Course Description: This course is based on a comprehensive report on mental health and ethnicity published by the surgeon general. This course provides the reader with up to date information on the status of, needs for, availability of and outcomes of mental health services for minority groups. It is the introductory chapter of an extensive report on culture and mental health in America.
This course is designed for both clinicians and administrators who work in both private and public, and urban and rural areas. Psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists can benefit from this course. This course may also be helpful for other practitioners, such as midwives and dieticians and nutritionists who work with a diverse client base. This course is appropriate for beginning, intermediate and advanced level practitioners who wish to improve the skills in the area of cross cultural competency and multiculturalism.
Author: Surgeon General of the United States
Learning Objectives: This course will provide a professional with information about how culture affects mental health and mental health care in the United States. Specifically, a professional will:
Demonstrate knowledge of how culture affects the prevalence and presentation of mental illness.
Demonstrate knowledge of how culture affects treatment seeking behaviors and stigma associated with mental illness.
Demonstrate an understanding of culturally competent evidence based treatment for mental illness.
Credits: 2
Exam Fee: $20.00
Format: Online
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Exam Questions for Culture Counts - by the Surgeon General
1. Culture refers to a group's shared set of . . . beliefs, norms and values ideations, ethnicity and morals norms, morals and religion ethnicity, heredity and history 2. The text warns that generalizations about culture characteristics can be wrong because . . . it is wrong to stereotype acculturation matters more in the US age, income and health status are better predictors there is more diversity within populations that between populations 3. Culture and social context appear to play a more significant role in the causation of __________ than other disorders such as schizophrenia. bipolar disorder panic disorder depression borderline personality disorder 4. Suicide rates vary greatly across countries as well as across US ethnic subgroups. The suicide rates in the US are highest among African American women African American men American Indian and Alaska Native men American Indian and Alaska Native women 5. In a recent study, Thai children were __________ times more likely than American children to rely on covert coping methods than overt coping methods. 1 2 3 4 6. According to this report, the most formidable obstacle to future progress in the arena of mental illness and health is . . . . stigma mistrust immigration overall health status of minority groups 7. Minority groups have poorer overall heath status than majority groups in the US. This report states that some of the disparities in mental health described are __________ linked to the poorer somatic health status of racial and ethnic minorities. unlikely to be probably definitely unquestionably 8. Widely held stereotypes of Asian Americans as __________ may prompt clinicians to overlook their mental health problems. asymptomatic intellectually superior problem free difficult to treat 9. Each of the following are identified as a major sectors for receiving mental health care EXCEPT: specialty mental health center general medical and primary care sector human services sector spiritually based services sector 10. In all clinical trials evaluating evidenced based treatments, very few minorities were included, and ___________ analyzed the efficacy of the treatment by ethnicity or race not a single study less than one percent of studies less than one third of all studies nearly all studies 11. A relatively new field known as __________ investigates ethnic variations that affect medication dosing and other aspects of pharmacology. ethnopharmocology ethnopsychopharmacology ethnophsiopharmocology ethnically competent pharmacology 12. The largest ethnic minority group in the US today is . . . . African Americans Hispanic Americans Asian Americans Caucasian Americans
Culture Counts - by the Surgeon General
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