Multicultural Counseling Competency Flashcards

Who coined the term "cultural encapsulation" to describe counselors who substitute their own cultural assumptions for reality?

Answer: C. Gilbert Wrenn

Wrenn introduced the concept of the culturally encapsulated counselor in 1962.

The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC) are organized as a set of quadrants based on what two factors?

Answer: Counselor and client positions of privilege and marginalization

The MSJCC quadrants describe privileged and marginalized counselor and client combinations.

In Pedersen's Triad Training Model, what role does the "anticounselor" play?

Answer: Voices the cultural messages working against the counselor's goals

The anticounselor voices the negative, culturally based thoughts the client may be holding back.

A career counselor brings up race early in a session by asking how the client's identity may shape their job search experience. This practice is best described as:

Answer: Broaching

Broaching means the counselor deliberately invites discussion of racial and cultural factors relevant to the client's concerns.

Which framework did Crenshaw introduce to describe how overlapping identities such as race and gender create unique experiences of discrimination?

Answer: Intersectionality

Crenshaw's intersectionality explains how multiple social identities combine to shape oppression and privilege.

An emic approach to career assessment emphasizes:

Answer: Culture-specific constructs understood from within the culture

Emic approaches look at behavior from inside a specific culture, while etic approaches look for universals.

In Sue's worldview model, a client with an internal locus of control and an external locus of responsibility is most likely to:

Answer: Feel they could succeed but believe discrimination is blocking them

IC-ER clients believe they have the ability to shape their lives but see the system as responsible for the barriers they face.