Model of Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Identity Development

Question 1

Lack of conscious awareness of culture, race, or ethnicity and how it may affect life

Answer 1

Preencounter

Question 2

An encounter takes place that provokes thought about the role of Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic identification in life.

Answer 2

Encounter

Question 3

This may be a negative or positive experience related to culture, race and ethnicity. For minorities, this experience is often a negative one in which they experience discrimination for the first time.

Answer 3

Encounter

Question 4

After an encounter that forces confrontation with cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Identity, a period of exploration follows.

Answer 4

Immersion-Emersion

Question 5

There is a search for information and learning occurs through interaction with others from the same cultural, racial, or ethnic groups

Answer 5

Immersion-Emersion

Question 6

At this point, a secure sense of identity has developed and there is comfort socializing both within an outside the group with which the person identifies.

Answer 6

Internalization and Commitment