(CO611) Chapter 1- Terms Flashcards

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter

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human service providers

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Professional helpers (e.g., counselors,
therapists, psychologists, and social
workers) who provide social and
emotional advice, resources, and
education to those in need, most often
on a one-to-one basis.

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cross-cultural service delivery

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The provision of human services in a
situation where provider and client
come from diverse cultural
backgrounds.

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empowerment

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A helping strategy that involves
supporting, encouraging, and giving
clients skills to become their own
advocates.

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Cultural diversity

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The array of differences that exist
among groups of peoples with definable and unique cultural backgrounds.

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Culturally diverse

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Individuals (e.g., providers or clients)
who come from culturally different,
diverse, or distinct backgrounds. Used
synonymously with the term cross-
cultural.

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Culture

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Differences in language, values,
personality and family patterns,
worldviews, sense of time and space,
and rules of interaction between
individual groups. Comprises traditional ideas and related values, is learned, shared, and transmitted from one to another.

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Ethnic group

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Any distinguishable group of people
whose members share a common
culture and see themselves as separate and different from the majority culture.

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race

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Biological group differences that derive from an isolated inbreeding population with a distinctive genetic heritage.

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People of color

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A collective reference to groups of color in the United States, including African Americans, Asian Americans,
Latinos/as, and Native Americans. Used synonymously with the term non-white.

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Communities of color

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Collectives of non-whites who share
certain physical (racial), cultural,
language, or geographic origins and/or
features.

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racial identification

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The second step in the process of
developing racial identity; involves
learning to apply the newly gained
concept of race to oneself.

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colonization

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The act of a more powerful nation or
people taking control of the land and
resources of a less powerful and often
indigenous people and using them for
its own benefit.

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cultural myopia

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Viewing the world exclusively from the
perspective of one’s cultural paradigm.

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ethnic psychology

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Psychological dynamics that are
peculiar to the experiences of people of color and other oppressed ethnic
groups.

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complex trauma

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An emotional state experienced by
people who are exposed to repeated
and prolonged trauma. A DSM category of anxiety disorders.

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