| 1- Understanding culture helps service providers avoid stereotypes and biases that can undermine their efforts. |
| True |
| False |
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| 2- Cultural competence begins with an awareness of your own cultural beliefs and practices, and recognition that people from other cultures may not share them. |
| True |
| False |
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| 3- Cultural competence is rooted in respect, validation and openness towards someone with different social and cultural perceptions and expectations than your own. |
| True |
| False |
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| 4- People tend to have an “ethnocentric” view in which they see their own culture as the best. |
| True |
| False |
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| 5- Acculturation is the same for everyone. |
| True |
| False |
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| 6- The beliefs, customs, and traditions of people from other cultures are often at odds with Western medicine and its heavy emphasis on science. |
| True |
| False |
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| 7- Acculturation is a process that occurs when two distinct cultural groups have continuous first-hand contact, resulting in subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns. |
| True |
| False |
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| 8- Cultural communication includes issues relating to eye contact, physical contact and personal space. |
| True |
| False |
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| 9- The examination of one's own thoughts and feelings allows the counselor a better understanding of the cultural "baggage" he or she brings to the situation. |
| True |
| False |
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| 10- One of the greatest pitfalls of the novice counselor is to undergeneralize things learned about a specific culture as therefore applicable to all members of the culture. |
| True |
| False |
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| 11- Total belief in individualism fails to take into account the collective family community relationship which exists in many cultural groups. |
| True |
| False |
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| 12- Therapists have to constantly compare personal culture(s) within the context of professional obligations. |
| True |
| False |
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| 13- Multiracial individuals and families are one of the fastest growing populations in the U.S. |
| True |
| False |
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| 14- The historical experiences of ethnic and minority groups in the United States are reflected in differences in economic, social, and political status. |
| True |
| False |
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| 15- Culturally rooted traditions of religious beliefs and practices carry important consequences for willingness to seek mental health services. |
| True |
| False |
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| 16- There is wide racial and ethnic variation in drug metabolism. |
| True |
| False |
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| 17- Most minorities have developed a sharp sense for detecting condescension, manipulation, and insincerity. |
| True |
| False |
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| 18- All changes in a persons ways of seeing the world result from acculturation. |
| True |
| False |
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| 19- Ethnicity is a useful term when it refers to sense of identity with or belongingness in relation to some social group. |
| True |
| False |
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| 20- Culture is learned and thought of as the way of life of a group of people with some common and enduring bond among them. |
| True |
| False |
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| 21- Incorporating cultural values in programs may increase the credibility and perceived relevance of those programs. |
| True |
| False |
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| 22- Cultural competence requires a thorough understanding of the local population being served by an organization. |
| True |
| False |
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| 23- Language barriers are the most obvious potential impediment to the delivery of good quality mental health services. |
| True |
| False |
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| 24- Sources of stress and coping skills are important and differ between groups. |
| True |
| False |
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