Deck 5: Advocacy in School Counseling

Question 1

The struggle in America for equality for individuals with disabilities, racial and ethnic minority groups, women, senior citizens, homeless individuals and families, immigrants, migrants, and gays and lesbians basically resolved itself in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Sexual minority youth are more likely to have higher rates of what issue(s), as compared to heterosexual youth?

A) substance abuse
B) psychiatric treatment
C) school problems
D) all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The concept that education for exceptional children is to be provided, to some degree, in the same environment as able individuals is known as:

A) due process
B) interventionism
C) mainstreaming
D) inclusion

Answer 3

C

Question 4

In what year did Sue, Arrendondo, and McDavis introduce the Multicultural Counseling Standards?

A) 1990
B) 1992
C) 1994
D) 1996

Question 5

Which are the three advocacy competency categories identified by Trusty and Brown (2005)?

A) family, empowerment, and ethics
B) resources, parameters, and systems change
C) dispositions, knowledge, and skills
D) communicating, collaborating, and organizing

Question 6

Leaving the school counseling profession or functioning at a level much less proficient and helpful than they should are two potential results of what phenomenon?

A) burnout
B) abandonment
C) Pyrrhic victory
D) anxiety

Question 7

According to Bemak and Chung (2008), those who maintain the status quo rather than advocating for underserved populations and stressing socially just policies with other school personnel fall into the __________________.

A) lazy counselor syndrome (LCS)
B) scared counselor syndrome (SCS)
C) apathetic counselor syndrome (ACS)
D) nice counselor syndrome (NCS)

Question 8

According to Sue (1992), activist counseling for all students has the potential for helping what type of students?

A) economically disadvantaged
B) educationally disadvantaged
C) certain cultural minority
D) all of the above

Question 9

The popularity of Carl Rogers's non-directive or person-centered approach to counseling in the mid-20th century led to an atmosphere in which most school counselors viewed their role as somewhat __________________ in nature.

A) reactive
B) extrapsychic
C) empathic
D) clinical

Question 10

Suicide is a national problem among adolescents, especially __________________ students.

A) depressed
B) low-income
C) sexual minority
D) homeless

Question 11

The __________________ emphasized the importance of school counselors advocating for access to rigorous education for all students.

A) Transforming School Counselor Initiative (TSCI)
B) ASCA National Model for School Counselors
C) Multicultural Counseling Competencies
D) National Defense Education Act of 1958

Question 12

During which time period did terms like activist, advocacy, social action, and change agent become prominent in professional counseling literature?

A) the 1920s and early 1930s
B) the late 1940s and early 1950s
C) the 1960s and early 1970s
D) the late 1970s and early 1980s

Question 13

Consultation with advocacy partners is one of the steps in Brown and Trusty's (2005) advocacy/implementation process.

Question 14

The next generation of school counselors will have to be more active in advocacy through political action if the counselor role challenge is to be resolved.

Question 15

According to the entry to the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics, the failure to __________________ clients when appropriate is unethical.

A) advocate for
B) educate
C) understand
D) refer