A __________ is when helpers temporarily put their reactions aside and later process
them in their own therapy.
a. political transference
b. parallel process
c. resistance
d. transference
Leading a group is _____ than working on an individual basis with clients.
a. far less complex
b. somewhat less complex
c. somewhat more complex
d. far more complex
Field supervisors are likely to expect trainees to possessall of the following skills and/or
knowledge EXCEPT
a. ability to connect with others.
b. ability to be proactive rather than reactive.
c. ability to work with diverse cultures.
d. an understanding of ethics, but not of confidentiality issues.
What kind of therapist might want clients to challenge words like “must” and “always”
and “never” as irrational?
a. Cognitive
b. Humanistic
c. Psychodynamic
d. Behavioral
A __________ is a number of people who share a distinct location, belief, interest,
activity, or other characteristic that clearly identifies their commonality and
differentiates them from those not sharing it.
a. community
b. advocate
c. adviser
d. helper
_____ is a multifaceted approach combining direct and indirect services to help
community members live more effectively and to prevent the problems most frequently
faced by those who use the services.
a. Group counseling
b. Community counseling
c. Client advocacy
d. Preventative education
Which of the following statements is NOT accurate as it applies to the family-systems
approach?
a. Neither the individual nor the family is blamed for a particular dysfunction.
b. A particular family dysfunction is generally caused by the identified patient.
c. The family is empowered through the process of identifying and exploring interaction
patterns.
d. If change is to come about in a family or between individual members of a family,
the family must be aware of the systems that influence them.
Which of the following isNOT conducive to effective helping?
a. You realize you are able to inspire clients to do in their lives what you are unable or
unwilling to do in your own life.
b. You question life and engage in critical self-examination of your beliefs.
c. You are willing to draw on a number of resources to enable clients to move toward
their goals.
d. Even though you struggle with your own problems, this struggle does not intrude on
your helping of others.
Unless you have identified your own __________, you may be constantly triggered by
the stories of your clients.
a. healed psychological wounds
b. sources of vulnerability and completely worked through them healing all wounds
c. sources of strength and psychological health
d. sources of vulnerability and to some extent worked through experiences that may
have left you psychologically wounded
__________ is a humanistic, client-centered, directive counseling approach in which
the therapeutic relationship is central to understanding the change process.
a. Psychoanalytic
b. Cognitive behavioral
c. Motivational interviewing
d. Psychodrama
Antonio is a client who suffers from bipolar disorder. He will be most effectively
counseled by a clinician who
a. also has experienced bipolar disorder and understands the problem in a very personal
way.
b. can empathize with him and understand his world.
c. has rarely experienced psychological pain.
d. experiences counter transference with bipolar clients.
Two group leaders who are co-facilitating a group must attend to all of the following
EXCEPT
a. their own individual development.
b. their development as a co-leading team.
c. the development of the group they are facilitating.
d. the development of their co-leader.
In actual practice, all of the following take place EXCEPT
a. the transition stage and the working stage merge with each other.
b. individual differences among members exist at all of the stages of a group.
c. themes of trust, conflict, and reluctance to participate may reemerge in the working
stage.
d. careful thought and planning are necessary to lay a solid foundation for any group
and is imperative during the working stage.
Supervisors play multiple roles in the supervision, which means
a. that the boundaries are not always clear.
b. that supervision and therapy ought to be combined in the supervisory process.
c. any mixing of roles by supervisors is highly unethical.
d. supervisors should not point out to a supervisee his or her blocks and
countertransferences with clients.
Regarding informed consent, all of the following are true EXCEPT
a. what and how much to tell clients is determined in part by the clientele.
b. it is a good practice for helpers to employ an educational approach by encouraging
clients’ questions about the helping relationship.
c. educating clients about the helping process is something that ought to be completed
at the intake session.
d. dealing with client questions is especially critical at the initial stage of helping.
Gender-role stereotypes
a. serve a purpose and are not easily modified.
b. typically do not serve a purpose and are easily modified.
c. should never be discussed in counseling.
d. are always unethical.
In __________, clients project onto helpers reactions to the political context that has
shaped their experience.
a. countertransference
b. political transference
c. resistance
d. self-doubt
Which of the following is NOT a major purpose of codes of ethics?
a. They educate helpers to the nature of sound ethical practice.
b. They spell out legal aspects of practice.
c. They provide a mechanism for professional accountability.
d. They serve as catalysts for improving practice.
Which of the following is LEAST likely to be a structured group?
a. Chemical dependency group
b. Learning coping skills
c. Personal-growth group
d. Parenting skills group
Marilyn’s 5-year-old daughter has the flu and needs to be admitted to the hospital for
dehydration. Marilyn wants to stay overnight with her in the hospital, but the head
nurse refuses her request. When Marilyn comes to you for help, you find out the
hospital procedure for overnights, discuss this with Marilyn, and decide that you both
should try to approach the head nurse about the situation. In this instance, you are using
which of the following indirect client services?
a. Outreach activities
b. Client advocacy
c. Confronting ethical issues
d. Networking
Group therapy fits well into the managed care scene because groups offer all of the
following EXCEPT
a. they can teach problem-solving strategies and interpersonal skills.
b. they are often time limited.
c. they can be designed to be expensive and long term.
d. they can be an antidote to the impersonal culture in which many clients live.
__________, a form of countertransference, can result from helpers being exposed to
the pain that clients express, especially if counselors are not aware of their own
unresolved personal issues.
a. Transference
b. Resistance
c. Empathy fatigue
d. Self-doubt
According to Erikson, during the late adulthood stage, in which the task to be
accomplished is integrity versus despair, the older adults who have succeeded in
achieving ego integrity would NOT
a. accept that they have been productive and have coped with whatever failures they
faced.
b. concentrate on what they have not done, and yearn for another chance to live in a
different way.
c. tend to integrate their past experiences with current realities.
d. necessarily welcome the notion of death, but view it as an inevitable part of the life
cycle.
The goal of the community approach is to
a. provide long-term therapy for individual clients.
b. implement managed care in all agency settings.
c. educate the public and attempt to change the attitudes of the community toward
mental-health programs.
d. focus on individual client change.
The Coreys encourage trainees to approach resistive behaviors with
a. impatience and judgment.
b. interest and respect.
c. complete neutrality.
d. intermittent reinforcement.
_____ would NOT look at the husband when talking about making decisions and look
at the wife when talking about home matters and rearing children.
a. Nonsexist family therapists
b. Sex therapists
c. Sexist family therapists
d. Intelligent therapists
Effective helpers have all of the following EXCEPT
a. hold positive beliefs about people.
b. ground their interventions in personal experience, expecting clients to hold the same
values.
c. are respectful of cultural differences.
d. have a healthy self-concept.
Justin and Nadia have been in couples counseling for over a year, yet never seem to
carry out the homework assignments they are given. The counselor should
a. assume that hard work is not one of their values.
b. tell them that the counseling is going nowhere because they are not working hard
enough and terminate counseling.
c. conclude that deep down they want their relationship to end and advise them
accordingly.
d. allow the clients to determine if they would like to complete homework or not.
The desire to emulate a role model sometimes plays a part in the decision to be a helper.
The Coreys refer to this as the need to
a. reciprocate.
b. make an impact.
c. be needed.
d. provide answers.
Most helpers enter their profession with a high degree of
a. stress.
b. idealism.
c. frustration.
d. depersonalization.
Which of the following is true concerning ethical issues?
a. Making ethical decisions involves issues of right and wrong.
b. Ethical codes are dogma and can assist you in making the best possible decisions for
the benefit of the client.
c. Ethical standards are the same among agencies and institutions.
d. The process of making ethical decisions involves acquiring a tolerance for dealing
with gray areas and for coping with ambiguity.
Which of the following is NOT one of the social justice competencies?
a. Engage in self-reflection on issues of race, ethnicity, oppression, power, and privilege
in your own life.
b. Become knowledgeable about the ways that oppression and social inequities can
operate on individual, societal, and cultural levels.
c. Collaborate with community organizations in partnerships to promote trust, minimize
power differentials, and provide culturally relevant services.
d. Maintain one’s focus on social justice issues that are relevant within the immediate
community, and avoid focusing on international social justice issues, so as to not get
distracted from your primary focus.
__________ is a community-based approach to helping individuals, groups, and
communitieswitha variety of crises in their lives.
a. Crisis intervention
b. Resilience
c. Posttraumatic growth
d. Resourcefulness
Which of the following statements would leaders in the field of counseling be inclined
to make to those entering the field?
a. Seek help when you need it, both personally and professionally.
b. Focus on your limitations.
c. Do not strive to integrate your personal and professional journeys.
d. Focus on short-term goals, but not on long-term goals since they will likely change.
Proactive efforts carried out by counseling professional in response to institutional,
systemic, and cultural impediments to their clients’ well-being defines
a. advocacy.
b. adviser.
c. change agent.
d. consultant.