Multicultural Counseling and Diversity Flashcards

According to Sue, Arredondo, and McDavis (1992), the multicultural counseling competencies are organized into which three dimensions?

Answer: Beliefs/attitudes, knowledge, and skills

The original framework organizes competencies into beliefs/attitudes (awareness), knowledge, and skills.

A counselor tells a third-generation Asian American client, "Your English is really good." According to Sue's taxonomy, this is best classified as a:

Answer: Microinvalidation

Treating someone as a perpetual foreigner ("alien in own land") negates their experiential reality, which makes it a microinvalidation.

In Cross's Nigrescence model, which stage involves deep involvement in Black culture along with a rejection of White culture?

Answer: Immersion-Emersion

Immersion-Emersion is marked by intense focus on Black identity and withdrawal from White culture.

In Helms's White Racial Identity model, a person who intellectually accepts racism as real but still expects people of color to explain it is most likely in which status?

Answer: Pseudo-independence

Pseudo-independence involves intellectual acceptance of racism while still looking to people of color to resolve it.

A Mexican immigrant client keeps strong ties to her heritage culture while also taking part in mainstream U.S. culture. In Berry's model, this acculturation strategy is called:

Answer: Integration

Integration means keeping one's heritage culture while also adopting the host culture.

In Hays's ADDRESSING model of cultural influences, the letter "I" stands for:

Answer: Indigenous heritage

The "I" in ADDRESSING stands for Indigenous heritage, listed next to National origin and Gender.

A researcher studies depression only through concepts and expressions that are unique to one cultural group. This approach is best described as:

Answer: Emic

An emic approach studies behavior from inside a specific culture, using that culture's own concepts.