Counseling Arab And Muslim Clients Full Test Bank Chapter 9

Chapter 9. Counseling Arab and Muslim Clients

1. The following represent tenets of Islam shared by all Islamic groups (Dwairy, 2006), EXCEPT

a. Shahada: The profession of faith

b. Sahak: Praying seven times a day

c. Haj: The pilgrimage to Mecca

d. Zakah: A tax that is devoted to providing financial help to the poor

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: MC

2. Which of the following represent(s) polarized societal options open to individuals of Arab and Muslim worlds?

a. To be submissive to gain self-fulfillment

b. To relinquish collective support for self-fulfillment

c. To mix self-fulfillment and collective support

d. To relinquish both self-fulfillment and collective support

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Authoritarian and Collective Culture

Question type: MC

3. Freud (1900, 1940/1964) indicated that after their _____ year of life, children already possess an almost independent personality structure.

a. First

b. Fifth

c. Twelfth

d. Fifteenth

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Psychosocial Development

Question type: MC

4. Choose the item that best reflects the parenting style often adopted by Arab parents.

a. Authoritarian parenting

b. Authoritative parenting

c. Uninvolved

d. Permissive

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Psychosocial Development

Question type: MC

5. When ego identity of Arab-Palestinian adolescents was tested, it was found to be more _____ and _____ than that of American youth.

a. In moratorium, achieved

b. Achieved, foreclosed

c. Foreclosed, diffused

d. Diffused, in moratorium

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Psychosocial Development

Question type: MC

6. In collective societies, personality is conceptualized as focused on the following, EXCEPT

a. Norms

b. Values

c. Familial authority

d. Drives

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Personality

Question type: MC

7. Which of the following represent(s) factors that best explain and predict Arab/Muslim behaviors?

a. Individuation

b. Ego

c. Intelligence

d. Marital status

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Personality

Question type: MC

8. Manifestations of depression among Arabs/Muslims often include

a. Sad feelings

b. Somatic complaints

c. Feelings of hopelessness

d. Feelings of helplessness

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Psychopathology

Question type: MC

9. The following is true of typical psychotic disorder among Arabs/Muslims EXCEPT

a. Often recovered from within a year

b. Polymorphic

c. Acute

d. Precipitated by personal distress

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Psychopathology

Question type: MC

10. Before any therapy with Arabs/Muslims takes place, the client's levels of which of the following should assessed?

a. Ego strength

b. Self-actualization

c. Spirituality

d. Intelligence

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: The Beginning Phase

Question type: MC

11. Counselors are often encouraged to use which of the following when addressing the problems of Arab/Muslim clients?

a. Psychoanalysis

b. REBT

c. Metaphors

d. CBT

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Indirect Therapies

Question type: MC

12. ________ best represents the analysis of client belief systems and the bringing of contradicting aspects to consciousness.

a. Psychoanalysis

b. Culturanalysis

c. Metaphor therapy

d. REBT

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Culturanalysis

Question type: MC

13. The ________ provides directives according to which an individual’s personal, familial, social, economic, and political life must be led.

a. Hijab

b. Shari’aa

c. Salah

d. Hajj

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: MC

14. Among Islamic countries today, only _______ and ______ enforce the veiling of women.

a. Sudan; Libya

b. Egypt; Turkey

c. Syria; Lebanon

d. Saudi Arabia; Iran

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: MC

15 In countries such as __________ and ________, state laws prohibit the veiling of women.

a. Sudan; Libya

b. Tunisia; Turkey

c. Syria; Lebanon

d. Saudi Arabia; Egypt

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: MC

16. ___________ refers to fasting in the holy month of Ramadan.

a. Hijab

b. Siyam

c. Salah

d. Hajj

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: MC

17. Muslims today number about _______people worldwide.

a. 42.5 million

b. 80 million

c. 1.3 billion

d. 2.6 billion

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: MC

18. The ___________ language and history remain central to Muslims.

a. Farsi

b. Arabic

c. Sunni

d. Shia

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: MC

19. The word Islam means

a. Special

b. Chosen

c. God’s people

d. Submission

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: MC

20. Estimates of the population of Arab Americans residing in the United States range from

a. 1.7 million to 5.1 million

b. 8.3 million to 12.6 million

c. 21.7 million to 25.2 million

d. 26.3 million to 30.1 million

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab Americans

Question type: MC

21. Arab/Muslim clients are less autonomous than Western clients.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Authoritarian and Collective Culture

Question type: TF

22. Arab/Muslim clients give a collective meaning to words such as self-actualization.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Counseling Arab and Muslim Clients

Question type: TF

23. Islam is characterized in part by a fundamental tenet requiring prayer nine times daily.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: TF

24. Haj represents the pilgrimage to Mecca, one of the five fundamental tenets of Islam.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: TF

25. Arabs/Muslims may be divided into authoritarian/individualists, mixed, and collectivistic.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Authoritarian and Collective Culture

Question type: TF

26. Arabs/Muslims often have dependent personality disorder.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Psychosocial Development

Question type: TF

27. In societies that adopt authoritarian parenting styles, it is expected that Arab adolescents may act out, become self-centered, or engage in nonconformist behavior, as a result of normal teenage rebellion.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Psychosocial Development

Question type: TF

28. Some studies indicate that Arab children and youth are satisfied with authoritarian parenting.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Psychosocial Development

Question type: TF

29. The main dynamic in the personal life of the Arab Muslim individual is in the interpersonal or intrafamilial domain rather than the intra-psychic.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Personality

Question type: TF

30. Many Arabs/Muslims may at times consider dreams and visions to be the true reality rather than the physical one.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Psychopathology

Question type: TF

31. Identify one of the five fundamental tenets of Islam and explain it.

a. (1) Shahada: The profession of faith, (2) Siyam: Fasting in the holy month of Ramadan, (3) Salah: Prayer five times a day, (4) Zakah: A tax devoted to providing financial help to the poor, (5) Hajj: The pilgrimage to Mecca

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Arab and Muslim History, Culture, and Religion

Question type: SA

32. Compare and contrast the conceptualization of personality in the West with that in Arab/Muslim countries.

a. Most personality theories in the West assume an intra-psychic construct (ego, self, trait, drives) and processes (conflicts, repression, self-actualization) according to which behavior is explained. In contrast, in Arab Muslim societies, personality continues to be other-focused. In these societies, the concept of personality goes beyond the intra-psychic constructs and processes and focuses on the social layer, because the intra-psychic structures are dependent on the external, social layer of personality.

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Personality

Question type: ESS

33. What style of parenting is typical to Arab families, and what perception of this style do Arab children express?

a. Authoritarian parenting style. Some studies indicate that Arab children and youth are satisfied with authoritarian parenting.

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Psychosocial Development

Question type: SA