Multicultural Counseling Exam 1 Questions and Answers

Multicultural Counseling Exam 1 Questions and Answers microaggressions - CORRECT ️️ everyday slights, put-downs, invalidations, and insults directed to socially devalued group members by well-intentioned people who often are unaware that they have engaged in such biased and harmful behaviors resistance - CORRECT ️️ client behaviors that obstruct the therapeutic process or sabotage positive change by changing the topic, externalizing blame, failing to acknowledge strong feelings of anger, or being chronically late for counseling appointments worldview - CORRECT ️️ a person's assumptions of human behavior, his or her misinformation and lack of knowledge, and, most importantly, his or her biases and prejudices 3 forms of resistance - CORRECT ️️ cognitive emotional behavioral cognitive resistance - CORRECT ️️ a pattern of entertaining alternative explanations to the stories told by persons of color about their experiences of prejudice and discrimination (DENIAL) examples of cognitive resistance - CORRECT ️️ disbelief, unwillingness to consider alternative scenarios, distortion, fabrication, and rationalizations emotional resistance - CORRECT ️️ a defensive maneuver that entails emotions such as guilt, anger, defensiveness, or helplessness that blocks self-exploration