Chapter 1

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

All the things people have learned to do, believe, value, and enjoy. Totality of the ideals, beliefs, skills, tools, customs, and institutions to which members of society are born

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Question 2

Multicultural counseling

Answer 2

The practice of providing counseling (therapy) while considering the client’s cultural background and understanding how culture shapes their experience

Question 3

Cultural competence

Answer 3

The counselor’s ability to understand and respect cultural differences and apply this understanding in therapeutic practice

Requires becoming aware of worldviews, biases, prejudices

Is a lifelong journey

Involves counselor’s awareness, knowledge, and skills to work effectively across cultures

Includes cultural awareness, ongoing education, supervision and consultation

Active, developmental, and ongoing process that is aspirational rather than achieved

Question 4

Multicultural competence

Answer 4

Lifelong process in which one works to develop the ability to engage in actions and create conditions that maximize optimal development of client and client systems, never fully achieved

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Question 5

Cultural humility

Answer 5

The counselors openness to working with culturally diverse clients, an open attitudinal stance of the counselor towards those of diverse backgrounds; way of being rather than way of doing

Question 6

Multicultural psychology

Answer 6

The journey of self-discovery, filled with deep feelings about the subject matter and often uncomfortable personal revelations

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Question 7

Multicultural training

Answer 7

Requires awareness of own worldviews, biases, prejudices, with the goal of cultural competence

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Question 8

Resistance to diversity training

Answer 8

Cognitive - that minorities must be misperceptions/exaggerations
Emotional - inability to acknowledge, understand, or make meaning of another’s experience
Behavioral - used to alleviate feelings of guilt

Question 9

Importance of MCC

Answer 9

Diversity increasing
Cultural identity impacts psychological well-being
Ethical responsibilities of professional counselor

Question 10

Historical context of MCC

Answer 10

Field has been mainly Eurocentric and restricts effectiveness with diverse clients

Question 11

Challenges in MCC

Answer 11

Ethnocentrism (viewing one’s culture as superior, hindering counseling process, leading to cultural mistrust and client skepticism of counseling)

Interpreters for effective communication

Stereotyping/assumptions based on stereotypes