Cpce Flashcards
When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to
Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to
jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling process will proceed
A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of relationship difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had multiple abortions, and seems to use abortion as a birth control method. You are personally opposed to abortion. How should your personal beliefs impact the therapeutic relationship?
Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on the therapeutic relationship
Most ethical issues are related to
Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst’s developmental theory covers the entire lifespan. Who is he?
Erik Erikson
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst?
Sigmund Freud
A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former counselor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is your responsibility in this case?
It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on a current or past client, so you should decline
Kohlberg’s theory of moral development includes 3 progressive levels culminating in…
principled thought, wherein the individual adopts a self- accepted set of standards of behavior.
A professional counselor determines fees for monthly consultation services on a job-by-job basis. This is an example of which of the following types of reinforcement schedules?
variable ratio
When persons who are characteristically shy and withdrawn participate in “assertiveness training,” initially they experience uncertainty and self-doubt. Counselors refer to this social psychological concept as
cognitive dissonance
“Men (used here to mean all people) are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” This quote, attributable to Epictetus, most closely describes the counseling theory developed by
Ellis
The counseling technique in which the counselor intensifies the client’s emotional state in order to help the client understand the irrationality of the emotional reaction is known as
paradoxical intention
Counselors know that groups are formed for different purposes. For example, in some groups the primary goal is to yield some specified outcome, or “product,” while in others the primary goal is to focus on the “process” of interaction within the group. Which of the following types of groups is more product than process oriented?
Behavioral
In the context of group counseling, members that are high in conformity also tend to be high in
authoritarianism
A counselor who structures a career counseling group to help group members understand a “fields and levels” approach to careers is following the theory of
Roe
The concept of “career maturity” has been described and researched most extensively by
Crites
Person A and Person B both took the same test. Person A got a score of 100 while Person B got a score of 75. In order for a counselor to determine whether the difference between their scores was because of “chance,” the counselor would need to know which of the following characteristics of the test?
standard error of measurement
A counselor conducted a study intended to evaluate the effectiveness of on-going group career counseling on the vocational maturity of high school sophomores. The study was begun in September and continued until June. This study is partcularly susceptible to which of the following threats to the validity of an experiment?
maturation
A counselor designs a study where two experimental groups and one control group complete pre- and post-experiment measures of self-concept. The subjects were not randomly assigned to the groups because of scheduling problems. Which of the following techniques is MOST appropriate for analyzing the resultant data?
analysis of covariance
As applied to professional licensure of counselors, the term “reciprocity” means that
one licensing agency agrees to accept the licensing standards of another as sufficient for its own.
Susie is playing with blocks and is trying to build a tower; she tries but cannot build a tower. Susie’s mother helps her build a four-block tower. Later, Susie builds a four-block tower without her mother’s help. According to Vygotsky, the inability to build the tower on her own is known as:
the zone of proximal development
According to Erickson, when an individual fails to develop a strong sense of identity, the individual will have troubles with the development of:
intimacy
Which of the following is the correct sequence of stages in Freud’s theory of personality development?
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital
Jacob’s father tells Jacob to clean his room. When Jacob asks why, his father responds, “Because I said so.” The father’s response is most representative of which parenting style?
Authoritarian
Harry Harlow used baby monkeys and several different kinds of “surrogate mothers” to investigate which factors are important in early development and attachment. According to his findings, baby monkeys:
preferred a soft terrycloth “mother” to a wire-mesh “mother” that held a bottle
Cody does what his parents say because he doesn’t want to lose his television privileges. This is an example of what level in Kohlberg’s theory of moral development?
Preconventional
