Glossary E

Glossary E

Ethical, professional, and cross-cultural issues refer to the ethical, professional, and cross-cultural issues that are critical to the helping relationship and affect how the clinician works with his or her client. One of the eight (8) core areas of knowledge and skill.

Ethics refers to the study of what we understand to be good and right behavior and how people make those judgments

Ethnic group refers to a group of persons who are descendants of a common group of ancestors.

Ethnic identity refers to each person's sense of belonging to a particular ethnic group.

Ethnic identity search refers to the second stage of ethnic identity development similar to the moratorium identity status.

Ethnic subculture refers to the cultural values and behavioral patterns characteristic of a particular group in a society that shares a common ancestry; memories of a shared historical past; and a cultural focus on symbolic elements that distinguish the group from others.

Ethnic succession refers to the continuing process whereby one immigrant or ethnic group succeeds another through assumption of a particular position in society.

Ethnic-group identity means knowing that one is a member of a certain ethnic group ; recognizing that aspects of one's thoughts, feelings, and actions are influenced by one's ethnic membership; and taking the ethnic group 's values, outlook, and goals into account when making life choices.