River Of Life Professional Counseling

20222024 Everyone Matters Home Study Test

Demographics

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Issues and Applications For Spiritual Clients True-False Test

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For each question you will click either true or false for your answer. All questions must be completed and no items can be skipped over. Once completed your results will be sent to River of Life Professional Counseling LLC for our records of completion and for requirements for receiving CEUs for the home study. In addition, you are encouraged at the end of the test to add your e mail so that you can receive a receipt of your test for your records.

1) The best thing to do is avoid broaching multicultural topics unless the client initiates them.

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2) Always assume that culture is the biggest issue in someone’s presenting concerns.

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3) Multicultural problem solving can not only help in the clinical counseling setting between a client and therapist but also on an agency leve.l

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4) Internships, schooling, and clinical experience should proactively provide a range of multicultural experiences.

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5) Effective multicultural problem solving incorporates the simplest things we all agree on.

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6) Relating multiculturally involved both hearing our common humanity and the individual experiences.

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7) Social justice involves making sure that all people have access to services and resources regardless of differences in background.

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8) Therapists should focus on techniques while ignoring individual differences.

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9) Counselors are seen as more credible when they bring up multicultural concerns.

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10)Cultural context is important when considering diagnosis and treatment planning..

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11) One of the best ways to approach counseling is for counselors to let go of the way they do things and take an attitude of inviting the client to teach them or help them consider their worldview.

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12) Ideas about disease and wellness vary by culture.

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13) Historical narratives are totally irrelevant culturally.

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14) Traditional western individualistic counseling goals meet the needs of all clients.

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15) One of the variables that clients admire most in a multiculturally competent therapist is sincerit.y

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16) Therapists should discourage clients from talking about superstitions, fables, natives stories, and regional narratives.

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17) Social justice tasks may require therapists to consider advocating on issues beyond the office sessions.

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18) With cultural auditing counseling assessment and interventions are based on what is best for a given client.

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19) A culturally competent counselor will focus on deconstructing narratives.

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20) Culture involves the stories people tell themselves to explain how they got to this point as well as where they would like to be.

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21) Resiliency is defined the same regardless of culture.

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22) Successful multicultural counseling may involve making sure that clients have access to information they need to make informed decisions.

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23) The most helpful counseling is really about the dynamics between the therapist and client in the therapy session more than the family, historical narratives, and community.

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24) Culture involves agreement among people about the way something is done.

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25) Culturally relevant problem solving allows each team member to contribute their ideas as well as learn from others.

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26) A multiculturally competent counselor may consider the role of oppression on a group which the client identifies with.

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27) Cultural empathy strengthens the therapeutic alliance.

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28)Not all clients may benefit from individualistic goals.

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29) Cultural considerations may involve thinking about many dimensions of who a client is at once.

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30) One graduate course in cultural factors is enough to be prepared to adequately identify cultural factors in our clinical work.

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