Deck 4: Providing Culturally Competent Career Development Interventions

Question 1

Is it imperative to discuss culture in career counseling? Why? Advantages/disadvantages?

Answer 1

No answer

Question 2

How might culture affect the efficacy of the career intervention strategies you chose?

Answer 2

No answer

Question 3

Encourage the class to share instances in which they feel as though they have experienced bias and stereotyping in their career development.

Answer 3

No answer

Question 4

Choose one of the identity development models outlined in Chapter 4. Describe the stages and how a person's career development might be impacted during one of the stages.

Question 5

Describe some of the challenges individuals with disabilities and GLBTQ individuals face in the workplace.

Question 6

What are the implications of increasing heterogeneity in the workforce for career competencies that will be required of workers in the future?

Question 7

Develop a case scenario that highlights the impact that acculturation can have a career development.

Question 8

Discuss the five spheres of the "career-in-culture" interview.

Question 9

A person who feels committed to multiple cultures would be called a

A) ethnocentric person.
B) individualistic person.
C) fully formed person.
D) bicultural person.

Question 10

Which of the following best describes "one's beliefs, awareness, values, subjective experience, sense of purpose and mission, and an attempt to reach toward something greater than oneself".

A) denomination.
B) religion.
C) spirituality
D) sexual orientation.

Question 11

Gysbers et al point out that career development interventions in the United States tend to favor tenets that reflect a European-American perspective. These tenets include all of the following except

A) individualism and autonomy.
B) affluence.
C) structure of opportunity for all.
D) affordable housing.

Question 12

When counselors assume that one value system (their own) is superior and preferable to another it is known as

A) acculturation
B) cultural pluralism
C) ethnocentrism
D) superiority

Question 13

The process of adopting the traits or social patterns of another group is known as

A) ethnocentrism.
B) cultural pluralism.
C) acculturation.
D) externalization.

Question 14

The stages of racial identity development include all of the following except

A) conformity.
B) dissonance.
C) introspection.
D) externalization.

Question 15

The Nigrescence theory of black identity includes all of the following stages except

A) pre-encounter.
B) ecounter.
C) immersion-emersion.
D) introspection.

Question 16

Stereotypically, sex role socialization has exerted influence over the early development of girls by reinforcing

A) competition and skill mastery.
B) job hunting and career skills.
C) relationships and connectedness.
D) home-making skills.

Question 17

Stereotypes of oppressive environmental influences of women are perpetuated pervasively in:

A) centers for women and women's shelters.
B) the home, school, community, and workplace.
C) many counseling centers that support women.
D) television and movies.

Question 18

Integrating gender into the career development intervention process is important for men because they are often

A) socialized to value power, competition action, strength, logic, and achievement.
B) subject to oppressive environmental influences in the workplace.
C) focused strongly on family and relationship needs.
D) restricted in levels of competitive and physical behavior.

Question 19

Developmental issues that typically confront persons with disabilities include all of the following except

A) confronting attitudinal barriers.
B) overcoming generalizations.
C) developing skills for independent living.
D) narrowing social outlets.

Question 20

Typical domains for vocational assessments for persons with disabilities include

A) psychological.
B) social.
C) educational/academic.
D) all of the above.

Question 21

Chang, Williams, and Dispenza (2009) recommend counselors that work with sexual minorities should:

A) push clients to embrace their orientation.
B) teach clients assertiveness strategies to use in the workplace.
C) confront all forms of discrimination
D) remain sesntive to the client's pace of identity development.

Question 22

According to Pope and Barret (2002), counselors can best work with gay and lesbian clients by:

A) examining their own subtle or unconscious biases.
B) help clients effectively cope with "coming out"
C) attend workshops and additional training to work with sexual minorities.
D) all of the above.

Question 23

Whether the scales of a test measure the same constructs across cultures is an indicator of

A) functional equivalence.
B) metric equivalence.
C) conceptual equivalence.
D) linguistic equivalence.

Question 24

Individuals with disabilities are confronted with all of the challenges except:

A) Altitudinal barriers related to being labeled "handicapped"
B) Lack of role models and norm groups
C) Affordable housing
D) Developing social/interpersonal skills