Epic Exam

Metacognition is a reflected in

'how well am i thinking?"

Which of the following is most accurate?

A first phase of minority sexual identity is called being different..

Confidentiality must be breached and information must be reported by practitioners when

All Of Above

Many Ethical codes state the dual or multiple relationships

Avoid it whenever possible maybe

All of the following except ____ are examples prevalent forms of unethical behaviors in counseling

Avoiding interaction with a client on a social level

Microaggressions are

Brief, everyday exchanges

suggested ways to avoid Burnout include all but except

Concentrating all of your energy on counseling

An early stage in racial identity development for people of color is

Conformity maybe

According to Kitchener one of the underlying moral principles underlying ethical judgments is beneficence. Of the following describes beneficence

Counselor intent to foster client growth

The notion that emphasizes differences in people to be the results of historical, Social and geographic condition

Cultural relativism Maybe

the status and benefits that people receive within a society according to their fro membership is called

Culture

Mrs. Harmon, the mother of 18-month-old Bryce, is concerned that Bryce has not learned to speak very well. He has a limited vocabulary and seems content to point to the things he wants. Mrs. Harmon has read several child development books which indicate that Bryce should be in the stage of language learning. Mrs. Harmon fears that Bryce is not keeping up developmentally. Based on your understanding of the timing of developmental stages, what would be your best advice?

Developmental stage can be useful guidelines, but there is a range of normal development within stages.

Which of the following is NOT considered to be a limitation in any code of ethics?

Difficulties in enforcing ethical codes, ethical codes address cross-cultural concerns, ethical codes are not proactive documents that can inform counselors of what to do in new situations (all of the above)

A racial identity stage which is characterized by confusion based on contradictions to the previous perspective is called

Dissonance

In 1990, Egan published the skilled helper in which the acronym SOLER was used to outline A skill set that counselors can use to better engage in work clients. In doing so they would..

Face Squarely, open posture SOLER stands for: S: Sit SQUARELY on to the client, preferably at a 5 o'clock position to avoid the possibility of staring. O: Maintain an OPEN posture at all times, not crossing your arms or legs which can appear defensive. L: LEAN slightly in towards the client. E: Maintain EYE CONTACT with the client without staring. R: RELAX. This should in turn help the client to relax. SOLER should be used as an integral part of active listening.

There is a potential conflict between a counselor's employer and a counselors client, the counselor should

First protect the right of the client

Showing affection to your romantic partner in public without fear of having tax benefits associated with marriage, and talking openly to a o-worker about the faction you had with your romantic partner are too examples of

Heterosexual privilege

Worldview can be defined broadly as

How a person perceives his or her relationship to nature, institutions, people, and the experiential world

According to Erickson, the main task in adolescence is to work through the crisis of

Identity vs. role confusion

Counselors sharing and feedback is is most helpful to the client when it is constructed

In the present tense with a focus on the here and now

The lowest of the four types of professional credentials counselors may obtain is

Inspection

paraphrasing is important because it confirms the client that the helperthe client that the helper

Is able to understand them

Which of the following is true about acculturation?

It can be stressful for members of non-dominantCan be stressful for members of non-dominant groups

What is most true about culture in general?

It inevitably leads to moral relativism maybe

__studied the cognitive development of children as they think about the physical

Jean Piaget

Keshia is a 35-year-old African-American woman who is depressed. Her presenting concerns include marital distress, the imminent possibility of losing her job, overeating, and chain smoking. As you listen to her story, you begin to construct a picture of her developmental history. How might Kesha's problems have developed using one possible stage theory perspective?

Keisha's difficulties most likely developed through the interaction of her family experiences and societal conditions like poverty and racism

De-emphasizing ethnicity to the point where it is no longer a significant part of a person's personal identity and affects little of her or his social life characterizes the notion of

Low salience maybe

_____ Is the view of ethical practice that deals with the minimum level of professional practice

Mandatory ethics

Ethical codes do which of the following?

Maybe all of the above

when teenagers believe they are being scrutinized for their behavior and physical appearance they are

Maybe egocentric and displaying a weak ego

The best reference book on tests which was originally edited by O.K. Buros in 1939 is

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Which of the following is not an illustration of formal operational thought?

Mia generates all the possible combinations of numbers from a seven digit telephone number

Examples of workers who are not generally considered professional helpers but who may enter the helping network on a temporary basis include

Ministers and teachers

With in the counseling profession the primary national voluntary certification agency is

NBCC

is communicated primarily to verbal responses, facial expressions, and eye contact, body position and movements

Not aggressivness Not Attrativeness Not Agreeableness

Systemic limitations on a group that are due to everyday practices of a seemingly well-intentioned liberal society can be characterized by the term:

Opression

the thematic apperception test is a ___ test

Personality

Which of the following statements is most accurate with regard to piaget's theory

Piaget believed in the dynamic quality of stages and understood that children in the same stage could vary greatly in their specific

Stage theories of development typically describe changes in behavior, cognition, or she other area of development that are __ different from each other at each he various stages

Quantitatively

the degree to which a test produces consistency of test scores is

Reliability

Which of the following is a constitutional right?

Rights of privacy, maybe

According to Erickson , Without exploration and commitment to the development of identity prior to young adulthood one is likely to experience___ role in later stage development

Role Confusion

Selena and her friends are walking home after school. They approach a grocery store with bags if candy and other snacks stacked in open shelves right outside the front door. A young clerk sits outside waiting for customers. As they get closer, Selena notices that the clerk goes inside the store. Selena's friends encourage her to take a bag of candy from the shelf and run away, but she refuses. How would an individual in Kohlnerg's preconventional stage of moral reasoning explain Selena's behavior?

Selena didn't take the candy because she might get caught.

William Cross's model describes:

Stages of Nigrescence

the council for accreditation of counseling and related counseling programs

Standards for preparing counselors, social workers and school psychologists

Using erickson's developmental theory as a framework which of the following statements is an accurate representation of his ideas

Successful resolution of a psychosocial crisis at each stage depends upon having more positive than negative experiences in the area of major concern.

Ethnocentric Monoculturalism includes all of the following except for:

The concept of the Melting Pot

Under what circumstances should a therapist consult with colleagues or specialists?

When the client complains of physical symptoms; facing an ethical problem, or when working with a client for an extended period of time and losing objectivity. All of these

The easier access to benefits because of the possession of "desired" characteristics in the U.S is referred to as?

White Privilege

Counselors should know that the period between the ages of 15 and 24 is

a time when depression rates are at their peak, with the highest prevalence of any time in the life span.

Marcus a therapist in a community agency recently divorced his wife and seems to be harboring anger toward women in general. His colleagues who have noticed a change in his attitude and behavior lately have encouraged him to seek personal counseling to work through his issues His colleagues who have noticed a change in his attitude and behavior lately have encouraged him to seek personal counseling to work through his issues

acting ethically by recommending counseling for Marcus; as counselors, they recognize that personal issues that have not been worked through are likely to be projected onto clients.

Effective Goals in counseling are

agreed upon by both the client and the counselor

The question "why" usually is not used in counseling because

both a and b not c

Using homework with clients can do all the following except ____

change other peoples' behavior

Which of the following is not true with regard to the definition of reactive attachment- disorder?

children behave indifferently, like avoidantly attached youngsters.

While _____ questions are recommended, there are uses for ________ questions as well

closed

Which is not one of the major categories of multicultural competency?

cultural inclusivity

the communication of accurate empathy promotes all excepts which of the following?

decreased client exploration

all counselors with a strong professional identity are able to do all the following except

demonstrate that they have a masters from a CACREP accredited program

the process of choosing whether to focus on the clients cognitive or affective response is called

differentiation

Stacking questions are problematic because they

don't allow enough time for the client's thinking and give

Which of the following is not a listening skill

drawing out

Counseling graduate programs and universities are usually located in the colleges of

education maybe

the reflection of feeling is used to attend to the clients

emotional tone

The employment of such words as "good", bad, right and wrong are

ethics maybe

professional helpers be distinguished from non professional helpers by their adoption of ethical code and standards of practice, their identification with a professional organization and which of the following

existence of accrediting body that governs training, credentialing, and licensing of practice, identification with professional organization, and adoption of ethical code and standards of practice

father of counseling is known as

frank Parsons

With in the counseling profession primary goal of counseling is to

help clients accomplish wellness

A Primary goal of counseling is for clients

help clients accomplish wellness.With respect to what or success in areas of life in which they do not feel successful

Distressed counselors or counselors suffering from burn out are terms used to refer to

impaired counselors

beginning helpers often experience..

imposter phenomenon

For Erickson, a sense of industry believing in and taking pleasure in one's ability to be productive first emerges

in the elementary school years

Social Justice

includes a vision of society, which distribution of resources is equitable...

Structure in the counseling relationship does each of the following except

initiates reflection of content by the counselor

how is transgendered status different from lesbian, gay, or bi-sexual status?

it relates to gender identity instead of sexual orientation

Which statement is FALSE - a reflection of meaning response differs from others responses that

it requires the client to be mature and it is to ideal for children

Which of the following is not true about summarization

it works best with clients who are less intelligent

In making ethical decisions counselors should abide by all but which of these principles

justice and fidelity

law and ethics different in that

laws dictate minimum standards if behavior that society will tolerate while ethics represent the ideal standards expected by the profession

in Becoming an ethical practitioner a crucial task is to

learn how to interpret and apply ethical codes to an ethical dlemma

A disguised form of advice is known as

lecturing

fluid intelligence is to _____ as crystalized intelligence is to ___

metacognition; Working memory

when a helpers facial expression radiates concern in response to a clients tearful recounting of a loss experience, this is example of

mirroring

The idea that children's development is more affected by biological factors and adults' development is more affected by cultural factors is part of

multidimensional Systems Therapy

Psychological accommodation is:

new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas

____ is a distilled version of the content of the client's message that restates the facts and thoughts in different words in a non- judgmental way

paraphrase

A core belief that members of the profession of counseling hold concerning helping others with their mental health concern is

prevention and early intervention are the most appropriate means in dealing with emotional and personal problems.

In the following example what scale is the helper demonstrating? Client: I'm sorry I didn't get my homework done. I hate that it's not finished. hELPER: IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE FEELING DISAPPOINTED AND FIRST-RATE ITIT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE FEELING DISAPPOINTED AND FUSTRATED

reflection of content

through the process of ______ the counselor offers the client another way to look at the situation

reframing

The judicious and deliberate use of____ by the helper may be effective in pacing the interview, communications compassion

silence

A term for the transient condition resulting from a lack of resources due to a particular event such as death, divorce, unemployment or chronic illness is

situational poverty

In norm- referenced assessment, the word norm refers to

the group of individuals who took the instrument, to which others' scores are later compared

The interviewing skills used by counselors to help clients explore their problems and help them make behavioral changes are

they all do so equally, maybe

to avoid being sued by client for abandonment, counselors are advised to

to avoid being sued by client for abandonment, counselors are advised to

subtle sexism

unequal and unfair treatment of women that is not recognized by many people because it is perceived to be normative and therefore does not appear unusual

subtle sexism

unequal treatment of women that appears unusual to the majority of ;people and is carried out unintentionally

Counselors who practiced from a developmental perspective

view most problems people encounter as natural and normal because all developmental stages of life bring challenges

If a client brings up new material at the end of the session the counselor should A. Always deal with the material in an emergency basis B. Work to make the material the focus of the next sessions C. Subtly ignore the new material D. Call the clients attention to the inappropriateness of the timing

work to make the material the focus of the next sessions

confrontation often involves the use of the phrase

you said _______ but look _____________