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Chapter 9: Culturally Responsive Strengths-Based Therapy
for American Indians and Alaska Natives
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. What term should clinicians use to describe the American Indian population?
A. Native Americans
B. American Indians
C. First Nationals people
D. Clinician should ask the client what term they prefer.
2. What term is used to describe the legacy of social and cultural suffering related to
harmful practices and policies that the U.S. government has imposed on Native
American communities?
A. historical maltreatment
B. contextual trauma
C. historical trauma
D. generational trauma
3. According to researchers, what has served as a protective factor or buffer against
historical trauma for Native Americans?
A. culture and cultural recovery
B. family
C. friends
D. U.S. policy changes
4. Which of the following racial or ethnic groups the least understood in the United
States?
A. Hispanic and Latino or Latina Americans
B. Asian Americans
C. African Americans
D. Native Americans
5. Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the family structure of
American Indians?
A. Children should be “seen and not heard.”
B. All families are patriarchal.
C. Tribe is considered family.
D. Majority of families are considered nuclear.
6. The four basic categories of American Indian cultures are ______.
A. traditional, acculturated, bicultural, and marginalized
B. traditional, acculturated, assimilated, and marginalized
C. naturalized, bicultural, multicultural, and privileged
D. naturalized, assimilated, multicultural, and privileged
7. The emphasis “on being, instead of becoming” is consistent with what American
Indian cultural value?
A. generosity
B. acceptance
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C. harmony and balance
D. time orientation
8. Third grade Josh is in a mostly Caucasian class in an urban elementary school. Josh
and four of his classmates identify as American Indian. When Josh’s teacher calls on
him to answer a math question he doesn’t know the answer to, his four other
classmates also respond that they do not know the answer either. What cultural value
are Josh’s classmates demonstrating?
A. cooperation and harmony
B. competitiveness
C. noninterference
D. sharing and generosity
9. What is one of the major strengths of American Indian cultures?
A. family
B. resilience
C. informal resources available to help with family problems
D. communication style
10. A ______ is a circle that illustrates the balance between natural and personal
powers to show that everything in life is interconnected.
A. medicine wheel
B. talking circle
C. circle of courage
D. nature wheel
True/False
1. Approximately 50% of the Native American population resides in urban areas.
2. Similar to the other major culturally diverse racial groups in the United States,
American Indians do not have a legal definition of race.
3. In many American Indian tribes, there is no word for religion.
Short Answer
1. Why is it important to understand the demographic information about American
Indians and Alaska Natives?
2. Compare and contrast American Indian and White American worldviews. List at least
five examples.
3. List the American Indian values that are similar across tribal nations.
