Broadly conceived, multicultural psychotherapy is:
a. a single system of psychotherapy.
b. a group of culture-specific psychotherapies for specific patient groups.
c. concerned with maximizing cultural sensitivity within all systems of psychotherapy.
d. the sole result of ethical guidelines regarding diversity and multicultural sensitivity.
Q. 2Sue and Sue's (2003) notion of cultural relativism as one perspective on which multicultural psychotherapy can be based consists of:
a. developing culture-specific techniques that match the socioculture of each patient group.
b. developing transcultural skills that are applicable across a range of minority groups.
c. blending culture-specific and universally effective treatment components when working with minority groups.
d. insuring that minority group clients have better access to therapists from their minority group.
Q. 3The largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States is:
a. African Americans. c. Latino/Hispanic Americans.
b. Asian Americans. d. Native Americans.
Q. 4The pioneer of ethnocultural psychotherapy portrayed in the textbook is:
a. Lilian Comas-Diaz. c. Beverly Greene.
b. Stanley Sue. d. Alison Smith.
Q. 5For the text authors, the phrase browning of America refers to:
a. the demographic shift towards a higher proportion of minorities in the U.S. population.
b. the taking away of White power and privilege by minority groups.
c. the widespread adoption of Browning's multicultural theory of therapy.
d. the dramatic increase in inter-racial marriages over the past 30 years.
Q. 6The opening to the Multicultural Therapy chapter includes one Dutch family's experience of a family therapy session with American family therapy pioneer, Carl Whitaker. The family reportedly experienced Whitaker's interventions as disrespectful and unhelpful. The central implication of this vignette is that:
a. family therapy does not work very well with Northern European families.
b. Dutch upper-middle-class families respond more positively to Dutch therapists.
c. all therapists should work to avoid the presumptive error of importing their culture's system of psychotherapy into a therapy with people of another culture.
d. therapists from one culture should not provide therapy for clients from other cultures.
Q. 7The Asian-American population of the United States is projected to reach what percent by mid-century?
a. 5 c. 13
b. 10 d. 19
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