The most common empathic confrontation uses:
a. paraphrasing.
b. reflection of feelings.
c. summarizations.
d. all of the above.
Much of even your best helping work will be ineffective, if you fail to ____.
a. generalize and transfer learning
b. identify the client’s root issues
c. properly assess positive and negative consequences
d. detail insufficient alternatives
You engage in a role-played interview and use the skill. You demonstrate ____
competence.
a. identification and classification competence
b. basic competence
c. intentional competence
d. teaching competence
Open questions ________, and closed questions ________.
a. focus the interview; provide maximum information
b. encourage others to talk; bring out specifics
c. bring out specifics; encourage others to talk
d. can be answered with few words; cannot be answered with few words
Write three responses (present tense, past tense, and future tense) to each of the
following client statements. Indicate whether your response is an open or closed
question, a paraphrase, an encourager, or a reflection of feeling.
a. “I’ve lived alone all my life. My parents died when I was young and it has been
tough. But I’ve survived and I’m proud of what I have done.”
b. “Well, one thing for sure. My stepfather was really hard on me. I can’t say I really
like him, but I do respect him a great deal.”
c. “But then, my mother-in-law right now really bugs me. She reminds me of my
stepmother always harsh and brassy. Not sensitive at all.”
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Dual relationships are virtually certain to exist in all BUT which of the following?
a. Conducting a microskills practice session with a classmate
b. Conducting a microskills practice session with a family member
c. Conducting counseling with a person in your community of 1,000 individuals
d. Conducting counseling with a person in your community of 10,000 individuals
Interviewers can predict that both they and their client will appreciate, gain respect, and
learn from increasing knowledge in ethics and multicultural competence when the
interviewer ________.
a. is an educated, qualified, and experienced professional
b. bases her behavior on an ethical approach with an awareness of diversity
c. is competent to address any and all multicultural issues
d. stays within the boundaries of multicultural guidelines and practice competencies
In terms of the microskill of attending, Ivey suggests:
a. the reticular activating system and the thalamus are activated.
b. the limbic system is activated.
c. the frontal cortex is key.
d. the orbital frontal cortex is activated.
A ___________________ is an individualized application of your theoretical model
that takes into consideration the antecedents of the case and your observations and
inferences.
a. case conceptualization
b. treatment plan
c. future diary
d. theoretical formulation
Which of the following focuses is NOT an attending skill?
a. Visual/eye contact
b. Vocal quality
c. Verbal tracking
d. Emotional intelligence
“Multicultural guidelines and competencies’ Dimension 1: Be aware of your own
assumptions, values, and biases.” Based on this, which one of the following contributes
to your ability to become more self-aware?
a. Develop a specialty practice by immersing yourself in every detail of daily life for
one or two cultural groups at a time.
b. Consider yourself as a cultural being and recognize your own limitations.
c. Rather than consider each client as unique, focus on the common behaviors that the
person before you may have in common with the cultural group to which they belong.
d. Achieve complete multicultural knowledge through study and experience.
Positive stressors :
a. raise blood pressure and heart rate.
b. lead to experiencing positive social emotions.
c. makes people feel “glad.”
d. all of the above.
Which of the following is most closely associated with emotions?
a. Paraphrase
b. Reflection of feeling
c. Reflection of meaning
d. Summarization
Which cultural group has been shown more holistic thinking?
a. European Americans
b. South Americans
c. Southern Europeans
d. Japanese
Cultural differences:
a. reveal clearly that counseling across cultures is virtually impossible.
b. reveal little in the way of personal or group differences.
c. must be taken into account, but only with groups with whom one has experience.
d. are an important factor that must be considered in every counseling session.
Which of the following is NOT a component of attending behavior?
a. Attentive and authentic body language
b. Verbal mirroring technique
c. Visual / eye contact
d. Verbal tracking
Selection attention, a key concept introduced in the microskills framework, is:
a. less important in key theories of helping such as person-centered and brief
counseling.
b. brought about by the thalamus, which operates like a spotlight, turning to shine on
the stimulus.
c. brought about by the hippocampus and the energizing amygdala through selective
memory.
d. the central concept of person-centered and brief counseling.
“Find something practical and pragmatic” is an underlying philosophy of:
a. person-centered theory.
b. cognitive behavioral theory.
c. decisional counseling.
d. Logotherapy.
A client comes to you saying the following: “I have no problems in stopping smoking,
I’ve stopped ten times in the last year.”
a. Identify the incongruity in the statement.
b. Write a confrontation you might say to the client including the important check-out.
c. Follow this by writing client statements that would represent denial, partial
examination, full examination, decision to live with the incongruity, and the
development of new patterns, constructs, or behaviors.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
The authors state that some authorities believe creativity :
a. is located in the prefrontal cortex
b. is the combination of the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus.
c. is coordination of the left and right brain as well as the limbic system.
d. is coordination of the thalamus, hippocampus, frontal cortex, left brain, and the
energizing amygdala.
What is the anticipated result from determining your personal style and theory?
a. You will commit to a lifelong process of continual learning and will examine,
evaluate, and build on your natural style.
b. Your natural style is honed through evaluation and training and is fairly well
established upon beginning your practice.
c. Your natural style is largely dependent on your aptitude, training, and practice. You
may adapt it periodically throughout your career as new theories and techniques
become widely accepted.
d. None of these choices are the predicted result from determining your personal style
and theory.
Which of the following is an enriched consequence of sleep?
a. Increases hormones
b. Consolidates learning
c. Improves mood
d. All of the above
____ is another term for relationship.
a. Affiliation
b. Working alliance
c. Active liaison
d. Engagement
In decisional counseling, we may lay out homework for the following week. This is
representative of which stage of the interview?
a. Empathic relationship
b. Story and strengths
c. Restory
d. Action
A client who is dying comments, “It won’t happennot to me.” This is an example of:
a. denial.
b. partial acceptance of reality.
c. acceptance and recognition.
d. generation of a new solution.
Which of the following may be observed when an interview issue is of interest to a
middle-class client?
a. Direct eye contact, forward trunk lean, pupil dilation
b. Direct eye contact, forward trunk lean, pupil contraction
c. Partial eye contact, forward trunk lean, pupil dilation
d. Partial eye contact, trunk lean away, pupil contraction
_____________, as this will provide a constant way to grow and improve your
interviewing skills.
a. Seek colleagues and supervisors to review your work
b. Continuously perform a detailed analysis of your interviewing style and behavior
c. Appropriately share your thoughts and analysis with your client
d. All of the above.
____________ clients may demonstrate a general tension and increased breathing rate,
averted eyes or raised eyebrows, furrowed brow, biting the lips, crossed arms, or
anxious playing with fingers.
a. Sad
b. Mad
c. Scared
d. Disgusted
In which stage of the interview are you and your client likely to define the ideal
outcome?
a. Empathic relationship
b. Story and strengths
c. Goals
d. Restory
e. Action
In cognitive behavioral therapy, when we suggest alternatives for action, we are most
likely in which stage of the interview?
a. Empathic relationship
b. Story and strengths
c. Restory
d. Action
A client who has been diagnosed as antisocial will reveal which of the following?
a. Left brain not very active when they see someone else experience pain
b. Left brain very active
c. Right brain not very active
d. Right brain very active
Instructions: The structure of the interview has been suggested as a valuable way to
view many types of interviews. Further, within each structure there are certain goals and
methods. In the following question(s), identify the structure of the interview as:
a. Initiating the session
b. Gathering data
c. Mutual goal setting
d. Working
e. Terminating and generalizing
____ “Today, we’d like to look at the reasons your child ran away. I’d like to hear your
point of view first, then your son’s.”
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 really don’t know. It seems clear that my not getting the raise was really unfair … just
because I’m a woman. It really hurts!”
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
____ “The average woman’s pay is 70% of the average man’s pay.”
Counselors will practice only within the boundaries of:
a. competence.
b. education, training, and supervision.
c. professional credentials appropriate professional experience.
d. all of the above.
A client may come to a first interview with a negative “I” statement. One way to define
the objective of counseling is to turn negative statements into positives.
Illustrate this point with case examples. What type of statments might a client make
differently in the pre-interview than they do in the post-interview?
a. a career confused client?
b. a depressed client?
c. a client who does not know how to find a job?
d. a client who is having difficulty with his or her spouse?
In each example, write negative “I” statements the client might make and positive “I”
statements that might appear after successful counseling.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
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.”
“Looks like you’re saying you want to set up a situation where you can anticipate what
your parents will do when you tell them you plan to quit school.”
Skill:
Stage:
A checklist of basic and often obvious factors significantly reduced dangerous errors.
As in the Samurai effect, the basic listening sequence will likely be part of your being
and the empathic relationshipstory and strengthsgoalsrestoryaction
framework will become part of your practice, regardless of your final theoretical
orientation(s).
“Wyoming is a lovely peaceful area of the country. Just being here and feeling the
mountains every day is special. I have this opportunity to leave the U. to go to Chicago
on a really well-paying job.”
Write alternative focus statements of a variety of types (do not repeat any classification
of helping lead. that may be helpful to this client.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Developing awareness, knowledge, and skills is all you need to be an effective
counselor.
The work that clients do after the session is as valuable as or more valuable than what
they do during the session.
How would you go about helping a client establish an intentional wellness plan?
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Present your own cultural/gender/family strength inventory. What are your own positive
strengths that might enable you to become an even more effective interviewer or
counselor?
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Decisional counseling theorists believe that all theories of counseling and therapy deal
with problem solving and decisions.
Interviewer self-disclosure is a valuable and powerful tool used frequently with great
success by most helping professionals.
All clients have a need to know they have been heard.
Explain the concept of accumulative stress and discuss potential sources and impact.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Outline the main points and concepts of the Microskills Hierarchy.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Positive thoughts, used effectively in counseling, can override negative feelings.
Outline how different theories use interpretation/reframe. Provide examples for each.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
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.”
“Sounds as if one of your major strengths is being direct and honest with your parents.”
Skill:
Stage:
How does your own family background relate to the fact that you have chosen to
consider being a professional helper?
Answer:
Answer not provided.
The counselor’s or interviewer’s task is to move clients beyond their issues and
problems to realize their potential as human beings.
Describe cultural differences that may exist in the four main concepts of attending
behavior.
Answer:
Answer not provided.