Exam 9: Culture and Mental Health

The revised multicultural competencies encourage therapists to engage in ___________, or to take action on behalf of their clients at the organizational, community, and societal levels.

Informal ethnic group comparison from CPES data on the rates of eating disorders suggest that Asians are higher than the other groups only on

Prevalence rates for PTSD among refugee populations vary widely, with average rates ranging from:

Lana described how her counselor could not understand why she would place her brother's business before her own studies. Which barrier to multicultural counseling does this illustrate?

Dr. Stein developed a new treatment for depression and wants to prove it is effective. He designed an experiment where individuals diagnosed with depression were randomly assigned to either receive his new treatment, standard Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or were put on a wait list. What kind of study did Dr. Stein create?

In general, what did the findings of the NCS-R indicate about ethnic group differences in the rates of mental disorder?

Most traditional approaches to counseling and psychotherapy place primary responsibility for the cause and solution to the problem on

Based on available research evidence, what is one possible explanation for why men and women experience different disorders?

According to Sue and Sue (2016), all of the following are barriers to effective multicultural counseling and therapy except

What is the BEST conclusion about the overall rates of mental disorder between men and women?

Comfort discussing difficult topics such as racism and sexism is part of which area of multicultural competence?

What was the conclusion of the meta-analytic study conducted by Wilde, Emery, and Simons (2001) on eating-related problems and ethnic group membership?

When Kiana went to see Alan, a psychiatrist, for therapy, she felt frustrated by Alan's curiosity about her ethnicity and sexuality, and his assumptions about her as an "angry Black woman." According to Capodilupo (2016), Kiana probably did not return to therapy with Alan because:

Which of the following disorders has differential rates across cultures, suggesting that cultural factors, such as poverty and violence, may play a greater role than genetics in its cause?

What was the primary focus of the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Studies (CPES)?

According to the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), what percentage of U.S. residents experience a diagnosable mental disorder at some time in their life?

Which of the following is NOT a key element of multicultural counseling and therapy (MCT)?

What cultural syndrome is characterized by extreme anxiety that one's body or its functions are offensive to others?

___________________ are specific ways of expressing troubling thoughts, behaviors, and emotions within a particular culture.

From an African-centered perspective, in order to work effectively with African American clients, what must the therapist understand?