DEVELOPING MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING COMPETENCE: UNIT 1
STUDY GUIDE AND EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS | A+ GRADE
Multicultural Counseling
-✔️counseling that integrates cultural identities and takes into account their
influence on the counseling relationship, process, and outcome.
Culture
-✔️Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
Acculturation
- ✔️The changes a minority group or individual undergoes as it encounters the
dominant culture.
Enculturation
- ✔️the process of learning culture of your own group.
biculturalism
- ✔️a process in which individuals identify with both their own culture and that
of the host culture
Cultural Dimensions
- ✔️Three overlapping dimensions may be used to broadly define culture:
- ✔️Universal culture
, DEVELOPING MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING COMPETENCE: UNIT 1
STUDY GUIDE AND EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS | A+ GRADE
- ✔️Group culture
- ✔️Individual culture
Universal Culture
- ✔️Commonalities shared by all cultures and, in fact, all humankind (e.g., use
of language as a method of communication).
Group culture
- ✔️Characteristics shared by a cultural group or subgroup. (e.g., Asian
Americans, females)
Individual Culture
- ✔️Behaviors, attitudes, and cognitions which are unique to individuals. Among
these may be behaviors that are outside the norms of the groups to which the
individuals belong.
Cultural Encapsulation
- ✔️AKA Ethnocentrism. is the narrow and rigid view of the world and other
cultural groups that ensures when one uses one's own cultural groups as a reference
and standard of normality. This attitude could impair a client's well-being lead to
early termination of counseling services, or both.
STUDY GUIDE AND EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS | A+ GRADE
Multicultural Counseling
-✔️counseling that integrates cultural identities and takes into account their
influence on the counseling relationship, process, and outcome.
Culture
-✔️Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
Acculturation
- ✔️The changes a minority group or individual undergoes as it encounters the
dominant culture.
Enculturation
- ✔️the process of learning culture of your own group.
biculturalism
- ✔️a process in which individuals identify with both their own culture and that
of the host culture
Cultural Dimensions
- ✔️Three overlapping dimensions may be used to broadly define culture:
- ✔️Universal culture
, DEVELOPING MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING COMPETENCE: UNIT 1
STUDY GUIDE AND EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS | A+ GRADE
- ✔️Group culture
- ✔️Individual culture
Universal Culture
- ✔️Commonalities shared by all cultures and, in fact, all humankind (e.g., use
of language as a method of communication).
Group culture
- ✔️Characteristics shared by a cultural group or subgroup. (e.g., Asian
Americans, females)
Individual Culture
- ✔️Behaviors, attitudes, and cognitions which are unique to individuals. Among
these may be behaviors that are outside the norms of the groups to which the
individuals belong.
Cultural Encapsulation
- ✔️AKA Ethnocentrism. is the narrow and rigid view of the world and other
cultural groups that ensures when one uses one's own cultural groups as a reference
and standard of normality. This attitude could impair a client's well-being lead to
early termination of counseling services, or both.
