Social And Cultural Diversity Flashcards
America has been called the most diverse country on the face of our planet. Counseling a client from a different social and or cultural background is known as. 
Cross cultural counseling, multicultural counseling, , and intercultural counseling 
Culture refers to 
Customs shared by a group which distinguishes it from other groups.
Value shared by a group that are learned from others in the group.
And attitude, beliefs, art and language, which characterizes member of a group often passed from generation to generation. 
Our culture is more diverse than in the past. Multicultural counselors, often work with persons who are culturally different. This means the client 
Belongs to a different culture from the helper 
In order to diagnose clients from a different culture
The counselor ideally will need some information regarding the specifics of the culture 
In the United States, each Socio economical group represents 
A separate culture
Which therapist was not instrumental in the early years of the social psychology movement 
Berne
Blank and blank would say that regardless of culture humans have an instinct to fight 
Freud and Lorenz
Blank, believe that aggression is learned. Thus a child who witnesses, aggressive behavior in adult may imitate  the aggressive behavior. 
Social learning theorist

The APGA, which became the AACD until 1992, and is now the ACA, contribute to the growth of cross cultural counseling by 
The 1972 formation of the association for non-white concerns in personall, and guidance, later, known as the association for multicultural, counseling and development 
Daniel Levinson proposed a controversial stage crisis few theory with several major life transition. He… 

Wrote the 1970 classic seasons of a man’s life and the 1997 sequel seasons of a woman’s life,
and postulated a midlife crisis for men between ages 40 to 45 and poor women approximately five years earlier  
The three factors which enhance interpersonal attraction are 
Close proximity, physical attraction, similar beliefs
The term contextualism implies that  
Behavior must be assessed in the context of the culture in which their behavior occurs 
Carol Gilligan, although she was an assistant to Lawrence Kohlberg, was critical of his theory of moral development 
As she felt, it was more applicable to males than females 
Blank helped to popularize the multicultural counseling movement 
The civil rights movement 
When a counselor speaks of a probable outcome in a case, he, or she is technically referring to 
The prognosis 
When a counselor speaks of what he, or she believes must transpire from a psychotherapist standpoint, here she technically is referring to 
Recommendations

The 1971 famous Stanford prison experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo, demonstrated that 
People conform to social roles 
A wealth of research demonstrated that 
In most instances, clients prefer a counselor of the same race and similar cultural background 
The frustration and aggression. Siri is associated with. 
John dollards and Neil Miller

A popular, cognitive consistency or balance theory in social psychology is blank cognitive dissonance theory 
Festingers
Culture is really a set of rules, procedures, ideas and values shared by members of a society. Culture said to be normative. That implies that. 
Culture provides individuals with standards of conduct 
Assistance a call Norm measures actual contact, while cultural norms 
Describe how people are supposed to act 
Moors are beliefs and social customs 
Regarding the rightness or wrongness of behavior 
Blank was the first pioneer to focus heavily on social, cultural issues 
Frank parsons, father of guidance 
A counselor who is part of a research study will be counseling clients in the polar regions, and then at a point near the equator. Her primary concern will be  
National culture and ecological culture 
Biological similarities and sameness are indicated by 
Universal culture 
Early vocalization in infants 
Is nearly identical in all cultures around the globe 
In the 1920s, Emory Bogardus developed a social distance scale, which evaluated 
How an individual felt towards other ethnic groups 
According to the foot in the door, compliance technique, which has two distinct steps, a counselor who needs to make a home visit to a resistant clients home 
Should asked to come in the home 
Most countries have an official language, a stated viewpoint, and a central government. This is reflected, mainly by. 
National culture 
Where, as a culture is defined, primarily via norms and values, a society differs from a culture in that a society 
Is self perpetuating independent group which occupies a definitive territory 
Ethnocentrism 
Uses one’s own culture as a yardstick to measure all others 
All of these statements are ethnocentric, except 
The gross domestic product in the United States exceeds the figure in Mexico 
Ethnocentrism 
Is not universal and promotes stability and pride, yet danger in the nuclear age 
Regardless of culture, the popular individual 
Has good social skills 
Social exchange theory, postulates that 
A relationship will endure if the rewards are greater than the cost 
Balance theory, postulates 
A move from cognitive inconsistency to consistency, and a tendency to achieve a balanced cognitive state 
Most individuals believe that people whom they perceive as attractive 
Have other positive traits 
A counselor who works primarily with older adults, needs to be aware that 
Surprisingly, financial security and health are the best predictors of retirement adjustment 
Most experts would agree that a multicultural counselors diagnosis 
Must be done within cultural context