CHAPTER 2 Multicultural Counseling and Therapy

Question 1

what is the difference between etic and emic perspectives

Answer 1

etic (culturally universal) and emic culuturally specific/indiidual)

Question 2

what unique anxiety syndrome is seen in those of Latin American countries (in individuals of Latinx descent

Answer 2

ataque de nervios (attack of the nerves) -

Question 3

has research shown for interventions to be best if they are culturally universal (etic) or culturally adaptive and individuated to work within a set person’s culture (emic)

Answer 3

emic interventions

Question 4

is counseling competence or cultural competence more important

Answer 4

cultural competence

Question 5

what are the 3 levels of one’s identity

Answer 5

individual, group, and universal - we must attend to them all to help a client.

Question 6

define multicultural counseling

Answer 6

helping role and a process that uses modalities and defines goals consistent with the life experiences and cultural values of clients; recognizes client identities to include individual, group, and universal dimensions; advocates the use of universal and culture‐specific strategies and roles in the healing process; and balances the importance of individualism and collectivism in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of client and client systems

Question 7

what is a client system

Answer 7

the system in which the client exists (sociopolitical, SES, exosystems, etc.)

Question 8

what are the 3 goals of a culturally responsive counselor

Answer 8

1- build self-awareness
2- seek understanding of client’s worldview
3- using techniques, skills, modalities, and research that are sensivity to the diversity of the client

Question 9

define cultural competence

Answer 9

lifelong process to assist clients and their lived in systems, that is aspirational by building our self-awareness, knowledge, skills, to asist clients and provide advocacy at every level to assist them.

Question 10

what are the 5 things to be self aware of when it comes to cultural competence

Answer 10

1- know ones own culture
2- aware of one’s biases
3- comfortable and aware of differences
4- aware of circumstances that would make for referral to differnt therapists or identity groups.
5- aware of own issues that might cause harm to a client

Question 11

what are the 4 parts of knowledge when it comes to cultural competence

Answer 11

1- knowledge of diverse cultural groups
2- knowledge of sociopolitcal systems and their operations and how they impact different groups
3- knowledge of counseling
4- knowledge of institutional barriers that stand in the way of others getting services

Question 12

what are the 5 skills when it comes to cultural competence

Answer 12

1- use vertbal and nonverbal responses
2- send and receive communicatoin well (vertbal and nonvefrbal)
3- able to use intervention skills
4- understand how one’s counseling style may have limitations within certain cultures
5- skill of active systemic focus (advocacy)

Question 13

what 3 domains does cultural competence inhabit

Answer 13

1- awareness
2- knowledge
3- skills

Question 14

what are the 2 LEVELS of cultural competence

Answer 14

1- personal
2- organization/systemic

Question 15

what are the 3 dimensions of the Owen and multicultural counseling orientation model

Answer 15

1- cultural humility
2- cultural comfort
3- cultural opportunity

Question 16

define cultural humility

Answer 16

openness to working with culturally diverse clients

Question 17

define cultural comfort

Answer 17

therapist’s feeling at ease, calm, relaxed, and open to work with diverse clients

Question 18

define cultural opportunity

Answer 18

clinical openings present themselves where client’s cultural beliefs, values and identity can be explored

Question 19

what are the 4 categories of power dynamics in the relationship between a therapist and a client (aka quadrants)

Answer 19

(a) a privileged counselor working with an oppressed client, (b) a privileged counselor working with a privileged client, (c) an oppressed counselor working with a privileged client, and (d) an oppressed counselor working with an oppressed client.

there can be variants and combinations therein.