(CO611) Chapter 8 - Terms

Question 1

countertransference

Answer 1

A psychoanalytic term that refers to a therapist’s unconscious personal reactions to aspects of the client.

Question 2

Iatrogenesis

Answer 2

Sickness or pathology that results from medical or psychological intervention and treatment.

Question 3

microaggressions

Answer 3

Unconsciously delivered racial slights, subtle snubs, dismissive looks, gestures, and tones. They are pervasive and automatic in daily conversations and interactions and frequently are glossed over as innocent and innocuous.

Question 4

Micro-assaults

Answer 4

Verbal and nonverbal attacks intended with varying degrees of conscious awareness to hurt a person of color through name-calling, avoidance, or other forms of discriminatory behavior and insensitivity.

Question 5

Micro-insults

Answer 5

Communications that convey rudeness and demean a person’s racial heritage of identity.

Question 6

Micro-invalidations

Answer 6

Communications that exclude, negate, or nullify psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of people of color.