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School Counseling Comprehensive ExamCounselors adhering to the personality theory espoused by C. G. Jung often have to help
people with problems related to what Jung called "individuation". Jung defined this term as the
process: - ANS-Occurring throughout life in which a person is becoming an individual.
A counselor completing a report for an insurance company was required to indicate whether a
client had a phobia or an anxiety reaction. The counselor was able to indicate the correct
classification because the counselor knew that the primary distinction between the two
conditions is the: - ANS-Specificity of the fear-causing source.
Erikson presented an eight-stage theory of human development, the last stage of which he
entitled "integrity vs. despair". A person's challenge in this stage is to achieve acceptance of the
finality of life. Erikson postulated that such acceptance could be achieved only if the person had:
- ANS-Successfully met the challenges of the previous stage.
Humanists in the existential tradition assert that personal decisions are (personally) effective
only if they are made consistent with personal beliefs, principles, and regardless of whether they
are in agreement with those of most people or the known consequences of the decisions. This
assertion also is an appropriate description of which of Koklberg's stages of moral
development? - ANS-Conscience Orientation
A counselor was hired to develop educational activities that would promote development of
gender-fair (ie. non sex-role stereotypic) attitudes among older elementary school age children.
The counselor decided to develop the activities within the context of social learning theory.
Which of the following activities would be most appropriate for use by the counselor? -
ANS-Having the children view movies that depict males in so-called traditionally feminine
occupations and vice versa.
In attempting to understand the life perspectives and characteristics of their clients, some
counselors use Kohlberg's theory of moral development as a theoretical framework. These
counselors know that Kohlberg's theory includes three progressive levels culminating in -
ANS-Principled thought, wherein the individual adopts a self-accepting 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? -
ANS-Variable ratio
Competitiveness between children in the same family is known as - ANS-Sibling rivalry
, The best descriptor of the emotion that results when a feeling or fear is not understood by the
person experiencing it is - ANS-Anxiety
Many counselors in their work use stage theories of human development with older persons
because they facilitate understanding older persons' general life situations. In this context,
Erikson described the development stage that occurs in life as - ANS-Integrity vs. Despair
In some settings, counselors must use diagnostic classification systems as part of the overall
program management plan of the service facility. The term "paranoia" is used in such systems
to include a group of psychotic disorders characterized mainly by - ANS-Onset of increasingly
complex delusions.
Many members of the counseling profession have engaged in social reform efforts intended to
reduce spouse abuse. These efforts have had limited effect because - ANS-Many people, both
male and female, believe that spouse abuse is a "family matter" and, therefore, not subject to
intervention from persons outside of the family.
A counselor was working with a client who had been referred by a supervisor because the client
had been having problems with co-workers, problems primarily attributable to the client's
prejudicial attitudes toward ethnic minorities. The counselor asked how the client had come to
hold the (prejudicial) attitudes the client was presenting. The client replied "I don't really know or
care. It just makes those folks easier to understand." The client's statements reflect which of the
following models that have been used to explain the formation of prejudicial attitudes? -
ANS-Information Processing
A client was referred to a counselor by a physician. On the physician's advice, the client had
been taking valium to alleviate "minor instances of stress". Initially, small doses of valium were
sufficient to alleviate the client's stress. However, over a period of approximately one year, the
client had found it necessary to take increasingly larger doses to bring about similar stress
reduction. The counselor surmised that the client had developed a(n) ____ to the valium. -
ANS-Tolerance
Because of the nature of the counseling process, some concepts from the field of speech and
communications are readily applied to counseling. For example, counselors often find it
appropriate to give persuasive messages to clients. Such messages are more likely to be
received if the counselor, as the message sender, exhibits certain characteristics. Which of the
following is NOT a primary characteristic of effective persuasive communications? -
ANS-Emotionality
In recent years the language used in federal and many state legislative acts relative to
counseling services for persons with handicaps has tended to shift from the use of general
categorical definitions to non-categorical definitions of functional limitations of handicapping
conditions. This change appears to reflect a realization that - ANS-All categorically disabled
people do not have the same functional limitations in all work or educational situations.
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