Diller Book: Chapter eight (Critical issues in working with culturally diverse clients) questions:
 

1. What does Draguns suggest is different about working with cross cultural clients (please describe)?
2. The text suggests there are two primary tasks of the helper in understanding the psychological dynamics in their cross cultural work with the client.  What are these tasks?
3. What four systems of psychological dynamics need to be examined?
4. In examining ethnicity, what influences notions of both the group and the self? 
5. What do the power assigning social structures in institutional racism affect the quality of life for both whites and People of Color and thus do what to differences between the groups? 
6. What kind of feelings tend to be generated by the experience of being different? What may happen interpersonally?
7. How is powerlessness defined?
8. What two ways can power and powerlessness be valuably explored and used in treatment? 
9. What makes culturally competent providers more competent in general?
10. What might happen when you look at clients only in terms of their differences? 
11. What are some alternatives to the popular Westernized “insight approach,” particularly with clients with a low level of acculturation? 
12. What is the purpose of the “Outline for Cultural Formulation” in the DSM IV? 
13. What percentage of Clients of Color do not return for a second session? 
14. What sort of manner should you have in your first session and how should you introduce yourself?  What additional questions should you ask in your introduction?
15. Instead of pretending that you know about someone’s culture when they present information, what should you do? 
16. What should you tell the client about the helping process?
17. After you have asked a client to describe in their own words the reason they are seeking help, what should you do? 
18. How should you end the session?