A family counselor who uses paradoxical directives or interventions could get into trouble because clients who follow their prescriptions for behavior may be
a. confused.
b. harmed.
c. engaging in illegal activities.
d. suspicious of the counselor's motives.
e. distracted.
Q. 2Constructivism is a concept that accepts that people
A. are active organizers of their own experiences.
B. are passively receiving information about their own experiences.
C. construct meaning through the actions of others.
D. rarely revise their perceptions based on life experience.
Q. 3Consultee's views of a problem can be influenced by the focus of consultant questions.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 4The non-behavioral theories provide the best guidelines for knowing when to terminate.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Q. 5If a counselor wants a person other than a biological parent (such as a step-parent or grandparent) to have confidential information regarding a child client, a simple solution is to
a. tell the step-parent or grandparent to go to court and get a court order giving them access to the information.
b. get a signed statement from the step-parent or grandparent that they will not reveal the information to anyone else once it is given to them.
c. get a signed statement from the child allowing the counselor to disclose information to the step-parent or grandparent.
d. get a signed statement from one of the biological parents allowing the counselor to disclose information to the step-parent or grandparent.
e. ask the step-parent or grandparent to prove the child is living with them and then it is acceptable to give them access to confidential information regarding the child.
Q. 6Family counselors often view the family system as their client and treat the family as one entity, as opposed to treating individual family members, and our laws
a. favor the rights of families as a whole over the rights of individual family members.
b. support family counselors by also viewing the family system as one entity.
c. create a fiction that a family is a person under the law.
d. view family members as having separate and distinct rights and responsibilities that are individual in nature.
e. do not recognize that families exist in our society.
Q. 7Mrs. Johnson, a science teacher, administered an essay exam covering the process of what happens inside a tornado. What purpose of essay testing would Mrs. Johnson be most interested in?
a. Content-content
b. Content-style
c. Content-grammar
d. Style-grammar
Q. 8The basic message of feminist therapy
(a) is that women are superior to men.
(b) devalues the traditional roles of women.
(c) is applicable to both genders.
(d) is not constructivist.
Q. 9Role structuring is typically initiated by the consultant.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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