Multicultural Counseling Complete Questions & Solutions(RATED A+)

Counseling continues to presume an _____ _____ in which dependency is always bad, freedom of choice is always constructive, dual relationships are unethical, privacy is universally valued, and the welfare of each individual is always more important than the welfare of the group to which that individual belongs. - ANSWER individualistic perspective What is a label for individuals in a relationship with another person who suffers from an addiction or other factor that compromises functioning? - ANSWER codependency Throughout the ___, awareness emerged that individual psychopathology was bound up with society as a whole - ANSWER 1960s What challenges assumptions that individualism, relationships based on hierarchies, and linear thinking are goals to which all people can and should aspire? - ANSWER counseling where counselor and client differ ___ held that there is a fixed, objective reality - ANSWER modernism ___ holds that different experiences of different people constitute different realities thereby dispelling myths of a single truth about human nature - ANSWER postmodernism What are humans ideological structure and behavior needs to be examined within the context of the individual's own culture? - ANSWER cultural relativism What 3 variables make up culture? - ANSWER 1. ethnographic variables (ethnicity, nationality, religion, language, regionality, etc.) 2. demographic variables (age, gender) 3. status variables (social, economic, educational background) What are examples of ethnographic variables? - ANSWER ethnicity, nationality, religion, language, regionality What are examples of demographic variables? - ANSWER age, gender What are examples of status variables? - ANSWER social, economic, educational background Dropout rates for minority clients is ___ - ANSWER 50% Dropout rates for dominant group clients are ___ - ANSWER 30% Much current therapeutic practice taught in grad school comes from experience and research with ___ - ANSWER middle and upper class white people Many theories we discuss emerged from who? - ANSWER white males What 7 things characterize therapy in the US? - ANSWER 1. focus on individual 2. autonomy, independence, and de-enmeshment 3. free will is implicitly valued 4. not controlled by external events 5. clients expected to be expressive and disclosing 6. focuses on nuclear family w/ egalitarian relationships 7. little attention on environmental, social, cultural factors What are 4 examples of pathologizing non-individualistic behavior? - ANSWER 1. sleeping arrangements 2. judgement of those who continue to live at home 3. arranged marriages 4. multi-generational homes What are 5 challenges of having a different worldview from your client's worldview? -