Social and Cultural Diversity Flashcards

A Muslim client requests that counseling sessions not be scheduled during Friday Jumu'ah prayer. A culturally responsive counselor should:

Answer: Accommodate the request as a reasonable religious practice

Accommodating religious observance is consistent with ACA ethical standards respecting client values and avoiding imposing the counselor's worldview.

Which worldview dimension, identified by Sue, refers to locus of responsibility—the degree to which individuals attribute outcomes to personal versus systemic factors?

Answer: Locus of responsibility

Sue's worldview model pairs locus of control (internal vs. external) with locus of responsibility (personal vs. systemic) to create four distinct worldview quadrants.

A counselor who regularly reads literature, attends workshops, and seeks supervision related to multicultural counseling is primarily developing which competency domain?

Answer: Multicultural knowledge

Seeking education through literature, training, and supervision builds the knowledge domain of multicultural counseling competence.

In working with Asian American clients, which communication pattern should a counselor be cautious not to misinterpret as lack of progress?

Answer: Indirect expression of distress and reluctance to disagree with the counselor

Many Asian cultures value indirectness and deference to authority figures, which can manifest as apparent agreement or minimal emotional disclosure rather than resistance.

The ACA Code of Ethics requires counselors to actively work to understand how which factors affect client development?

Answer: Cultural, systemic, and societal influences including oppression and discrimination

The ACA Code explicitly states that counselors must understand how cultural, systemic, and societal contexts, including experiences of oppression, influence client development.

Which acculturation outcome, associated with the worst psychological health, describes individuals who neither maintain their heritage culture nor integrate into the dominant culture?

Answer: Marginalization

Marginalization, in Berry's model, involves losing connection to both the heritage culture and the dominant culture, and is associated with the highest levels of psychological distress.

A counselor who uses only standardized assessments normed on White, middle-class populations with clients from other backgrounds risks which ethical violation?

Answer: Assessment bias and potentially invalid diagnostic conclusions

Using assessments that lack norm validity for specific cultural groups can produce biased results and lead to misdiagnosis or inappropriate treatment planning.