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            Why is ethnic identity particularly important  for adolescent immigrants?  8.
            
            What three characteristics do interpersonal  problem-solving communication models focus on?
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            What are the three dimensions in  the Personal Identity model?
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            What three themes reflect  on how culture influences human existence?
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            What  is "Biracial Effectiveness Training" (BET)?
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            What are the four areas in which African Americans may be unwilling to self-disclose to  Caucasian counselors?
 | Answers A.  (a) educational and training settings,  (b) political and legal systems, (c) work and business interactions, and (d)  interpersonal and social contextsB.  A number  of studies have found that a strong sense of ethnic identity is related to  higher self-esteem.
 C.  (a)  self-hatred, (b) cultural differences, (c) historical hostility
 D.  Dimensions  A - age, gender, culture, ethnicity, race, and language, B - represent the "consequences" of the A and C  dimensions such as educational experience, & C  - grounds us in historical, political, sociocultural, and  economic contexts indicating that events of a sociopolitical, global, and  environmental form have a way of affecting one's
 personal culture and life  experiences
 E.  BET is a psychoeducational  approach that uses some of the fundamentals of family systems theory and  reframes them in terms of intercultural conflict.
 F.  Interpersonal problem-solving  communication models typically focus on the characteristics of the  communicators, modes of expressing (encoding) and receiving (decoding), and  elements of verbal and nonverbal communication.
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