Ethics
A referral is deemed necessary when a counselor
A. and a client's beliefs on sexual orientation and gender identity do not match
B. lacks the knowledge to assist the client appropriately
C. and their client's personal values do not match
D. is seeing a client who is at their end-of-life stage
B. lacks the knowledge to assist the client appropriately
Cybernetics is a concept used by family therapists. It is usually associated with the work of
A. Alber Ellis and Sigmund Frued
B. Jay Haley
C. Norbert Wiener
D. Virginia Satir
C. Norbert Wiener
What is the etic perspective?
A. focuses on the total of the group
B. focuses specifically on the client's culture or gender
C. adjusting dysfunctional boundaries
D. encourages present-moment awareness and personal responsibility
A. focuses on the total group: it gives everyone the same advice
Tests are often classified as speed tests versus power tests. A timed typing test used to hire secretaries would be
A. a power test
B. neither a speed test nor a power test
C. a speed test
D. a fine example of an ipsative measure
C. a speed test
The most critical factors in test selection are
A. the length of the test and the number of people who took the test in the norming process
B. horizontal versus vertical
C. validity and reliability
D. spiral versus cyclical format
C. validity and reliability
Ethical guidelines were first created for the helping professions in 1953 when the American Psychological Association published their first code of ethics. The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) created their code in 1960, and in 1961, the organization that is now ACA adopted ethics for counselors. Ethics always describe
A. Laws
B. Universal principles which apply to all helpers
C. Standards of conduct imposed by the ACA and NBCC
D. All of the above
C. Standards of conduct imposed by the ACA and NBCC
Virginia Satir felt a major goal of therapy was to improve intrafamily communication. According to Satir, four basic patterns prevented good communication under stress. These defensive posutres/ stress positions are: placating, blaming, being overly reasonable, and being irrelevant. Placating means
A. you disagree with all other family members
B. you pick a favorite family member and agree with him or her
C. you ignore the other family members
D. you try to please everybody out of a fear of rejection
Which of the following is a limitation of prescriptive career decision-making models?
A. They assume decision-making is influenced by intuition and emotion
B. They are suitable for clients with structured decision-making styles
C. They lack step-by-step frameworks for decision-making
D. They assume individuals have access to all necessary information
D. They assume individuals have access to all necessary information
A new IQ test which yielded resulst nearly identical to other standardized measures would be said to have
A. good concurrent validity
B. good face validity
C. superb internal consistency
D. all of the above
A. good concurrent validity
The black versus white IQ controversy was sparked mainly by a 1969 article written by _____.
A. John Ertl
B. Raymond B. Cattell
C. Arthur Jensen
D. Robert Williams
C. Arthur Jensen
State laws can govern title usage and practice, however, they do not govern
A. accreditation
B. counselor licensure
C. psychologist licensure
D. involuntary commitment to state psychiatric facilities
A. accrediation
VArginia Satir is considered a leading fiugre in experiential family therapy. ____ is sometimes called the dean of experiential family therapy
A. Ludwig von Bertalanffy
B. Gregory Bateson
C. Carl Whittaker
D. Murray Bowen
C. Carl Whittaker
Which of the following is NOT one of Super's vocational development tasks?
A. Crystallization
B. Growth
C. Establishment
D. Disengagement
A. Crystallization
An aptitude test is to ____ as an achievement test is to ___.
A. what has been learned; potential
B. potential; what has been learned
C. profit from learning; potential
D. measurement of current skills; potential
B. potential; what has been learned
A counselor who had an interest primarily in testing would most likely be a member of
A. HS-BCP
B. AARC
C. NASW
D. ACES
B. AARC
You pass your exam and now have NCC status. You perform a better of tests on your client. After you complete the testing you discover your client is in imminent danger. You receive a legal court order to turn over the test scores. You
A. must get a signed release from the client
B. you must turn over the test records complete with the test scores
C. turn over the test records without the scores
D. should recall that according to "aspirational ethics," your client comes first and so you will do nothing
B. you must turn over the test records complete with test scores
The placater is a people pleaser under stress while the blamer
A. will sacrifice others to feel good about himself
B. will often say "if it weren't for you..."
C. will point the finger at others to avoid dealing with his/her own issues
D. all of the above are typical behaviors of the blamer
D. all of the above are typical behaviors of the blamer
Lifestyle and career development have been emphasized
A. only since the late 1950s
B. only since the late 1960s
C. only since nondirective counseling became popular
D. since the beginning of the counseling and guidance movement and are still major areas of concerns
D. since the beginning of the counseling and guidance movement and are still major areas of concerns
The ____ are examples of aptitude tests
A. O*NET Ability Profiler and the MCAT
B. GZTS and the MMPI-2
C. CPI and the MMPI-2
D. Strong and the LSAT
A. O*NET Ability Profiler and the MCAT
You want to admit only 35% of all counselors to an advanced training program in psychodynamic group therapy. The item difficulty on the entrance exam for applicants would be best set at
A. 0.0
B. .5 regardless of the admission requirement
C. 1.0
D. .25
D. .25
Virginis was the first state to license counselors in 1976. The APGA (later AACD and now ACA) division that was initially the most instrumental in pushing for licensing was the
A. American College Personnel Association
B. American School Counselor Association
C. Association for Specialists in Group Work
D. American Counselor Education and Supervision
D. American Counselor Education and Supervision
Psychotherapy of the absurd is primarily related to the work of
A. Virginia Satir
B. Carl Whitaker
C. Norbert Wiener
D. William Glasser
B. Carl Whitaker
Developmental career theorists view career choice as an ongoing or so-called longitudinal process rather than a single decision made at one point in time. The pioneer theorists in this area-who were the first to forsake the matching models were
A. Super and Roe
B. Hoppock and Holland
C. Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma
D. Brill and Bordin
C. Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma
Lewis Terman
A. constructed the Wechsler tests
B. constructed the initial Binet prior to 1910
C. constructed the Rorschach
D. Americanized the Binet
D. Americanized the Binet
A word association test would be an example of
A. a neuropsychological test
B. a motoric test
C. an achievement test
D. a projective test
D. a projective test