Clinical Psych (Community and Consultation)

Question 1

A prevention program involves identifying children who exhibit early signs of emotional disturbance so they can be provided with special assistance from teacher’s aides and other paraprofessionals. This is an example of:

Answer 1

Secondary intervention

Question 2

A program designed to improve the interpersonal skills of residents of a retirement community would be classified as a “primary prevention” when it is offered:

Answer 2

to all residents who want to participate

Question 3

A psychology intern responds to her supervisor in the same way that a new client is responding to her (the intern) in therapy. This is referred to as:

Answer 3

Parallel Process

Question 4

As described by Gerald Caplan, “theme interference” is:

Answer 4

A type of transference

Question 5

he Health Belief Model (Becker, 1974) emphasizes

Answer 5

the individual’s readiness to take action

Question 6

What is an example of consultee-centered case consultation?

Answer 6

helping a teacher recognize the early signs of drug abuse in high school students.

Question 7

What is primary prevention?

Answer 7

making programs or creating strategies that promote mental or physical health of all members of an identified group or population

Question 8

What is secondary prevention?

Answer 8

works to decrease prevalence by using early detection and prevention strategies

Question 9

What is tertiary prevention?

Answer 9

works to reduce the duration and consequence of mental and physical disorders

Question 10

What are the 2 primary goals of education?

Answer 10

1) increase preventative activities

2) educating the public

Question 11

According to the Health belief model, health behaviours are influenced by what 3 things?

Answer 11

1) readiness to take action
2) cost/benefit analysis
3) internal and external cues that trigger a response to take action

Question 12

Health locus-of-control model

Answer 12

health related behaviours reflect either the belief that one has the ability to control their health, or that health depends on uncontrollable factors

Question 13

Define consultation

Answer 13

a process in which a human services professional assists a consultee with a work-related (or caretaking related) problem with a client system, with the goal of helping both the consultee and the client system in some specified way

Question 14

Organizational Consultation

Answer 14

defines the entire organization as the consultee

Question 15

Advocacy consultation

Answer 15

requires the consultant to adopt an explicit value orientation in order to foster the goals of a disenfranchised group

Question 16

4 stages of consultation

Answer 16

• Entry
• Diagnosis
• Implementation
• Disengagement

Question 17

client-centered consultation

Answer 17

consultant acts as an expert and works with the consultee to develop a plan that will enable the consultee to work more effectively with a client

Question 18

consultee-centered consultation

Answer 18

goal to enhance the consultee’s performance –focus on the consultee’s skills, knowledge, and abilities, and/or objectivity

Question 19

Theme interference

Answer 19

a type of transference that occurs when a past unresolved conflict related to a particular type of client or circumstance is evoked by and interferes with the consultee’s current situation

Question 20

Program-centered Administrative consultation

Answer 20

involves working with one or more administrators (consultees) to resolve problems related to and existing problem

Question 21

Consultee-centered Administrative consultation

Answer 21

goal is to help administrative-level personnel improve their professional functioning so they can be more effective in the future with regard to program development, implementation, and evaluation

Question 22

Parallel Process

Answer 22

occurs when a therapist (supervisee) replicates problems & symptoms with the supervisor that are being manifested by the therapist’s client

Question 23

Difference between consultation and supervision

Answer 23

-in supervision, the supervisor is in a position of power and both parties are often in the same profession