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Chapter 4: Strengths-Based Development, Culture, and Clinical Practice
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. ______ helps a person cope with life or that which makes life more fulfilling for oneself and others.
A. Optimism
B. Protective factor
C. Strength
D. Resilience
Learning Objective: 4-1: Describe the process of strengths development within people and the narrative process that takes place about strengths in the mind.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Definition of Strength
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. What does “use it or lose it” mean?
A. Neural connections and pathways that are frequently activated are retained.
B. A therapist must effectively build strengths for a client, otherwise the client may not return to therapy.
C. An individual’s strengths must be utilized, otherwise they will deteriorate.
D. Once a critical period in a person’s development closes, those neural connections and pathways can never be retrieved.
Learning Objective: 4-1: Describe the process of strengths development within people and the narrative process that takes place about strengths in the mind.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Strengths and the Brain’s Pruning Process
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. The main purpose of the attachment relationship between an infant and caregiver is ______.
A. psychological and physical
B. social and behavioral
C. physical and biological
D. emotional and relational
Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the process of cultural attachment and the relational aspects of strengths development.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Bowlby’s Theory of Attachment: The Foundation for Understanding Individual Strengths Development
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. ______ can be conceptualized as the degree to which an individual has an attachment relationship to the culture in which he or she has been raised.
A. Environmental attachment
B. Community attachment
C. Cultural attachment
D. Parent–child attachment
Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the process of cultural attachment and the relational aspects of strengths development.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Attachment Patterns Across Cultures
Difficulty Level: Easy
5. In what way would the strength perspective be viewed differently by American and Chinese culture?
A. American culture would be more likely to dismiss the strengths perspective, whereas the Chinese culture would accept it.
B. Chinese culture would be more likely to dismiss the strengths perspective, whereas the American culture would accept it.
C. American culture would view individual’s strengths as an individual’s ownership, whereas Chinese culture would view individual’s strengths as a collective group’s ownership.
D. Chinese culture would view individual’s strengths as an individual’s ownership, whereas American culture would view individual’s strengths as a collective group’s ownership.
Learning Objective: 4-3: Discuss Eastern and Western views on human strengths and how each cultural perspective believes strengths should be manifested.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Western and Eastern Views on Human Strengths: The Chinese Perspective
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Carol Dweck maintains that people develop mindsets as they age. What are these two mindsets?
A. fixed; growth
B. positive; negative
C. strengths-focused; deficit-focused
D. open; closed
Learning Objective: 4-4: Explain the differences between a strengths approach to counseling and psychotherapy and a deficit approach.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Cultural Mindsets
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. According to strengths-based therapy (SBT), a strengths mindset is ______ awareness and a deficit mindset is ______ awareness.
A. fixed; growth
B. positive; negative
C. strengths-focused; deficit-focused
D. open; closed
Learning Objective: 4-4: Explain the differences between a strengths approach to counseling and psychotherapy and a deficit approach.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Cultural Mindsets
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Which of the following is considered the mantra for SBT?
A. disregard weaknesses as it only perpetuates negativity
B. teach client strengths reflective of their own culture
C. promote strengths and eliminate weaknesses
D. promote strengths and manage weaknesses that may sabotage strengths
Learning Objective: 4-5: Demonstrate how to implement five general strengths-based themes during counseling.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Helping Clients Manage Weaknesses and Negative Self-Limiting Thoughts
Difficulty Level: Hard
9. What might be different about a culturally responsive interview compared to a traditional interview?
A. The therapist in a culturally responsive interview will be aware of and discuss cultural differences with the client and listen to client statements about culture.
B. The therapist in a culturally responsive interview will be aware of their own culture and discuss these differences with the client to ensure that the client feels comfortable working with the therapist.
C. The therapist in a culturally responsive interview will implement before meeting with the client face to face to ensure that the client feels comfortable and free to share their answers to the client’s questions.
D. There are no differences.
Learning Objective: 4-7: Illustrate how to conduct an initial culturally responsive interview.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Initial Culturally Responsive Interview
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. Strengths are fixed personality traits.
Learning Objective: 4-1: Describe the process of strengths development within people and the narrative process that takes place about strengths in the mind.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Definition of Strength
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Attachment relationship changes an infant’s brain.
Learning Objective: 4-2: Understand the process of cultural attachment and the relational aspects of strengths development.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Bowlby’s Theory of Attachment: The Foundation for Understanding Individual Strengths Development
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Strengths-based therapy (SBT) provides a strong theoretical framework and is most appropriate for counseling individuals from Western cultures, rather than Eastern cultures.
Learning Objective: 4-3: Discuss Eastern and Western views on human strengths and how each cultural perspective believes strengths should be manifested.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: How Do I Make Culturally Responsive Counseling Strengths-Based?
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. According to the textbook, strengths development is a three-prong process. Describe this process.
Learning Objective: 4-1: Describe the process of strengths development within people and the narrative process that takes place about strengths in the mind.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Neurobiology of Human Strengths Development
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. What is the main difference between a strengths approach and deficit approach to counseling?
Learning Objective: 4-4: Explain the differences between a strengths approach to counseling and psychotherapy and a deficit approach.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Philosophy of Strengths-Based Therapy
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Describe how a therapist could create a culturally responsive strengths-building therapy environment.
Learning Objective: 4-6: Explain how to create a culturally responsive strengths-building counseling environment.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Creating a Culturally Responsive Strengths-Building Therapy Environment
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. There are a number of clinical intervention skills a culturally responsive strengths-based therapist may have. List at least four skills.
Learning Objective: 4-6: Explain how to create a culturally responsive strengths-building counseling environment. | 4-7. Illustrate how to conduct an initial culturally responsive interview
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Initial Culturally Responsive Interview
Difficulty Level: Medium
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