Professional Orientation
Who is not a founding member of the ACA
American School Counselor Association
A professional counselor would like information related to the Beck Depression Inventory. Specifically, she would like information related to the instrument’s score reliability and validity, as well, as a critique of using the assessment in clinical settings. What sources is designed to provide this information?
Mental Measurements Yearbook
In the beginning stage of a group, a leader is generally more _______ than in later stages
Directive
The paradigm characterized most by the notion that with enough research we can gain knowledge of a universal truth is
positivism
If a set of high school standardized test scores with a mean of 74 and a standard deviation of 10 is normally distributed, what is the median?
74
The most recently established division of the ACA is
Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling
Developed by Robert Yerkes, ____________ is a language free test that was designed to assess the cognitive ability of military recruits who could no read or were foreign born.
Army Beta
Olga considered not attending her first group session because she doesn’t know what to expect. She feels a lot of pressure to get things right. Olga is experiencing
Randomly identifying a counseling agency that serves clients with ADHD and sampling its entire staff is most likely an example of a _________ sampling method.
Cluster
In a normal distribution, ____ % of scores falls between -1 and +2 standard deviations?
82%
CRCC certifies what type of counselor
Rehabilitation counselors
A professional counselor would like yo track her clients’ therapeutic outcomes. She decides to administer each client a shortened version of the Outcome Questionnaire. The shortened version has 30 items, which is 15 less than the full length version. What is a concern when administering a shorter test?
Reliability
Young women’s personal growth group is an example of what kind of group?
Spontaneous content group
Evaluating change from pre- to post-intervention of a smoking cessation program for a group of 25 individuals who select to join the program would most likely be an example of
Time series design
William Stern’s ratio intelligence quotient, popularized on early versions of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, was calculated by dividing one’s
mental age by chronological age
The American Counseling Association was originally named
American Personnel and Guidance Association
A counseling researcher wants to establish the reliability of a new eating disorder scale. She administers the scale to the same participants twice to evaluate the consistency of scores over time. What type of reliability is the counseling researcher using?
Test-retest reliability
At school, Zach saw a flier for a group for students who are in recovery. He is curious but unsure if he wants others to know such personal information about himself. Information that is known to self but unknown to others is found in which quadrant of the Johari window?
Private or hidden quadrant
The amount of shared variance among the variables of depression and anxiety ( r = .30) is
.09
In an initial session a professional counselor notices the client appears disheveled, has abnormal movements, and appears paranoid. The counselor is concerned about the client and would like to administer an assessment that will capture information on client appearance, movement, and thought content. What assessment is most appropriate?
Bayley scales
The Buckley Amendment is also known as the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
An individual with a z-score of -1.3 has a stanine scores of
2.4
Yolanda has a client who is interested in joining her counseling group. The client has vivid nightmares and trouble making decisions. Which type of assessment would be most useful for Yolanda to determine if the client is a good fit for group work?
Screening and selection
Answer the following analogy: An independent t-test is to Kolmogorov-Smirnov Z procedure as a dependent t-test is to a(n)
Wilcoxon’s signed-ranks test
A professional counselor would like to administer an objective personality assessment to her adult client. She would like the assessment to identify DSM-5 related personality disorders. What assessment should the counselor use?
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-IV)