Mental Health and Substance Use Module 10 Quiz

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• A reflective process that starts with one’s awareness about one’s own culture: beliefs, assumptions, values, and biases. It also invites us to learn about other cultures focusing on an understanding of similarities and differences without assigning positive or negative values. When working with diverse communities, it is important to learn about the client population’s cultures, be aware of how power informs relationships between the service providers and clients, challenge the inequalities that exist, and become aware of intersectional positionings of individuals served, identifying harmful stereotypes and assumptions, and avoiding stereotyping clients based on beliefs.
• It often accumulates over time due to exposure to microaggressions. Even though the current event may be minor, it can draw a more serious response than it could have, were it a single event.
• is experienced by many people and leads to high levels of collective distress; is perpetrated by outsiders; and, is manifested in such symptoms as self-destructive behaviour, suicidality, depressions, PTSD, low self-esteem, substance use, anger, intergenerational trauma that then is passed onto from one generation to the next.