chapter 4 cultural issues

Question 1

what is a narrow definition of culture?

Answer 1

Ethnicity and race as defying, cultural characteristics

Question 2

What is a broad definition of culture?

Answer 2

Any group that shares a theme or issue

Question 3

what is a subculture?

Answer 3

Small groups with MS society that may not fully constitute cultural groups, but the members have typical characteristics

Question 4

What is cultural competence?

Answer 4

Therapist acquisition of awareness, knowledge, and skills related to cultural diversity

Question 5

what is cultural self-awareness?

Answer 5

Learning your own culture
Realizing differences between people are not deficiencies
Cultural humility

Question 6

What are the primary components involved with acquiring cultural competence?

Answer 6

cultural self-awareness
Knowledge of diverse cultures
Culturally appropriate clinical skills

Question 7

what do you need to have knowledge of diverse cultures?

Answer 7

No clients cultures
Don’t assume that someone is a member member of a cultural group
heterogeneity

Question 8

What do you need to have culture clinical skills?

Answer 8

approaches and techniques used by psychologist should be consistent with the values in life experiences of that client
Awareness of micro aggression

Question 9

What is a micro aggression?

Answer 9

comments or actions made in cross cultural context that may convey predictable negative or stereotypical beliefs in may suggest dominance or superiority of one group over and another

Question 10

what efforts have been made to emphasize issues of culture?

Answer 10

Increased journals and books
APA divisions
APA ethical code
APA citation standards for graduate programs
Changes in the DSM five

Question 11

what changes have been made in the DSM five for multicultural cult

Answer 11

General guidance to help with cultural competence
Glossy listing of cultural concepts of distress

Question 12

taijin kyofusho

Answer 12

A condition which a person anxiously avoids interpersonal situations because they believe that their appearance, actions or odor will offend other people

Question 13

what is an etic approach

Answer 13

Look at behavior from the outside of a given culture and find trends that can be generalized universal behaviors

Question 14

what is an emic approach

Answer 14

Functions within a certain cultures, aiming to identify behaviors relative to that culture

Question 15

tripartite model of personal identity

Answer 15

individual level: uniqueness
Group level: similarities and differences
Universal level : Homo sapiens