Exam 9: Culture and Mental Health

Kiana shared with her therapist, Alan, that she felt "invisible" in her workplace because of how co-workers and students treated her. This illustrates the impact of __________ on mental health.

According to the study by Martin, Neighbors, and Griffith (2013), what is one possible reason men and women are diagnosed with different disorders?

According to the findings of the NCS-R, there was only one instance in which a minority group had a higher rate of mental disorder than Non-Hispanic Whites. What was this?

Kim et al. (2010) found that Latinx people who were more proficient in English were more likely to seek mental health services than those who lacked English proficiency. However, this difference did not occur for

How does culture influence mental health?

What is the main resource used by health and mental health professionals in the United States to diagnose mental disorders?

________________ refers to the current rate of a disorder at a given point in time, while ________________ is the number of new cases of a disorder diagnosed in a given period of time.

Multicultural counseling and therapy (MCT) seeks to strike a balance between _________ and ___________ modes of helping.

What four main principles guide social justice counseling and psychotherapy?

Dr. Hunter wants to study whether cultural matching between clients and therapists leads to better outcomes in therapy. He has research assistants review audiotapes of actual therapy sessions and rate the client-therapist interactions on a number of different variables. What type of study is this?

What is the Japanese concept of shikata ga nai?

Dr. Terrence Roberts, who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, returned to Little Rock 30 years later to work with the school district. In his role as _______________, he talked with teachers, students, administrators, and politicians to help address some of the issues that lingered in regard to integration.

Alan was a White, male, heterosexual therapist. He brought almost all ___________ identities into his therapy with Kiana.

A ________________ approach to counseling and psychotherapy says one must address issues of mental health at the environmental, not just the individual level.

What role does the helping professional play in social justice counseling and psychotherapy?

The inclusion of cultural concepts of distress in DSM-5

Who developed the "talking cure" that formed the basis for almost all modern approaches to counseling and psychotherapy?

In some cultures, mental illness is believed to be caused by possession by evil spirits. This is an example of a

The social justice principle of __________________ says individuals have the right to be consulted on decision that affect their lives and the social systems with which they interact.

Besides Native Americans, another ethnic group neglected in the large epidemiologic studies on mental health are