MC EXAM AND ANSWERS HIGHLY
VERIFIED 2024-2025 GRADED A+
What are the three types of resistance? (correct answer) Cognitive, emotional, and
behavioral
Cognitive resistance (correct answer) People from the majority provide alternative
reasons/excuses to explain experiences of racism, oppression or discrimination.
Emotional resistance (correct answer) Emotions/feelings such as anger, guilt, fear,
defensiveness, anxiety, or helplessness that block self-exploration.
Behavioral resistance (correct answer) Paralysis or inaction fro the majority group in
the presence of discrimination.
White psychologists avoid topics of race because... (correct answer) open dialogue
might reveal *unpleasant secrets about themselves, avoiding racial topics are strategies
to hold on to one's self-image as good, moral and decent.*
Becoming culturally competent in mental health practice demands... (correct answer)
Self-exploration and understanding of deep emotions related to race, culture, gender,
SES etc. that need to be openly discussed and experiences.
Dealing with these emotions can enhance or impede understanding of diversity; a
lifelong process.
Cultural competence (correct answer) Requires a trainee to become aware of their
worldviews, their assumptions of human behavior, their misinformation and lack of
knowledge, and their biases and prejudices
To understand the history of oppression experienced by marginalized groups in our
society
Sociodemographic/cultural diversity (correct answer) differences in race, ethnicity,
gender, sexual orientation, disability, religious orientation.
People's attitudes, values and beliefs that affect how they think, define themselves,
make decisions and behave. (correct answer) Worldview
Emotional invalidation (correct answer) When a person's thoughts/feelings are rejected,
ignored or judged... particularly hard for someone who is emotionally sensitive...
disrupts relationships and creates distance.
, Emotional dissonance (correct answer) Conflict between experienced and expressed
emotions in order to conform to display rules.
Emotional isolation (correct answer) One may have a well-functioning social network
but still feels emotionally separated from others. ... usually feel lonely and unable to
relate to others
Emotional affirmation (correct answer) Marginalized people feel their lived experience
of oppression/discrimination has been heard, and acknowledged, and understood and
validated.
Homosapiens share many similarities. Universal to our commonalities are... (correct
answer) Biological and physical similarities
Common life experiences (birth, death, love, sadness)
Self-awareness
Ability to use symbols, such as language
Cultural oppression (correct answer) Western worldview - universality of human
condition - belief that disorders are similar across cultures.
^Fail to recognize experience of marginalized groups, counseling can be inappropriate
to them, resulting in cultural oppression.
Etic (correct answer) Culturally universal - outsider looking in - human beings share
overwhelming commonalities and that the manifestation and *treatment of disorders are
similar across all cultures and societies*
Emic (correct answer) culturally specific - cultural differences must be considered in the
diagnosis and treatment of culturally diverse groups.
Cultural incompetence (correct answer) impose your standards upon culturally diverse
clients without consideration of their cultural differences
Characteristics of cultural incompetence (correct answer) A) Insensitive to the needs of
culturally diverse clients; do not accept, respect, and understand cultural differences.
B) Minorities complain that they feel abuse, intimidated, and harassed by nonminority
personnel.
C) Discriminatory practices in mental health delivery systems reflected in biased
diagnoses and treatment
D) Mental health professionals continue to be trained in programs in which the issues of
ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientations are ignored, regarded as deficiencies,
portrayed in stereotypic ways
The basic building blocks of cultural competence in clinical practice/competencies
necessary (correct answer) awareness (of ones own assumptions), knowledge of other
worldview of diverse clients, and skills (culturally relevant strategies and techniques)
VERIFIED 2024-2025 GRADED A+
What are the three types of resistance? (correct answer) Cognitive, emotional, and
behavioral
Cognitive resistance (correct answer) People from the majority provide alternative
reasons/excuses to explain experiences of racism, oppression or discrimination.
Emotional resistance (correct answer) Emotions/feelings such as anger, guilt, fear,
defensiveness, anxiety, or helplessness that block self-exploration.
Behavioral resistance (correct answer) Paralysis or inaction fro the majority group in
the presence of discrimination.
White psychologists avoid topics of race because... (correct answer) open dialogue
might reveal *unpleasant secrets about themselves, avoiding racial topics are strategies
to hold on to one's self-image as good, moral and decent.*
Becoming culturally competent in mental health practice demands... (correct answer)
Self-exploration and understanding of deep emotions related to race, culture, gender,
SES etc. that need to be openly discussed and experiences.
Dealing with these emotions can enhance or impede understanding of diversity; a
lifelong process.
Cultural competence (correct answer) Requires a trainee to become aware of their
worldviews, their assumptions of human behavior, their misinformation and lack of
knowledge, and their biases and prejudices
To understand the history of oppression experienced by marginalized groups in our
society
Sociodemographic/cultural diversity (correct answer) differences in race, ethnicity,
gender, sexual orientation, disability, religious orientation.
People's attitudes, values and beliefs that affect how they think, define themselves,
make decisions and behave. (correct answer) Worldview
Emotional invalidation (correct answer) When a person's thoughts/feelings are rejected,
ignored or judged... particularly hard for someone who is emotionally sensitive...
disrupts relationships and creates distance.
, Emotional dissonance (correct answer) Conflict between experienced and expressed
emotions in order to conform to display rules.
Emotional isolation (correct answer) One may have a well-functioning social network
but still feels emotionally separated from others. ... usually feel lonely and unable to
relate to others
Emotional affirmation (correct answer) Marginalized people feel their lived experience
of oppression/discrimination has been heard, and acknowledged, and understood and
validated.
Homosapiens share many similarities. Universal to our commonalities are... (correct
answer) Biological and physical similarities
Common life experiences (birth, death, love, sadness)
Self-awareness
Ability to use symbols, such as language
Cultural oppression (correct answer) Western worldview - universality of human
condition - belief that disorders are similar across cultures.
^Fail to recognize experience of marginalized groups, counseling can be inappropriate
to them, resulting in cultural oppression.
Etic (correct answer) Culturally universal - outsider looking in - human beings share
overwhelming commonalities and that the manifestation and *treatment of disorders are
similar across all cultures and societies*
Emic (correct answer) culturally specific - cultural differences must be considered in the
diagnosis and treatment of culturally diverse groups.
Cultural incompetence (correct answer) impose your standards upon culturally diverse
clients without consideration of their cultural differences
Characteristics of cultural incompetence (correct answer) A) Insensitive to the needs of
culturally diverse clients; do not accept, respect, and understand cultural differences.
B) Minorities complain that they feel abuse, intimidated, and harassed by nonminority
personnel.
C) Discriminatory practices in mental health delivery systems reflected in biased
diagnoses and treatment
D) Mental health professionals continue to be trained in programs in which the issues of
ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientations are ignored, regarded as deficiencies,
portrayed in stereotypic ways
The basic building blocks of cultural competence in clinical practice/competencies
necessary (correct answer) awareness (of ones own assumptions), knowledge of other
worldview of diverse clients, and skills (culturally relevant strategies and techniques)
