Deck 13: Culturally Grounded Community-Based Helping

Question 1

Organized religion is the only way individuals can express their spirituality.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

One-on-one interventions are the best approach to address the needs of traditional Native American clients.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Asian Americans have one of the highest use rates of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) of all ethnic minority groups in the United States

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Only females can become Community Health Workers.

Question 5

Cultural appropriation is the act of applying traditional rituals and healing practices by outsiders of the culture without the proper permissions and training.

Question 6

It is important to have a good relationship with

A) priests
B) rabbis
C) shamans
D) pastors

Question 7

Paraprofessionals are

A) not important to social workers
B) community experts, well known and respected by their neighbors
C) play a vital role in supporting the delivery of effective high quality services
D) A only

Question 8

Hoodoo's magic healing is

A) based on African folk medicine
B) evolved in the United States
C) is sometimes called conjure
D) all of the above

Question 9

Which cultures have shamans?

A) Korean
B) Palestinian
C) European
D) Native American

Question 10

Promotores/as are Latinx

A) lawyers
B) health educators
C) nuns
D) nurses

Question 11

Parteras are Latina

A) lawyers
B) healers
C) nuns
D) midwives

Question 12

Curanderism or Curanderismo

A) is a form of natural and practical medicine
B) works well with Mexican Americans as well as other Latinx subgroups
C) is composed of curanderos and curanderas who are traditional healers
D) all of the above

Question 13

Herbolarios and herbolarias

A) identify and categorize herbs according to medical properties
B) examine client's patterns of food intake to address ailments
C) use herbs to fight both physical and emotional ailments
D) all of the above

Question 14

How would taking an African American-centered approach help a client?

Question 15

What role do healers play in the Latinx community? Define curanderos/as, herbolarios/as, parteras and promotoras.

Question 16

Traditional Chinese medicine follows the ancient Taoist idea of unity of the opposites of yin and yang. What is the ying and yang?

Question 17

David Haber (2005) offers a set of open-ended questions to assess the client's level of connection to traditional healing beliefs and practices that the practitioner can incorporate into the assessment phase of the culturally grounded approach with clients from different cultures. What are at least three of them?