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  3. Training as mental-health professionals is supposed to be "color blind". Tha

Training as mental-health professionals is supposed to be "color blind". Tha

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问题     Training as mental-health professionals is supposed to be "color blind". That sounds fine but in practice it means that people from black and ethnic groups get an unfair treatment be cause their particular problems are seldom acknowledged.
    So a project was piloted involving Bangladeshi women in inner city London, most of whom migrated to the UK in the 1960s and 1970s from a rural background. Many of these, women turned to their doctors with common symptoms of anxiety, such as headaches, sleeping difficulties, loss of appetite and lack of energy. They were usually prescribed tranquillizers(镇定剂)or even Vitamin C. Since the underlying causes remained, the women visited their doctors with in creasing frequency and some were referred on to mental-health professionals.
    The psychologists wanted to see how normal Western approaches to anxiety problems might work when applied across cultures. However, they found that many things in the standard approach had to be changed. They had to translate many of the usual examples -- they would normally compare learning to relax with learning to drive, for instance, which would not have been culturally appropriate. At first they asked the women to rate, on a scale one to ten, the effect of relaxation on their level of anxiety. They found numbers an odd way of expressing how they were feeling. So psychologists shifted their focus to words rand talked of five stages form "very good" to "very bad".
    As it was a pilot project, there were Shortcomings. Psychologists looked for too little back up and did not collect as much objective data as they might have done with a white group. They fell into the white stereotype of assuming that Bangladeshi women would find the use of various checklists and written records foreign. Perhaps racism has conditioned the professionals to a greater extent than they expected. Psychologists found that using a Western model across cultures has potential. But it needs political, financial and personal commitment. [br] The Bangladeshi women continued to visit their doctors because ______.
选项 A、they were lonely and isolated
B、the reasons for their problems were still there
C、they were being prescribed certain drugs
D、they were referred to mental-health professionals
答案 B
解析 事实细节题。从题干来看，题干是给出结果，要找出相关原因。此题可采取寻读的方法，找到原文相关出处。原文第二段最后一句用连词since明确给出原因the underlying causes remained(潜在的原因仍然存在)，B是对此原因的同义表达。
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