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1. Competitiveness between children in the same family is known as

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2. Third party reimbursement is a term pertinent to

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3. Stage theories of human development are used by many counselors in their work with older persons because they facilitate understanding older persons' general life situations.  In this context, Erikson described the development stge that occurs late in life as

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Human Growth and Development

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4. Career counseling should include

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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5. A counseling group member stated, "I feel so much better knowing that many of you have had similar problems. I guess we're all in the same boat!" This member's statement is an example of a group process phenomenon kown as

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Group Work

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6. A member of the local clergy telephones and asks for your evaluation of the moral values of a person whom the caller knows was one of your clients. The caller wants your opinion because the former client is an applicant to a theological institution for which the caller is the local applicant evaluator. You should

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Professional Orientation

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7. The best descriptor of the emotion that results when a feeling or fear is not understood by the person experiencing it is

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Human Growth and Development

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8. When communicating with other professionals, counselors use various words or phrases to describe the behaviors being exhibited by their clients.  For example, when a client is attributing personally held feelings to another person, a counselor might say that the client is engaging in a process known as

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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9. You have been providing career counseling to a client who is seeking employment. Concurrent to the counseling, and with your knowledge, the client has made application for employment with several employers. A potential employer calls you and asks for your opinion as to your client's suitability for the employer's job opening. Under which of the following conditions are you free (i.e., not in violation of professional ethics) to provide the information requested?

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Professional Orientation

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10. The Dictionary of Occupational Titles

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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11. As applied to professional licensure of counselors, the term "reciprocity" means that

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Professional Orientation

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12. A measure that is highly reliable can be depended on to

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Appraisal

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13. 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 noncategorical definitions of functional limitations of handicapping conditions.  This change appears to reflect a realization that

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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14. A counselor conducted a study intended to evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing group career counseling on the vocational maturity of high school sophomores. The study was begun in September and continued until June. This study is particularly susceptible to which of the following threeats to the validity of an experiment?

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Research and Program Evaluation

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15. Clients and counselors sit closer together, presumably reflecting being psychologically closer, when they are similar in terms of factors such as age, social status, and general appearance (e.g., style of clothing worn).  However, research in proxemics also has shown that forward (upper body) trunk lean by a counselor is likely to cause a negative, distancing reaction initially in a client who is 

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Helping Relationships

Pg. 104 of "Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 3rd Edition" by Hill

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16. 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 one of the following types of groups is more product than process oriented?
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17. In Schein's "Doctor-Patient" model of consultation, which of the following conditions must e met for the consulttion process to be effective?

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Helping Relationships Chapter 19 of "Counseling Psychology: 2nd Edition" by Gelso and Fretz



"The doctor-patient model is operating when a consultant "examines" a client or client system, and then, like a physician, makes recommendations for therapy." http://www.cas.umt.edu/dcs/faculty/bach/Documents/423_lange1982.pdf

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18. 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 concepts as

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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19. 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

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Human Growth and Development (1994 CACREP Standard II-J-1)

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20. A student obtained a score of 93 on a test having a standard error of measurement of 4 points. In interpreting the results, the counselor correctly informed the student that

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Appraisal

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21. The counseling technique used by the counselor to explain to a client the logical inconsistencies in the client's statements is known as

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Helping Relationships

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22. The publication that is likely to average the largest numer of current research articles on the counseling process is the

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Professional Orientation

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23. Counselors who follow a behavioral counseling orientation know that primary emphasis in it is the development of

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Helping Relationships

Chapter 3 of "Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies: Comtemporary Approaches to Theory and Practice," Ed. by Lebow

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24. The members of a group seemed to be revelling against the group counselor's leadership, "fighting" with one another to establish dominance in the group, confronting the group counselor as well as one another, and generally being in a state of conflict.  Based on these characteristics and behaviors, the group counselor determined that the group was in which of the following stages of group development?

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Group Work

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25. You are conducting career counseling with a 19-year-old female who had a B average in high school, reports having studies "only moderately," and currently works in a machine shop. Both she and her supervisor report that she is very adept at the work. She also is a student at the local college and is making mostly C and D grades, but reports that she becomes morose and sullen if she studies for long periods of time. She also reports that her parents want her to enter a "profession," but are vague as to which one. Which of Ginzberg's stages of career development would be applicable to this person t this time?

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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26. Counselors adhering to the personality theory espoused by C.G. Jung often have to help people with problems related to what Jung "individuation."  Jung defined this term as the process

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Human Growth and Development (1994 CACREP Standard II-J-1)

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27. According to the NBCC Code of Ethics and the ACA Code of Ethics, when should a counselor try to persuade the client to report knowledge of a crime to the appropriate law enforcement authorities?

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Professional Orientation

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28. Research on the development in a person of a so-called "humanistic life outlook" has shown that it is facilitated by

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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29. Although group effectiveness is difficult to define and is related to the purposes and leadership of the group, some general principles have been agreed upon. For example, group processes generally are most effective when the group

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Group Work

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30. 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.

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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31. A client's __________ is a number that indicates how many persons taking the same test performed worse than or equal to the client.

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Appraisal

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32. A client has concluded a series of counseling sesions with another counselor and has now come to you for counseling. According to the NBCC ethical standards, you should

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Professional Orientation

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33. 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 

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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34. 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

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Human Growth and Development (1994 CACREP Standard II-J-1)

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35. Diagnosis is most clearly a counselor's task in which of the following types of group counseling?

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Group Work

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36. Client: "Most of the time things are fine, but I hate it when my parents fight.  It makes me want to run away from home." Counselor: "Is it possible that you both love and hate your parents?" The counselor's response is an example of the counseling skill known as

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Helping Relationships

Chapter 9 of "Counseling Psychology, 2nd Edition" by Gelso and Fretz

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37. In the context of the reality therapy approach to counseling, the counselor strives to achieve a counseling relationship in which the counselor assumes a(n) __________ role in decision-making relative to the client.

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Helping Relationships



http://www.wglasser.com/the-glasser-approach/reality-therapy



http://www.realitytherapywub.com/



http://www.csun.edu/~hcpsy002/Psy460_Ch11_Handout2_ppt.pdf

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38. 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 ecause the counselor knew that the primary distinction between te two conditions is the

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Human Growth and Development (1994 CACREP Standard II-J-1)

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39. A counselor was hired to develop the educational activities that would promote development of gender-fair (i.e., 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?

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Human Growth and Development (1994 CACREP Standard II-J-1)

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40. At the conclusion of a year-long career counseling activity designed specifically for 34 "underemployed" persons, you are able to report to your supervisors that 22 of the participants changed to "training/education appropriate" jobs, 4 became unemployed, 5 remained in their same jobs, and 3 dropped out of the counseling program. This information is which of the following types of evaluation data?

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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41. The counseling technique in which the counselor intensifies the client's emotional state in order to help the client understand the irrationality of the eotional reaction is known as

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Helping Relationships

Pg. 315 of "Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies: Contemporary Approaches to Theory and Practice," Ed. by Lebow

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42. The concept of "career maturity" has been described and researched most extensively by

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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43. Client: "I just can't see myself working in a hospital, being around sick kids all day." Counselor: "You just don't like kids." The counselor in this example has made which of the following types of reflection error?

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Helping Relationships

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44. "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

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Helping Relationships

Chapter 3 of "Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies: Contemporary Approaches to Theory and Practice," Ed. by Lebow

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45. In some counseling groups the members feel dependent upon the group counselor (leader) for direction and movement and are passive in other ways as well, and the group counselor is easily fatigues and irritated because of the responsibility to "make everything work" in the group. According to Yalom (among others), this situation is most likely to arise in groups

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Group Work

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46. In the context of group counseling, members who are high in conformity also tend to be high in

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Group Work

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47. One of the primary differences in clients' uses of career counseling resources in print media format (e.g., Dictionary of Occupational Titles or Occupational Outlook Handbook) and those in computerized format (e.g., Choices, Discover II, SIGI(R), ECES) is the

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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48. Counselors following particular theoretical career development orientations typically refer to them by the names of the persons primarily responsible for their development. For example, counselors following Roe's theory of career development know that it is characterized by

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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49. Ellis' rational emotive therapy and Meichenbaum's cognitive behavior modification approaches to counseling are similar in that both hold that

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Helping Relationships

Pg. 351-353 of "Counseling Psychology, 2nd Edition," by Gelso and Fretz

Pg. 333, 350, 351 of "Counseling Psychology, 2nd Edition," by Gelso and Fretz

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50. A standard deviation is a measure of

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Research and Program Evaluation

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51. With which of the following types of experimental validity is the counseling researcher concerned when attempting to generalize research findings to other circumstances and subjects?

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Research and Program Evaluation

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52. 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?

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Human Growth and Development

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53. A counseling researcher completed a study, the essence of which was that clients' ratings of counseling effectiveness were positively and statistically significantly related to counselors' frequencies of use of active listening (i.e., facilitative responding) skills. The counselor then wrote a manuscript describing the study and its results and implications, and submitted copies of it to the Journal of Counseling and Development, Counselor Education and Supervision, and the Journal of Counseling Psychology. The counselor was likely to

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Research and Program Evaluation

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54. The NBCC Code of Ethics and Ethical Standards of the American Counseling Association (ACA) do not include a statement reflecting the principle that

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Professional Orientation

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55. Counselors refer to the study of "person-to-person relationsips" within a group situation as

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Group Work

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56. A counselor who is following Super's theory of career development would not be surprised to learn that a person whom the counselor believed to be in the "Establishment" stage had

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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57. Many members of the counseling profession have engaged in social reform efforts intended to reduce spouse abuse.  These efforts have had limited effect because

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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58. Counselors use a variety of terms to describe patterns of inter-personal interactions because those terms reflect sets of behavioral characteristics.  For example, a primary characteristic of a "closed" interpersonal system is

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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59. A counselor who follows an eclectic approach to counseling primarily bases the choice of utilized techniques upon

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Helping Relationships (1994 CACREP Standard III-J-3)

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60. A specific technique for reinforcing desirable behaviors by pairing them with incompatible behaviors and incorporating  principles of relaxation is

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Group Work

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61. Because of the nature of the counseling process, some concepts from the feld of speech and communications are readily applied to counseling.  For example, counselors often find it appropriate to give (i.e., send) persuasive messages to clients.  Such messages are more likely to be received (i.e., heard and accepted) if the counselor, as the message sender, exhibits certain characteristics.  Which of the following is NOT a primary characteristic of effective persuasive communicators?

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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62. What would be the dependent variable in the statement "A rolling stone gathers no moss"?

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Research and Program Evaluation

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63. Which of the following is the LEAST important consideration that a group leader should employ in the selection of potentially appropriate strategies to be used in the group?

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Group Work

Chapter 11 of "Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies: Contemporary Approaches to Theory and Practice," Ed. Lebow

Chapter 16 of "Counseling Psychology, 2nd Ed." by Gelso & Fretz

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64. Which of the following is NOT a goal of Gestalt counseling groups?

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Group Work

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65. A married couple comes to you, as a counselor in private practice, and tells you tat they are having marital difficulties and have sought counseling for resolution of them. In the course of the initial session with them, one of the spouses reports being a new and active member of the local Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) group. You should

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Professional Orientation

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66. In some settings, counselors must use diagnostic classification systems as part of the overall progra management plan of the service facility. The term "paranoia" is used in such systems to include a group of psychotic disorders characterized mainly by a(n)

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Human Growth and Development

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67. 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?

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Appraisal

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68. Which of the following does NOT influence conformity to the expected standards of behavior within a culture?

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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69. A counselor is conducting a study wherein observers are rating frequency of aggressive behavior among a group of children in a play counseling group. Most of the cildren are neatly dressed and well groomed, but a very few are untidy and disheveled. If the observers' ratings are biased because they psychologically equate untidiness and aggressive behavior, it would be an example of the __________ effect in research.

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Research and Program Evaluation

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70. Humanists in the existential tradition assert that personal decisions are (personally) effective only if they are made consistent with personal beliefs and 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 Kohlberg's stages of moral development?

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Human Growth and Development (1994 CACREP Standard II-J-1)

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71. The "compensatory" theory of leisure suggests that a certified public accountant would enjoy __________ whereas the "spillover" theory of leisure suggests that the accountant would enjoy __________ as a leisure activity.

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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72. In counseling older adults to achieve greater life satisfaction, counseling goals are more easily defined with the recognition that life satisfaction among older persons is primarily related to

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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73. Your employer has a policy which necessitates that you report all instances of child abuse to state authorities. A client alludes (in your judgment) to the possibility of (the client) being a child abuser. As a counselor you should

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Professional Orientation

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74. Which of the following is a basic assumption underlying effective use of Caplan's Mental Health Consultation model?

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Helping Relationships

Chapter 19 of "Counseling Psychology: 2nd Edition" by Gelso and Fretz

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75. If several raters report a high degree of agreement in assessing a person, their ratings could be characterized as having a high degree of

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Appraisal

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76. A client comes to a counselor complaining of "being generally unhappy."  However, the client is unable to clarify further the nature of the unhappiness other than through vague allusions to being not interested in anything.  At this point in the process, the counselor would be best advised to

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Helping Relationships

Chapter 5 of "Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 3rd Edition" by Hill

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77. A counselor who works with adolescents is familiar with the knowledge that they tend to overselect professional positions and occupations when asked about "wht they are planning to do for a living when they grow up." In terms of Gerlatt's decision-making paradigm, adolescents tend to have errors in their __________ systems.

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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78.  In analyzing response data from a test, one type of information considered to be important in evaluating the test is the percentges of respondents who answered each item correctly. This percentage is known as the item __________ index.

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Appraisal

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79. A group of people living together with prescribed patterns of interdependent behavior could be best described as a

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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80. A counselor was reviewing pre-workshop "parenting knowledge" test data from a group of 40 couples (i.e. 80 respondents) who would soon be participating in a five-session workshop on parenting. The counselor observed that the local group's mean was essentially the same as the national mean but there was a negative skew in the local group's test data. The counselor correctly reported to the workshop participants that

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Appraisal

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81. In the context of the counselor's use of active listening skills, the following is an example of which type of reflection error? Client:  "I just can't see myself sitting at a desk job all day." Counselor:  "You want to do outdoor work."

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Helping Relationships

Chapter 5 of "Helping Skills: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action, 3rd Edition" by Hill

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82. A person go a score of 83 on a norm-referenced test. This means that the person

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Appraisal

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83. A counselor administered two self-concept measures to a group of subjects and found the Pearson product-moment correlation between two tests to be .70. The "coefficient of determination" for this correlation is

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Appraisal

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84. The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Standards for Preparation

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Professional Orientation

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85. A counselor was working with  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 twoard 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 are.  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?

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Social and Cultural Foundations

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86. In "Pre-Post" experimental design studies that use raters to evaluate the effectiveness of counseling performance, which of the following threats to external validity is always in operation?

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Research and Program Evaluation

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87. 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?

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Research and Program Evaluation

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88. If a theory covers a maximum of facts with a minimum of assumptions, it is referred to as being

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Research and Program Evaluation

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89. A counseling researcher conducted a study in which adult males and females whho had exhibited symptoms of depression ere randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions: (a) individul counseling, (b) group counseling, or (c) family counseling. For each condition the counseling intervention was conducted for at least six weeks, at which time the Beck Depression Inventory was administered to the subjects. Th researcher was particularly interested in "treatment x gender" interaction effects. Therefore, the researcher would be best advised to conduct a(n)

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Research and Program Evaluation

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90. The state in which you reside does not yet have counselor licensure, so a local civic club has asked you to address their members to present an overview of licensure and its benefits to the public. In your presentation to the group you note that

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Professional Orientation

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91. A counseling researcher computed a Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient of +.71 between the Graduate Record Examination Total (GRET) scores ad the Graduate Grade-Point Average (GGPA) of a group of 28 students in a counselor education program. The researcher correctly concluded that

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Research and Program Evaluation

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92. A counselor was reviewing articles in professional journals and found four articles where a one-way analysis of variance had been applied as the primary statistical analysis. However, the counselor concluded that it had been applied correctly in only one case. If the following are brief synopses of the studies, for which one was the analysis of variance correctly applied?

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Research and Program Evaluation

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93. Which of the following is NOT one of the four major elements in Super's approach to career development?

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Career and Lifestyle Development

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94. A counselor gave a student the Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale (S-B) and the student achieved an I.Q. of 97. The same counselor retested the stuent with the S-B one year later and the student achieved a full scale I.Q. of 122. Which of the following results is the most likely reason for the difference in the results?

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Appraisal

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95. A respondent took a standardized aptitude test which yielded percentile ranks for three normative groups. The respondent's results were as follows: 55th percentile for local norms, 69th percentile for state norms, and 61st percentile for national norms. A counselor interpreting these data could correctly conclude that

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Appraisal

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96. In a consulting capacity with a local business college, a counselor had recommended administrtion of a clerical aptitude test to students in each of the two first-year classes: 35 students in one class and 29 students in the other. The tests had been scored by computer and n internal consistency reliability coefficient of .78 had been found for the entire group. The counselor, however, was interested in the classes seprately, and therefore, calculated the reliability coefficients for each class. The counselor would expect the reliability coefficients for the separate classes to be __________ .78.

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Appraisal

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Third party reimbursement is a term pertinent to
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Career counseling should include
A counseling group member stated, "I feel so much better knowing...
A member of the local clergy telephones and asks for your evaluation...
The best descriptor of the emotion that results when a feeling or fear...
When communicating with other professionals, counselors use various...
You have been providing career counseling to a client who is seeking...
The Dictionary of Occupational Titles
As applied to professional licensure of counselors, the term...
A measure that is highly reliable can be depended on to
In recent years the language used in federal and many state...
A counselor conducted a study intended to evaluate the effectiveness...
Clients and counselors sit closer together, presumably reflecting...
Counselors know that groups are formed for different purposes. For...
In Schein's "Doctor-Patient" model of consultation,...
When persons who are characteristically shy and withdrawn participate...
Erikson presented an eight-stage theory of human development, the last...
A student obtained a score of 93 on a test having a standard error of...
The counseling technique used by the counselor to explain to a client...
The publication that is likely to average the largest numer of current...
Counselors who follow a behavioral counseling orientation know that...
The members of a group seemed to be revelling against the group...
You are conducting career counseling with a 19-year-old female who had...
Counselors adhering to the personality theory espoused by C.G. Jung...
According to the NBCC Code of Ethics and the ACA Code of Ethics, when...
Research on the development in a person of a so-called...
Although group effectiveness is difficult to define and is related to...
A client was referred to a counselor by a physician.  On the...
A client's __________ is a number that indicates how many persons...
A client has concluded a series of counseling sesions with another...
A counselor who structures a career counseling group to help group...
In attempting to understand the life perspectives and characteristics...
Diagnosis is most clearly a counselor's task in which of the...
Client: "Most of the time things are fine, but I hate it when my...
In the context of the reality therapy approach to counseling, the...
A counselor completing a report for an insurance company was required...
A counselor was hired to develop the educational activities that would...
At the conclusion of a year-long career counseling activity designed...
The counseling technique in which the counselor intensifies the...
The concept of "career maturity" has been described and...
Client: "I just can't see myself working in a hospital, being...
"Men (used here to mean all people) are disturbed not by things,...
In some counseling groups the members feel dependent upon the group...
In the context of group counseling, members who are high in conformity...
One of the primary differences in clients' uses of career...
Counselors following particular theoretical career development...
Ellis' rational emotive therapy and Meichenbaum's cognitive...
A standard deviation is a measure of
With which of the following types of experimental validity is the...
A professional counselor determines fees for monthly consultation...
A counseling researcher completed a study, the essence of which was...
The NBCC Code of Ethics and Ethical Standards of the American...
Counselors refer to the study of "person-to-person...
A counselor who is following Super's theory of career development...
Many members of the counseling profession have engaged in social...
Counselors use a variety of terms to describe patterns of...
A counselor who follows an eclectic approach to counseling primarily...
A specific technique for reinforcing desirable behaviors by pairing...
Because of the nature of the counseling process, some concepts from...
What would be the dependent variable in the statement "A rolling...
Which of the following is the LEAST important consideration...
Which of the following is NOT a goal of Gestalt counseling groups?
A married couple comes to you, as a counselor in private practice, and...
In some settings, counselors must use diagnostic classification...
Person A and Person B both took the same test. Person A got a score of...
Which of the following does NOT influence conformity to the expected...
A counselor is conducting a study wherein observers are rating...
Humanists in the existential tradition assert that personal decisions...
The "compensatory" theory of leisure suggests that a...
In counseling older adults to achieve greater life satisfaction,...
Your employer has a policy which necessitates that you report all...
Which of the following is a basic assumption underlying effective use...
If several raters report a high degree of agreement in assessing a...
A client comes to a counselor complaining of "being generally...
A counselor who works with adolescents is familiar with the knowledge...
 In analyzing response data from a test, one type of information...
A group of people living together with prescribed patterns of...
A counselor was reviewing pre-workshop "parenting knowledge"...
In the context of the counselor's use of active listening skills,...
A person go a score of 83 on a norm-referenced test. This means that...
A counselor administered two self-concept measures to a group of...
The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational...
A counselor was working with  client who had been referred by a...
In "Pre-Post" experimental design studies that use raters to...
A counselor designs a study where two experimental groups and one...
If a theory covers a maximum of facts with a minimum of assumptions,...
A counseling researcher conducted a study in which adult males and...
The state in which you reside does not yet have counselor licensure,...
A counseling researcher computed a Pearson product-moment correlation...
A counselor was reviewing articles in professional journals and found...
Which of the following is NOT one of the four major elements...
A counselor gave a student the Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale...
A respondent took a standardized aptitude test which yielded...
In a consulting capacity with a local business college, a counselor...
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