Ch. 5 Understanding Culture and Cultural Differences

2. counselors that ____ have a more positive impact on clients
5. encouraging or teaching clients to impose changes on the external environment so that it better fits their needs
7. ______ behavior involves doing things not for oneself, but in light of what they may contribute to the survival and betterment of family and community
8. often mistakenly interpreted by whites as indifference, provocative, or symptomatic of a lack of basic work skills.
10. Brown and Landrum- Brown (1995) define ____ dimensions along which cultures can vary
11. refers to looking at a culture through its indigenous concepts and theories
13. refers to how a culture views the nature of reality
14. involves the kind of reasoning process that group members adopt
15. nature dimension of culture deals with how groups view the essence of being human

1. idea that hard work and serious effort ultimately bring a person financial and social success
3. Helping clients cope with a difficult life situation by accommodating or adapting to it
4. set of shared assumptions and beliefs about how the world works
6. the conscious and unconscious content that a group learns, shares, and transmits from generation to generation that organizes life and helps interpret existence
9. means viewing a culture through “glasses” that are external to it
10. refers to widely held beliefs within a cultural group that guide social interactions
12. mechanism used by Arabs/ Muslims that involves expressing authentic feelings away from family and social observation