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Cultural Competence and Diversity
1.  Understanding culture helps service providers avoid stereotypes and biases that can undermine their efforts.
A) True
B) False
2.  Cultural competence begins with an awareness of your own cultural beliefs and practices and recognition that people from other cultures may not share them.
A) True
B) False
3.  Cultural competence is rooted in respect, validation and openness towards someone with different social and cultural perceptions and expectations than your own.
A) True
B) False
4.   People tend to have an “ethnocentric” view in which they see their own culture as the best.
A) True
B) False
5.  Acculturation is the same for everyone.
A) True
B) False
6.  The beliefs, customs, and traditions of people from other cultures are often at odds with Western medicine and its heavy emphasis on science.
A) True
B) False
7.  Acculturation is a process that occurs when two distinct cultural groups have continuous first-hand contact, resulting in subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns.
A) True
B) False
8.  Cultural communication includes issues relating to eye contact, physical contact and personal space.
A) True
B) False
9.  The examination of one's own thoughts and feelings allows the counselor a better understanding of the cultural "baggage" he or she brings to the situation.
A) True
B) False
10.  One of the greatest pitfalls of the novice counselor is to undergeneralize things learned about a specific culture as therefore applicable to all members of the culture.
A) True
B) False
11.  Total belief in individualism fails to take into account the collective family community relationship which exists in many cultural groups.
A) True
B) False
12.  Therapists have to constantly compare personal culture(s) within the context of professional obligations.
A) True
B) False
13.  Multiracial individuals and families are one of the fastest growing populations in the U.S.
A) True
B) False
14.  The term multiracial refers to those of all racial mixes, including biracial.
A) True
B) False
15.  Issues multiracial clients bring to therapy may or may not be related to their racial identity.
A) True
B) False
16.  The biracial child and family will meet with disfavor-if not outright prejudice quite regularly.
A) True
B) False
17.  In a society that promotes homogamy, interracial couples often face overt and covert racism.
A) True
B) False
18.  Multiracial individuals and families enter therapy at all levels of cognitive development.
A) True
B) False
19.  Therapists must be able to work within the cognitive abilities of clients while attempting to expand the limits of these constraints to increase social and self-awareness.
A) True
B) False
20.  Interracial marriage occurs most frequently between European Americans and Asians.
A) True
B) False
21.  Interracial marriages between Blacks and Whites make up the lowest percentage of interracial marriages.
A) True
B) False
22.  Societal concerns regarding interracial unions are representative of many unresolved issues about race.
A) True
B) False
23.  Myths and stereotypes regarding interracial marriage prevail in today's society and continue to stigmatize these unions.
A) True
B) False
24.  Many of these myths and stereotypes suggest that those who intermarry have ulterior motives for doing so.
A) True
B) False
25.  The degree to which individuals of a particular group are likely to intermarry may be based upon levels of assimilation and acculturation.
A) True
B) False
26.  Multiracial individuals often feel caught in the middle, as though they must straddle both or all sides of the racial divide.
A) True
B) False
27.  Development of a positive and strong internal frame of reference is important for multiracial individuals.
A) True
B) False
28.  The experiences and challenges of multiracial individuals differ based upon age and developmental stage.
A) True
B) False
29.  Many interracial couples experience difficulties dealing with and responding to their children's mixed-race identity.
A) True
B) False
30.  Adolescence is a time when many multiracial individuals experience varying degrees of anxiety and turmoil.
A) True
B) False
31.  In working with interracial couples, counselors may find themselves dealing with multiple racial, ethnic, and cultural ideologies.
A) True
B) False
32.  Counselors working with individuals of mixed-race heritage at any developmental stage must examine their attitudes and beliefs about interracial unions.
A) True
B) False
33.   Some interracial couples or partners enter counseling in an attempt to understand or deal with objections to their relationship.
A) True
B) False
34.  Therapists must assist the couples or partners in recognizing and drawing upon the assets and strengths of the relationship.
A) True
B) False
35.  In counseling interracial couples, therapists have to be sensitive and aware of the racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, identity, worldviews, and experiences of both partners.
A) True
B) False
36.  Counseling intervention that involves the entire family can be most helpful when working with multiracial children.
A) True
B) False
37.  In counseling multiracial adolescents, the counselor has to distinguish between the typical developmental concerns of adolescence and concerns that may be related to the adolescent's mixed heritage.
A) True
B) False
38.  If the family perceives the therapeutic environment as unaccepting or biased, these individuals are not likely to continue the counseling process.
A) True
B) False
39.  Multiracial families often present with child-related issues and concerns.
A) True
B) False

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