Identify and define the criteria for evaluating theory.
What will be an ideal response?
Criteria include coherence and conceptual clarity, testability and evidence of empirical support, comprehensiveness, consistency with social work's emphasis on diversity and power arrangements, and usefulness for social work practice.
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Counselor awareness of client’s worldview does not include which of the following:
a) counselor awareness of their stereotypes b) ignorance of specific knowledge of a particular group c) knowledge of sociopolitical influences that impact racial and ethnic minorities d) counselors becoming involved with persons of color outside the counseling setting
Finkelhor and colleagues reported that in their telephone interview study, ______ of children reported being in a school-based abuse or victimization program.
a. 67% b. 50% c. 34% d. 71%
Joining is a term used by Salvadore Minuchin that can be most associated with which of the following counselor attributes?
a. Empathy b. Being good at building a counseling relationship c. Being mentally healthy d. Genuineness e. Acceptance
Which of the following is not a way to develop multicultural awareness in working with clients of backgrounds different from your own?
A. Becoming more aware of your own culture, including your own biases to better understand and appreciate cultures different from your own B. Understanding how all kinds of diversity, cultural and otherwise, contribute to each client’s dynamic makeup C. Creating a list of values that you think your clients need to work on to help them better understand mainstream American culture D. Realizing that mainstream Western psychological theory, methods of inquiry, diagnostic categories, assessment procedures, and professional practices might not fit other cultures or might need some adaptation