Cross Cultural Issues : Identity Development Model

Question 1

Helm’s White Racial Identity Development Model distinguishes between six identity statuses which are:

Answer 1

contact, disintegration, reintegration, pseudo-independence, immersion-emersion, and autonomy.

Question 2

A White therapist is most effective when working with clients from racial and cultural miniority groups when in what status of Helm’s identity model?

Answer 2

Autonomy (highest racial identity status)

Question 3

Troiden’s (1988) model of homosexual identity development proposes that the initial stage of development involves:

Answer 3

feeling different from same-sex peers (sensitization)

Question 4

Cross’s (1971) original Nigrescence Model of Identity Development includes five stages:

Answer 4

pre-encounter, encounter, immersion-emersion, internalization, and internalization-commitment.

Question 5

Atkinson, Mortensen, and Sue’s R/CID Model describes people who question their inflexibility of their positive attitudes toward their own minority group and negative attitudes toward the majority group are in what stage?

Answer 5

Introspection

Question 6

Atkinson, Mortensen, and Sue’s R/CID Model predicts African-American clients are most likely to prefer a White therapist and to be uninterested in exploring their cultural identity when in what stage?

Answer 6

Conformity

Question 7

R/CID distinguishes between five stages:

Answer 7

conformity, dissonance, resistance and immersion, introspection, and integrative awareness.