A frequent error of omission by therapists who work with clients from cultural backgrounds different from their own is:
a. failure to raise the topic of how racial and ethnic differences might affect the therapy relationship and treatment.
b. failure to identify their own race and ethnicity upfront so the client understands where you might be coming from.
c. failure to disclose the specifics of your biases, thus allowing one's unconscious racism to impact the therapy relationship.
d. failure to refer a client from a different cultural background to a racially/ethnically matched therapist.
Q. 2From a multicultural perspective, every therapy relationship might best be conceptualized as:
a. less relevant than the therapeutic processes or strategies to be employed.
b. highly unlikely to be securely established if the therapist is of a different race or ethnicity.
c. a process of trial-and-error joining with the client in a manner that matches the cultural preference of the client.
d. a multicultural therapy relationship.
Q. 3The text authors argue that one of the most challenging aspects of multicultural therapies for the therapist is:
a. identification of the appropriate therapeutic content given diverse cultural norms.
b. promoting a client's optimal level of social activism.
c. establishing a therapeutic relationship when the therapist is of a different race and ethnicity.
d. helping clients find fulfillment and meaning in the context of cultural differences.
Q. 4At the intrapersonal level, the root of many minority clients' distress is:
a. their experience of being victimized by an oppressive and discriminatory dominant culture.
b. underlying feelings of hostility toward the dominant culture.
c. anxiety about conflicting minority group and prevailing cultural norms.
d. loss of intimacy and failures of communication.
Q. 5Liberation psychotherapy (Friere, 1970, 1973) was essentially:
a. a consciousness-raising therapy.
b. a therapy that promoted catharsis related to historical and contemporary oppression and discrimination.
c. an action-based therapy that challenged established social structures that maintained the subordinate status of minority cultures.
d. a therapy that focused on the acculturation of Latinos in America.
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