Question 1
By using sociocultural intervention skills with minority clients, social workers become
◦ More subjective in assessing cases
◦ More discriminatory of minority groups
◦ More irrational and unrealistic
◦ Better negotiators, advocates, and peacemakers when problems arise between minority and majority persons
Question 2
Which of the following factors impedes the process of bicultural socialization for the ethnic client?
◦ Ignoring the major points of conflict between the minority and the majority culture to promote cultural sensitivity
◦ Searching out and providing translators, mediators, and models who can offer cross-cultural guidelines
◦ Determining areas of interface between the two cultures that can serve as "doorways" between them
◦ Educating people of the majority culture about the significant characteristics, values, and needs of minority cultures