Author Question: When working with youth whose racial or ethnic heritage is biracial or multiracial, counselors are ... (Read 74 times)

mydiamond · **on:** Jul 31, 2018

When working with youth whose racial or ethnic heritage is biracial or multiracial, counselors are likely to find that

a. the majority of adolescents identify with the minority category of their racial or ethnic identity.
b. the majority of adolescents identify as White.
c. about half of adolescents identify with no racial or ethnic category.
d. adolescents shift identity back and forth depending on the circumstances, rarely settling on one or the other for long.

Question 2

When counseling adolescents who are unsure of their sexual identity, helpers should keep in mind that

a. the most important thing is to bring the adolescent to disclose to
others.
b. once an adolescent begins to question his or her sexual identity, it is virtually certain that he or she will be a homosexual or bisexual adult.
c. the majority of gender-minority youth experience both same-sex and other-sex attractions in the process of coming out.
d. family is not an important source of support for these youth.