Having completed the checklist after reading the text and comparing these results to your original ...

Having completed the checklist after reading the text and comparing these results to your original results, you find that you have marked even more items with a ?or a -. What can you learn and conclude from these results?
 
  a. You have not successfully learned the material in the text
  b. You should go back and review the text and take the checklist once more before making any conclusions
  c. This may be viewed as progress because you are more accurately assessing your skills and now can find ways to further improve them
  d. You should go back to the text and clarify which theoretical orientation best fits your natural style as you may be trying too hard to be the ideal clinician

Q. 2

Groups often help young adults reduce
 
  a. anxiety.
  b. depression.
  c. loneliness.
  d. All of the above.

Q. 3

The author suggests staying current with the latest evidence by doing all of the following except:
 
  a. Reading meta-analyses in the professional literature
  b. be aware of, and use, evidence-based treatment strategies for particular clients who have particular disorders that have been researched
  c. performing your own research and publishing it
  d. keeping your own outcome data in order to continually inform and refine your own intervention attempts

Q. 4

_______________ occurs when multiple roles occur between therapist and client.
 
  a) Boundary violations
  b) Therapeutic impasse
  c) Boundary impasse
  d) Therapeutic congruence

Q. 5

Which of the following, more than other therapeutic contexts, is one of the main benefits of being in the school?
 
  a. The therapist can develop a therapeutic alliance with the client
  b. The therapist can work with larger systems, such as the parents, to help the client
  c. The therapist can observe the child in the school setting
  d. Therapists can develop a thorough treatment plan

Q. 6

Mrs. Dubois knows that her son, Andre, is very advanced in understanding math compared to his first grade peers.
 
  However, he is rather immature in his social relationships and doesn't share or interact well with classmates. His social skills are not what his mother would expect, given his advanced cognitive development in math. Piaget's term for this variation in skills is
  a. hierarchical organization.
  b. decalage.
  c. preoperational intelligence.
  d. accommodation.

Q. 7

When clinicians assess a client's presenting problem(s) in order to plan for treatment, which of the following approaches to diagnosis reflects a developmental viewpoint?
 
  a. Consider those issues in a client's life which result from multifinality.
  b. Count the number of symptoms currently manifested in order to reach a specific diagnosis.
  c. Assess the person's level of symptomology on a checklist and assign a diagnosis only when a certain percentile has been reached.
  d. Assess the nature of the problem by considering the person's unique history, interpersonal context, and challenges in the extrapersonal environment.

Q. 8

Perhaps most important to work with, besides the actual student, is:
 
  a. The school administrator
  b. The teacher
  c. The parents
  d. The local social service agencies