Chapter Terms 101
A set of knowledge and skills that are essential to the culturally skilled practitioner.
What are multicultural competencies?
Any pattern of behavior that, solely because of race or culture, denies access to opportunities or privileges to members of one racial or cultural group while perpetuating access to opportunities and privileges to members of another racial or cultural group.
What is racism?
What is heterosexism?
The largest minority and disadvantaged group in the United States.
What is people with chronic medical, physical, and mental disabilities?
Note: There are many different ways to answer this question!
This perspective takes into consideration the specific values, beliefs, and actions influenced by a client's ethnicity, gender, religion, socioeconomic status, political views, sexual orientation, physical and mental cognitive abilities, geographic region, and historical experiences with the dominant culture.
What is a multicultural perspective?
A perspective that recognizes the complexity of cultures and values the diversity of beliefs and values
What is cultural pluralism?
Pertains to therapists' awareness of client worldviews, which are acknowledged in relation to the therapists' awareness of their own personal biases.
What is cultural empathy?
The foundational principle in counseling persons with disabilities is what?
What is treating the person first rather than treating the disability?
A generic term that indicates any relationship between and within two or more diverse groups. Provides a conceptual framework that recognizes the complex diversity of a pluralistic society, while at the same time suggesting bridges of shared concern that bind culturally different individuals to one another.
What is multiculturalism?
Brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of other races.
What are microaggressions?
Involves the empowerment of individuals and family systems to better express their needs as well as to advocate on their behalf to address inequalities and injustices they encounter in their community and in society at large. Counseling, from this perspective, involves being aware of and addressing the realities of oppression, privilege, and social inequalities.
What is social justice work in counseling
The societal and institutional reinforcement of heterosexuality as the privileged and the norm; and the assumption that everyone identifies as heterosexual.
What is heterosexism?
Refers to the spectrum of differences that exists among groups of people with definable and unique cultural backgrounds.
What is cultural diversity?
A perception of reality based on a very limited set of cultural experiences.
What is cultural tunnel vision?
This Code of Ethics infuses issues of multiculturalism and diversity throughout the document, including sections dealing with the counseling relationship, informed consent, bartering, accepting gifts, confidentiality/privacy, professional responsibility, assessment and diagnosis, supervision, and training.
What is the ACA Code of Ethics?
Refers to a practitioner's level of awareness, knowledge, and interpersonal skill needed to
function effectively in a pluralistic society and to intervene on behalf of clients from diverse backgrounds.
What is Cultural diversity competence?
A cross-cultural counselor who perceives reality exclusively through the filters of his or her own life experiences.
What is a culturally encapsulated counselor?
"DAILEY" DOUBLE! (set your points = up to 2000 pts.)
Go to the "Correct Response" to see the answer.Identify one example of why cultural encapsulation is an ethical matter.
Opposing members will judge whether or not answer is correct.
This court case involved an employee assistance program provider who refused to counsel
homosexual clients on the basis of religious beliefs and was eventually terminated by her employer.
What is Bruff vs. North Mississippi Health Services, Inc.?
Example of this include "Minority groups need to take responsibility for their own predicament" and "In order to succeed, people need to stop complaining and start working".
What are stereotypical beliefs?
(anything related counts - discriminatory, prejudicial, intolerant, etc.)