Family Counseling & Diversity Test Questions & Answers Ch.21

Chapter 21. Family Counseling and Therapy With Diverse Ethnocultural Groups

1. The ___________, as traditionally defined, consists of a heterosexual couple with their children living in the same household.

a. Nuclear family

b. Single family

c. Extended family

d. Blended family

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: What Is the Family?

Question type: MC

2. More than __________ American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are recognized by the federal government.

a. 565

b. 623

c. 689

d. 725

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: American Indian/Alaska Native Families

Question type: MC

3. In counseling Native American and Alaska Native families, it is critical for mental health professionals to assume a position of

a. Cultural healer

b. Cultural expert

c. Cultural humility

d. Cultural teacher

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: American Indian/Alaska Native Families

Question type: MC

4. According to the 2010 census, ________ million persons identify as Asian American.

a. 10.4

b. 12.8

c. 15.2

d. 17.3

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Asian American Families

Question type: MC

5. The primary Asian groups in the United States include all of the following EXCEPT

a. Chinese Americans

b. Japanese Americans

c. Korean Americans

d. Indonesia Americans

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Asian American Families

Question type: MC

6. ________ is defined as a group of persons consisting of parents and their children, whether or not they actually live together as a unit, based on affinity or blood relations.

a. Family

b. Relatives

c. Kin

d. Clan

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: What is the Family?

Question type: MC

7. Today, there are_______ million African American households.

a. 5.3

b. 6.8

c. 9.4

d. 11.2

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: African American Families

Question type: MC

8. Latinos constitute the largest ethnocultural group in the United States, representing ______of the total population.

a. 14%

b. 16%

c. 18%

d. 20%

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Latino Families

Question type: MC

9. Approximately___________ million Africans were enslaved in the United States before slavery was abolished.

a. 10

b. 15

c. 20

d. 25

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: African American Families

Question type: MC

10. In the 2010 U.S. census, ______ million persons identified as American Indian/Alaska Native, either alone or in combination with one or more other races.

a. 5.2

b. 15.2

c. 21.6

d. 24.5

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: American Indian/Alaska Native Families

Question type: MC

11. Persons identifying as African American alone or in combination with one or more other racial or ethnic groups represent _______of the U.S. population.

a. 8%

b. 10%

c. 14%

d. 16%

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: African American Families

Question type: MC

12. The concept of cultural competence includes all of the following EXCEPT

a. Skill

b. Knowledge

c. Awareness

d. Service

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Cultural Sensitivity, Competence, and Humility

Question type: MC

13. ____________ in therapy consists of understanding the client’s cultural values, beliefs, and language preferences, which may include providing or facilitating services outside the therapy.

a. Cultural practice

b. Cultural sensitivity

c. Cultural sympathy

d. Cultural kindness

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Cultural Sensitivity, Competence, and Humility

Question type: MC

14. Contemporary psychotherapy and counseling practices have harmed the members of ethnocultural groups in all the following ways EXCEPT

a. Invalidating their life experiences

b. Defining their cultural values or differences as deviant and pathological

c. Denying them culturally appropriate care

d. Imposing client values on the members of the dominant culture

Cognitive domain: Analysis

Answer location: Multiculturalism and Families

Question type: MC

15. The peace and prosperity that characterized the 1950s led scholars to call it ________ .

a. “The golden age of industrialization.”

b. “The golden age of the prosperity.”

c. “The golden age of the family.”

d. “The golden age of boomers.”

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Changes in the Family Over Time

Question type: MC

16. _____________ is now considered the fourth force in psychology.

a. Ethics

b. The client

c. Multiculturalism

d. Evidence based practice

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Multiculturalism and Families

Question type: MC

17. According to this model, interdependence, independence, and emotional interdependence are the three contextual patterns of family that explain variations in family functions in diverse socioeconomic status (SES) groups.

a. The patriarchal authority model

b. Ecocultural theory

c. The collectivist developmental model

d. The contextual developmental model

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Changes in the Family Over Time

Question type: MC

18. The onset of _______further increased labor market participation by women, as many were drawn into the workforce to replace the men who went off to war.

a. The Civil War

b. World War I

c. World War II

d. Vietnam War

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Changes in the Family Over Time

Question type: MC

19. The rise of _________ displaced thousands of agricultural workers, thereby creating family based cottage systems of industry that drew on the labor of the entire family.

a. Multinationals

b Federalization

c. Capitalism

d. Industrialization

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Changes in the Family Over Time

Question type: MC

20. The expansion of _________ across the world sparked a process of modernization.

a. Communism

b. Capitalism

c. Human rights

d. Socialism

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Changes in the Family Over Time

Question type: MC

21. Engels (1884/1972) defined the family as a social institution that is changing and certainly not eternal or fixed in time.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: What is the Family?

Question type: TF

22. Members of ethnocultural groups from more agricultural and lower­SES countries are more likely to conceive of the family as nuclear than as extended.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Changes in the Family Over Time

Question type: TF

23. With industrialization, nearly all of the tasks and functions once provided by the family are now offered by other social institutions.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Is Love All We Need . . . in Families?

Question type: TF

24. People in all cultures hold exclusive, unique, and distinctive values, customs, traditions, languages, beliefs, and consequent behaviors.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Cultural Sensitivity, Competence, and Humility

Question type: TF

25. Counselors’ responsibility as clinicians entails learning more about their own cultural and ethnic backgrounds as well as those of their clients.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Cultural Sensitivity, Competence, and Humility

Question type: TF

26. American Indian families are a homogeneous community.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: American Indian/Alaska Native Families

Question type: TF

27. The family is a central unit to American Indians, but family values vary depending on tribal and regional differences.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: American Indian/Alaska Native Families

Question type: TF

28. The notion of the family as nuclear was in part supported by changes in capitalism, technology, innovation, and acceptance of modern values.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: Changes in the Family Over Time

Question type: TF

29. African American families tend to embrace the nuclear family system rather than an extended kinship system.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Comprehension

Answer location: African American Families

Question type: TF

30. Individuals who self­identify as Asian American or part Asian American constitute the slowest growing ethnocultural group in the U.S.

a. True

b. False

Cognitive domain: Knowledge

Answer location: Asian American Families

Question type: TF

31. What should counselors take into consideration when working with American Indian/Alaska Native families?

a. In counseling Native American and Alaska Native families, it is critical for mental health professionals to assume a position of cultural humility. Additionally, the approach to counseling Native Americans needs to be grounded in a basic knowledge of the legacy that may be affecting these families. Basic knowledge of Native Americans’ histories, cultures, languages, values, lifeways, pathways, and changing contexts is fundamental. This knowledge must be fluid; if it is static, the counselor runs the risk of stereotyping.

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: American Indian/Alaska Native Families

Question type: ESS

32. What should counselors take into consideration when working with Asian American families?

a. (Hwang (2012) has proposed integrating top­down and bottom­up approaches in adapting EBTs for Asian American studies. He advocates using cultural adaptations that integrate the pertinent cultural backgrounds of individual clients to improve outcomes, such as addressing issues of immigration, acculturative stress, language limitations, and disconnections from friends and family members. In addition, it is helpful for counselors to maintain a balance between dynamic sizing and knowledge of the legacies and cultural contexts of the members of this highly diverse group.

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Asian American Families

Question type: ESS

33. What should counselors take into consideration when working with Latino families?

a. It is important for counselors to understand the differences and similarities among Latino families. What are family members’ stories and experiences of migration if they are recent immigrants? What are their language preferences? With immigrant families, the younger generations often prefer to speak in English while the parents tend to be more comfortable in Spanish. One key assessment issue involves exploring the family and extended family resources available to the family members. Where are potential sources of support? Is the family relatively isolated? Depending on the geographic area, there may or may not be Latino communities nearby that can be sources of support and offer a sense of community.

Cognitive domain: Application

Answer location: Latino Families

Question type: ESS