Which one of the following statements is NOT true of mutuality focus?
a. Mutuality can be controversial and should be used infrequently.
b. Mutuality can be powerful as it uses the interviewer as an instrument.
c. Mutuality is not a legitimate focus area.
d. Mutuality focus puts the client and interviewer on an equal level.
“I think you”re doing that just because you want attention.” This is an example of
____________.
a. interpretation
b. logical consequences
c. self-disclosure
d. feedback
Which of the following wellness dimensions or elements are you trying to assess when
you ask, “What strengths do you draw from as a female or male?”
a. The coping self
b. The social self
c. The essential self
d. The creative self
Which of the following is the memory organ?
a. Hypothalmus
b. Amygdala
c. Pituitary
d. Hippocampus
Instructions: The question(s) below require you to identify what type of focus the
responder is using in the reply to the following statement:
“I just can’t believe how much fun I’m having right now. They call this an exam, but I
feel more like I’m at a party. And not only that, but I’m learning so much at the same
time. I just feel so smart and competent as I answer these questions I could just jump up
and down. My parents never told me how much fun college was going to be. The only
problem is the professor’s sense of humor. Sometimes I think he got into teaching
because it was the only way he could get away with such bad jokes without having
people leave the room.”
Identify the kind of focus by its letter.
a. Person focus
b. Problem / main theme focus
c. Others focus
d. Family focus
e. Mutual issues or group focus
f. Interviewer focus
g. Cultural / environmental / contextual focus
____ “Let us lead the class in song!”
A word for positive stress is:
a. plusstress.
b. eustress.
c. topstress.
d. smartstress.
The client is smiling, but his/her knuckles are white from clinched fists. This is an
example of a ____.
a. discrepancy in nonverbal behaviors
b. discrepancy in verbal statements
c. discrepancy between what one says and what one does
d. discrepancy between statements and verbal behavior
The basic listening sequence can help ensure that ____.
a. the client is encouraged to bring out the facts, feelings, and thoughts around their
issues
b. clients tell their stories more fully
c. interviewers reduce their talk time
d. all of these
A wellness assessment that includes study of local issues such as community, larger
institutions, and even global issues that affect the individual is considering:
a. the individual client thinking on key issues that affect her or him.
b. contextual issues.
c. issues that are unimportant to client develop. It is essential to focus solely on the
client in the session.
d. how to impart political opinions on the part of the counselor in an appropriate
manner.
“What special issues do you anticipate with regard to rapport development?” As you
prepare your first interview treatment plan for a new client, you would most likely ask
this question when you consider which stage of the interview?
a. Empathic relationship
b. Story and strengths
c. Goals
d. Restory
e. Action
A number of regions of the ________ are activated attentional task preparation and
execution.
a. prefrontal cortex
b. right intuitive brain
c. limbic system
d. limbic system and the right intuitive brain
When you use skillful attending skills as an interviewer, you can predict the client will
____.
a. think more carefully about what they are sharing
b. pay more attention to interviewer instructions
c. share a more complete story with fewer topic jumps
d. express more emotional release
Which of the following is TRUE regarding stress?
a. We need some stress for learning.
b. Stress management is an important part of counseling.
c. Therapeutic lifestyle changes can ameliorate stress.
d. All of the above are true.
New neural connections can be developed in interviewing and counseling. This is an
interactive process in which:
a. counselors impact the client’s brain.
b. clients impact the counselor’s development.
c. both counselors and client change in the interviewing process.
d. the hippocampus is influenced by the knowledge of the counselor.
According to the authors, direct confrontation may be inappropriate for:
a. European-American clients.
b. African-American clients.
c. European-Canadian clients.
d. Native American clients.
We tend to listen to some topics more than others by verbal tracking. We hear some
topics better than others. It is important that the interviewer be aware of unconscious
patterns of:
a. selective attention.
b. pupil dilation.
c. verbal underlining.
d. client topic jumps.
The microskills step-by-step teaching and learning paradigm is:
a. not supported by brain research.
b. is less effective than a holistic approach.
c. strongly supported by studies on sequential learning and practice effect.
d. would be more effective if it were more precise and sequential.
“I see the situation differently each time I look at it. It’s so sad and I feel so badly that I
lost my friend in the accident and I worry that I didn’t do more to help. At the same
time, I treasure the memories and feel so glad to have shared the world, even in this
short time. Providence sends us so many different things.”
The client is displaying a(n) ____.
a. sensorimotor emotional orientation
b. concrete emotional orientation
c. abstract / formal operational orientation
d. abstract dialectic / system orientation
Mirror neurons:
a. fire up when clients look at themselves.
b. guide clients’ grooming behavior.
c. fire up when clients observe actions by others.
d. fire up when clients look into a mirror.
Which of the following is NOT true of selective attention?
a. Selective attention is simply interviewers noting the topics to which clients attend.
b. Clients tend to talk about what interviewers are willing to hear.
c. It is just as important for interviewers to observe how they selectively attend to
specific topics.
d. Interviewers may have a limited list of topics that interest them.
What should you do when the feelings of the client are not fully understandable and
seem confused?
a. Ignore the feeling until you understand fully what the client is saying.
b. Paraphrase and summarize what you have heard.
c. Reflect the feelings as you have heard them, but include a checkout for accuracy.
d. All of the above.
A student intern in an agency helps a homeless client find a place to stay over the night
and goes with that client to make sure they can get in. The supervisor feels this behavior
is inappropriate and allows the client to get too close to the counselor. The supervisor
feels that this is a violation of boundaries. The student’s professor feels that the student
made the right decision. The conflict between supervisor and professor’s beliefs
represents which of the following two key ethical issues?
a. Informed consent vs. competence (boundaries)
b. Confidentiality vs. competence boundaries
c. Power vs. social justice
d. Social justice vs. competence boundaries
In every interview the quality of attending and non-attending responses ____.
a. is always the same
b. depends on how actively you demonstrate attending
c. depends on the situation
d. depends on how well versed you are in expressing non-attention
Which one of the following is an IMPROPER counselor choice in regards to counselor
psychoeducational/instruction sharing?
a. Provide advice sparingly and only when the client is likely to need and accept it.
b. Offer advice and your opinions at any time a client may request it.
c. After careful listening and if the situation warrants, you can offer advice and
instruction.
d. When listening to counselor advice, let the client be in charge.
Which of the following is TRUE about observation?
a. Observation is the act of watching carefully and intentionally.
b. The goal of observation is understand behavior.
c. Mastering observation is not easy.
d. All of the above.
Which one of the following would you NOT need to consider as you begin the journey
of determining your natural style?
a. Your goals
b. Your skills and strategies
c. Your cultural intentionality
d. Your graduate test scores
Nonverbal indications of a client who is deeply emotional may most often include:
a. rapid breathing, speech hesitations, and facial flushing.
b. relaxed body posture concealing deeper feelings.
c. focusing on a single topic to the exclusion of all others.
d. all of the above.
Which question opener will be MOST useful for bringing out client feelings and
emotions?
a. Could
b. What
c. How
d. Why
The Microskills Hierarchy
a. demonstrates clearly that different clients have different needs.
b. demonstrates that alternative settings for counseling require different skills.
c. describes the skills in order of importance.
d. provides a picture of the microskills as they move from attending to influencing to
skill integration.
Stereotyping a client:
a. is useful to determine which microskills to apply during a session.
b. is relatively easy within multicultural clients.
c. is discriminatory and nave.
d. is determined by the acculturation of individual clients.
The most immediate and potentially powerful tense for a reflection of feeling is:
a. past tense.
b. present tense.
c. future tense.
d. all tenses have equal power.
“Your effort was in the right direction. You can do even more if we set up an
assertiveness training session for you.” What kind of feedback is this statement?
a. Vague, judgmental, negative feedback
b. Concrete nonjudgmental, positive feedback
c. Corrective feedback
d. None of the above