Social and Cultural Diversity
A set of rules, procedures, ideas, and values shared by members of a society.
What is culture?
The group member that tries to makes sure everyone is participating and doing their task.
What is a gatekeeper?
The process of assessing or estimating attributes.
What is appraisal?
A term meaning that the counselor will do no harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
Learning by consequences occurring after a behavior.
What is operant conditioning?
Skinner and Thorndike
Behavior must be assessed in the context of the culture in which the behavior occurs
What is contextualism?
A group that focuses more on the individual and is more likely to deal with severe pathology
What is a tertiary group?
A test that can legitimately be compared to others who have taken the test
Another name for insurance payments
What are third-party payments?
Theory suggesting that realities are socially constructed, including brief therapy and narrative therapy.
What is social constructionism?
1954 Supreme Court case that outlawed public school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The father of psychodrama and the man who coined the term "group therapy" in 1931
Who is Jacob Moreno?
What is concurrent validity?
A legal term implying that a therapeutic interaction will not be available for public inspection: protecting clients and not counselors.
What is privileged communication?
A intervention in which a client is told to exaggerate a symptom
What are paradoxical interventions?
The first pioneer to focus heavily on sociocultural issues
Who is Frank Parsons (father of guidance)?
A group that focuses not on mental health issues but rather on human relations process between personnel in a business setting
What is a t-group (training group)?
Recognized as one of the major pioneers in the study of individual differences. He felt that intelligence was a single or so-called unitary factor.
Who is Francis Galton?
Proposed the most popular paradigm of mental health consultation
Who is Caplan?
She created a psychodynamic needs approach: jobs meet our needs determined by our childhood satisfaction and frustrations.
Who is Anne Roe?
What are social learning theorists?
Leadership style that has a hands off policy and participates very little, with the group basically taking responsibility of itself.
What is laissez-faire leadership style?
A method of assessment/measurement that uses an individual's past performance as the benchmark for future performance, instead of comparing them to a group
What is an ipsative approach?
A landmark case in 1969 that established counselor's duty to warn a person in foreseeable danger.
What is Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of the University of California?
A statistical measure that quantifies the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.
What is a correlation coefficient?