(CO611) Chapter 2 - Terms

Question 1

Cultural Competence

Answer 1

The ability to provide services cross-culturally in an effective manner.

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

Assessing, interpreting, and judging culturally diverse behavior in relation to one’s own cultural standards. Such behaviors are acceptable to the extent that they are similar to one’s own cultural ways.

Question 3

Ethnorelativism

Answer 3

Assessing, interpreting, and judging culturally diverse behavior within its own cultural context. Such behaviors are neither good nor bad—only different.

Question 4

Cultural Pre-Competence

Answer 4

Having failed at attempts toward greater cultural competence due to limited vision of what is necessary by holding a false sense of accomplishment or overwhelmed by failure; showing a tendency to depend on tokenism.

Question 5

Multicultural ethical commitment

Answer 5

Requiring a strong desire to understand how culture is relevant to the identification and resolution of ethical problems. It demands a moral disposition and emotional responsiveness that moves psychologists to explore cultural differences and similarities.

Question 6

Multicultural ethical awareness

Answer 6

The implication that commitment itself is not enough but must be accompanied by the requisite knowledge about cultural differences and how they may affect the expression of and solution of ethical problems.