Chapter fourteen: Working with White Ethnic Clients: An Interview with the Author in Cultural diversity (Diller text).

 

  1. What do White Ethnic groups have in common in terms of history? 
  2. The White Ethnics who came between 1800s and 1920s differed from the previous wave of immigrants because they valued what over individualism? 
  3. In U.S. Census data, how are White Ethnics categorized?
  4. How were White Ethnics often viewed by Western Europeans and what was the result?
  5.  Described the White ethnic “demilitarized zone.”
  6. What two psychological realities are not necessarily integrated in the White ethnic client? 
  7. Describe the four important points of which the helping professional should be aware when working with White ethnics
  8. For the author’s grandparents, what did being Jewish mean (this is a one word answer)?
  9. What do all Jews share? 
  10. Like all oppressed people, most Jews have experienced a long history of what? 
  11. The author reports seeing certain consistencies in psychological structure.  What are these? 
  12. Jewish history is defined primarily by what? 
  13. Describe the four central values that define and infuse Jewish culture. 
  14. As compared with other ethnic groups, when are Jews most likely to seek treatment and with what conditions?
  15. What parts of traditional psychotherapy fit in particularly well within Jewish culture? 
  16. A study in San Francisco found that what percentage of Jewish adults experienced some internal conflict over their Jewish identity? 
  17. What is a common symptom of identity conflict? 
  18. What is ethnotherapy? 
  19. What does post ethnotherapy research show?