(CO611) Chapter 8 - Quiz Flashcards
Chapter 8: Bias in Service Delivery
Rosenthal and Jacobson studied the relationships between teacher expectations and student performance. When the teachers’ attitudes about their students shaped their treatment of them, Rosenthal called it a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” What did Freud call this phenomenon when it occurred in a clinical setting?
a. stereotype
b. transference
c. countertransference
d. ontology
c. countertransference
Which of the following statements about studies on the impact of social, political, and racial attitudes is FALSE?
a. Mentally healthy women were described in different terms than mentally healthy men.
b. Clients who have extreme political views were regularly rated as having more severe symptoms of mental disorders.
c. African American therapists saw African American clients as less disturbed than did white clinicians.
d. Whites clients were more likely to receive custodial care and medications than African Americans.
d. Whites clients were more likely to receive custodial care and medications than African Americans.
People of color make up approximately ________ percent of members of the American Psychological Associate.
a. 4
b. 12
c. 25
d. 33
a. 4
Which of the following statements about the representation of people of color in the helping professions is FALSE?
a. Native American students are the largest population of color in doctoral psychology programs.
b. There are few faculty of color in doctoral psychology programs.
c. Only one African American person has ever been elected president of the APA.
d. All of the five most commonly used textbooks in counselor training programs in the United States list “racism” as an area of attention in the table of contents.
d. All of the five most commonly used textbooks in counselor training programs in the United States list “racism” as an area of attention in the table of contents.
Individuals who were natural leaders within ethnic communities, trained in service delivery, and hired to act as liaisons and outreach workers to the community were known as indigenous ________.
a. paraprofessionals
b. meta-healers
c. pseudoprofessionals
d. pathologists
a. paraprofessionals
One potentially useful strategy for overcoming the lack of ethnic helping professionals is the involvement of ________ as part of a mental health organization’s treatment team, either on staff or in a consultative role.
a. spiritual leaders
b. family members
c. traditional healers
d. legislative representatives
c. traditional healers
Which of the following statements accurately describes attention to culture in mental health service delivery?
a. Current mental health theory is defined in terms of many different cultural values.
b. Research has shown that African Americans and Hispanics have similar or better mental health than whites.
c. Current helping models portray clients of color in a positive light.
d. Current mental health practices allow providers to serve the needs of non-white populations adequately.
b. Research has shown that African Americans and Hispanics have similar or better mental health than whites.
Which of the following statements about traditional healers is FALSE?
a. They often are seen as unscientific, superstitious, and regressive.
b. They view human capacities holistically.
c. They stress cause and effect in healing.
d. They are active in their interventions.
c. They stress cause and effect in healing.
Which of the following statements about how Western science portrays ethnic populations is FALSE?
a. Charles Darwin was among those who created (what is now called) the “genetic deficiency model.”
b. Jung’s ideas on national and racial character were warmly received by the Nazi regime.
c. Biological theories of genetic inferiority were replaced by notions of “cultural inferiority.”
d. Where differences have been found between whites and people of color, they tend to be interpreted as reflecting strengths in ethnic character.
d. Where differences have been found between whites and people of color, they tend to be interpreted as reflecting strengths in ethnic character.
Which of the following is a medical term that means sickness or pathology that results from medical or psychological interventions and treatment?
a. countertransference
b. iatrogenesis
c. microassault
d. microaggression
b. iatrogenesis
Which of the following statements accurately describes bias in assessment?
a. Today, there are several culture-free tests in use.
b. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is never used to measure psychopathology in racial and ethnic minorities.
c. The MMPI-2 has corrected most, if not all, of the problems the MMPI had with ethnic group members.
d. There are still questions about the cultural validity of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), but it continues to be used cross-culturally.
d. There are still questions about the cultural validity of the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), but it continues to be used cross-culturally.
From a clinical standpoint, individuals’ behavior must be judged in accordance with the values and criteria of ________ culture.
a. the dominant
b. their own group’s
c. the global
d. the clinician’s
b. their own group’s
Watters states that the exportation of Western training in mental health, the use of the DSM as a standard for diagnosis and definition of various categories of mental illness, the worldwide distribution of Western-oriented professional journals and training conferences, and the enormous funding of research and marketing of medication for mental illness is leading to the rapid disappearance of ________, once seen among “different cultures’ conceptions of madness.”
a. diversity
b. racism
c. discrimination
d. homogeneity
a. diversity
The three forms of microaggressions include microassaults, microinvalidations, and ________.
a. microactions
b. microracism
c. microemotions
d. microinsults
d. microinsults
In the United States, which of the following groups has the lowest aggregate suicide rate?
a. Native Americans
b. European Americans
c. African Americans
d. Chinese Americans
c. African Americans
