Counseling Theories
What counseling theory focuses on the importance of the therapeutic relationship, empathy, and unconditional positive regard?
What is a Person-Centered?
Jimmy is a licensed professional counselor and is also a personal fitness trainer. Jimmy teaches a fitness class at the local gym. After class one the students approaches him and says, "I hear you are also a therapist....I was wondering would you see me as a client because I have been feeling a little depressed lately." What ethical dilemma is Jimmy facing?
What is a Dual Relationship?
The Beck Depression Inventory is an example of what type of assessment tool commonly used in counseling?
What is a Self-report questionnaire?
According to Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory, what is the primary crisis or challenge during adolescence?
What is Identity vs. Role Confusion?
Which of the following is not an ethical concern when running groups?
a. Confidentiality b. Dual relationships c. Having refreshments d. Coercion of members
What is Having Refreshments?
This psychiatrist believes that birth order has an influence on personality development:
What is Alfred Adler?
Informed consent, confidentiality, and dual relationships are key components of which ethical principle in counseling?
What is Autonomy?
Which of the following is not considered a subjective test? a. Rorschach b. TAT c. WISC-III d. None; all are subjective
What is WISC-III?
How many stages are there of moral reasoning, according to Kohlberg?
What is six?
A counselor is setting up group therapy screening appointments. She gathers the information that she will give the members to help them understand the process of being part of a therapy group. The best predictor of client success in a therapy group is:
What is Commitment?
Harlow is to _________ as Lorenz is to ________________.
What is attachment, bonding?
Which of the following is true in terms of supervisees and informed consent?
a. It doesn't apply.
b. It applies in the same way that it applies to informed consent with clients.
c. It applies only insofar as supervisees ask; what they as we must tell.
d. It doesn't apply except with supervisees with some level of impairment; we must make them aware of their deficits through informed consent.
What is It applies in the same way that it applies to informed consent with clients?
The ASVAB measures _______.
What is aptitude?
Your client is going through a divorce, and she is particularly concerned about her five-year-old daughter. You help her understand the importance of helping her daughter understand that the divorce had nothing to do with her. You are helping your client understand the effects of the developmental stage of:
What is Egocentrism?
Which is the correct sequence of group formation, as per Tucker? a. Form, norm, storm, perform, adjourn b. Form, storm, perform, norm, adjourn c. Form, perform, norm, storm, adjourn d. Form, storm, norm, perform, adjourn
What is d. Form, storm, norm, perform, adjourn?
David is obsessed with doing all he can to interrupt the gay rights movement. Unconsciously, however, David has sexual attractions to his best friend and roommate. This is:
What is reaction formation?
A client you have been seeing weekly for severe depression loses his job and his insurance. He tells you that he would like to keep seeing you but can only afford to come once a month. Ethically, the best choice is to:
a. Tell him to take a three-week break so you can explore referrals and fee structures
b. Tell him he should continue to see you every week and ask him use his credit card
c. See you save four hours a month for pro bono work, and the other three are taken, see him for free on a once-monthly basis for as long as he's unemployed so he won't have to go elsewhere
d. Explore referrals to a healthcare agency that sees patients on a sliding scale
What is Explore referrals to a healthcare agency that sees patients on a sliding scale?
A newly-developed intelligence test is said to have a high correlation with the WAIS-III. What does this mean? a. It has low concurrent validity. b. It has no concurrent validity. c. It has high concurrent validity. d. It has high concurrent reliability.
What is It has high concurrent validity?
Bowlby’s work is closely associated with: a. Maslow b. Jung c. Erikson d. Lorenz
What is Lorenz?
You are running group, and you notice a small side conversation happening between the person sitting next to you and the girl seated on the other side of her. It is disrupting the group, so you look at the young girl who looks away. The group member next to you continues on, and you place a hand on her shoulder. This is an example of: a. Social modeling b. Operant conditioning c. Shaping d. Restructuring
What is shaping?
A forty-year-old male who you have been counseling for the last several months shares with you that he is not sure that what he is doing here on earth actually matters. You explore this further with him from an existential approach. Using existential therapy, you will consider how the client relates to his world in the following four dimensions:
What is physical, social, psychological, spiritual?
In this case, a hospital released a patient for a weekend pass even though he threatened to kill his wife while he was out. After her death, the wife's family sued the hospital, and the duty to warn was extended to include the duty to protect an individual identified in a homicidal ideation.
What is Bradley Center v. Wessner?
_________ testing has been at the center of more debates among experts than any other type of testing.
What is Intelligence?
Madelyn is 35 years of age and has not experienced her menstrual cycle in a year. After a visit to the gynecologist, her doctor informs her that she is entering menopause. What type of life event would this be considered? a. A Critical Period b. Non-normative Event c. Developmental Hazard d. Normative Event
What is non-normative event?
The concept of the group as an entity dates back to: a. 1992 b. 1895 c. 1905 d. 1940
What is 1895?