Working with Culturally Diverse Parents
Bicultural couples tend to demonstrate extremes in
healthy functioning.
Dramatic differences in temperament and activity first become apparent between cultures at what age group?
Newborn/infants
T/F- Current models of helping portray clients of color in a positive light.
False
Ethnic identity is best defined as
the part of personal identity that defines one’s self image as an ethnic group member.
Which of the following is not described by Wright as a key factor in parenting that impacts a child’s development of self-worth?
Attitudes toward race
Which racial identity learning process involves a child’s learning to apply the newly gained concept of race to himself or herself?
Racial identification
Cultural differences impacting the assessment process tend to result in which of the following?
Overpathologizing of clients of color
During which stage of ethnic identity does an individual compartmentalize her ethnic identity?
Ambivalent identification
In order to free biracial children from racialized loyalty binds, parents should
give children permission to have a relationship with all parts of their culture.
During which stage of The Tree of Life exercise do children write encouraging messages to each other?
The Forest of Life
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was originally administered without regard to race or ethnicity, but was first questioned because
it was normed to White subjects exclusively
In which stage of Cross’ model of racial identity development, is an individual most likely to seek out counselors knowledgeable about his or her own ethnic group?
Stage 2: Encounter
Differences in how bicultural marriages are conceived and structured are described by Falicov as
conflicts in cultural code.
What term refers to the ability to stretch under pressure, but not break?
Resiliency
Which of the following is a culture-specific syndrome that appears only among members of a single cultural group?
a. Schizophrenia
b. Substance abuse
c. Hallucinations
d. Ataque
D- Ataque
In the internalization stage of Cross’ model of racial identity development, individuals experience
increasing levels of security related to his or her sense of racial identity.
Community psychology is best described as
interventions that address issues at all levels of the community system.
Which of the following statements about Williams and Moreland’s racial identity formation study is FALSE?
a. Both African American and White children were highly accurate in applying racial labels by age 6.
b. By junior high, both African American and White children were 100 percent accurate when applying racial labels to themselves and their parents.
c. In junior high, African American students evaluated their race positively.
d. White children always were a bit more accepting of African American children than African American children were of White children.
D - White children always were a bit more accepting of African American children than African American children were of White children.
Name one of the three that Gaw identified as having a major impact on the diagnoses of clients of color?
1) How help is sought out
2) Traditional problem-solving methods
3) How the origin of the problem is understood.
What describes the level of acculturation related to gaining or losing behaviors central to a person’s social world?
The intermediate level