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Introduction to Cultural Competence

1. A health disparity is a particular type of health difference closely linked with social, economic, and environmental disadvantage.

A. TRUE B. FALSE

2. Which of the following may determine an individual's culture?

A. Socialization patterns B. A common pattern or style of communication C. Patterns of dress D. All of the above

3. Which of the following statements is most accurate?

A. Race is a social construct that describes people with shared physical characteristics B. Race is genetic construct that describes people with shared physical characteristics C. Race does not describe people with shared physical characteristics D. Racial labels always have a clear meaning in other parts of the world

4. Ethnicity does not differ from race.

A. TRUE B. FALSE

5. Which of the following statements is most accurate?

A. Cultural identities are static B. Cultural identities are not static C. Cultural identity is always consistent among people who identify with the same culture D. An individual cannot hold two or more cultural identities simultaneously

6. Speaking the same language means that individuals share the same culture.

A. TRUE B. FALSE

7. Which of the following factors should be considered when distinguishing cultural communication patterns?

A. Direct versus indirect communication B. Appropriate personal space C. Use of silence D. All of the above

8. Gender roles are largely cultural constructs.

A. TRUE B. FALSE

9. When interviewing recent immigrants to the United States, the APA recommends covering which of the following topics?

A. Number of generations in the United States B. Fluency in English C. Level of education D. All of the above

10. Which of the following statements is most accurate?

A. Acculturation is the process whereby an individual from one cultural rejects elements of another cultural group B. Assimilation is never an outcome of acculturation C. Assimilation involves the complete adoption of new cultural ways of life from a new culture D. Enculturation always refers to the process of rejecting native cultural ways

11. An individual from Spain immigrates to the United States. After a few years, the individual becomes comfortable with both the American culture and the more traditional Spanish culture. What level of acculturation has the aforementioned individual reached?

A. A traditional orientation B. A bicultural orientation C. A marginal orientation D. None of the above

12. Which of the following factors can contribute to substance use among more acculturated patients?

A. Changes in traditional gender roles B. Employment outside of the home C. Adopting mainstream American cultural values D. All of the above

13. Cultural concepts of distress can refer to mental disorders that only present in a specific cultural group or locality.

A. TRUE B. FALSE

14. Cultural groups may determine which of the following factors regarding health, illness and healing?

A. Who is able to diagnosis B. Who is able to treat an illness C. Beliefs about the causes of illness D. All of the above

15. Which of the following statements is most accurate?

A. Religion and spirituality are the same B. Spirituality is typically organized C. Spirituality can refer to an individual's search for meaning D. Spirituality never plays a role in recovery from mental illness and/or substance abuse


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