Unit 4- cultural

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

Any group of people who identify or associate with one another on the basis of some common purpose, need, or similarity or background.

Question 2

What are the shared elements of culture?

Answer 2

• learned experiences
• beliefs
• values

Question 3

What is multicultural cllg?

Answer 3

cllg in which the cllr and client differ.

Question 4

What is the etic perspective?

Answer 4

When qualities exist in cllg that are culturally generalizable

Question 5

What is the emic perspective?

Answer 5

Assumes cllg approaches must be designed to be culturally specific.

Question 6

What is essential as part of understanding multicultural cllg?

Answer 6

That cultural and diversity factors should be combined

Question 7

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 7

• People judge other cultures as less than or inferior to their own and this judgment is often extrapolated to individuals living in or emigrating from these cultures

Question 8

What is the culturally encapsulated cllr?

Answer 8

One who disregards cultural differences and works under mistaken assumption that theories and techniques are equally applicable to all people

Question 9

What is over-culturalizing?

Answer 9

Mistaking people’s reactions to poverty and discrimination for their cultural pattern

Question 10

What are the two main issues of concern for multicultural cllrs?

Answer 10

• dominance of theories based on European/NA values
• sensitivity to cultures in general
• understanding how cultural systems operate and influence behaviours
• providing effective cllg services across cultures
• development and employment of cllg theories

Question 11

What are the three areas that cllrs must be sensitive to?

Answer 11

• Knowledge
• self-awareness
• skills

Question 12

What are the three core competencies of multicultural cllg?

Answer 12

• cultural self-awareness
• awareness of client cultural identities
• culturally sensitive working alliance