A U.S.-born Korean American man has been attending but not participating in AA meetings. He refuses a referral from the facilitator for individualized treatment from a therapist who is not Korean. Why do you think he refuses?
A. He is concerned about a language barrier.
B. He probably does not have the financial resources or insurance
to pay for individualized treatment.
C. He is probably ashamed to lose face and bring dishonor to his
family, which he believes seeking help outside of his community
would do.
D. He is ashamed to lose face and bring dishonor to his family,
which he believes accepting personal treatment would do.
Question 2
After 15 years of marriage, the wife of a Mexican American man left him due, she said, to his heavy drinking. He drank only after a hard day's work and does not think he has an alcohol problem.
But since
she left, he is thinking twice. What occurred?
A. His machismo let him feel that he fulfilled obligations by working
hard and he deserved to drink without criticism. Now he feels
emasculated and powerless.
B. He is too full of machismo and cannot see how his alcohol
dependence ruined his marriage. You are glad his wife finally left
him after 15 years.
C. He is experiencing acculturative stress, forgetting the fatalistic
perspective of his culture. His wife was fated to leave. He does
not have a problem.
D. He has lost his feeling of machismo, which allowed him to hold
his liquor.
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