Ch 1 & 2

Question 1

Training to become a counselor involves

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addressing personal reactions to your work and contertransferences

Question 2

What are the many benefits of becoming a counselor?

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Becoming skilled at developing productive, trusting relationships; learning to love and live more intensely; developing better comprehension of others’ behaviors

Question 3

Deciding to be a counselor may have larger implications in your life. What could result from this decision?

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You will have to face personal fears; all of your relationships will change;you will develop new expectations and standards for intimacy

Question 4

Which of the following best defines counseling itself?

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A process designed to stimulate thinking to increase growth

Question 5

One predictor of success in counseling may largely be attributed to

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clients motivation and attitude

Question 6

Your goal as a counselor should include

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the integration of special skills into your character and personality style

Question 7

One of the most potentially rewarding (though terrifying) experiences in counseling is:

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sharing your essential personal self with another

Question 8

Counselor training is moving towards

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standardized curricula through accreditation and generic training models

Question 9

Things that influence a counseling practitioner’s style

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Theoretical orientation; personality; work setting

Question 10

Effective counelors tend to

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demonstrate certain human qualities that make them attractive and influential

Question 11

Counseling may be viewed as an ambiguous activity because…

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the definition of counseling is vast; clients often are unaware of their real problems; clients are often confused and unfocused

Question 12

When presenting a definition of counseling to a client, it is imortant to

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personalize the description to reflect the client’s needs and counselor’s style

Question 13

Counseling is most likely to be helpful when all of the following are true:

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the counselor is experienced; the counselor follows a flexible plan; the counselor follows a generic process stage

Question 14

What is true about counselors?

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counselors have strong opinions about client choices but try hard to keep them in check so clients can come to their own decisions

Question 15

The bottom line for success in a counseling program is:

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being able to translate text and classroom learning into action

Question 16

Counselor training programs are among the most challenging experiences a student can undertake because they

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demand that you translate learning into action; call for honest self-evaluation of motives; demand emotional, as well as academic commitment, and investment

Question 17

Motivation to enter the profession is driven by

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selfish desires to meet one’s own needs; an altruistic spirit; financial prospects

Question 18

Counseling inspires students to become a knowledgeable generalist by

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reading across disciplines; critically analyzing conceptions of truth; stretching the breadth of one’s personal experiences

Question 19

To permit the luxury of liking or disliking the client is an example of

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yielding to internal distractions

Question 20

Counselor effectiveness is reduced when counselors are

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rigid in pursuit of their personal agendas

Question 21

Counseling has developed from the following fields:

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Education, Philosophy, Medicine, Social Sciences

Question 22

Historically, counseling roles were filled by

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philosophers

Question 23

Studying the historical foundations of counseling helps the student to

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understand how counseling fits into the context of other helping professions

Question 24

An important difference between psychiatrists and other allied mental health professionals is

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their ability to provide and monitor psychotropic medication

Question 25

Which concept was pioneered by Freud as the process through which healing occurred?

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The talking cure

Question 26

Which influential early publication by Beers criticized the inhumane treatment of the mentally ill and lead to the establishment of the NAMH

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…A Mind That Found Itslef

Question 27

Robert Carkuff and his collaborators are generally credited with identifying

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the generic counseling skills essential for effective therapeutic functioning

Question 28

Parsons’ name is synonymous with

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vocational guidance

Question 29

Freud was responsible for:

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developing anesthesia for eye surgery; emphasizing the unconscious motives behind behavior and studying the structure of society

Question 30

An important tenent we have inherited from the ancient philosophers is

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any philosophy is worthless it is personalized and made relevant to everyday life

Question 31

Distinctions between counselors and other allied mental health professionals have become

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less clear as counselors have begun to work with more diverse populations

Question 32

Counselors focus on

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developing a solid relationship with the client, identifying and understanding the client’s core issues from a developmental perspective, employing interventions suited to the client and clinical situation

Question 33

cost controls associated with manage care have encouraged an increasing emphasis among counselors on

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increased integration of brief therapy

Question 34

Research helps counselors:

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to know which techniques and skills will most likely produce which results; to train counselors to think analytically, intentionally, and systematically about problems

Question 35

Quantitative research in counseling

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measures the experiences of clients in ways that can be shared with others

Question 36

Qualitative research

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explores the rich complexity of human experiences and finds underlying themes from clients’ accounts of lived experiences

Question 37

Aspects of research are important for students of therapeutic counseling

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practicing and understanding the terminology and language of the research field; understanding the knowledge and implications of classic studies; having the ability to critically analyze various methods and statistics and draw conclusions

Question 38

as a result of the standardization of training, counselors:

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are earning greater respect and recognition from colleagues in other fields

Question 39

The term counseling can be represented in the following ways:

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prevents rather than fixes problems; employs the use of a developmental model as opposed to a psychopathological model; focuses on issues of adjustment; focuses on short term rather than long term work

Question 40

the vast majority of research in counseling and psychology in the last 100 years has been

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quantitative