Exam Preview for 1556: Cultural Competency in Behavioral Health Oct

Cultural Competency in Behavioral Health

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1. What are four components of cultural competency? independence, structure, observation, and communication identity, challenge, skills, attitudes knowledge, attitudes, awareness, skills knowledge, autonomy, independence, expertise
2. How does cultural competency contrast with cultural humility? cultural competency is more akin to knowledge; cultural humility acknowledges “not knowing” cultural competency is more of an attitude, whereas cultural humility is a set of concrete skills cultural competency and cultural humility are different terms but mean the same thing cultural competency takes more personal reflection and awareness compared to cultural humility
3. Which term can be described as “knowledge, skills, and abilities that enable working with diverse clients, with wide variation in responses within a client therapist relationship”? culturally relative care culturally competent care emotional-behavioral care culturally humble care
4. Black and Latinx individuals having a greater lifetime persistence of mental health disorders relates to which type of health disparity? service quality prevalence time healthcare access
5. In terms of mental healthcare utilization, some minority groups have been found to be less likely to do what? skip appointments perceive stigma fill initial prescriptions learn new medical terminology
6. For culturally responsive assessment, therapists describe, rather than prescribe, what? their cultural competence training a therapeutic alliance their clients’ identities psychiatric medications
7. If a behavioral health professional feels uncomfortable bringing up topics related to culture, discrimination, or societal issues, ideally they should: use their intuition to understand the client’s experience attempt to create an open dialogue anyway assume they already understand the client's issues avoid those topics completely
8. If a client mentions a culturally specific experience or term, and a behavioral health professional does not know what it means, the best practice is to: say they don’t know what that means, and ask the client to explain always use the knowledge they have to infer what it means draw on their own experience to interpret it research it later and then bring it up to the client next time
9. Which culturally responsive assessment interview model involves charting the cultural factors in identity, strengths, and effectiveness with those with different backgrounds? Respectful Awareness Addressing Cultural Competence
10. Which of the following is a policy recommendation to improve culturally competent behavioral healthcare? introspection and personal reflection increased emotional intelligence growing a culturally diverse workforce avoiding top-down approaches