Diversity in SWK
According to the text, what percentage of social workers are White?
>87%
Espiritismo refers to:
A world where spirits reside and impact people in the physical world
Which minority group is most likely to have a kinship system in which individuals with a variety of blood and emotional ties (aunts, uncles, preachers, boyfriends, etc.) may act as the extended family?
African Americans
The author asserts that it is important to understand indigenous healing practices in order to:
All the above
Which of the following is true regarding Western forms of healing:
All the above
Which is not one of the macro-level factors associated with divorce?
Amount of research conducted on divorce
The group level of human existence does which of the following in understanding human nature:
Assumes that shared experiences aid in the formation of worldviews
You are writing a term paper about the consequences of divorce for children. You learned that during the initial crisis period after the divorce, children must cope with many different situations. Which is not one of these, according to the text?
Crisis with grandparents
The Tuskegee experiment, in which Black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated, represents which stage of cultural competence?
Cultural destructiveness
When social workers unwittingly impose monocultural standards without regard for differences in race, culture, gender, and sexual orientation, they may be engaging in:
Cultural oppression.
At what stage of cultural competence does individuals' racial/ethnic identity awareness come more clearly to the forefront?
Cultural pre-competence
Some of the traditional tenets of marital and family therapy, such as promoting male-female egalitarian relationships and mutual independence, can be described as:
Culture-bound
Which of the following is not a guiding principle for effective multicultural social work practice?
Culture-specific interventions serve to further divide and marginalize, therefore multicultural social work practice requires universal methods.
Multicultural social work practice can be defined as both a helping role and process that uses which of the following:
Defines goals consistent with the life experiences and cultural values of clients
Social workers need to realize that racial attitudes and believes are formed from which of the following sources:
Education Mass Media Peers
Which is not one of the common themes in the Human Rights Documents discussed in this chapter?
Entitlement to freedom, security, and decent standards of living can be determined by the governmental entities within the framework of their legislative and sociopolitical system.
A culturally competent social worker is one who believes:
Equal treatment may be discriminatory treatment.
According to Sue et al. (2016), "blaming the victim" refers to which statement?
Failing to consider the influence of the environment and structures which may cause problems for a client.
Addressing social policies (racial profiling, misinformation in educational materials, inequalities in healthcare, etc.) that are detrimental to the mental and physical health of certain groups is beyond the scope of social work.
False
Nonverbal messages are less important than verbal ones for effective cross-cultural communication.
False
Only White social workers need to understand cultural competence, since most discrimination comes from White people and White society.
False
Social workers are above bias, and thus, never hold personal biases, beliefs, or attitudes about other groups.
False
The responsibility of social workers is not to challenge institutional and cultural policies and practices that prevent equal access and opportunity, rather it is to help individual clients to live within these oppressive systems.
False
Understanding a client's culture equates to cultural competence, therefore, there is less need to understand the client's within-group differences.
False
A characteristic not associated with the White middle-class notion of healthy families is:
Holding the extended family as the standard
Social workers' acceptance of potential benefits of spirituality as a means of coping with helplessness, powerlessness, and identity issues is:
Increasing
The structural approach in family counseling emphasizes:
Interlocking roles of family members and the boundaries of various systems
Which of the following is characteristic of the "new racism" as described in this chapter?
It is based on a "color-blind" ideology.
All of the following are implications for multicultural organizational development except:
Not all White Euro-Americans have directly or indirectly benefited from individual, institutional, and cultural racism.
An entrapping niche describes which of the following?
One's social position, class location, ethnic and racial identity and economic status that blocks one from resources needed to support well-being.
Critical Race Theory (CRT) has six basic tenets. Which of the following statements is not one of the central tenets of CRT?
Other forms of oppression are not significant.
In order for organizations to promote an antiracist social justice agenda, it will be important for them to:
Promote non-hierarchical structures within the organization.
The inclusive definition of multiculturalism believes that:
Reference groups related to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, age, and socioeconomic status are included in the definition
Generally speaking, are children better off when their unhappily married parents remain married or get divorced?
Remain married in low-crisis marriages, but get divorced in high-conflict marriages
What is cultural role-taking?
Seeing and accepting other worldviews in a nonjudgmental manner.
Which of the following is a reason why social workers should understand organizational dynamics?
Social workers need to expand their role to directly impact systems rather than individuals only. Systems forces can be powerful and oppressive. It is difficult to do culturally competent work when the organization is not open to multicultural practice.
The strengths perspective can best be described in which of the following statements?
Struggles, abuse, and illness may be injuries but can be a source of challenge and opportunity to learn new adaptive and coping skills.
When multicultural organization development is required, alternative helping roles that emphasize _______ ________ must be part of the role repertoire of the social worker:
Systems intervention
The authors define cultural competence as which of the following?
The ability to engage in actions or create conditions that maximize the optimal development of clients and client systems.
Which of the following is one of the key criticism that anti-race theorists direct toward the "diversity" perspective in social work?
The diversity perspective may tend to objectify the culturally, racially and ethnically different client as well as ignore the sociopolitical and structural dynamics that impact the lives of diverse clients.
The ecological systems perspective can be best described in which of the following statements?
The ecological systems perspective describes the adaptive transactions between persons and their environment
The term, "the personal is political" means which of the following?
The personal experiences of diverse clients can be best understood by acknowledging the sociopolitical context that shapes their lived experience.
Important features associated with a multidimensional model of cultural competence include all of the following except:
The power to impose these standards in the workplace to ensure cultural competence of the agency.
A multicultural social worker must attend to the cultural strengths and resilience that a diverse client exhibits in his or her efforts to overcome life challenges.
True
According to the multidimensional model of cultural competence in social work, the culturally competent social worker demonstrates advocacy and empowerment and actively combats stereotypes and "isms" that permeate social institutions.
True
Cultural competence is a lifelong journey.
True
Hypothetically, even though racial/ethnic minorities can be biased, hold stereotypes, and believe their way is best, they cannot oppress because they do not possess the power to impose these values on others.
True
Multicultural social work practice is political in that it is grounded in social justice and respect for human rights.
True
Racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, and classism are functions of the unjust treatment of various socially devalued groups in society through unfair social policies and practices, problematic institutional standard operating procedures, and the actions of individuals who unknowingly discriminate.
True
Social workers can never fully achieve cultural competence, but can continually strive toward developing and enhancing his or her cultural sensitivity, understanding, and skills in working with culturally diverse groups.
True
Social workers should recognize and appreciate the strengths that exist in all cultures, this is also called the 'strengths perspective'.
True
Social workers should use interventions that are consistent with the lifestyle and cultural systems of the client.
True
An enabling niche best describes which of the following?
Where one's ecological location that avails the occupant the rights of equal opportunity to educational and economic resources.
Which of the following has not been identified as an organizational change principle?
White people are not under strong institutional pressure to conform.
The easier access to benefits because of the possession of "desired" characteristics in the U.S. is referred to as:
White privilege
Women report more marital problems than do their husbands, although interestingly, women tend to blame themselves for many of these problems. Why is this, according to the text?
Women often have a subordinate position in marriage, and as a result, wives monitor and interpret their marriages more often than do husbands.
The most desirable outcome of white identify development is one in which the White person:
accepts their Whiteness and defines it in a nondefensive and nonracist manner
Carol and Jay were married for 6 years. During this time, Carol worked as a bank teller to support her husband through graduate school so that he could become a tax attorney. After the divorce she asked for money so that she could go to college as well. This post-divorce support is called:
alimony.
The term ___________ describes divorced parents who live in two households, but remain one family in spirit because of their children.
binuclear family
The text emphasizes that minority identity models are conceptual aids and that human development is much more _______ than these models.
complex
According to the Cross model (p.156), feelings of having been brainwashed by the forces of White society would most likely be found in the:
encounter stage
The concept of "color-blindness" has which of these potential effects?
fails to acknowledge a client's full identity and individuality
According to Hardiman's stages of White racial identity development, the resistance stage is marked by which of the following:
feelings of anger, pain, hurt, rage, and frustration
A lack of trust between the social worker and client often leads to which of these?
guardedness, inability to establish rapport, lack of client self-disclosure
n the text, the authors argue that the Anglo-American culture influences the systems and theories used in the helping fields. Because of this Anglo-American influence, the perspectives often emphasize __________ and __________, which may not share the same value for other cultures.
individualism, autonomy
A holistic approach to understanding personal identity demands recognition of which of three levels:
ndividual, group, and universal
A study was conducted with a large group of unhappily married people who were interviewed twice over 5 years. The researchers asked, "Are those who divorced during this 5-year period happier than those who stayed married?" They found:
on average, the people in the divorced group were no happier than those who remained married.
According to the text, the cornerstone of racial identity development models is their acknowledgement of which of the following:
sociopolitical influences in shaping minority identity
The refined divorce rate is:
the number of divorces that occur in a given year for every 1,000 married women.
Legal custody refers to:
who has the legal authority to make important decisions concerning the child/children.
