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Counseling Final (1)
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Counseling FinalIt is especially important for counselors who work with culturally diverse client populations to do
all of the following, except: - ANS-not consider the cultural context of their clients in determining
what interventions are appropriate.
According to the text, personal values of the counselor influence all of the following, except: -
ANS-how the clients' life progressed prior to treatment.
Clients place more value on the personality of the therapist than on the. - ANS-specific
techniques used.
Regarding psychotherapy treatment outcome, research suggests all of the following except: -
ANS-therapy techniques are the key component of successful treatment.
An authentic counselor is best described as: - ANS-being willing to look at his or her own life
and make the changes wanted; he or she can model that process to be the way it is revealed to
the client.
In the text, all of the following are listed as characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic
person except: - ANS-counselors no longer have to cope with personal problems.
_______cannot be reduced simply to cultural awareness and sensitivity. - ANS-Multicultural
competence
In the text, one reason given for having counseling students receive some form of
psychotherapy is to help them: - ANS-learn to deal with transference and countertransference.
Personal therapy for therapists can be instrumental in assisting them to: - ANS-heal their own
psychological wounds.
With regard to the role of counselors' personal values in therapy, it is appropriate for counselors
to: - ANS-avoid imposing their values through a process of bracketing.
The author describes the characteristics of an effective counselor. By including this information
in the chapter, he is hoping to convey the message that: - ANS-you should develop your own
concept of what personality traits you think are essential to strive for to promote your own
personal growth.
During an initial session, an adolescent girl tells you that she is pregnant and is considering an
abortion. Which of the following would be the most ethical and professional course for you to
follow? - ANS-Help her to clarify the range of her choices in light of her own values.
,Culturally encapsulated counselors would be most likely to: - ANS-use their power to influence
clients to accept or adopt their value system.
You are working with an ethnic minority client who is silent during the initial phase of counseling.
This silence is probably best interpreted as: - ANS-a response consistent with his or her cultural
context.
Which of the following is not considered an essential skill of an effective culturally competent
counselor? - ANS-Being able to get clients to intensify their feelings by helping them to vividly
re-experience early childhood events
Which of the following is not considered essential knowledge for a culturally competent
counselor? - ANS-Knowing how to analyze transference reactions
Essential components of effective multicultural counseling include all of the following except: -
ANS-counselors avoid becoming involved in out-of-office interventions.
Effective counseling must take into account the impact of culture on the client's functioning,
including the: - ANS-client's degree of acculturation.
Which of the following is not a method of increasing effectiveness in working with diverse client
populations? - ANS-Realize that practicing from a multicultural perspective will probably make
your job very difficult
The __________ factors-the alliance, the relationship, the personal and interpersonal skills of
the therapist, client agency, and extratherapeutic factors are the primary determinants of
therapeutic outcome. - ANS-contextual
If we are inauthentic, it is unlikely that our clients will detect it. - ANS-False
A metaanalysis of research on therapeutic effectiveness found that the personal and
interpersonal components are, at best, only moderately related to effective psychotherapy. -
ANS-False
Effective therapists are not the victims of their early decisions. - ANS-True
Therapists should not admit their mistakes since that could diminish their clients' confidence in
them. - ANS-False
Truly dedicated therapists carry the problems of their clients around with them during leisure
hours. - ANS-False
, The vast majority of mental health professionals have experienced personal therapy, typically on
several occasions. - ANS-True
Therapists need to be free of conflicts before they can counsel others. - ANS-False
It is not our function to persuade clients to accept or adopt our value system. - ANS-True
Your role as a counselor is to provide a safe and inviting environment in which clients can
explore the congruence between their values and their behavior. - ANS-True
The general goals of counselors must be congruent with the personal goals of the client. -
ANS-True
If you try to figure out in advance how to proceed with a client, you may be depriving the client
of the opportunity to become an active partner in her or his own therapy. - ANS-True
Counselors from all cultural groups must examine their expectations, attitudes, biases, and
assumptions about the counseling process and about persons from diverse groups. - ANS-True
Practitioners must have had the same experiences as their clients in order to have empathy for
them. - ANS-False
The skill of immediacy involves revealing what we are thinking or feeling in the here and now
with the client. - ANS-True
Ideally, our selfcare should mirror the care we provide for others. - ANS-True
In becoming an ethical practitioner, a crucial task is to: - ANS-
exercise prudent judgment when it comes to interpreting and applying ethical principles to
specific situations. - ANS-
According to the text, the challenge of fulfilling the spirit of informed consent is to: - ANS-strike a
balance between giving clients too much information and giving them too little.
The ethics codes do not mandate that dual or multiple relationships: - ANS-should be avoided or
that nonsexual multiple relationships are unethical.
Privileged communication applies to: - ANS-individual counseling.
Confidentiality must be breached and information must be reported by practitioners when all of
the following take place, except: - ANS-a child under the age of 16 requests counseling
sessions.
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