Multicultural Counseling & Cultural Competence
A model stating that counselors must develop the right attitudes, knowledge, and skills to work effectively across cultures.
What is the Multicultural Counseling Competencies Model?
A process where the helper assists clients in recognizing external barriers so they can make their own changes.
What is client empowerment?
A guideline for counseling men: something counselors should not push early in treatment.
What is expressing feelings?
A statement predicting the relationship between variables or groups.
What is a hypothesis?
Tests measuring intellectual or cognitive abilities, such as the WAIS or SAT.
What are ability assessments?
Subtle, often unconscious slights that communicate derogatory messages toward marginalized people.
What are microaggressions?
When a helper works on behalf of a community to address structural and systemic barriers.
What is systems advocacy?
A model encouraged when working with women instead of relying on pathologizing labels or diagnoses.
What is the wellness model?
A research design that examines pre-existing groups and cannot infer causation.
What is causal-comparative research?
The degree to which a test measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
The misconception that cultural differences disappear into one unified dominant culture.
What is the melting pot myth?
Advocacy work involving sharing concerns with the public to promote social change.
What is public information?
The approximate number of people experiencing homelessness on a given day in the U.S.
What is 580,000?
A qualitative research method involving coding common themes to build theory.
What is grounded theory?
Assessment procedures that maintain uniform administration conditions each time.
What are standardized assessments?
According to Sue & Torino (2004), culturally competent helpers must balance these two cultural perspectives.
What are individualism and collectivism?
A framework encouraging helpers to consider religion, class, trauma, family history, and more.
What is the RESPECTFUL Model?
Two harmful societal assumptions that affirming clinicians must avoid when working with LGBT clients.
What are heterosexism and cissexism?
A study that predicts one variable based on another using correlational data.
What is predictive correlational research?
An assessment using real-world tasks, such as job simulations, to evaluate functioning.
What is performance-based assessment?
A model explaining identity at three levels: individual, group, and universal.
What is the Tripartite Model of Personal Identity?
A key component of multicultural competence requiring counselors to explore their own cultural values and biases.
What is self-awareness?
A population that makes up 32% of youth in juvenile detention but only 8.6% of public-school students.
Who are students with disabilities?
A strategy used in qualitative research to increase trustworthiness by verifying findings through multiple sources.
What is triangulation?
The APA qualification level required to administer projective tests or advanced intelligence scales.
What is Level C?