(CO611) Chapter 9 - Quiz Flashcards
Chapter 9: Mental Health Issues
Ethnic identity formation results from the integration of various personal experiences one has had combined with ________.
a. formal cognitive learning experiences
b. biological features and physiological health issues
c. communal living with significant same-ethnic others
d. messages communicated by various family members and significant others
d. messages communicated by various family members and significant others
During which state of ethnic identity does an individual take on majority ways and attitudes to try to “pass” as another ethnicity?
a. positive identification
b. negative identification
c. ambivalent identification
d. precarious identification
b. negative identification
During which stage of Cross’ racial identity development model does the person of color become increasingly secure and positive in his sense of racial identity and less rigid in the attachment to group allegiances at the expense of personal autonomy?
a. encounter
b. immersion-emersion
c. internalization
d. internalization-commitment
c. internalization
Consider Atkinson, Morten, and Sue’s Minority Identity Development Model showing attitude changes across five stages. During which stage would a person have a self-deprecating attitude and a group-appreciating attitude toward the dominant group?
a. Conformity
b. Dissonance
c. Introspection
d. Synergetic
a. Conformity
While in Stage 3 (Resistance and Immersion) of Atkinson, Morten, and Sue’s Minority Identity Development Model, what type of service provider will clients most likely prefer?
a. a white counselor
b. a counselor of color
c. a culturally aware white counselor
d. a culturally aware counselor of any ethnicity
b. a counselor of color
According to Sue and Sue (1999), white providers will be most effective in cross-cultural service delivery when they have successfully worked through their feelings about ________.
a. racism
b. diversity
c. whiteness and privilege
d. their own ethnicity
c. whiteness and privilege
Conceptually, ethnic assimilation can be compared to the myth of the ________.
a. great melting pot
b. free lunch (that there is no such thing)
c. ladder of success
d. American Dream
a. great melting pot
The taking on of the cultural ways of another group, usually those of the mainstream culture, is called ________.
a. diversity
b. acculturation
c. discrimination
d. appropriation
b. acculturation
Which of the following statements about bi-dimensional acculturation is FALSE?
a. Proponents of the theory say it is possible to function effectively in two cultures.
b. The bicultural individual picks and chooses aspects of each culture to internalize.
c. Biculturalism is seen as a virtue in all ethnic communities.
d. Problems arise when the two cultures are in clear conflict.
c. Biculturalism is seen as a virtue in all ethnic communities.
The emotional strain caused by acculturation is known as _______.
a. acculturative stress
b. integrative phobia
c. identificational assimilation
d. structural psychosis
a. acculturative stress
According to Marin, which level of inculturation involves core values, beliefs, and norms that are essential to the very cultural paradigm or worldview of the person?
a. superficial level
b. intermediate level
c. external level
d. significant level
d. significant level
Which of the following statements about Myers’ views of stress is FALSE?
a. Poor African Americans tend to live in a “stress-primed” state of existence.
b. A sense of internal control and self-esteem reduces the likelihood that an event is experienced as stressful.
c. Group members tend to be similar in their ability to cope and in the type of coping strategies used.
d. For African Americans as a group, stress-related illness risks are higher than for the general population.
c. Group members tend to be similar in their ability to cope and in the type of coping strategies used.
Brave Heart (2004) argues for the creation of a new diagnostic designation called ________ trauma that emphasizes the massive cumulative trauma that can occur across generations and reflects a broader range of social consequences and dysfunction than is referred to by the more limited diagnosis of PTSD.
a. ethnic
b. general
c. racial
d. historic
d. historic
Herman distinguishes four major symptom-groups associated with trauma. Which term refers to a trauma involving a psychic deadening or dissociation from reality?
a. hyperarousal
b. intrusion
c. constriction and numbing
d. disconnection
c. constriction and numbing
The idea of ________ trauma proposes that pervasive and ongoing attacks and slights are associated with one’s identity as a person of color or member of a targeted minority group devalued by the majority culture.
a. historic
b. ethnic
c. insidious
d. continuous
c. insidious
