Chs. 4 & 5 Single-Parent, Blended, and Culturally Diverse Families

Question 1

four distinct single-parent family types:

Answer 1

those created by divorce, death, choice, and temporary circumstances

Question 2

Culture

Answer 2

“all of the dimensions of diversity, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, and ability”

Question 3

cultural competency

Answer 3

sensitivity to such factors as race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation, as well as the ability to respond appropriately in a therapeutic manner to persons whose cultural background differs from their own.

Question 4

acceptance

Answer 4

(1) Neil Jacobson’s term for loving your part-ner as a complete person and not focusing on differences. Such a strategy may promote change in couples; (2) the therapist’s personal and professional comfort with a family.

Question 5

acculturation

Answer 5

the modification of a culture as a result of coming into contact with another culture. In many instances, minority cultures incorporate many traditions and mores of majority cultures in attempts to fit in

Question 6

acculturation gap

Answer 6

different rates of acculturation between immigrant parents and U.S.-raised children that compli-cates the normal generation gap. This gap may result in greater misunderstanding, miscommunication, and even-tual conflict among family members than would otherwise happen

Question 7

coexistence

Answer 7

the retaining by partners of their separate cultures

Question 8

commitment ambiguity

Answer 8

a situation in which one partner is not sure about his or her place in the affiliation.

Question 9

culturally encapsulated counselors

Answer 9

professional thera-pists who treat everyone the same and, in so doing, ignore important differences

Question 10

culture-specific model of multicultural counseling

Answer 10

a model of counseling that emphasizes the values, beliefs, and orientation of different ethnic cultural groups

Question 11

ESCAPE

Answer 11

an acronym that stands for four major invest-ments that therapists must make: (1) engagement with fami-lies and process, (2) sensitivity to culture, (3) awareness of a family’s potentials, and (4) knowledge of the environment.

Question 12

filial therapy

Answer 12

a hybrid form of child-centered play therapy in which parents (or other primary caregivers) engage in play therapy with their child in order to address the child’s problem in the context of the parent–child relationship.

Question 13

home-based therapy

Answer 13

a method of treatment that requires family therapists to spend time with families before attempting to help them

Question 14

institutional barrier

Answer 14

any hardship that minority populations must endure to receive mental health services, such as the inconvenient location or hours of operation of a clinic, the use of a language not spoken by one’s family, and the lack of culturally diverse practitioners.

Question 15

integration

Answer 15

a coping strategy used by intercultural couples to meld their cultures together and celebrate both

Question 16

lack of resolution

Answer 16

attitude of couples who do not seem to know what to do with difference or have conflict around difference

Question 17

parentified children

Answer 17

children who are given privileges and responsibilities that exceed what would be considered developmentally consistent with their age. Such children are often forced to give up childhood and act like a parent, even though they lack the knowledge and skills to do so.

Question 18

singular assimilation

Answer 18

where one partner is more assimilated to his or her partner’s culture than vice versa

Question 19

systemic change agent

Answer 19

the role a therapist takes when he or she tries to intervene on behalf of families in unhealthy and intolerant systems.

Question 20

universal perspective model of multicultural counseling

Answer 20

a model of counseling that assumes that counseling approaches already developed can be applied with minor changes to different cultural groups. Thus, cultural differ-ences are recognized from a family systems perspective.

Question 21

worldview

Answer 21

the dominant perception or view of a specific group.