(CO611) Chapter 1- Terms

Question 1

human service providers

Answer 1

Professional helpers (e.g., counselors,
therapists, psychologists, and social
workers) who provide social and
emotional advice, resources, and
education to those in need, most often
on a one-to-one basis.

Question 2

cross-cultural service delivery

Answer 2

The provision of human services in a
situation where provider and client
come from diverse cultural
backgrounds.

Question 3

empowerment

Answer 3

A helping strategy that involves
supporting, encouraging, and giving
clients skills to become their own
advocates.

Question 4

Cultural diversity

Answer 4

The array of differences that exist
among groups of peoples with definable and unique cultural backgrounds.

Question 5

Culturally diverse

Answer 5

Individuals (e.g., providers or clients)
who come from culturally different,
diverse, or distinct backgrounds. Used
synonymously with the term cross-
cultural.

Question 6

Culture

Answer 6

Differences in language, values,
personality and family patterns,
worldviews, sense of time and space,
and rules of interaction between
individual groups. Comprises traditional ideas and related values, is learned, shared, and transmitted from one to another.

Question 7

Ethnic group

Answer 7

Any distinguishable group of people
whose members share a common
culture and see themselves as separate and different from the majority culture.

Question 8

race

Answer 8

Biological group differences that derive from an isolated inbreeding population with a distinctive genetic heritage.

Question 9

People of color

Answer 9

A collective reference to groups of color in the United States, including African Americans, Asian Americans,
Latinos/as, and Native Americans. Used synonymously with the term non-white.

Question 10

Communities of color

Answer 10

Collectives of non-whites who share
certain physical (racial), cultural,
language, or geographic origins and/or
features.

Question 11

racial identification

Answer 11

The second step in the process of
developing racial identity; involves
learning to apply the newly gained
concept of race to oneself.

Question 12

colonization

Answer 12

The act of a more powerful nation or
people taking control of the land and
resources of a less powerful and often
indigenous people and using them for
its own benefit.

Question 13

cultural myopia

Answer 13

Viewing the world exclusively from the
perspective of one’s cultural paradigm.

Question 14

ethnic psychology

Answer 14

Psychological dynamics that are
peculiar to the experiences of people of color and other oppressed ethnic
groups.

Question 15

complex trauma

Answer 15

An emotional state experienced by
people who are exposed to repeated
and prolonged trauma. A DSM category of anxiety disorders.