Author Question: The opening to the Multicultural Therapy chapter includes one Dutch family's experience of a family ... (Read 83 times)

washai · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

The opening to the Multicultural Therapy chapter includes one Dutch family's experience of a family therapy session with American family therapy pioneer, Carl Whitaker. The family reportedly experienced Whitaker's interventions as disrespectful and unhelpful. The central implication of this vignette is that:

a. family therapy does not work very well with Northern European families.
b. Dutch upper-middle-class families respond more positively to Dutch therapists.
c. all therapists should work to avoid the presumptive error of importing their culture's system of psychotherapy into a therapy with people of another culture.
d. therapists from one culture should not provide therapy for clients from other cultures.

Question 2

The Asian-American population of the United States is projected to reach what percent by mid-century?

a. 5 c. 13
b. 10 d. 19