Deck 1: Conceptualizing Counseling

Question 1

Which of the following might be a desirable counseling outcome?

A) Viewing one's problems from a different context.
B) Developing useful understandings of problems and issues.
C) Acquiring new responses to old issues.
D) All of the above.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

According to the text, multicultural counseling theory derives, in part, from:

A) Liberation pedagogy and feminist theory.
B) Thought pattern analytic approaches.
C) Phenomenological approaches.
D) Reality-based approaches to problems.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following is found in most professional ethical standards?

A) The need to be objective in counseling.
B) The need to be competent in counseling.
C) The need to be open-minded in counseling.
D) The need to be psychologically healthy.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Clients frequently compare themselves to the counselor.

Question 5

The role of counseling may be described as:

A) Preventive
B) Remedial
C) Enhancing
D) All of the above.

Question 6

When the counselor uses only his/her unique cultural lens to understand the client, it is referred to as:

A) Cultural encapsulation
B) Cultural sensitivity
C) Cultural intrusion
D) None of the above.

Question 7

Psychodynamic theories tend to focus upon:

A) Cognitive-behavioral issues
B) Existential issues
C) Multicultural issues
D) Intrapsychic issues.

Question 8

Theories that emphasize the here-and-now or present moment probably derive
from a behavioral theory.

Question 9

It is more desirable for clients to be functional than normal.

Question 10

The notion of "owning one's problems" is a:

A) Major objective of counseling
B) A Eurocentric objective
C) Precondition to change
D) Meaningless goal in some cultures.

Question 11

The client's cultural background is an essential part of the client's expression of his/her problem.

Question 12

It is essential that the counselor try to understand his/her racial/cultural/ethnic
context before trying to help others.

Question 13

Which of the following would most likely alter the counselor's effectiveness?

A) The counselor's sex.
B) The counselor's age.
C) The counselor's self-awareness.
D) The counselor's cultural background.

Question 14

Common to all counseling theory approaches is:

A) A focus upon past events
B) A focus upon the client's future
C) A focus upon the present moment
D) A focus upon confidentiality and privacy.

Question 15

The counselor's worldview refers to how he/she thinks the client's world ought to be.

Question 16

Theories that emphasize a client-focus in the session probably derive from
existential-humanistic theories.

Question 17

Counseling usually results in more than one single outcome for clients.

Question 18

The best use of counseling theory is to provide:

A) A specific guide for what the counselor should do
B) A sense of what the client should do
C) A roadmap for what routes the counseling process should take
D) None of the above.

Question 19

Counseling can be defined as a process that views clients as basically healthy
individuals whose problems are essentially developmental in nature.

Question 20

It is essential that the counselor resolve his/her personal issues before trying
to help others.