Deck 1: What Is a Mental Health or Professional Counselor

Question 1

Which of the following activities does the general public associate with the term counseling?

A) consulting
B) guiding
C) advising
D) deliberating
E) all of the above

Answer 1

all of the above

Question 2

Which of the following are not among the basic tenets of clinical mental health counseling?

A) human development
B) career development
C) wellness perspective
D) ecological systems

Answer 2

career development

Question 3

Which of the following frameworks provides the mental health counseling profession with its primary orientation for understanding both wellness and psychopathology?

A) the medical model
B) the socio-biological model
C) the human developmental model
D) family systems theory

Answer 3

the human developmental model

Question 4

Which of the following models provides mental health and licensed professional counselors with a theoretical foundation for guiding their assessment and intervention strategies?

A) test score theory
B) ecological theory
C) psychoanalytic theory
D) psycho-cybernetic theory

Question 5

Which of the following professional organizations represents the interests of professional counselors in general?

A) APA
B) AMHCA
C) ACA
D) AAMFT

Question 6

Which of the following division of the ACA represents the interests of the mental health counseling profession in specific?

A) ACES
B) ASERVIC
C) AMCD
D) AMHCA

Question 7

Which of the following professional groups was not directly involved in the formation of what is now known as the ACA?

A) American Psychological Association
B) National Vocational Guidance Association
C) American College Personnel Association
D) National Association for Guidance Supervisors

Question 8

Which of the following organizations provides the primary national certification process for professional counselors?

A) CACREP
B) NBCC
C) ACA
D) NCATE

Question 9

Which of the following organizations has established standards for the accreditation of graduate educational programs in counseling?

A) CACREP
B) NBCC
C) ACA
D) NCATE

Question 10

Which of the following professions cannot qualify for professional certifications offered by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC)?

A) mental health counselors
B) school counselors
C) marriage and family therapists
D) addictions counselors

Question 11

Which of the following professional groups is a medical specialty?

A) psychiatry
B) clinical psychology
C) social work
D) counseling psychology

Question 12

Which of the following professions are qualified to prescribe psychoactive medications in all 50 states?

A) psychiatry
B) clinical psychology
C) mental health counselors
D) counseling psychologists

Question 13

Which of the following professional groups are most highly trained in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of psychological tests?

A) psychiatrists
B) clinical psychologists
C) mental health counselors
D) marriage and family therapists

Question 14

Which of the following professional groups are most highly trained in linking persons to tangible local, state, and federal services?

A) psychologists
B) mental health counselors
C) social workers
D) marriage and family therapists

Question 15

Which of the following professional groups is trained to viewed the family as the most basic emotional unit?

A) psychologists
B) mental health counselors
C) social workers
D) marriage and family therapists

Question 16

Mental health counseling is a licensed profession in:

A) 15 states
B) 26 states
C) 48 states
D) 50 states

Question 17

Mental health counseling draws from all of the following disciplines except:

A) Philosophy
B) Medical sciences
C) Political sciences
D) Education

Question 18

CACREP accredits:

A) Bachelor's programs and Master's programs only
B) Master's programs and Doctoral programs only
C) Bachelor's programs, Master's programs, and Doctoral programs
D) Only Master's programs

Question 19

Which of the following is a specialization within the counseling profession:

A) Addictions counseling
B) Career counseling
C) Gerontological counseling
D) All of the above

Question 20

When mental health counselors utilize a wellness perspective, this means that they:

A) Seek to move clients towards optimal human functioning as well as away from emotional distress and mental illness.
B) Incorporate recommendations for exercise in their counseling techniques.
C) Encourage clients to take medications that were prescribed by the clients' doctors.
D) Both b and c

Question 21

Why is the termcounseling a misunderstood term among the general public? Give three reasons for this confusion.

Question 22

Define clinical mental health counseling. Identify four key concepts in this definition and explain how each helps to distinguish the profession as a primary mental health care provider.

Question 23

How is the profession of clinical mental health counseling similar to and different from other allied mental health professions (e.g., marriage and family therapy, clinical social work, or clinical/counseling psychology)?