Why Might a Clinician Interview a Culturally Different Client About

question 40

Multiple Choice

Why might a clinician interview a culturally different client about cultural aspects of his or her life?

• A) to develop hypotheses about the intelligence and personality of the interviewee
• B) to distinguish psychopathological behavior from that which is more typical of the culture of the interviewee
• C) to differentiate between what constitutes psychopathology in the majority culture from what constitutes psychopathology in the client's culture
• D) to sample new foods

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