Opression, social justice and worldview

Question 1

What is the Tuskegee experiment?

Answer 1

study done on 600 black men on the effects of untreated syphilis

Question 2

What are the 4 principles of social justice?

Answer 2

Equity, access, participation, and harmony.

Question 3

What is social justice counseling?

Answer 3

culturally competent helping professionals that not only confine their perspectives to individual treatment but intervene effective at the profession, organizational and societal level as well.

Question 4

What is counselor credibility?

Answer 4

a constellation of characteristics that make certain individuals appear worth of belief, capable, entitled to confidence, reliable and trustworthy.

Question 5

What are the 2 components of counselor credibility?

Answer 5

Expertness and trustworthiness

Question 6

What is the European-american worldview?

Answer 6

rugged individualism, competition, control over nature

Question 7

What are the 2 dimensions of worldview?

Answer 7

locus of control and locus of responsibility

Question 8

What is locus of control?

Answer 8

Internal- actions can shape our fate.

External- fate is determined by chance or luck

Question 9

What is locus of responsibility?

Answer 9

Internal- success and failure is attributable to individuals skills or inadequacies.
External- success and failures dependent on social forces and not personal attributes.