COUC 504 Quiz 5 African Americans
COUC 504 Quiz 5: African Americans
Module 5: Week 5
- is applied to counseling settings with cross-racial dyads of clients and counselors, client racial preferences for counselors, and supervisor-supervisee cross-racial pairings; and used to explore how racial identity can change over the life span.
- According to research, individuals of African descent often describe themselves as
- Colorism in the African American community is a preference for individuals
- Historically, in the U.S. educational system children of African descent were often placed in
- The __________ provides a framework for understanding both the significance of race in the self- concept of African Americans and the qualitative meaning that is attributed to being a member of that racial category.
- The historical labeling of slaves’ motivation to run away as Drapetomania
provides one example of why some African Americans continue to distrust the mental health field. - Black families were frequently dissolved by the sale of members to slaveholders on different plantations.
- Grandmothers rarely have a central role in Black families.
- In the U.S., African American men have a lower life expectancy than African American women.
- When a therapist identifies a Black child functioning in some parental roles related to other siblings, the therapist should always intervene to adjust family roles to eliminate the child’s parenting functions.
- Therapists who display color blindness in their approach to Black clients believe
- This group has varied, more egalitarian, roles for women in the family.
- The unemployment rate for Blacks in the U.S. is substantially higher than the rate for Whites.
- Having a degree from a prestigious university is always helpful in establishing a trusting therapeutic alliance with culturally diverse clients.
- When assessing the family environment of African Americans, one should ask “Who lives at home? Who helps out?” because