Cultural Competency and Diversity Flashcards
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When an LCSW's personal cultural values conflict with a client's beliefs or practices, the MOST ethical response is:
Answer: Engage in self-reflection and supervision to prevent personal values from negatively influencing treatment
Ethical practice requires self-awareness and supervision to ensure personal values do not compromise professional obligations to client welfare.
A culturally competent intake assessment for a recently immigrated Asian American client should include evaluation of:
Answer: Acculturation level, immigration stressors, family system expectations, and cultural explanations of distress
Comprehensive assessment of immigrant clients includes acculturation, trauma, cultural norms, family dynamics, and culturally specific expressions of distress.
The DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) is designed to:
Answer: Gather information about a client's cultural context, explanatory models, and identity to inform diagnosis and treatment
The CFI uses a structured interview format to explore the client's cultural perspective on illness, help-seeking, and identity to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment relevance.
An LCSW notices they feel more empathy toward clients from their own cultural background. This is an example of which concept?
Answer: Countertransference influenced by cultural factors
Countertransference includes the clinician's emotional reactions to clients, and cultural similarity can trigger unconscious preferences that affect clinical objectivity.
The ADDRESSING framework in multicultural practice helps clinicians assess which dimensions of client identity?
Answer: Age, Disability, Religion, Ethnicity, Social status, Sexual orientation, Indigenous heritage, National origin, and Gender
The ADDRESSING model by Pamela Hays provides a framework for exploring key cultural identity dimensions including Age, Developmental Disabilities, Religion, Ethnicity, Social status, Sexual orientation, Indigenous heritage, National origin, and Gender.
Disparities in mental health service utilization among racial and ethnic minorities in the US are MOST often attributed to:
Answer: Structural barriers including cost, geographic access, and systemic distrust combined with culturally incompetent services
Research consistently identifies structural barriers and systemic distrust — rooted in historical mistreatment — as primary drivers of mental health disparities, not lower need.