Questions
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Why is ethnic identity particularly important for adolescent immigrants?
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What three characteristics do interpersonal problem-solving communication models focus on?
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What are the three dimensions in the Personal Identity model?
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What three themes reflect on how culture influences human existence?
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What is "Biracial Effectiveness Training" (BET)?
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What are the four areas in which African Americans may be unwilling to self-disclose to Caucasian counselors? |
Answers
A. (a) educational and training settings, (b) political and legal systems, (c) work and business interactions, and (d) interpersonal and social contexts
B. A number of studies have found that a strong sense of ethnic identity is related to higher self-esteem.
C. (a) self-hatred, (b) cultural differences, (c) historical hostility
D. Dimensions A - age, gender, culture, ethnicity, race, and language, B - represent the "consequences" of the A and C dimensions such as educational experience, & C - grounds us in historical, political, sociocultural, and economic contexts indicating that events of a sociopolitical, global, and environmental form have a way of affecting one's
personal culture and life experiences
E. BET is a psychoeducational approach that uses some of the fundamentals of family systems theory and reframes them in terms of intercultural conflict.
F. Interpersonal problem-solving communication models typically focus on the characteristics of the communicators, modes of expressing (encoding) and receiving (decoding), and elements of verbal and nonverbal communication.
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