DCJS Final Exam with Verified
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What might be some characteristics of cultural incompetence? - ✔✔Insensitivity to needs of
culturally diverse clients.
Demonstrate arrogant or contemptuous attitudes.
Have little understanding of their own cultural
biases and prejudices.
Do not accept or respect cultural differences.
Discriminatory practices.
Marginalized group members often sense _______________ from the dominant culture? -
✔✔Emotional invalidation
Labeling clients as resistant because they do not make eye contact during a counseling session
might be an example of? - ✔✔Cultural encapsulation
The Latin expression "ataque de nervios," or attack of the nerves, is basically the same as the
American expression of a panic attack and should be treated similarly? - ✔✔True
A holistic approach to personal identity demands that we recognize levels of identity to
include? - ✔✔Individual, Group and Universal
When counselors unwittingly impose monocultural standards without regard for differences in
race, culture, gender and sexual orientation, they may be engaging in? - ✔✔Cultural oppression
Some researchers have argued that minority-group individuals underutilize and prematurely
terminate counseling/therapy because? - ✔✔Of the biased nature of the services themselves.
, Cultural humility is described as which of the following? - ✔✔A way of being
An active philosophy and approach aimed at reducing or eliminating disparities in education,
health care, employment and other areas that lower the quality of life for affected populations
is called? - ✔✔Social justice
According to the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC),
multiculturalism leads to ________________ initiatives and actions? - ✔✔Social justice
__________ is NOT a component of the tripartite model of multicultural counseling
competence? - ✔✔Relationship
Microaggressions are best described as? - ✔✔The everyday slights, put-downs, invalidations
and insults directed toward a group.
The term _________________is the ability to engage in actions or create conditions that
maximize the optimal development of client and client systems. - ✔✔Cultural competence
A culturally universal perspective, meaning that concepts can be considered universal and
equally applicable across cultures is called? - ✔✔Etic
Identify the competency that is not part of competent multicultural counseling? - ✔✔Being
"color blind" and diminishing the effect of culture.
The basic building blocks of cultural competence in clinical practice are ______________,
_______________ and _______________? - ✔✔Knowledge, Skills and Awareness
Feelings of being brainwashed by the forces of White society would most likely be found in
what stage of the racial/cultural identity developmental model? - ✔✔Resistance and Immersion
Stage
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What might be some characteristics of cultural incompetence? - ✔✔Insensitivity to needs of
culturally diverse clients.
Demonstrate arrogant or contemptuous attitudes.
Have little understanding of their own cultural
biases and prejudices.
Do not accept or respect cultural differences.
Discriminatory practices.
Marginalized group members often sense _______________ from the dominant culture? -
✔✔Emotional invalidation
Labeling clients as resistant because they do not make eye contact during a counseling session
might be an example of? - ✔✔Cultural encapsulation
The Latin expression "ataque de nervios," or attack of the nerves, is basically the same as the
American expression of a panic attack and should be treated similarly? - ✔✔True
A holistic approach to personal identity demands that we recognize levels of identity to
include? - ✔✔Individual, Group and Universal
When counselors unwittingly impose monocultural standards without regard for differences in
race, culture, gender and sexual orientation, they may be engaging in? - ✔✔Cultural oppression
Some researchers have argued that minority-group individuals underutilize and prematurely
terminate counseling/therapy because? - ✔✔Of the biased nature of the services themselves.
, Cultural humility is described as which of the following? - ✔✔A way of being
An active philosophy and approach aimed at reducing or eliminating disparities in education,
health care, employment and other areas that lower the quality of life for affected populations
is called? - ✔✔Social justice
According to the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC),
multiculturalism leads to ________________ initiatives and actions? - ✔✔Social justice
__________ is NOT a component of the tripartite model of multicultural counseling
competence? - ✔✔Relationship
Microaggressions are best described as? - ✔✔The everyday slights, put-downs, invalidations
and insults directed toward a group.
The term _________________is the ability to engage in actions or create conditions that
maximize the optimal development of client and client systems. - ✔✔Cultural competence
A culturally universal perspective, meaning that concepts can be considered universal and
equally applicable across cultures is called? - ✔✔Etic
Identify the competency that is not part of competent multicultural counseling? - ✔✔Being
"color blind" and diminishing the effect of culture.
The basic building blocks of cultural competence in clinical practice are ______________,
_______________ and _______________? - ✔✔Knowledge, Skills and Awareness
Feelings of being brainwashed by the forces of White society would most likely be found in
what stage of the racial/cultural identity developmental model? - ✔✔Resistance and Immersion
Stage
