Jones-Smith, Culturally Diverse Counseling, 1e
SAGE Publishing, 2019
Chapter 16: Culturally Responsive Strengths-Based Therapy
for Individuals With Disabilities
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. What federal mandate protects people with impairments related to intellect, hearing,
vision, orthopedic, learning, speech, and other health or physical conditions?
A. ADA
B. FERPA
C. HIPAA
D. IDEIA
2. Given the prevalence data, who of the following is most likely to have a disability?
A. Selena, a female who is 3 years old
B. Jonatan, a male who is 15 years old
C. George, a male who is 85 years old
D. Martha, a female who is 65 years old
3. According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS), vision and
hearing disabilities would fall under which category?
A. visual and hearing disabilities
B. physical disabilities
C. sensory disabilities
D. intellectual disabilities
4. Tamika has a difficult time with information processing, which interferences with her
ability to learn and organize schoolwork. According to the Census Bureau’s American
Community Survey (ACS), Tamika may have a disability that falls into which of the
following categories?
A. psychological disabilities
B. disorders of attention
C. sensory disabilities
D. intellectual disabilities
5. What is an invisible disability?
A. a disability that affects older adults
B. a disability that impacts a person sporadically
C. a psychological condition that does not impact a person’s work or family life
D. a health issue that may not meet legal requirements of a disability as defined by ADA
6. Which of the following is not one of the major models that have been used to
conceptualize disability?
A. social/minority model
B. medical model
C. moral model
D. developmental ability model
7. What is ableism?
A. discrimination against individuals with disabilities
B. discrimination against older individuals
C. prejudice against individuals with disabilities
D. prejudice against individuals with disabilities and racial minority status
8. Every time Conan, a clerk at a local grocery store, sees customers in a wheelchair,
he talks to the person in the wheelchair as though they have an intellectual disability.
This is an example of ______.
A. microaggression
B. spread
C. interaction strain
D. Ableism
9. In a review of disability literature, Dunn and Burcaw (2013) found that a major theme
in people’s disability identity was ______.
A. connecting with other people who have disabilities
B. understanding their legal protections
C. making personal meaning out of the disability
D. feeling marginalized in society by microaggressions and ableism
10. ______ takes place when people without disabilities become uncomfortable and
anxious when they interact with people who have disabilities.
A. Interaction strain
B. Passing
C. Spread
D. Microaggressions
11. Who/what has reported that the goal of the counselor is to remember that “there is
no such thing as complete adjustment to disability. One is never there, only traveling
there. Thus, clients’ thoughts about disability will constantly change and evolve.”
A. ADA
B. APA
C. Olkin
D. affirmative disability model
True/False
1. The highest prevalence rate for disabilities is among Hispanics and Asian Americans.
2. People with disabilities constitute the world’s largest minority.
3. Individuals who are born with disability and those who experience a trauma that
leaves them with a disability have a similar trajectory of identity development.
4. People with an affirmative disability orientation view their disability positively and as
their primary identity.
Short Answer
1. What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
2. What are the six types of disabilities, according to the Census Bureau’s American
Community Survey (ACS)?
3. Dunn and Burcaw’s (2013) review of the disability literature revealed six important
themes about disability identity. List these themes.
4. What is disability affirmative therapy?