OMSA Final Exam Questions And
Answers
/. What might be some characteristics of cultural incompetence? - Answer-
✅Insensitivity to needs of culturally diverse clients.
Demonstrate arrogant or contemptuous attitudes.
Have little understanding of their own cultural
biases and prejudices.
Do not accept or respect cultural differences.
Discriminatory practices.
/.Marginalized group members often sense _______________ from the dominant
culture? - Answer-✅Emotional invalidation
/.Labeling clients as resistant because they do not make eye contact during a
counseling session might be an example of? - Answer-✅Cultural encapsulation
/.The Latin expression "ataque de nervios," or attack of the nerves, is basically the
same as the American expression of a panic attack and should be treated similarly? -
Answer-✅True
/.A holistic approach to personal identity demands that we recognize levels of identity to
include? - Answer-✅Individual, Group and Universal
/.When counselors unwittingly impose monocultural standards without regard for
differences in race, culture, gender and sexual orientation, they may be engaging in? -
Answer-✅Cultural oppression
/.Some researchers have argued that minority-group individuals underutilize and
prematurely terminate counseling/therapy because? - Answer-✅Of the biased nature of
the services themselves.
/.Cultural humility is described as which of the following? - Answer-✅A way of being
/.An active philosophy and approach aimed at reducing or eliminating disparities in
education, health care, employment and other areas that lower the quality of life for
affected populations is called? - Answer-✅Social justice
, /.According to the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC),
multiculturalism leads to ________________ initiatives and actions? - Answer-✅Social
justice
/.__________ is NOT a component of the tripartite model of multicultural counseling
competence? - Answer-✅Relationship
/.Microaggressions are best described as? - Answer-✅The everyday slights, put-downs,
invalidations and insults directed toward a group.
/.The term _________________is the ability to engage in actions or create conditions
that maximize the optimal development of client and client systems. - Answer-✅Cultural
competence
/.A culturally universal perspective, meaning that concepts can be considered universal
and equally applicable across cultures is called? - Answer-✅Etic
/.Identify the competency that is not part of competent multicultural counseling? -
Answer-✅Being "color blind" and diminishing the effect of culture.
/.The basic building blocks of cultural competence in clinical practice are
______________, _______________ and _______________? - Answer-✅Knowledge,
Skills and Awareness
/.Feelings of being brainwashed by the forces of White society would most likely be
found in what stage of the racial/cultural identity developmental model? - Answer-
✅Resistance and Immersion Stage
/.According to the Hardiman (1982, as cited in Sue & Sue, 2016) White Racial Identity
Development model, which stage is characterized by a conscious belief in the
democratic ideal that everyone has an opportunity to succeed? - Answer-✅Acceptance
/.Which of the following racial identity development model categorizes white people's
racial development in ego statuses? - Answer-✅Helms' Model
/.During the resistance and immersion stage, the three most active types of affective
feelings are guilt, shame, and anger. - Answer-✅True
/.In addition to working collaboratively with your client to construct an accurate definition
of the problem, you also include the ________________, which acknowledges that both
the client and therapist are embedded in systems such as family, work and culture? -
Answer-✅Contextual viewpoint
Answers
/. What might be some characteristics of cultural incompetence? - Answer-
✅Insensitivity to needs of culturally diverse clients.
Demonstrate arrogant or contemptuous attitudes.
Have little understanding of their own cultural
biases and prejudices.
Do not accept or respect cultural differences.
Discriminatory practices.
/.Marginalized group members often sense _______________ from the dominant
culture? - Answer-✅Emotional invalidation
/.Labeling clients as resistant because they do not make eye contact during a
counseling session might be an example of? - Answer-✅Cultural encapsulation
/.The Latin expression "ataque de nervios," or attack of the nerves, is basically the
same as the American expression of a panic attack and should be treated similarly? -
Answer-✅True
/.A holistic approach to personal identity demands that we recognize levels of identity to
include? - Answer-✅Individual, Group and Universal
/.When counselors unwittingly impose monocultural standards without regard for
differences in race, culture, gender and sexual orientation, they may be engaging in? -
Answer-✅Cultural oppression
/.Some researchers have argued that minority-group individuals underutilize and
prematurely terminate counseling/therapy because? - Answer-✅Of the biased nature of
the services themselves.
/.Cultural humility is described as which of the following? - Answer-✅A way of being
/.An active philosophy and approach aimed at reducing or eliminating disparities in
education, health care, employment and other areas that lower the quality of life for
affected populations is called? - Answer-✅Social justice
, /.According to the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC),
multiculturalism leads to ________________ initiatives and actions? - Answer-✅Social
justice
/.__________ is NOT a component of the tripartite model of multicultural counseling
competence? - Answer-✅Relationship
/.Microaggressions are best described as? - Answer-✅The everyday slights, put-downs,
invalidations and insults directed toward a group.
/.The term _________________is the ability to engage in actions or create conditions
that maximize the optimal development of client and client systems. - Answer-✅Cultural
competence
/.A culturally universal perspective, meaning that concepts can be considered universal
and equally applicable across cultures is called? - Answer-✅Etic
/.Identify the competency that is not part of competent multicultural counseling? -
Answer-✅Being "color blind" and diminishing the effect of culture.
/.The basic building blocks of cultural competence in clinical practice are
______________, _______________ and _______________? - Answer-✅Knowledge,
Skills and Awareness
/.Feelings of being brainwashed by the forces of White society would most likely be
found in what stage of the racial/cultural identity developmental model? - Answer-
✅Resistance and Immersion Stage
/.According to the Hardiman (1982, as cited in Sue & Sue, 2016) White Racial Identity
Development model, which stage is characterized by a conscious belief in the
democratic ideal that everyone has an opportunity to succeed? - Answer-✅Acceptance
/.Which of the following racial identity development model categorizes white people's
racial development in ego statuses? - Answer-✅Helms' Model
/.During the resistance and immersion stage, the three most active types of affective
feelings are guilt, shame, and anger. - Answer-✅True
/.In addition to working collaboratively with your client to construct an accurate definition
of the problem, you also include the ________________, which acknowledges that both
the client and therapist are embedded in systems such as family, work and culture? -
Answer-✅Contextual viewpoint
