Chapter 9: Culturally Responsive Strengths-Based Therapy for American Indians and Alaska Natives

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. What term should clinicians use to describe the American Indian population?

A. Native Americans

B. American Indians

C. First Nationals people

D. Clinician should ask the client what term they prefer.

Learning Objective: 9-1: Describe the demographics and population statistics of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Defining Group Membership

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. What term is used to describe the legacy of social and cultural suffering related to harmful practices and policies that the U.S. government has imposed on Native American communities?

A. historical maltreatment

B. contextual trauma

C. historical trauma

D. generational trauma

Learning Objective: 9-2: Evaluate the theory of historical trauma among American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evaluate the theory of Historical Trauma Among American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. According to researchers, what has served as a protective factor or buffer against historical trauma for Native Americans?

A. culture and cultural recovery

B. family

C. friends

D. U.S. policy changes

Learning Objective: 9-2: Evaluate the theory of historical trauma among American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Evaluate the theory of Historical Trauma Among American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Which of the following racial or ethnic groups the least understood in the United States?

A. Hispanic and Latino or Latina Americans

B. Asian Americans

C. African Americans

D. Native Americans

Learning Objective: 9-3: Analyze ethnic/racial stereotypes and microaggressions against American Indians.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Ethnic/Racial Stereotypes, Racism, and Microaggressions

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the family structure of American Indians?

A. Children should be “seen and not heard.”

B. All families are patriarchal.

C. Tribe is considered family.

D. Majority of families are considered nuclear.

Learning Objective: 9-4: Explain the worldview of American Indians and the tribe as family.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Family Structure: The Tribe as Family

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. The four basic categories of American Indian cultures are ______.

A. traditional, acculturated, bicultural, and marginalized

B. traditional, acculturated, assimilated, and marginalized

C. naturalized, bicultural, multicultural, and privileged

D. naturalized, assimilated, multicultural, and privileged

Learning Objective: 9-4: Explain the worldview of American Indians and the tribe as family.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Identity

Difficulty Level: Hard

7. The emphasis “on being, instead of becoming” is consistent with what American Indian cultural value?

A. generosity

B. acceptance

C. harmony and balance

D. time orientation

Learning Objective: 9-5: Identify the cultural values associated with American Indians, including sharing and generosity, time orientation, spirituality, noninterference, and communication style.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Time Orientation

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Third grade Josh is in a mostly Caucasian class in an urban elementary school. Josh and four of his classmates identify as American Indian. When Josh’s teacher calls on him to answer a math question he doesn’t know the answer to, his four other classmates also respond that they do not know the answer either. What cultural value are Josh’s classmates demonstrating?

A. cooperation and harmony

B. competitiveness

C. noninterference

D. sharing and generosity

Learning Objective: 9-5: Identify the cultural values associated with American Indians, including sharing and generosity, time orientation, spirituality, noninterference, and communication style.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Cooperation and Harmony

Difficulty Level: Hard

9. What is one of the major strengths of American Indian cultures?

A. family

B. resilience

C. informal resources available to help with family problems

D. communication style

Learning Objective: 9-6: Enumerate the cultural strengths of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Cultural Strengths

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. A ______ is a circle that illustrates the balance between natural and personal powers to show that everything in life is interconnected.

A. medicine wheel

B. talking circle

C. circle of courage

D. nature wheel

Learning Objective: 9-8: Implement counseling approaches for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Healing: The Circle and Medicine Wheel in Indian Life

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Approximately 50% of the Native American population resides in urban areas.

Learning Objective: 9-1: Describe the demographics and population statistics of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Demographics and Population Statistics

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Similar to the other major culturally diverse racial groups in the United States, American Indians do not have a legal definition of race.

Learning Objective: 9-1: Describe the demographics and population statistics of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Who is an “Authentic” or “Real Indian”?

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. In many American Indian tribes, there is no word for religion.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Identify the cultural values associated with American Indians, including sharing and generosity, time orientation, spirituality, noninterference, and communication style.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Spirituality

Difficulty Level: Medium

Short Answer

1. Why is it important to understand the demographic information about American Indians and Alaska Natives?

Learning Objective: 9-1: Describe the demographics and population statistics of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Demographics and Population Statistics

Difficulty Level: Hard

2. Compare and contrast American Indian and White American worldviews. List at least five examples.

Learning Objective: 9-4: Explain the worldview of American Indians and the tribe as family.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Worldview

Difficulty Level: Hard

3. List the American Indian values that are similar across tribal nations.

Learning Objective: 9-5: Identify the cultural values associated with American Indians, including sharing and generosity, time orientation, spirituality, noninterference, and communication style.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Values

Difficulty Level: Medium