Evidence-Based and Culturally Relevant Behavioral Health Interventions

1. Despite decades of research on effective interventions, behavioral health disparities continue to negatively affect black, indigenous, and other communities of color.(Required)

a. True

b. False

2. implementing evidence based practices with racial and ethnically diverse populations:(Required)

a. Yields many challenges

b. Yields few challenges

c. Yields little promising data

d. None of the above

3. Challenges which accompany evidence based practices can be addressed by a number of factors, including:(Required)

a. Having individuals from specific racial and ethnic groups adapt existing EBPs or develop their own interventions based on community-defined evidence

b. Ensuring the inclusion of racially and ethnically diverse individuals in the outcome studies, and building the capacity of the behavioral health workforce to implement existing culturally appropriate interventions

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

4. Motivational Interviewing (MI):(Required)

a. Works well across all communities and all cultures

b. Has been shown to be ineffective across all communities and cultures

c. Works well in a select few minority communities and cultures

d. None of the above

5. Motivational Interviewing (MI):(Required)

a. Centers the need of the group, and the MI practitioner decides how it is best applied within the context of the populations they engage

b. Centers the need of the individual, and the MI practitioner decides how it is best applied within the context of the populations they engage

c. Centers the need of the community, and the MI practitioner decides how it is best applied within the context of the populations they engage

d. None of the above

6. Motivational Interviewing (MI):(Required)

a. Is a good fit for most people and has shown to be effective or individuals that tend to be reactive and controlling by nature

b. Will not be a good fit for everyone, but has shown to be effective or individuals that tend to be reactive and controlling by nature

c. Will not be a good fit for everyone, especially for individuals that tend to be reactive and controlling by nature

d. None of the above

7. Preventing Long Term Anger and Aggression in Youth (PLAAY) is:(Required)

a. A culturally relevant, curriculum-based program based on RECAST (Racial Encounter Coping Appraisal and Socialization Theory)

b. A culturally irrelevant, curriculum-based program based on RECAST (Racial Encounter Coping Appraisal and Socialization Theory)

c. A culturally relevant, curriculum-based program based on RECAST (Recognition Encounter Coping Appraisal and Socialization Theory)

d. None of the above

8. Preventing Long Term Anger and Aggression in Youth (PLAAY):(Required)

a. Focuses on using the stress induction benefits of racial socialization to prepare youth to cope with stress and make healthier decisions in conflict situations

b. Focuses on using the stress reduction benefits of racial socialization to prepare youth to cope with stress and make healthier decisions in conflict situations

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

9. A key premise in Preventing Long Term Anger and Aggression in Youth (PLAAY) his that:(Required)

a. Racial-related conflicts are resolvable through stress management and can improve youth persistence and achievement in schooling

b. Gender-related conflicts are resolvable through stress management and can improve youth persistence and achievement in schooling

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

10. Preventing Long Term Anger and Aggression in Youth (PLAAY) employs:(Required)

a. Mindfulness strategies and individual therapy intervention elements to build youth’s skills in mindfulness, positive reappraisal, stress management, and assertiveness

b. Cognitive-behavioral strategies and group therapy intervention elements to build youth’s skills in mindfulness, positive reappraisal, stress management, and assertiveness

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above