ACS Multicultural & Diversity Competence in Supervision Flashcards
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Which term describes a supervisor's failure to address race, ethnicity, or cultural difference with a supervisee, often out of discomfort?
Answer: Color-blind supervision
Color-blind supervision occurs when a supervisor avoids or minimizes discussions of race and culture, which can harm both the supervisee's development and client care.
The Multicultural Supervision Competencies framework developed by Ancis and Ladany focuses primarily on:
Answer: Supervisor self-awareness, knowledge of diverse groups, and culturally sensitive supervisory skills
Ancis and Ladany's multicultural supervision competencies focus on supervisor self-awareness, cultural knowledge, and skills for working with diverse supervisees and clients.
A supervisee from a collectivist cultural background appears reluctant to challenge a client's family-based decision that the supervisee personally disagrees with. The supervisor's BEST response is to:
Answer: Explore the supervisee's cultural values and how they may inform or conflict with Western counseling assumptions
Culturally competent supervision involves exploring how the supervisee's cultural background influences their clinical approach rather than imposing Western individualistic assumptions.
Which of the following is an example of a racial microaggression a supervisor might commit toward a supervisee of color?
Answer: Assuming the supervisee is especially skilled at working with clients from their own racial background
Assuming a supervisee of color is naturally gifted with clients from their own racial group is a microaggression that reduces the supervisee to their racial identity.
ACS-approved supervisors are expected to address the 'ADDRESSING' framework (Hays, 2008) in supervision. What does ADDRESSING primarily help supervisors and supervisees examine?
Answer: Multiple layers of cultural identity and how they intersect to shape worldview
The ADDRESSING framework helps clinicians and supervisors examine multiple cultural identity factors (Age, Disability, Religion, Ethnicity, etc.) and their intersecting influences.
When a supervisee expresses that a client's cultural explanation for their distress (e.g., spiritual possession) conflicts with a DSM diagnosis, the ACS-competent supervisor should FIRST:
Answer: Explore the cultural context of the explanation and how it coexists with diagnostic formulation
Culturally competent supervisors help supervisees integrate indigenous or cultural explanatory models alongside diagnostic formulation rather than dismissing them.