River Of Life Professional Counseling
Components of Culturally Sensitive Counseling 20202022
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Welcome to the test for the home study program entitled "THE MULTICULTURALLY COMPETENT COUNSELOR." By taking this test you are stating that you are the person whose name and address are listed in the demographics section of this test. Note: This test will only be valid for CEUs if you have already listened to and or watched the audios and videos that go with this seminar, have preregistered for the seminar with River of Life Professional Counseling, and have paid in full the home study seminar fee already. If the aforementioned are all true and understood and agreed to please continue with the test. Your results from this true/false test will immediately be sent to River of Life Professional Counseling LLC. You can expect your CEU certificate in typically about 2 weeeks from receipt of the test.
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Questions (#1-5)
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1) Culture can include the way a group of people do something including, music, art, decision making, interest, values or beliefs.
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2) Cultural issues have no place in clinical counseling.
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3) Broaching cultural issues should be a regular part of clinical counseling as well as clinical supervision.
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4) Understanding a client’s cultural narrative is essential to get a full and accurate picture of how the client got to this point and where the client would like to go from here.
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5) All people around the world should be forced to think in terms of the medical model because that is what we’ve bene taught in school.
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Questions (#6-10)
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6) One of the most effective ways of approaching culture is for a therapist to come to the clinical therapeutic relationship with an attitude of “teach me.”
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7) An appropriate goal of counseling is to teach a client how he or she should think and what he or she should believe culturally.
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8) The narrative of one’s family or people is significant in understanding a client’s culture.
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9) Multicultural competency should be the gal for therapy from assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning as well as clinical supervision.
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10) Multicultural competency may involve making sure various client populations have access to services or appropriate referrals.-
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Questions (#11-15)
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11) When a counselor demonstrates a sincere desire to learn and understand a client’s culture it communicates trust and respect.
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12) Ignoring cultural differences is a helpful way to deal with impasses in therapy.
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13) Traditional Euro-American treatment plan goals are best because they work for everyone.
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14) Inquiring about a client’s believes about what factors causes sickness or disease and what factors contribute to healing can be one way to be multiculturally competent.
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15) Consulting with collateral source with appropriate releases of consent can be another means of assuring cultural competency.
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Questions (#16-20)
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16) Knowing a client’s historical narrative of what brought him and his people to this point is a vital part of being culturally competent.
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17) We should encourage those from collectivist societies to adopt a more individualistic mindset.
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18) Counseling and mental health work may not be considered preferable to talking to one’s family or community by some groups.
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19) Considerations of a clients non traditional native healing methods may be important to understanding why the client seemed resistant to your psychotherapy.
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20) Successful multicultural counseling may involve not only an individual but also family, community, and systems.
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Questions (#21-25)
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21) Stereotypes are generally true because they have been proven time after time.
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22) Without training we may run the risk of cultural encapsulation.
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23) Clients may have differences of opinion with you about how appropriate it is to express emotions base on their cultural background.-
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24) Understanding a client’s role models can be one way to get a sense of what is really important to him or her.-
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25) Counseling should be culture free.
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Questions (#26-30)
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26) Therapists should regularly evaluate the extent to which their own cultural biases may negatively impact the therapeutic relationship
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27) Techniques and interventions should be critically analyzed to find which ones are best for a given client.
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28) Developing multicultural competency is an ongoing process.
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29) Operating as a clinical expert who changes people’s beliefs and values when necessary is the best route to go.
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30) Culturally competent counseling considers within group differences to tailor treatment goals to the individual client.
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