Social And Cultural Diversity Flashcards

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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. 

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Cross cultural counseling, multicultural counseling, , and intercultural counseling 

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Culture refers to 

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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. 

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Our culture is more diverse than in the past. Multicultural counselors, often work with persons who are culturally different. This means the client 

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Belongs to a different culture from the helper 

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In order to diagnose clients from a different culture

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The counselor ideally will need some information regarding the specifics of the culture 

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In the United States, each Socio economical group represents 

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A separate culture

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Which therapist was not instrumental in the early years of the social psychology movement 

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Berne

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Blank and blank would say that regardless of culture humans have an instinct to fight 

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Freud and Lorenz

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Blank, believe that aggression is learned. Thus a child who witnesses, aggressive behavior in adult may imitate  the aggressive behavior. 

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Social learning theorist

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The APGA, which became the AACD until 1992, and is now the ACA, contribute to the growth of cross cultural counseling by 

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The 1972 formation of the association for non-white concerns in personall, and guidance, later, known as the association for multicultural, counseling and development 

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Daniel Levinson proposed a controversial stage crisis few theory with several major life transition. He… 

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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  

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The three factors which enhance interpersonal attraction are 

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Close proximity, physical attraction, similar beliefs

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The term contextualism implies that  

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Behavior must be assessed in the context of the culture in which their behavior occurs 

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Carol Gilligan, although she was an assistant to Lawrence Kohlberg, was critical of his theory of moral development 

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As she felt, it was more applicable to males than females 

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Blank helped to popularize the multicultural counseling movement 

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The civil rights movement 

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When a counselor speaks of a probable outcome in a case, he, or she is technically referring to 

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The prognosis 

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When a counselor speaks of what he, or she believes must transpire from a psychotherapist standpoint, here she technically is referring to 

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Recommendations

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The 1971 famous Stanford prison experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo, demonstrated that 

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People conform to social roles 

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A wealth of research demonstrated that 

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In most instances, clients prefer a counselor of the same race and similar cultural background 

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The frustration and aggression. Siri is associated with. 

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John dollards and Neil Miller

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A popular, cognitive consistency or balance theory in social psychology is blank cognitive dissonance theory 

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Festingers

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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. 

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Culture provides individuals with standards of conduct 

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Assistance a call Norm measures actual contact, while cultural norms 

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Describe how people are supposed to act 

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Moors are beliefs and social customs 

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Regarding the rightness or wrongness of behavior 

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Blank was the first pioneer to focus heavily on social, cultural issues 

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Frank parsons, father of guidance 

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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  

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National culture and ecological culture 

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Biological similarities and sameness are indicated by 

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Universal culture 

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Early vocalization in infants 

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Is nearly identical in all cultures around the globe 

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In the 1920s, Emory Bogardus developed a social distance scale, which evaluated 

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How an individual felt towards other ethnic groups 

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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 

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Should asked to come in the home 

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Most countries have an official language, a stated viewpoint, and a central government. This is reflected, mainly by. 

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National culture 

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Where, as a culture is defined, primarily via norms and values, a society differs from a culture in that a society 

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Is self perpetuating independent group which occupies a definitive territory 

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Ethnocentrism 

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Uses one’s own culture as a yardstick to measure all others 

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All of these statements are ethnocentric, except 

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The gross domestic product in the United States exceeds the figure in Mexico 

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Ethnocentrism 

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Is not universal and promotes stability and pride, yet danger in the nuclear age 

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Regardless of culture, the popular individual 

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Has good social skills 

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Social exchange theory, postulates that 

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A relationship will endure if the rewards are greater than the cost 

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Balance theory, postulates 

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A move from cognitive inconsistency to consistency, and a tendency to achieve a balanced cognitive state 

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Most individuals believe that people whom they perceive as attractive 

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Have other positive traits 

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A counselor who works primarily with older adults, needs to be aware that 

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Surprisingly, financial security and health are the best predictors of retirement adjustment 

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Most experts would agree that a multicultural counselors diagnosis 

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Must be done within cultural context 

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A counselor who seeing a client from a different culture would most likely expect blank, social conformity than he, or she would from a client from his or her our own culture 

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Les 

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In terms of diagnosis,

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A clients behavior could be sane and appropriate in one culture, yet disturbed and bizarre in another 

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In the United States, a frequent practice is to see a perfect stranger for therapy 

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In other cultures, it would not be the norm to see a stranger and receive pay for providing help 

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According to the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Frysinger, a woman has an approach approach conflict. She has her choice of beautiful silver watch an equally stunning gold watch. Both are different brands. She feels the silver model will be perfect for some of her jewelry and outfits, while the gold is ideal for other jewelry and modes of dress. She chooses the silver watch. 

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She will read positive reviews on the silver watch, and possibly negative reviews about the gold watch after the Purchased, to justify her behavior and reduce post decisional dissonance 

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A woman who is being robbed 

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Would find that the number of people who would respond to her distress actually decrease as the number of bystanders increase 

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A counselor reading this book says “I could care less about passing my comprehensive exam “this… 

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Is an attempt to reduce dissonance by denial, thus minimizing tension. 

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The statement “even though my car is old and doesn’t run well, it sure keeps my insurance payment low“

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Is an attempt to reduce distance via consistent cognition 

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In the case of an individual who purchases a $50,000 watch, cognitive distance theory, postulates that 

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He or she might ignore positive information regarding other models and secure a lot of information regarding $50,000 platinum model. And he or she might focus heavily on negative information regarding rival models. 

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In the United States, middle and upper class citizen seem to want a counselor who 

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Helps them work it out on their own 

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In a traditional culture, which places a high premium on authority figures 

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Passivity on the part of the counselor would be viewed in a negative manner. A client would be disappointed. If he, or she did not receive advice. Assign homework and teachings on the part of the counselor would be appropriate. 

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Cognitive  distance research deals, mainly with

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Cognitive and attitude formation 

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Parents who do not tolerate or his aggression when raising children produce 

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Less aggressive children 

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Overall Rosharon person centered counseling 

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Has been used more than other models to promote understanding between cultures and races 

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In intercultural/multicultural counseling, the term therapeutic surrender means 

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The client psychologically surrenders him or herself to a counselor from a different culture, and becomes open with feelings and thoughts 

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The literature suggests these factors as helpful in promoting therapeutic surrender 

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Report, trust, listening, conquering client resistance, and self disclosure 

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In terms of trust and therapeutic surrender 

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It is easier to trust people from one’s own culture. Lower income people often. Don’t trust others from a higher social class. And lower income clients may feel that they will end up as losers dealing with a counselor from a higher social class. 

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And blink counselor would most likely have the most difficulty with self disclosure, when speaking to a white counselor 

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African American male 

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According to simulation contrast theory, a client will perceive a counselor statement that is somewhat like his or her own beliefs as even more similar. He or she would perceive any dissimilar attitude as. 

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Even more to similar 

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When counseling a client from a different culture, a common air is made with negative transference 

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Is interpreted as therapeutic resistance 

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Counselor to have good listening skills 

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Facilitate therapeutic surrender 

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Counselors can more easily advise 

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Clients from their own culture 

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It is easiest to empathize with 

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A client who is similar to you 

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In cross-cultural counseling, structuring is very important. This conserve the search that counseling is most effective.

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When the nature and structure of the counseling situation is describe during the initial session

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A client from another culture wI’ll

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Speak to the counselor differently from the way he or she would win speaking to someone of his or her own background 

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An African-American client tells a white counselor that the dance she went to last night was “bad“ though she literally means it was good. The counselors misunderstanding could best be described as. 

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Connotative error 

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A monolingual US counselor 

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Speaks only English 

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Blank was a prime factor in the history of multicultural counseling 

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The 1954 Supreme Court decision, brown, versus the Board of Education, which outlawed public school segregation 

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Multicultural, counseling, promotes 

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Eclecticism 

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Multicultural counselors, often adhere to the emic view. That word emic . 

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Is cultural, specific perspective, the word phonemic meaning sounds in a particular language. 

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A practicum supervisor who says to his or her supervisee “you can deal with your Asian American clients the same as you deal with anyone else” is espousing the 

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The Etic viewpoint, dried from the phonetic referring to sounds, that remain the same in any language 

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The statement “all humans from all cultures. All races and all nations are more alike than different quote is based on the. 

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Etic viewpoint

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A counselor is confronted with his or her first Native American client. After the initial session, the counselor secures several books which delineate the cultural aspects of Native American life. She discovers that there are over 560 federally recognized tribes in the United States. This counselor is most likely believes in the 

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Emic view point

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An Asian, American counselor says to an African-American client, if you’re unhappy with the system, get out there and rebel. You can change the system. This is the blank viewpoint for coping with the environment. 

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Autoplastic 

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A young Latino male is a victim of discrimination. His counselor remarks “I hear you are saying, and I will help you change you were thinking, so this will not have such a profound impact on you“ in this case, the counselor had to adjusted. 

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The autoplastic method of coping

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You were counseling a client from a different culture. She cannot move her right arm, but has been examined by some of the finest physicians, and they cannot find any physical reason for her condition. The irony is that she is there to work on some personal issues, but states for rightly that the total lack of mobility in her arm does not bother her unless it is not issue to deal with in the counseling session. The most likely explanation Would be 

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She has conversion disorder, and la belle indifference 

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Positive transference is to love or affection as negative transference is to hostility, and as ambivalent transference is to 

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Uncertainty 

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The word professionalism, in the context of multicultural counseling means 

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All people must adjust to environmental and geological demands 

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A client whose counselor pushes the alloplastic viewpoint may believe his counselor is simply 

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Attacking the system 

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Good multicultural counselors are 

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Flexible 

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A client remarks “hey I am African-American, and it’s nearly impossible to hide it“ this illustrative of the fact that 

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Race is not the same as ethnicity 

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Experts in the field of multicultural counseling, I feel that the counselors training 

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Should be broad and interdisciplinary 

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Doing cross cultural counseling 

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Makes counselors increasingly aware of cultural differences 

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Ford Henry Allport created the concept of social facilitation. According to this theory, an individual who is given the task of memorizing a list of numbers well. 

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Perform better if he or she is part of a group 

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In social psychology, the sleeper fact, asserts, that

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After a period of time, one forgets the communicator, but remembers the message 

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In 1908, books by blank, helped to introduce social psychology in America

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McDougall and Ross 

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Blank is associated with obedience and authority 

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Stanley Milgram’s, a noted psychologist 

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Milgram discovered that normal people would administer, seemingly fatal electric shocks to others when instructions to do so we’re given by a person perceived as  

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An authority figure 

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The tendency to affiliate with others 

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Is the highest in firstborns and only children 

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A client tells his counselor that he has a choice of entering one of to prestige PhD counseling programs. Kurt Lewin would called this an. 

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Approach - approach conflict 

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When a person has two negative alternatives, it is called an… 

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Avoidance - avoidance conflict 

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A male client tells his counselor that he is attracted to “a gorgeous woman who is violent and chemically dependent“ this creates an

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Approach - avoidance conflict 

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According to Charles Osgood and Perry Tenenbaum’s congruity theory, a client will except suggestions more readily, if 

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The client likes the counselor 

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An adept, multicultural counselor 

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Usually supports the salad bowl model of diversity 

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A classic experiment in social psychology was conducted by the social psychologist Muzaffar sheriff at all at a boys, summer camp near Roberts cave, Oklahoma. The important finding in the study was. 

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A cooperative, or so-called subordinate, goal attained only by working in a joint manner, can bring to hostile groups together, thus reducing competition and enhancing cooperation 

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Sex role stereotyping would imply that 

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A counselor would only consider traditional feminine careers for his female client, and a male counselor would rate a female client emotional status differently than he would a male client 

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The statement “whites are better than African-Americans“ illustrates 

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Racism 

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In terms of research related to affiliation 

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Misery loves and miserable company, firstborns are more likely to affiliate  than other children born later, and people affiliate in attempt to lower fear 

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Six persons attend a counseling group. After the group, five members praise the merits of a group activity, assigned by the group leader. The six person, who has heard the opinion of the other five, felt the activity was useless and boring. According to studies on social behavior, about 1/3 of the time, the six individual would most likely tell the other five that 

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He too, felt the group activity was very helpful 

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The client who would most likely engage in introspection, would be a 

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52 year old, single, African  American male school administrator 

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The Japanese client who was reluctant to look you in the eyes during her counseling session, would most likely be displaying 

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Normal behavior within the context of her culture