Which one of the following reasons for the underutilization of mental health services by minority groups is NOT true?
a. Biased nature of the services
b. Child care issues
c. Transportation challenges
d. The medical model of clinical counseling is a good fit for this population and is not utilized enough.
___________ is a three-stage developmental sequence, from multicultural awareness to knowledge and comprehension to skills and applications.
a. Culture-centered counseling
b. Oppressed counseling
c. Cultural immersion
d. Social justice work in counseling
According to the authors, the first step in the process of acquiring multicultural counseling skills in a training program should be that students:
a. become involved in a self-exploratory journey to help identify their cultural and ethnic blind spots.
b. start a social advocacy campaign and become politically involved on campus.
c. free themselves from all racist thoughts, actions and feelings.
d. have their value system conform to an acceptable norm.
Denise is a Euro-American social worker who is a former welfare client. A divorcee and mother of four, she succeeded in completing her degree and getting off the system in four years. She is now working in a welfare-towork program and sets similar goals for her multicultural clients. Denise's attitude and actions indicate that she:
a. believes in her client's ability to achieve and live up to her expectations.
b. is well intentioned and willing to challenge her clients.
c. can serve as a model of what her clients can accomplish with their lives--if she could do it, so can her clients.
d. is operating out of the majority value system and presuming that her clients have the same goals.
It is the authors' position that counselors would NOT work well with diverse populations if they:
a. are open to being challenged and tested.
b. are flexible in applying theories to specific situations.
c. believe that they are free from any racist attitudes, beliefs, and or feelings.
d. are comfortable with differences that exist between themselves and their clients.
Marie is working with a lesbian client who is in a dysfunctional relationship with another woman. She is seeking counseling to sort out her options regarding leaving her emotionally abusive partner. Marie can assist her client by:
a. automatically attributing her client's problems to her sexual orientation.
b. attempting to change the sexual orientation of her client.
c. supporting her client's attempt to leave the abusive relationship, work on her abuse issues, and eventually enterinto a positive lesbian relationship.
d. encouraging her client to realize how difficult it is to live in a lesbian relationship.
The culturally encapsulated counselor is characterized by:
a. defining reality according to the client's reality.
b. showing sensitivity to cultural variations among individuals.
c. evaluating other viewpoints and making attempts to accommodate the behavior of others.
d. define reality according to a narrow set of cultural assumptions and fail to evaluate other viewpoints, makinglittle attempt to understand and accept the behavior of others.
Frank is a Native American college student who is seeking information about his career choice from a male counselor. The counselor notices that he uses very little eye contact and needs to recognize that Frank:
a. lacks trust about the information he is receiving.
b. is unlikely to follow through with his suggestions.
c. is likely to view direct eye contact as a lack of respect.
d. would be more likely to have direct eye contact if the counselor were a female.
Statements such as Minority groups need to take responsibility for their own predicament and In order to succeed, people need to stop complaining and start working do not take into account environmental factors. These are examples of:
a. stereotypical beliefs.
b. guiding principles for action.
c. cultural tolerance.
d. challenging culture-bound values.
___________ counseling can be operationally defined as the working alliance between counselor and client that takes the personal dynamics of the counselor and client into consideration alongside the dynamics of the cultures of both of these individuals.
a. Culturally encapsulated
b. Diversity-sensitive
c. Multicultural
d. Transcultural
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