

The myth of the 'model minority' has often played into major misunderstanding between Black and Asian communities.

To be a culturally competent therapist, one should avoid personal feelings and previous experiences with race, culture and gender.

Inheriting negative feelings and beliefs about members of marginalized groups is:

Most of the mental health disorders in the DSM-5 are transcultural, meaning the symptoms manifest with similar presentations across cultures.

Counselors who explore their own emotional reactions to race and culture believe that feelings such as defensiveness and anger can be destructive and are better left untouched.

The statement 'There is only one race: the human race' is an example of:

An effective curriculum should allow students to understand feelings of helplessness and powerlessness.

Shame is an emotion felt at the group level, whereas guilt is an individual emotion.

Which ego status would be best represented by the following statement, 'My grandfather is prejudiced, but I try not to be?'

Which of the following statements is NOT true about racism?

Which of the following has been described as a challenge faced by counselors in treating culturally diverse populations?

Many immigrants are from collectivistic orientation.

The burden to become multiculturally competent rests on the trainees from dominant culture.

Which of the following is likely to be a perspective of a culturally competent helping professional?

Research suggests that it is possible for people to avoid inheriting the racial biases, prejudices, misinformation, deficit portrayals, and stereotypes of their forebears if they are exposed to various and diverse cultures before formal schooling.

The R/CID model can be considered a global personality theory, which provides fixed and identifiable phases that serve to identify where clients fit on a spectrum.

The three types of resistance that are often encountered by students studying diversity training are:

The effectiveness of White therapists is related to their ability to overcome sociocultural conditioning and to make their Whiteness invisible.

The approximate number of the foreign-born population including undocumented immigrants living in the United States is:

The authors contend that there is a denial associated with being White, and it is related to the denial of White privilege.

According to the Hardiman White Racial Identity Development model, which stage is characterized by a conscious belief in the democratic ideal that everyone has an opportunity to succeed?

Cognitive behavioral therapy, but not psychodynamic therapy, includes many components of White culture.

Ableism has received limited attention in the literature on modern forms of oppression.

Graduate programs tend to shy away from teaching about antiracism because there is a limited amount of literature on the topic.

Familismo refers to:

Only White individuals need to learn cultural competence.

The client becomes a symbol of the inherent mistrust that exists in majority-minority relationships is a characteristic of which challenge associated with counseling White clients?

Which of the following are components of White culture?

The client/therapist interchange between Dr. D and Gabriella presented in Chapter 2 provides the reader with a good example of a multiculturally competent therapist addressing a concern of a client from another cultural group.

Minority clients most likely terminate prematurely from therapy sessions because they realize they actually do not need the help.

Which of the following is NOT a relevant question for counselors to ask?

Preparing counselors with multicultural expertise means:

Beliefs such as 'we are all part of the human race' and 'I do not see color' are most helpful in establishing empathy between the therapist and clients of color.

Rushing to help a disabled person onto public transportation could potentially signal to them that:

In which stage does the person of color realize racism exists?

According to the authors, minority therapists working with White clients should avoid acknowledging their racial differences because it can cause tension and division.

Which stage has the most profound negative impact on nearly all people of color?

Which of the following is considered a shortcoming of empirically supported treatments?

Empirically supported treatments must demonstrate:

The journey to becoming a competent culturally sensitive counselor in working with diverse populations is not complex as humans have innate characteristics that are relatively consistent across cultures with similar hopes and dreams that mark their humanness.

Of the approximately 40 million of the foreign-born population currently living in the United States, how many are considered unauthorized immigrants?

Which of the following is an empirically supported relationship variable?