Chapter 3 Gladding Marriage and Family Therapy – Flashcards
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acceptance
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the therapist's personal and professional comfortableness with a family.
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acculturation
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the modification of a culture as a result of coming into contact with another culture. In many instances, minority cultures incorporate many traditions and mores of majority cultures in attempts to "fit in."
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acculturation gap
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different rates of acculturation between immigrant parents and U.S.-raised children that complicates the normal generation gap. The results of this gap may result in greater misunderstandings, miscommunications, and eventual conflicts among family members than would otherwise happen.
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commitment ambiguity
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a situation usually in gay and lesbian couple relationships where one partner is not sure about his or her place in the affiliation.
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culturally encapsulated counselors
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professional therapists who treat everyone the same and, in so doing, ignore important differences.
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culture
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the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
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cultural competency
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sensitivity to such factors as race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation as well as the ability to respond appropriately in a therapeutic manner to persons whose cultural background differs one's own.
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culture
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specific model of multicultural counseling a model of counseling that emphasizes the values, beliefs, and orientation of different ethnic cultural groups
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ESCAPE
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an acronym that stands for four major investments therapists must make: (1) engagement with families and process, (2) sensitivity to culture, (3) awareness of families' potentials, and (4) knowledge of the environment.
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Hispanic or Latino
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a person born in any of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas (Latin America), Puerto Rico, or the United States who traces his or her ancestry to either Latin America or to Hispanic people from U.S. territories that were once Spanish or Mexican.
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home based therapy
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a method of treatment that requires family therapists to spend time with families before attempting to help them.
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institutional barrier
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any hardship that minority populations must endure to receive mental health services, such as the inconvenient location of a clinic, the use of a language not spoken by one's family, and the lack of diversified practitioners.
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intercultural couple
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individuals who elect to marry outside of their culture
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multicultural
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a term used to refer to the cultural groups within a region or nation.
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racism
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discrimination or prejudice based on race.
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systematic change agent
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the role a therapist takes when he or she tries to intervene on behalf of families in unhealthy and intolerant systems.
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universal perspective model of multicultural counseling
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a model of counseling that assumes that counseling approaches already developed can be applied with minor changes to different cultural groups. Thus, cultural differences are recognized from a family systems perspective.
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WASPs
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white anglo-saxon protestants, often the group associated with the term "White."
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White
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a term that is sometimes generalized and used to describe any person with white skin who has European ancestory.
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worldview
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the dominant perception or view of a specific group.
