Deck 4: The Political and Social Justice Implications of Counseling and Psychotherapy

Question 1

Minority clients most likely terminate prematurely from therapy sessions because they realize they actually do not need the help.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which of the following is NOT a relevant question for counselors to ask?

A) When counseling culturally diverse clients, how does one reconcile such major differences in worldviews?
B) As a helping professional, what emotional reactions around "race" do you possess that may act as a barrier to effective multicultural counseling?
C) What explains the perseverance of the belief among members of certain sociodemographic categories that they are undergoing oppression in the United States?
D) How might the unconscious biases of helping professionals affect their ability to deliver culturally appropriate mental health services to marginalize groups?
E) All of the choices are correct.
F) None of the choices is correct.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

To be culturally competent means to understand the _______ of ___________ experienced by marginalized groups in our society.

Answer 3

history of oppression

Question 4

Name four of the seven basic principles related to social change and social justice counseling.

Question 5

Graduate programs tend to shy away from teaching about antiracism because there is a limited amount of literature on the topic.

Question 6

Preparing counselors with multicultural expertise means

A) revamping our training programs to include accurate and realistic multicultural content and experiences
B) developing multicultural competencies as core standards for our profession
C) providing continuing education for our current service providers
D) All of the choices are correct.
E) None of the choices is correct.

Question 7

What does the term cultural deprivation mean?

Question 8

An effective curriculum should allow students to understand feelings of helplessness and powerlessness.

Question 9

Multicultural counseling and psychotherapy assumes

A) Western therapy does not oppress people of color.
B) What happens in the therapist's office may represent a microcosm of race relations in the larger society.
C) So-called psychological problems of minority groups may reside not within but outside of our clients.
D) b and c
E) None of the above

Question 10

The foci of counseling interventions include the ____________, _____________, _____________, and ____________________.

Question 11

Define the Genetically Deficient model and provide one example of its use in the social science literature.

Question 12

Some researchers have argued that minority-group individuals underutilize and prematurely terminate counseling/therapy because

A) of the biased nature of the services themselves
B) they do not know where to locate services
C) services are too accommodating
D) mental health professionals are too culturally competent

Question 13

Discuss the mental health impact of sociopolitical oppression and how the minimization of discrimination and pain of marginalized groups has manifested through political policies.

Question 14

The authors posit that higher scores among African Americans on paranoia inventories do not necessarily indicate abnormality. Instead, what do they suggest?

Question 15

Reflect on your reaction to "An Open Letter to Brothers and Sisters of Color" found on the second page of Chapter 4. Consider the following: What emotions did this letter provoke in you? Do you agree with the author on his position?

Question 16

Social justice counseling/therapy has which of the following goals?

A) aims to produce conditions that allow for equal access and opportunity
B) reduces or eliminates disparities in education, health care, employment, and other areas that lower the quality of life for affected populations
C) encourages mental health professionals to consider micro, meso, and macro levels in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of clients and client systems
D) broadens the role of the helping professional to include not only counselor/therapist but advocate, consultant, psychoeducator, change agent, community worker, and so on.

Question 17

Describe what the authors describe as "culture bound and biased training system (Mio, 2005; Utsey, Grange, & Allyne, 2006, as cited in Sue 8th edition) . What have been some of the results of this tendency?

Question 18

The main thesis of this book is that counseling and psychotherapy take place in a vacuum and the larger sociopolitical influences of our societal climate should not be a factor.

Question 19

Those behaviors that occur less frequently is the definition of .