1. What do culturally competent interventions with family members draw upon to help empower the family and help them develop self-worth and resiliency?
  2. Describe the differences in temperament at birth for babies of the following ethnicity:  White, Chinese, Japanese, Navajo, Australian Aboriginal. 
  3. When do children of Color become aware of racial differences and when can you begin to see the racial awareness?  How does this compare with White children? 
  4. Identify and describe are the three learning processes in developing a racial identity? 
  5. In some settings, children of Color were found to have equal or higher self-esteem than their White counterparts.  However, in other settings, the measure of self-esteem was found to be much lower.  What was the factor that made the difference?
  6. Williams and Moreland’s research found that there was a change in racial evaluation for African American children around junior high school? What was this change? 
  7. How do people of Color who were not raised in the United States but came to the country at an older age respond to experiences with prejudice and racism?  What makes their responses different from the response of someone that grew up in the United States? 
  8. What did Hauser and Kasendorf find out about adolescents, in terms of their personal identity?
  9. What are the differences in the three types of ethnic minorities as related to success in academic performance? 
  10. Explain some of the differences in learning styles for Native American, Whites, African Americans, Mexican Americans and Hawaiians.  
  11. Briefly describe the four variables that need to considered for culturally competent clinical intervention work with children of Color.
  12. Discuss two of the guidelines for therapeutic intervention skills with ethnic minority children. 
  13. Describe the four things that parents of Color can do to help protect their children form the effects of growing up in a society in which they are systematically subjected to the harmful effects of racism?
  14. What is the increase in birth rate for multicultural children?
  15. How many states still had laws against interracial marriage in 1967? 
  16. What are some psychological realities for bicultural children? 
  17. Research found that bicultural couples tended to be at two extremes of functioning.  What are these extremes and what makes the difference?
  18. What factor was found that made it easier to give children autonomy in biracial families?
  19. Who tends to be more accepting of bicultural relationships, Whites of communities of color? 
  20. What is an additional challenge faced by bicultural couples that is not faced by monocultural couples?
  21. Describe the three patterns of cultural tension that are most frequently found in bicultural families? 
  22. On average, when do bicultural children develop awareness of racial differences, as compared to monocultural children of Color?
  23. What factors lead to bicultural children being more successful in moving through the identity formation process?
  24. What concerns are expressed about White parents adopting children of Color?
  25. Choose one of the three scenarios on pages 110 to 111 and answer the questions.