Children with childhood disabilities such as autism and ADHD; children with the cumulative lifestyle factors that lead to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancers; and people with chronic medical, physical, and mental disabilities are part of the:
a. mental health workers community.
b. disability community.
c. gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community.
d. social justice community.
The standards established by the _______________ require that programs provide curricular and experiential offerings in multicultural and pluralistic trends, including characteristics within and among diverse groups nationally and internationally.
a. American Psychological Association
b. National Association for Social Workers
c. Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)
d. Canadian Counseling Association
The concepts of unintentional racism and microaggressions are related and usually involve:
a. training in multicultural and social justice perspectives for both the therapist and client.
b. exploring in-depth the meaning behind the cultural differences.
c. flexibility and understanding on the therapist's part.
d. demeaning implications perpetrated against clients on the basis of their race, gender, sexual orientation, orability status.
Neither the clients' and therapists' ____________, nor the interactions between the two, were significantly associated with the clients' perceptions of their therapists' level of multicultural competency.
a. ethnicity
b. multiculturalism
c. cultural empathy
d. unintentional racism
People with chronic medical, physical, and mental disabilities represent:
a. the second largest minority and disadvantaged group in the United States.
b. the largest minority and disadvantaged group in the United States.
c. the smallest minority and disadvantaged group in the United States.
d. a diminishing minority and disadvantaged group in the United States.
The _____________'s ethics code indicates that part of competence implies understanding diversity.
a. NASW
b. Canadian Counseling Association
c. APA
d. Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors
Many ________________ have difficulty acknowledging race-related issues because they stir up guilt feelings about their privileged status and threaten their self-image as moral, fair, and decent human beings.
a. White Americans
b. Mexican Americans
c. Asian Americans
d. African Americans
In the __________'s code of ethics, cultural competence and recognition of social diversity are clearly linked to ethical practice.
a. APA
b. Canadian Counseling Association
c. Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors
d. NASW
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. It is important to understand that homosexuality and bisexuality are not indicative of mental illness.
b. To date, the APA has not developed a separate set of guidelines for psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, andbisexual clients.
c. The ethics codes of the ACA, the APA, and the NASW clearly state that discrimination on the basis ofsexual orientation is unethical and unacceptable.
d. Therapists have an ethical obligation to confront their personal prejudices, myths, fears, and stereotypesregarding sexual orientation.
_______________ is a perception of reality based on a very limited set of cultural experiences.
a. Cultural awareness
b. Ethnicity
c. Microaggressions
d. Cultural tunnel vision
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