Affective interventions help the client in the expression of
a. Innermost fears
b. Innermost hopes
c. Innermost resentments
d. All of the above
Q. 2
The evaluation of case outcomes in mental health consultation:
a. employs single-subject research designs
b. is often difficult because of the indirect nature of the consultant's service
c. is the consultant's responsibility
d. presents particular difficulty in case-centered consultation
Q. 3
The National Career Development Association:
a. is the newest division of the American Counseling Association.
b. as an organization representing one of a number of counseling specialties, has been slow to develop professional and ethical standards.
c. has taken a leadership role in establishing standards and credentials in counseling.
d. a and b, but not c.
Q. 4
The Doctor's office scale yields a weight 5 pounds higher than the actual weight for every patient. The weights produced by this scale have:
a. High reliability and high validity
b. Low reliability and high validity
c. High reliability and low validity
d. Low reliability and low validity
Q. 5
Consultants may take jobs that exceed their competencies as long as they buy books and study the procedures to be used prior to actually delivering the consultation service.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 6
Which of the following is not a major helper activity during encouragement?
A. Focusing on the positive and the changeable
B. Emphasizing equality and individuality
C. Focus on personality
D. Pushing with enthusiasm
Q. 7
Some drawbacks associated with family therapy include all except which one of the following?
(a) Family therapy requires the presence of a co-therapist.
(b) Scheduling appointments can be difficult when multiple people are involved.
(c) Additional recordkeeping and paperwork is necessary.
(d) Increased noise results from mulltiple people talking.
Q. 8
Caplan's model of consultation was developed as:
a. a means of incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy concepts into the workplace
b. a means of dealing with crisis situations with clients
c. an alternate role for mental health professionals
d. a new profession
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According to logotherapy, there is always meaning to life.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 2
It's not the mistakes you make, but what you do to correct them that counts.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 3
The goal of the final audio or video exercise is to find what your current skill level is.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 4
The relapse prevention plan needs to be tailored to the individual client and his or her circumstances.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 5
When you are unable to build a viable working relationship with a client and referral becomes necessary, make the referral and remove yourself from continued contact with the client.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 6
Counselor's personal decisions rarely influence what happens in the session.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 7
A checklist of basic and often obvious factors significantly reduced dangerous errors.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 8
A case conceptualization is an individualized application of your theoretical model that takes into consideration the antecedents of the case and your observations and inferences.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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Discernment ____.
A) is a value clarification process in which the client seeks to find meaning in life
B) all of the above
C) describes what helping professionals do when they work with clients at deeper levels of meaning
D) is sifting through our interior and exterior experiences to determine their origin
Q. 2
Which of the following questions would NOT be used as part of the discernment process?
A) What sense do you make of your illness and the future?
B) How does this rejection make you feel?
C) What is the purpose of you working so hard?
D) What's been missing for you in your present life?
Q. 3
A reflection of meaning looks very much like a(n) ________ and ________ beyond what the client has to say.
A) question; discerns
B) encourager; moves
C) paraphrase; focuses
D) summary; looks
Q. 4
What significant life events have shaped your beliefs about life? In which of the following constructs does this interviewer response BEST fit?
A) Reflection of feeling
B) Reflection of meaning
C) Eliciting meaning
D) Paraphrase
Q. 5
Which skill is most useful in working with an implicit level of speech and action?
A) Confrontation
B) Reflection of meaning
C) Reflection of feeling
D) Summarization
Q. 6
Which of the following is not a question primarily oriented to meaning?
A) Could you give me a specific example?
B) What sense do you make of it?
C) Why is that important to you?
D) What values underlie your actions?
Q. 7
Which of the following is most closely associated with emotions?
A) Paraphrase
B) Summarization
C) Reflection of meaning
D) Reflection of feeling
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The basic listening sequence is central to ____.
A) person-centered theory
B) decisional career counseling
C) assertiveness training
D) brief interviewing and counseling
E) all of these
Q. 2
The basic listening sequence (BLS) is a key counselor action in Story and Strengths, Stage 2 of the five-stage interview structure, in which of the following theories?
A) Decisional counseling
B) Person-centered counseling
C) Cognitive behavioral training
D) Brief counseling
E) All of these
Q. 3
Cultural/environmental context (CEC) is foundational for which of the following theories?
A) Multicultural counseling
B) Person-centered
C) Logotherapy
D) Crisis counseling
Q. 4
Discernment is:
A) finding a life vision.
B) making a decision.
C) coping with life challenges.
D) overcoming interpersonal conflicts.
Q. 5
Discernment is a technique used by which theory?
A) Cognitive behavioral therapy
B) Person-centered
C) Logotherapy
D) Crisis counseling
Q. 6
Which of the following theories is strongly associated with reflection of meaning?
A) Cognitive behavioral therapy
B) Person-centered
C) Logotherapy
D) Psychodynamic
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The work that clients do after the session is as valuable as or more valuable than what they do during the session.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 2
All crisis counseling involves two phases: (1) working through the initial trauma and (2) appropriate referral and discharge.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 3
PTSD places the cause in the client; PTSR places the cause in the environment.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 4
An important part of cognitive behavioral therapy that is considered essential is ____.
A) finding the real self the person wishes to develop
B) the use of homework
C) recording automatic thoughts
D) encouraging self-healing
Q. 5
Cognitive behavioral therapy stresses:
A) resolving issues around practical life issues and problems.
B) how a client understands self and makes meaning of life.
C) that distorted cognitions can be recorded, monitored, and changed.
D) client assets and resources to resolve issues.
Q. 6
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
Q. 7
Asking the client what he or she wants to happen in cognitive behavioral therapy is most representative of which phase of the interview?
A) Story and strengths
B) Goals
C) Restorying
D) Action
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Which of the following is very important for counseling clients?
A) Create checklists
B) Develop plans
C) Reexamine your own style
D) All of these
Q. 2
____________ is the author of The Checklist Manifesto.
A) Nezu
B) Gawande
C) Beck
D) Parsons
Q. 3
What will enable the interviewee to feel the interview was worthwhile? 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
Q. 4
The effective helping professional plans each interview with a client. In which stage of the interview can we begin by summarizing the client's positive strengths and wellness assets?
A) Empathic relationship
B) Story and strengths
C) Goals
D) Restory
E) Action
Q. 5
In which stage of the interview are you and your client likely to generate specific implementation plans?
A) Empathic relationship
B) Story and strengths
C) Goals
D) Restory
E) Action
Q. 6
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
Q. 7
The effective helping professional plans each interview with a client. In which stage of the interview are you likely to emphasize behavior, thoughts, feelings, and meanings?
A) Empathic relationship
B) Story and strengths
C) Goals
D) Restory
E) Action
Q. 8
How will you elicit the client's idealized self or world? 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
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In person-centered counseling, when we explore the distinctions between the real self and the ideal self, we are most likely in which stage of the interview?
A) Story and strengths
B) Goals
C) Restorying
D) Action
Q. 2
____ consider(s) basic confrontation between the present behavior and the goal behavior in Stage 4, restory.
A) Multicultural counseling
B) Person-centered counseling
C) Cognitive behavioral therapy
D) Feminist therapy
Q. 3
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.
Q. 4
Which of the five theoretical orientations presented in this book is BEST represented by the following lead? Select the one best alternative, even though other systems may use the style at times. Could you be a bit more specific about what went through your mind, what happened next, and what was the final result?
A) Person-centered theory
B) Decisional career counseling
C) Cognitive behavioral therapy
D) Motivational interviewing
Q. 5
______ assumes that altered behavior is an immediate result and that changes in thoughts and feeling will follow.
A) Person-centered theory
B) Cognitive behavioral theory
C) Brief counseling
D) None of these
Q. 6
Which of the following is NOT typically observed in crisis counseling?
A) Calming and caring
B) Discernment
C) Action
D) Debriefing
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____ gives the least attention to cultural/environmental context.
A) Decisional counseling
B) Person-centered counseling
C) Cognitive behavioral therapy
D) All of these
Q. 2
Which of the five theoretical orientations presented in this book is BEST represented by the following lead? Select the one best alternative, even though other systems may use the style at times. Let's brainstorm some possibilities for colleges you might attend.
A) Cognitive behavioral counseling
B) Decisional counseling
C) Person-centered theory
D) All of these
Q. 3
Historically ____ has/have given less attention to the cultural/environmental context.
A) decisional counseling
B) person-centered counseling
C) cognitive behavioral therapy
D) all of these
Q. 4
In person-centered counseling, which phase may receive relatively little emphasis?
A) Story and strengths
B) Goals
C) Restorying
D) Action
Q. 5
In the person-centered approach, the focus on the individual client is predominant, and the focus of ___________ is less of a focus.
A) positive and negative consequences
B) multicultural/environmental context
C) client's presenting problem or issue
D) variety of resolution alternatives
Q. 6
The five-stage interview structure may best be used with ____.
A) person-centered theory
B) decisional career counseling
C) brief interviewing and counseling
D) all of these
Q. 7
____ focuses on raising personality consciousness of how the individual develops in a cultural/environmental context.
A) Decisional counseling
B) Person-centered counseling
C) Multicultural counseling and feminist therapy
D) All of these
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Frankl's most significant contribution to counseling and psychotherapy is:
A) cognitive behavioral therapy.
B) logotherapy.
C) multicultural therapy.
D) motivational interviewing.
Q. 2
Which of the following is an INACCURATE guideline for practicing the skills of a person-centered interview?
A) Eliminate or minimize questions. Do not use interpretations / reframes, advice, or directives.
B) Focus almost exclusively on the client; use the words you and your and the client's name.
C) The basic skills reflection of meaning and feeling, paraphrasing, and summarization.
D) Constantly use influencing skills of confrontation, feedback, and self-disclosure.
Q. 3
Which of the five theoretical orientations presented in this book is BEST represented by the following lead? There is, of course, considerable overlap between systems of interviewing and counseling when it comes to specific leads. Thus, select the one best alternative, even though other systems may use the style at times. Underneath your concerns, I sense a lot of strength and capability on your part. You've been making a negative meaning, but I also hear your strengths.
A) Person-centered theory
B) Decisional career counseling
C) Brief solution-focused interviewing and counseling
D) Motivational interviewing
Q. 4
A person-centered counselor is interested in focusing on the meanings and feelings of the client; the facts of the problem are considered ____.
A) more important
B) less important
C) of significant importance
D) of no significance at all
Q. 5
Which statement best describes person-centered counseling?
A) The client is the single focus, excluding all other factors.
B) The client is competent and ultimately self-actualizing.
C) The client is not competent and ultimately self-actualizing.
D) The client's concerns must be detailed and resolved.
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What specific incongruities do you anticipate in the client? 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
Q. 2
In which stage of the interview may a common bond between you and your client be established?
A) Empathic relationship
B) Story and strengths
C) Goals
D) Restory
E) Action
Q. 3
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
Q. 4
What are the anticipated concerns or strengths? 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
Q. 5
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
Q. 6
How can we help clients work through issues and come up with answers?
A) Decisional counseling
B) Problem-solving counseling
C) Balance sheet and future diary
D) All of these
Q. 7
Which of the following is a useful strategy for decisional counseling?
A) Cognitive and emotional balance sheet
B) Logical consequences
C) Future diary
D) All of these
Q. 8
In addition to the five-stage interview structure, there are additional useful strategies for decisional counseling. Which of the following is NOT a useful strategy for decisional counseling?
A) Balance sheet
B) Logical consequences
C) Future imaging
D) Verbal underlining
Q. 9
Effective decisions can be reached through ____.
A) cognitive processes located primarily in the executive left brain
B) a combination of cognitive decisions with emotional satisfaction
C) left and right brain coordination
D) the hippocampus energized by the amygdala
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