Multicultural Counseling and Diversity Flashcards
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A college student from a collectivist background says she cannot pick a major without her parents' approval. The most culturally responsive counselor response is to:
Answer: Explore how family input fits into her decision-making process
Respecting collectivist values means working family input into the decision instead of pathologizing it.
Wrenn (1962) used which term for counselors who substitute their own cultural assumptions for reality and ignore cultural differences?
Answer: Cultural encapsulation
Wrenn's culturally encapsulated counselor is shut inside a single cultural worldview.
In the Racial/Cultural Identity Development model (Atkinson, Morten, and Sue), the first stage is marked by preference for dominant-culture values and depreciation of one's own group. This stage is:
Answer: Conformity
Conformity is the first stage, in which the person prefers dominant-culture values and devalues their own group.
In Cass's model of homosexual identity formation, the first stage, in which a person begins to wonder whether they might be gay, is called:
Answer: Identity confusion
Cass's model starts with identity confusion, when a person first questions their sexual orientation.
A counselor openly invites a client to talk about how race may affect the presenting concern and the counseling relationship. Day-Vines and colleagues call this practice:
Answer: Broaching
Broaching means the counselor deliberately starts a discussion of racial and cultural factors in counseling.
Which of the following is NOT one of the four developmental domains in the 2015 Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC)?
Answer: Diagnostic formulation
The MSJCC domains are counselor self-awareness, client worldview, the counseling relationship, and counseling and advocacy interventions.
An African American client is guarded with a White counselor because of past experiences of racism. Grier and Cobbs described this adaptive response as:
Answer: Healthy cultural paranoia
Grier and Cobbs (1968) framed this protective suspicion as healthy cultural paranoia, not pathology.