CCA Multicultural & Diversity in Career Counseling Flashcards

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide 'reasonable accommodations' to qualified individuals with disabilities. In career counseling, this means:

Answer: Clients with disabilities can request workplace modifications that do not create undue hardship for the employer

The ADA's reasonable accommodation requirement obligates employers to modify work conditions, schedules, or equipment to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, unless doing so creates undue hardship.

When administering career assessments to clients from diverse cultural backgrounds, a CCA should be aware that many standardized instruments were developed with which population as the primary norm group?

Answer: White, middle-class, North American populations

Most widely used career assessments were normed primarily on white, middle-class, North American populations, which may limit their validity and cultural relevance when applied to diverse clients.

The concept of 'stereotype threat' is relevant to career counseling because it explains how:

Answer: Awareness of negative stereotypes about one's group can underperform on assessments and career-related tasks, affecting outcomes

Stereotype threat—coined by Claude Steele—describes how awareness of a negative group stereotype can impair performance on tests and tasks, which may affect career assessment results and job interview performance.

A CCA working with a Native American client should be aware that career counseling models emphasizing individual achievement may conflict with:

Answer: Communal values and responsibilities to family, tribe, and community that are central to the client's identity

Many Native American clients hold deep communal values where individual achievement is secondary to community responsibility; imposing Western individualistic career models without cultural sensitivity can be harmful.

According to Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), which factor most directly predicts whether a person will pursue a career in a particular field?

Answer: Self-efficacy beliefs about their ability to successfully perform tasks in that field

Lent, Brown, and Hackett's SCCT places self-efficacy at the center of career pursuit—individuals pursue careers they believe they can perform successfully, regardless of actual ability.

A career counselor notices that a Latinx client consistently defers career decisions to their parents. Rather than labeling this as a problem, a culturally responsive CCA would:

Answer: Recognize family involvement as a cultural value and explore how to integrate family input into a collaborative decision-making process

In many Latinx cultures, familismo—strong family orientation—means family input in major decisions is valued and healthy; culturally responsive counseling integrates rather than pathologizes this dynamic.