Chapter 1: Culturally Responsive Strengths-Based Therapy: The Journey

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Culture shapes and influences how one views the world. This is what researchers call ______.

A. multiculturalism

B. implicit bias

C. worldview

D. diversity

Learning Objective: 1-7: Understand how your own cultural background and family experiences have influenced your cultural worldview and outlook.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: The Profound Influence of Culture
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 1 focus on?

A. ethnic/racial minority groups

B. gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities

C. immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers

D. multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research

Learning Objective: 1-1: Contextualize the multicultural movement in the helping professions.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Multiculturalism
Difficulty Level: Medium

3. The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 2 focus on?

A. ethnic/racial minority groups

B. gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities

C. immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers

D. multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research

Learning Objective: 1-1: Contextualize the multicultural movement in the helping professions.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Multiculturalism
Difficulty Level: Medium

4. The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 3 focus on?

A. ethnic/racial minority groups

B. gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities

C. immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers

D. multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research

Learning Objective: 1-1: Contextualize the multicultural movement in the helping professions.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Multiculturalism
Difficulty Level: Medium

5. The basic competencies for culturally responsive counseling can be grouped into all of the following categories EXCEPT ______.

A. awareness

B. attitudes

C. biases

D. skills

Learning Objective: 1-2: List and define several key concepts in cultural counseling.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Mastering the Multicultural Counseling Competencies
Difficulty Level: Medium

6. ______ is used to describe a therapist that lacks understanding of a client’s culture and the influence of the client and counselor’s culture on the therapeutic relationship.

A. Cultural encapsulation

B. Cultural ignorance

C. Cultural deficit

D. Cultural worldview

Learning Objective: 1-6: Utilize the clinical skills of cultural awareness, cultural humility, and cultural empathy. | 1-7: Understand how your own cultural background and family experiences have influenced your cultural worldview and outlook.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Cultural Encapsulation: Barrier to Cultural Competence
Difficulty Level: Medium

7. Viewing American Whiteness as the standard, believing that anyone can achieve the American dream if they try hard enough, and conceptualizing pathology as located within the individual rather than within the larger environmental context are examples of ______.

A. monoculturalism

B. cultural encapsulation

C. ethnocentrism

D. cultural relativism

Learning Objective: 1-6: Utilize the clinical skills of cultural awareness, cultural humility, and cultural empathy. | 1-7: Understand how your own cultural background and family experiences have influenced your cultural worldview and outlook.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
Difficulty Level: Hard

8. Dr. Lois, a White female counselor, is greeting a new patient in her office. Her patient, Ms. Clark, a middle-aged African American female, described that she was coming to counseling because she was struggling with being a single parent to her three children. Unlike her other clients, Dr. Lois did not ask when or how she became a single parent, but rather began counseling her in a solution-focused way. When she learned that Ms. Clark’s husband, and father to the three children, was killed in a car accident on his way home from work, Dr. Lois reconsidered her treatment plan. Dr. Lois’ lack of assessment, which led to a less effective treatment approach for Ms. Clark, is an example of ______.

A. explicit bias

B. implicit bias

C. monoculturalism

D. lack of cultural awareness

Learning Objective: 1-4: Evaluate whether there is a new paradigm of implicit and explicit racial bias that will influence multicultural competence and training.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Implicit Bias
Difficulty Level: Hard

9. What is the IAT?

A. a multicultural competence treatment modality for minority clients

B. a multicultural competence assessment for counselors

C. a test designed to reveal conscious attitudes

D. a test designed to reveal unconscious attitudes

Learning Objective: 1-4: Evaluate whether there is a new paradigm of implicit and explicit racial bias that will influence multicultural competence and training.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Implicit and Explicit Bias: A New Paradigm for Cultural Diversity
Difficulty Level: Medium

True/False

1. Culture has the ability to influence and organize the brain.

Learning Objective: 1-3: Explain the role of neuroscience in understanding the cognitive processes that lead to conscious and unconscious racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender bias.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Our Brains Are Culturally Connected
Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Culture is often viewed as the “silent intruder” in the therapeutic relationship.

Learning Objective: 1-1: Contextualize the multicultural movement in the helping professions.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Multiculturalism
Difficulty Level: Medium

3. To achieve cultural competence, a therapist should reach a high level of knowledge of all cultures.

Learning Objective: 1-6: Utilize the clinical skills of cultural awareness, cultural humility, and cultural empathy.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Clinical Skill Development: Cultural Awareness and Knowledge
Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Race and ethnicity are synonymous.

Learning Objective: 1-2: List and define several key concepts in cultural counseling | 1-4: Evaluate whether there is a new paradigm of implicit and explicit racial bias that will influence multicultural competence and training.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Race: A Social Construction
Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Racism lives deep inside our brains.

Learning Objective: 1-3: Explain the role of neuroscience in understanding the cognitive processes that lead to conscious and unconscious racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender bias. | 1-4. Evaluate whether there is a new paradigm of implicit and explicit racial bias that will influence multicultural competence and training.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Neural Prejudice Networks in the Human Brain

Difficulty Level: Easy

Short Answer

1. What is culturally responsive therapy? How does culturally responsive strengths-based therapy (CR-SBT) differ?

Learning Objective: 1-1: Contextualize the multicultural movement in the helping professions.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Culturally Responsive Therapy: A Beginning Definition
Difficulty Level: Hard

2. The text describes five major barriers to cultural competence. List these barriers and give an example of each.

Learning Objective: 1-6: Utilize the clinical skills of cultural awareness, cultural humility, and cultural empathy. | 1-7: Understand how your own cultural background and family experiences have influenced your cultural worldview and outlook.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Major Barriers to Culturally Competent Counseling

Difficulty Level: Hard