A client of Asian descent is not maintaining eye contact with therapist. The therapist diagnosed the client with social anxiety disorder. According to the examples of racial microaggression in therapeutic practices, what message is sent?

a. You are disrespectful.
b. Assimilate into the dominant culture.
c. You must be hiding something.
d. I can’t trust you.


b. Assimilate into the dominant culture.

Counseling

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A. attentive statements. B. open questions. C. minimal encouragers. D. door openers.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in Reflecting the feelings of a client?

a. Recognize feeling words or underlying emotion and keep them readily in mind b. Identify a preparatory statement c. After recognizing feeling words and identifying a feeling word to use in the reflection, select an appropriate time to enrich d. Use paralanguage to encourage

Counseling

__________ is a process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying them inappropriately to dissimilar event or settings

a. Minimization b. Magnification c. Selective abstraction d. Overgeneralization

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Reliability and validity of diagnostic tests is often quite poor

a. True b. False

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