Direct client services focus on:
a. outreach activities.
b. client advocacy.
c. consultation.
d. influencing policymakers.
Q. 2___________________ are attempts to change the social environment to meet the needs of the population as a whole and are carried out by influencing social policy.
a. Direct community services
b. Indirect community services
c. Community organization services
d. Community counseling services
Q. 3According to the authors, those practitioners who work within a system:
a. are almost certain to experience burnout.
b. are challenged to learn how to make the system work both for themselves and their clients.
c. cannot remain in the system and also retain their integrity and dignity.
d. must learn to take advantage of the system through manipulation of those in power.
Q. 4The system may be so cumbersome and difficult for clients to work with that counselors often need to assist their clients by adopting the role of:
a. consultant.
b. advocate.
c. adviser.
d. facilitator of indigenous support systems.
e. all of the above
Q. 5To become competent client advocates:
a. counselors need to develop a greater awareness of their own beliefs, attitudes, and biases as they relate to the impact that social and political factors have on marginalized and underserved populations.
b. practitioners must serve their clientele at six levels of advocacy intervention.
c. counselors must speak out to empower themselves.
d. all of the above.
Q. 6Culturally competent mental health practitioners understand the relevance of ___________ in working with their clients.
a. empirically validated indigenous treatments
b. indigenous healing practices
c. indigenous support systems
d. all of the above
e. b and c
Q. 7___________________ addresses issues of oppression, privilege, and social inequities.
a. Social justice
b. The empowerment model
c. Self Psychology
d. The discrimination model
e. Reality therapy
Q. 8Programs such as life-planning workshops, value-clarification seminars, and interpersonal-skills training are examples of:
a. direct community services in the form of preventive education.
b. indirect community services aimed at changing the social environment by influencing policymakers.
c. direct client services focusing on outreach activities to an at-risk population.
d. indirect client services consisting of client advocacy involving active intervention on the behalf of an individual or a group.
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