Informed consent refers to:
a. providing clients with clear and adequate information about what is happening in the
interview and informing them about your own competence.
b. telling the client halfway through the interview about their rights.
c. too many people avoiding this critical issue.
d. honestly discussing multicultural difference between counselor and client.
Which of the following is FALSE?
a. Counselors need to be competent in evidence based counseling skills.
b. Counselors need to know their theoretical systems of counseling.
c. Counselors need to use the scientific research to precisely determine what will be
most useful way to help each one of their clients.
d. All of the above.
Ivey suggests which of the following may be the best therapy to release anandamide
and work with drugs and alcohol?
a. Decisional counseling
b. Brief counseling
c. Cognitive behavioral counseling
d. Motivational interviewing
All your clients like to be listened to accurately. If your client is culturally different
from you, it may be more difficult for the client to trust you to hear him or her correctly.
Which of the following would NOT be helpful to establish the necessary trust?
a. Learning the political / power structure of the client’s community.
b. Accurately following the specified treatment plan designated for your client’s
observed ethnic group.
c. Appropriate interviewer disclosure and an explanation of your methods.
d. Enjoying yourself at cultural celebrations.
Which of the following is NOTa dimension of the wellness assessment?
a. Spirituality
b. Gender identity
c. Social class identity
d. Cultural identity
Which of the following is NOT part of optimism?
a. An expectation that things will work out
b. A sense of personal weakness
c. A belief that you will learn from difficulties
d. A belief in the future
The need for appropriate supervision is most basic to which ethical area?
a. Competence
b. Informed consent
c. Confidentiality
d. Power
Which of the following focuses on gathering client data, suggesting ways to solve
problems, or providing information?
a. Interviewing
b. Psychology
c. Counseling
d. Psychotherapy
Advocacy is ____.
a. speaking out for your clients
b. working in the school or community
c. working for social change
d. all of the above
“I have enough financial reserves that I can handle a major car problem without a large
financial crisis.” This is an example of:
a. White privilege.
b. heterosexual privilege.
c. middle-class privilege.
d. male privilege.
The first task in eliciting and reflecting feelings is to _________ key emotional words
expressed by the client.
a. recognize
b. paraphrase
c. reflect
d. confront
We can thank _____________ for the term “reflection of feeling.”
a. Miller
b. Rogers
c. Ellis
d. Beck
____ the microskills into a well-formed interview and ____ the skills to situations
beyond the training session or classroom.
a. Invent; apply
b. Integrate; generalize
c. Mix; address
d. Maneuver; develop
This book presented ___ major concepts and skills and more than ___ specific methods,
theories, and strategies.
a. 26; 50
b. 34; 75
c. 39; 100
d. 43; 125
Anticipation of rewards or punishment is most closely associated with which of the
following influencing strategies?
a. Directive
b. Feedback
c. Self-disclosure
d. Logical consequences
Proficient counselors ________________________.
a. know that questions are absolutely required to complete an effective client session
b. always use questions more than any other skill during client sessions
c. never use questions during client sessions
d. recognize, that while essential, there are potential problems associated with
questioning clients
“I am not taught to fear walking alone after dark in average public places.” This is an
example of:
a. White privilege.
b. heterosexual privilege.
c. middle-class privilege.
d. male privilege.
Which of the following is a TRUE statement?
a. Closed questions can overwhelm clients.
b. Interviewers can totally control the session using closed questions.
c. Specific critical details can be expressed using closed questions.
d. All of the above.
Microskills are:
a. comprehensive intervention skills.
b. communication skills units.
c. persuasive communication strategies.
d. hidden codes of communication.
Intentional competence is reflected in:
a. your successful effort.
b. your execution of the microskills.
c. what your client does.
d. how quickly you can bring resolution to the client’s issue.
You are able to watch an expert therapist in a film and list the skills and concepts he or
she is using. You demonstrate ____ competence.
a. identification and classification
b. basic
c. intentional
d. teaching
Approximately ____ percent of successful counseling and therapy outcome is said to be
due to relationship or common factors.
a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 30%
d. 40%
Which is believed by the authors to be most central?
a. Thoughts
b. Feelings
c. Behaviors
d. Meanings
In the five-stage interview model, Stage 2, story and strengths, does NOT include ____.
a. defining the problem
b. identifying the interviewer role
c. drawing out stories, concerns and issues
d. identifying client strengths
Which of the following is the center for auditory processing?
a. Parietal lobe
b. Frontal lobe
c. Occipital lobe
d. Temporal lobe
The Guidelines for Multicultural Competence focuses on:
a. awareness, knowledge, and skills required for all practice, research, and training.
b. ethical statements for effective multicultural work.
c. an adopted set of absolute rules for counselors and psychologists.
d. culturally specific treatment methods.
Which of the following correctly details the techniques of reflecting feelings?
a. Sentence stem, feeling label, content summary, past tense, check-out
b. Feeling label, brief context, sentence content, tense, check-out
c. Sentence stem, feeling label, brief context, tense, check-out
d. Feeling label, brief context, tense, check-out, closing
The process of discernment is ____.
a. completely unrelated to the microskills
b. a more systematic approach to finding meaning and purpose
c. another term to describe reflection of meaning
d. another term to describe interpretation / reframe
Which one of the following examples is NOT an example of a counselor acting for
social justice or as an advocate?
a. A career counselor helps a 40-year-old business manager face a career change.
b. A high-school counselor initiates school policies and awareness programs against
oppression in the classroom.
c. An elementary school counselor works with a child who is being bullied on the
playground.
d. A social worker helps an abused wife and her children obtain shelter.
Which of following is NOT a danger of questions?
a. The client may be put on the defensive by why questions.
b. The interviewer can take too much control of the session.
c. Client stories may be made more concrete and specific through questioning
strategies.
d. In cross-cultural situations, too many questions may destroy the relationship.
Instructions: The questions below require you to identify what type of focus the
responder is using in the reply to the following statement.
“I’d like to buy a new car, but I’m not sure if I can afford it. The ones I have been
looking at seem terribly expensive. But then, I have a large family and could use the
space. But will they be dependable? And what about gas mileage? What do you think I
should do?”
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
____ “Your family wants space. What kind of car have they got in mind?”
As the interviewer, when you don’t know what to do next, which of the following
should you do?
a. Continue attending to the client.
b. Ask the client to start over.
c. Consult your notes regarding the client’s issues.
d. End the session.
Which of the following is seen as the most basic emotion?
a. Anger
b. Fear
c. Surprise
d. Disgust
Level 1. Denial, The negative alpha solution. The client seems unable to accommodate
new data from the counselor or therapist. The client will fail to deal with the conflict or
contradiction, make an abrupt topic shift, or show a clearly incorrect “off-the-wall”
response.
Level 2. Partial examination, The more mature alpha solution. The client deals with
only a portion of the issue or counselor’s statement. The client may over-generalize,
delete, or distort what has been said, but not as seriously as in Level 1. You may find
irrational ideas and some blindness to problems.
Level 3. Acceptance and recognition, Beta solution. The client recognizes the situation
as it is and the client’s comment, feeling, or thought seems close to that presented by the
therapist, but nothing new is added by the client. This level characterizes homeostasis
or no change. Score as Beta if the client tends to describe a situation, event, or
self-picture fairly clearly, but tends to leave it there.
Level 4. Generation of a new solution, Early gamma solution. In response to the
counselor, the client moves to the creation of something new. The client has added
something that was not there before. At times, the underlying conflict may remain
acceptance of insoluble problems begins here.
Level 5. Transcendence, Full gamma solution. The client has arrived at a new
synthesis, a new way of thinking, behaving, or feeling. These are relatively rare
moments in counseling and therapy and may represent the development of useful or
important insights, the ability to engage in a truly new way of behaving, the generation
of a new ability to engage emotionally.
You will now be given a variety of counselor-client situations. The possible client
responses are in random order. Please classify each client response at one of the five
levels.
Death and dying
The following client statements could be expected following the discovery that the
client has terminal cancer.
a. “It’s so hard for me all the time. But it’s hard for the family, too. Sometimes I
just cry. But lately, I find that if I focus on the positives available to me still, I gain
some peace.”
b. “There really isn’t any problem. I’m sure it’s an error on the X-ray. It can’t be
correct.”
c. “Why me? What happened?” (with anger) “It isn’t fair.”
d. “I’ve been spending my time working with a cancer support group. I want to
help others face this somehow fighting and working with others to the end makes it
seem easier.”
e. “I accept it. I’ve had a good life, with my share of problems for sure. Sure I
don’t like it, but there’s nothing I can do.”
Instructions: Which of the following client emotional presentations are sensorimotor,
concrete, formal operational, or dialectic / systemic?
SM forsensorimotor
C forconcrete
F forformal operational
DS fordialectic / systemic
____ “I feel sad because my friend and I had a serious argument.”
Turn now to “other” statements. The client may present with little sense of how others
relate to her or his individual issues. How would you facilitate client growth by helping
them understand themselves in relation to others? What might their pre- and
post-interviewing/counseling statements be from this perspective?
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Childhood neglect leads to increased damaging dopamine release.
By acting as a mirror and asking questions, counselors can encourage many of their
clients to find their own direction.
Microskills of multiple theoretical orientations have been presented in the final two
chapters of this book. What theoretical orientations would you next like to explore and
why do you make that decision? Include as a possibility expansion of your knowledge
of one or more of the theories presented in this text.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Outline cognitive behavioral training program for a 16-year-old student who is stressed
about failing final exams.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Only reflection of meaning can help clients find their “center of being in the world.”
Intentionality in counseling and psychotherapy requires accurate information.
There seems to be a part of the brain that identifies spiritual experience, according to
Ratey.
Confrontations are frequently observed in session conversations.
Instructions: The five stages of a simple structure for the interview are listed below.
Following are counselor comments. Identify the skill used by the counselor in terms of
the five skills listed andalso list the Stage / Dimension of the interview most likely
represented.
Use an asterisk to indicate “any stage.”
“Given it all, the problem and your assets, what would be an ideal solution?”
Skill:
Stage:
Client records are very important, but it is OK if an interviewer does not take any notes.
Describe the following potential limitations of questions and provide examples.
Bombardment/grilling
Multiple questions
Questions as statements
“Why” questions
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Positive experiences in pregnancy help the unborn child.