Week 3 - Chapter 1 S. Butler

Question 1

How is counseling defined?

Answer 1

A professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals.

Question 2

All counseling is to some extent BLANK because BLANK is within each person

Answer 2

multicultural; culture

Question 3

What is culture?

Answer 3

A personal orientation towards each decision, behavior, and action in our lives.

Question 4

Counselors must consider what in order to interpret their behavior accurately and to provide effective and competent treatment?

Answer 4

A client’s cultural context

Question 5

When is cultural competency achieved?

Answer 5

When counselors understand the role that culture plays within a counseling relationship, appreciate and have a thirst to learn and immerse themselves into diverse environments, and have the wherewithal to genuinely connect with the cultural worldview of others.

Question 6

Why were the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (MCC) developed?

Answer 6

To provide guidance and a culturally attuned perspective to mental health practitioners.

Question 7

What is a consequence of having power and privilege?

Answer 7

Citizens are often governed by culturally encapsulated behaviors and/or ethnocentric worldviews.

Question 8

What is cultural encapsulation?

Answer 8

The tendency to operate from a monocultural worldview and to dismiss variations in how people from differing cultures view the world.

Question 9

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 9

A sense of ethnic group self-importance and self-centeredness, where one’s ethnic group is central, and all other ethnic groups fail in comparison.

Question 10

What is the fifth force in counseling?

Answer 10

Social justice

Question 11

What is the fourth force in counseling?

Answer 11

Multiculturalism

Question 12

What are the five forces of counseling?

Answer 12

Psychoanalytical, existential-humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, multiculturalism, social justice

Question 13

What are the 4 critical principles that social justice-minded counselors espouse?

Answer 13

1. Equity
2. Access
3. Participation
4. Harmony

Question 14

What does equity refer to?

Answer 14

The fair distribution and access of resources, services, power, information, rights, and responsibilities to all members of society.

Question 15

What is access the key to?

Answer 15

A socially just world because it allows for self-determination and healthy human development.

Question 16

When does harmony occur?

Answer 16

When the best possible outcomes for the entire community are realized.

Question 17

When is participation successful?

Answer 17

When every person has the right to control their personal narratives and make the decisions that impact their lives.

Question 18

What four developmental domains does the MSJCC outline?

Answer 18

1. Counselor self-awareness
2. Client worldview
3. Counseling relationship
4. Counseling and advocacy

Question 19

Interwoven into the first 3 developmental domains are which four aspirational competencies?

Answer 19

1. Attitudes and beliefs
2. Knowledge
3. Skills
4. Action

Question 20

What lays the foundation for meaningful interactions and understanding value differences with clients?

Answer 20

A counselor’s consciousness and ability to acknowledge and articulate their biases, worldviews, and experiences.

Question 21

What allows a counselor to honor and respect their clients’ worldview?

Answer 21

Deep self-reflection and increased self-awareness

Question 22

What is the most important pillar of counseling?

Answer 22

The counseling relationship.

The counselor’s genuine interest in the lived experiences of their clients will build a foundation for the counseling relationship.

Question 23

What are attitudes and beliefs?

Answer 23

Involve counselors acknowledging their own identity and how they are similar or dissimilar to their clients, recognizing the influences of social status on the counseling relationship.

Helping the counselor recognize biases, value systems, and worldviews, broadening their curiosity to learn.

Question 24

What is knowledge?

Answer 24

Involves understanding the impact of systemic barriers, stereotypes, and biases related to counselor and client privileged or marginalized statuses and accurately integrating salient multicultural theories and interventions.

Finding effective means of communicating with clients.

Question 25

What are skills?

Answer 25

Critical thinking

Reflexivity: develop a level of understanding that analyzes, recognizes, acknowledges, and articulates the impact of one’s worldview on lived experience

Being culturally responsive and attuned

Question 26

What is action?

Answer 26

Encompasses immersing oneself into cultural activities to better facilitate one’s biases and prejudices, especially as they relate to worldviews, societal roles, and economic status.

Multiculturally inspired professional trainings and workshops

Question 27

What are the competencies (skills, knowledge, behavior) organized around?

Answer 27

Extent of client involvement

Level of advocacy intervention

Question 28

What are the six advocacy domains?

Answer 28

1. Empowerment
2. Client advocacy
3. Community collaboration
4. Systems advocacy
5. Collective action
6. Social/political advocacy