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The 17 empirical dimensions of wellness are used as a practical assessment for
identifying client strengths. This assessment ____.
a. is oriented toward optimal health and well-being, where body, mind, and spirit are
integrated
b. prevents you and your clients from engaging in behaviors that do not contribute to
positive growth
c. increases your chances to save somebody's ailing marriage by engaging the upset
spouse in health improving activities
d. none of these
The brain can develop new connections and even new neurons over time. This process
is named:
a. neurofeedback.
b. a statement that needs to be questioned.
c. neurotaxis
d. neuroplasticity
____ gives the most attention to Stage 5, action.
a. Decisional counseling
b. Person-centered counseling
c. Cognitive behavioral therapy
d. All of the above
Focusing often results in ____.
a. increased cognitive complexity
b. broadening understanding through looking at different points of view
c. increased ability to direct client talk (or not direct due to your awareness)
d. all of the above
Which skill is most useful in working with an implicit level of speech and action?
a. Reflection of feeling
b. Reflection of meaning
c. Summarization
d. Confrontation
For which of the following theories of counseling and psychotherapy is logical
consequences an appropriate strategy?
a. Decisional counseling
b. Cognitive behavioral therapy
c. Brief counseling
d. All of the above
Which of the following is NOT true about the brain?
a. The brain is capable to change.
b. Thoughts, feelings, and actions determine the health of our brain.
c. Over time the brain loses the power to change itself on the basis of experience.
d. None of the above are false.
Which of the following is most closely associated with thoughts?
a. Paraphrase
b. Summarization
c. Reflection of feeling
d. Reflection of meaning
Interviewing is a critical skill for which of the following professions?
a. Counselors and psychologists
b. Psychotherapists
c. Detectives and reporters
d. All of these
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
____ Easy to omit after working so hard in the session.
Bilingual clients, according to Azara Santiago-Rivera, are ____.
a. advantaged
b. disadvantaged
c. neither advantaged or disadvantaged
d. in need of special help
In order to reflect feeling, the interviewer must first identify the presenting emotion.
Which of the following is NOT a method to identify feelings?
a. Match one of the primary emotions to client behavior.
b. With a closed question, ask the client to supply the missing feeling word.
c. Ask an open question: "How do you feel about that?"
d. Name the feeling expressed implicitly by client behaviors.
What type of client is likely to benefit from a family genogram?
a. Adopted clients
b. First generation Americans
c. Clients from nuclear families
d. All of the above
Counseling children requires ______________.
a. more extensive use of questions than with adults
b. using more concrete language
c. avoiding the repetition of paraphrasing
d. summarizing constantly what the child is saying
Which of the following disruptive behaviors can lead to a poor session?
a. Visual contact
b. Verbal tracking
c. Body language
d. All of the above
Which of the following statements best describes how the interviewer uses question and
encourages less verbal clients to talk?
a. You may draw out client talk with open questions only.
b. You may draw out client talk with closed questions only.
c. You may draw out client talk with a careful balance of open and closed questions.
d. You may draw out client talk without the use of questions at all.
Working memory can hold _____ items.
a. 52
b. 62
c. 72
d. 82
With some clients, the brief acknowledgment of ____ may be more appropriate.
a. encouragement
b. paraphrase
c. feeling
d. summary
"I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be
followed or harassed." This is an example of:
a. White privilege.
b. heterosexual privilege.
c. middle-class privilege.
d. male privilege.
"Could you tell me a story where you had a success and felt good about yourself?" This
question is an example of which of the following?
a. The positive asset search
b. An open question that encourages self exploration
c. A question that encourages client self-direction and control
d. All of the above
Dr. Zalaquett, demonstrating cognitive-behavioral counseling, emphasizes that:
a. modifying negative thoughts will affect action.
b. meditation is clearly the best stress reducer.
c. through concentration, we can improve neural connections.
d. automatic thoughts can improve emotional satisfaction.
Reflection of meaning helps clients find alternative ways of viewing the situation in
which of the following theories?
a. Decisional Theory
b. Cognitive Behavioral Theory
c. Psychodynamic Theory
d. Person-Centered Theory
Instructions:Imagine that you are talking with a client about emotional child abuse.
You have just confronted the client with the following statement: "On one hand, you
say you love your child, but on the other hand you continue to put her out in the hall of
your apartment where you force her to stand in the dark. How do you put that
together?"
Classify the following client's response using the CCS scale.
Client response: "Yes, I do love her. I care for her very much. She is extremely
important to me. We do everything together. We really do so many things that work out
OK."
This client is where on the CCS?
a. Denial
b. Partial examination
c. Full examination, no change
d. Decision to live with incongruity
Which of the following is a byproduct of positive stress?
a. Learning
b. Longer life
c. Reduction in size of amygdala
d. All of the above
To help clients see themselves in relation to others:
a. reinforce "Other statements" by repetition of key words.
b. ask questions such as "How might the other person tell the same story?"
c. use role-playing.
d. all of the above.
According to the authors, an important goal of interviewing is to move clients from
a. ideas to feelings.
b. problem focus to person focus.
c. closed questions to open questions.
d. stuckness to intentionality.
Which of the following statements is TRUE of the microskills?
a. The microskills offer interviewers some predictability during a client session.
b. The interviewer can always depend on the expected consequences detailed in the
overview.
c. The microskills must be used in the specific order as described to increase
effectiveness.
d. All of these.
________ was the first person to demystify the counseling process.
a. Freud
b. Rogers
c. Skinner
d. Ivey
How can you distinguish psychotherapy from interviewing and counseling?
a. Psychotherapy is briefer than interviewing and counseling.
b. Psychotherapy works with less complex problems of daily living.
c. Psychotherapy is a more intense process dealing with deep-seated personality or
behavioral disorders.
d. None of these.
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
____ "On one hand you want career advice, but on the other you now sound like you
want to go into long-term therapy. Let's talk for awhile. How do you put that together?"
The authors point out that ____ is essential if you are to truly master and become
competent in the interview.
a. Practice!
b. Practice, practice!!
c. Practice, practice, practice!!!
d. None of the above.
Which of the following questions will NOT help the client provide more information?
a. "What else is going on in your life?"
b. "What might we have missed?"
c. "What did I tell you?"
d. "Have we missed anything?"
Write feedback statements in the present, past, and future tenses.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
The TAP is in charge of emotional regulation.
The physical self, a dimension of wellness assessment, is not usually thought of as an
area where interviewers and counselors ought to be working. Assume that you have
done a wellness assessment and the client indicates this as an area where he or she
needs further development. Can you identify some ways in which you could bring
physical issues into your interviewing practice effectively?
Answer:
Answer not provided.
There are 17 areas of the wellness plan and we will not ask you to name them all. Draw
on your memory of at least five areas and indicate how each is related to the healthy
person.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
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 was walking down the hall in the high school and this group came up to me and
called me a filthy name (insert in your own mind, what might be said). I just came out
as gay. I feel really angry about it. Well, as I think about it, it is good that I can get
angry. In the past, I used to hide who I was. Perhaps I can feel a little better about
myself as I allowed myself to get angry."
The client may improve or change their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors based on the
interviewers feedback. This is the predicted result from effective feedback.
Discuss how you would use the listening skills in working with children and
adolescents.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Discuss note taking and related HIPAA regulation issues.
Answer:Answer not provided.
What are the concepts of movement synchrony and movement complementarity? How
are they demonstrated in interviewing and why are they important?
Answer:
Answer not provided.
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
____ Angry eyes, blazing with fire, "DAMN!!"
According to the authors, effective interviewers gradually develop a blend of natural
style and learned competencies.
Describe the integrated steps of empathic confrontation and provide examples of each.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
Imagine a client comes to you with an issue around interpersonal conflict. How would
you use the empathicrelationshipstory and strengthsgoalsrestoryactionconcepts to
facilitate their development? Provide concrete examples of your actions within each of
the five concepts.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
If you observe closely in the here and now of the session, you can rate how effective
your interventions have been.
If your client can begin from a positive base of emotion, they may be better able to cope
with negative issues.
The goal of the final audio or video exercise is to find what your current skill level is.
Interviewing, counseling, and therapy can build new brain networks.
Another term for relationship is working alliance.
Discuss the positive asset search and how it can be used effectively in the session. Also,
present your thoughts on how it could conceivably be used incorrectly and actually
interfere with client development.
Answer:
Answer not provided.
