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Chapter 1: Culturally Responsive Strengths-Based Therapy:
The Journey
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Culture shapes and influences how one views the world. This is what researchers call
______.
A. multiculturalism
B. implicit bias
C. worldview
D. diversity
2. The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 1
focus on?
A. ethnic/racial minority groups
B. gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities
C. immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers
D. multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research
3. The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 2
focus on?
A. ethnic/racial minority groups
B. gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities
C. immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers
D. multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research
4. The multicultural counseling movement experienced three phases. What did Phase 3
focus on?
A. ethnic/racial minority groups
B. gays, lesbians, women, individuals with disabilities
C. immigrants, refugees, non-Native English speakers
D. multicultural counseling competencies and multicultural research
5. The basic competencies for culturally responsive counseling can be grouped into all
of the following categories EXCEPT ______.
A. awareness
B. attitudes
C. biases
D. skills
6. ______ is used to describe a therapist that lacks understanding of a client’s culture
and the influence of the client and counselor’s culture on the therapeutic relationship.
A. Cultural encapsulation
B. Cultural ignorance
C. Cultural deficit
D. Cultural worldview
7. Viewing American Whiteness as the standard, believing that anyone can achieve the
American dream if they try hard enough, and conceptualizing pathology as located
within the individual rather than within the larger environmental context are examples of
______.
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A. monoculturalism
B. cultural encapsulation
C. ethnocentrism
D. cultural relativism
8. Dr. Lois, a White female counselor, is greeting a new patient in her office. Her patient,
Ms. Clark, a middle-aged African American female, described that she was coming to
counseling because she was struggling with being a single parent to her three children.
Unlike her other clients, Dr. Lois did not ask when or how she became a single parent,
but rather began counseling her in a solution-focused way. When she learned that Ms.
Clark’s husband, and father to the three children, was killed in a car accident on his way
home from work, Dr. Lois reconsidered her treatment plan. Dr. Lois’ lack of assessment,
which led to a less effective treatment approach for Ms. Clark, is an example of ______.
A. explicit bias
B. implicit bias
C. monoculturalism
D. lack of cultural awareness
9. What is the IAT?
A. a multicultural competence treatment modality for minority clients
B. a multicultural competence assessment for counselors
C. a test designed to reveal conscious attitudes
D. a test designed to reveal unconscious attitudes
True/False
1. Culture has the ability to influence and organize the brain.
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2. Culture is often viewed as the “silent intruder” in the therapeutic relationship.
3. To achieve cultural competence, a therapist should reach a high level of knowledge
of all cultures.
4. Race and ethnicity are synonymous.
5. Racism lives deep inside our brains.
Short Answer
1. What is culturally responsive therapy? How does culturally responsive strengths–
based therapy (CR-SBT) differ?
2. The text describes five major barriers to cultural competence. List these barriers and
give an example of each.
Ans: (1) Inappropriate use of Eurocentric theories of psychotherapy and Western
cultural values; (2) cultural encapsulation of the therapist; (3) monoculturalism; (4)
cultural oppression with regard to lack of consideration of a client’s worldview; (5)