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Couples
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These two races make up a couple that has historically tended to experience the most hostility and opposition from society in the United States.
What is an African American/Caucasian American Couple?
100
This term defines two people of different ethnicities who marry.
What is interracial marriage?
100
This is the term used to describe an American who was born in Britain or whose ancestors are British.
What is an Anglo-American?
100
Which interracial coupling is least likely to divorce?
What is Caucasian males married to African American females?
100
In this country trends toward interracial marriages have increased steadily.
What is the United States
200
Interracial marriages are more vulnerable to divorce than are this type of marriage.
What is a same-race or ethnically homogeneous marriage?
200
A couple made up of this Ethnic/Gender combination is most vulnerable to divorce after 10 years of marriage. After 10 years of marriage, interracial marriages that are most vulnerable to divorce involve white females and non-white males
What are white female/non-white male couples?
200
This causes communication differences in relationships across different ethnicities.
What is Ethnic Diversity
200
Exploring the costs and benefits of strategies of silence, cultural genogram, assessing a couples level of acculturation, and narrative therapy techniques to re-author couple history are examples of this.
What are Psychoeducational Techniques?
200
This term is used to describe how much an individual is aware of, comprehend, and appreciate their racial history and culture
What is Racial Identity?
300
Multiple studies show that interracial couples experience a higher likelihood of this.
What is divorce?
300
As a therapist it is important to remember that these are shifting and fluid.
What are racial meanings?
300
There is a demand/withdrawal style of communication and pattern often found in people from this ethnic background.
What is Anglo-American
300
This technique allows a couple to rewrite their history together in a positive light.
What is narrative therapy?
300
64% of Americans approve of interracial marriages today compared to this approval rating in 1968.
What is a 20% approval rating?
400
According to census data this specific ethnic combination accounted for 43.3% of newly married couples in the US in 2010.
What is a White/Hispanic Couple
400
Denying the importance of difference as a way of distancing from their own negative reactions, failing to examine issues related to race, ethnicity, and identity in their own lives, and assuming it is impolite to talk about race are examples of this
What are Therapist Caveats?
400
Deeper premarital preparation, increased commitment, respect, and tolerance, and more possibilities for learning and growth are examples of these.
What is potential strengths or benefits of an Interracial Marriage?
400
This tool can be used to elicit a wealth of information on FOO issues, cultural norms and traditions, and support networks while at the same time facilitating an understanding between both partners and the therapist.
What is a Cultural Genogram?
400
In this type of society or culture people rely on open and honest sharing of emotions and thoughts among members.
What is an Individualistic Western Society?
500
For couples from this ethnic background the demand/withdrawal style of communication is not common and thus when experienced is found to be particularly distressing.
What is a Japanese couple?
500
A 2010 study showed this ethnic couple to be the minority at just 11.9%
What is a White/Black couple or Caucasian/African American couple.
500
This type of couple may be reticent (shy/unwilling) to discuss racist incidents or partner differences in a relationship.
What is a Conflict Minimizing Couple?
500
This questionnaire can be used by therapists and is designed to facilitate dialogue and understanding of the “couples’ perceptions about interracial relationships from each spouse’s culture of origin…..
What is an Interracial Couple Questionnaire?
500
In this type of culture or society open communication is discouraged and is even considered disrupting to the family as it disrupts harmony.
What is a Collectivist Culture?