Question 1

Which of these group development stages is the least demanding stage for the councilor in the development of a effective group?&#10;A)Forming.&#10;B)Discussing.&#10;C)Reflecting.&#10;D)Performing.

Accepted Answer

In the performing stage the counselor's role is less active. Members are more comfortable, trusting of selves and other members and able to help each other grow and change. Now the counselor can relax and enjoy the labor.

Question 2

In the stages of crisis intervention assessment which stage is least important?&#10;A)Discover what led to the crisis.&#10;B)Look at precipitating events.&#10;C)Assess the client's present psychosocial state.&#10;D)Collaboratively define the problem with the client.

Accepted Answer

Though certainly not unimportant, looking at precipitating events is not as crucial as identifying the event that brought about the crisis, the client's psychosocial state and the ability to define the problem. The precipitating events caused the crisis; the next step is to address the immediate crisis. In case of a fire alarm you put out the fire.

Question 3

What is the advantage of the empathetic counseling approach?&#10;A)There is no advantage.&#10;B)It discourages self rationalization&#10;C)It enhances another person's experience by mirroring it back to them.&#10;D)It provides through sympathy and understanding.

Accepted Answer

The advantages of B,C is that those approaches encourage a client's awareness of life experience. Through the technique of repeating a client's perceptions received it is another way of seeing ones self. As substance abuse people have often lost touch with their feelings due to a long term substance abuse this approach helps them better self actualize.

Question 4

What is storming?&#10;A)Pecking group order.&#10;B)A method of controlling the group.&#10;C)The determination of power with in the group.&#10;D)The attempt to take power from the leader.

Accepted Answer

This is one of the initial group stages during which the leaders of the group attempt to take power. This takes a good part of flexibility to keep trust high and the momentum of the grouping going in the way the counselor knows it needs to go.

Question 5

A patient currently in treatment for thirty year span of alcohol abuse and three treatment stays is arguing that he should not need to go to group therapy. What would be the best argument for the counselor to use for him to attend group?

A)Interpersonal learning.
B)Increased social skills.
C)A group is not appropriate for this client.
D)Identification of plans needed to change behavior.

Accepted Answer

The first argument, interpersonal learning could be used as the client might be challenged to invest in the group process to learn what causes this attitude. If this argument does not work and the argument that he may not be appropriate does not sway his attitude; he may not be appropriate. The counselor could consider letting the group make the
decision as to whether he attend and stay in treatment.

Question 6

What is the advantage of the Empathic Counseling Approach?&#10;A)There is no advantage.&#10;B)It discourages self rationalization.&#10;C)It enhances another person's experience by mirroring it back to them.&#10;D)It promotes the trust of interactions with others.

Accepted Answer

Those counseling approaches encourages a client's awareness of life experience through the technique of repeating a client's perceptions by communicating back to that person the perception received from that person. It is another way of seeing ones self. Substance abuse people have often lost touch with their feelings and built mistrust for others due to a long term substance abuse. This approach helps them to better self actualize and build trust. At the same time it helps the client realize that all in the group experience much similar fears and doubts.

Question 7

What of the following reasons some counselors feel it is not necessary to be familiar with the DSM-5?&#10;A)Counselors use these codes of psychiatric descriptions as it quickly provides information needed to outline a required diagnostic client impression.&#10;B)LCDC counselors sometimes find it necessary to update their copy of this psychiatric code as it is revised periodically.&#10;C)Experienced counselors may have accrued enough knowledge while working with clients to be able to establish the extent of the client's substance abuse relapse potential and do not need to consult this text. .&#10;D)Counselors need to be able to identify disorders in this assessment to better plan for successful long term recovery.

Accepted Answer

The items A, B and D have to do with the reason clients would need to use the Comprehensive Diagnostic Psychiatric impression. The statement in C supports a different prospected that a other diagnostic impressions are not necessary.

Question 8

Which is the correct statement?&#10;A)Storming occurs as an establishment within the group occurs.&#10;B)Performing is another name for fragmentation.&#10;C)Performing is another way to confront in a group.&#10;D)In a cohesive group they work together; they perform as a unit.

Accepted Answer

In working together, cohesively, they help each other change and grow. They have just gone through the Norming stage and are now cohesive.

Question 9

What is a counselor's most important task of a group leader?&#10;A)Help build group cohesion.&#10;B)Dismantle subgroups.&#10;C)Deal with relapse.&#10;D)Manage conflicts.

Accepted Answer

The most important task for a group leader is to help build group cohesion. As the group process develops the other tasks will fall into place if cohesion has been encouraged. With cohesion there is trust, conflicts have little power and subgroups are too involved with the major process to distract. The issues of relapse quickly fall into place as the process continues.

Question 10

What state would the group process be in if there were lapses of talk and members appear uncomfortable with each other?&#10;A)The group is going through a fragmentation stage.&#10;B)The trust of the group is being threatened.&#10;C)The intimacies of the group is building.

Accepted Answer

This is one of the beginning stages where the trust is low. More than likely it is a forming group.

Question 11

One of the hyperactive adolescence clients threatens to try to overdose. It is suspected it is a ploy to get sympathy. How should the suicide threat be handled? What two options would you take?&#10;A)Check his records, social history and see if there were other suicide threats&#10;B)Interview the client. if he reveals he has attempted or had thoughts of suicide find out how; search the room.&#10;C)Discharge him immediately; threatening suicide is counterproductive for him and the other clients.&#10;D)Ignore the threat; he is faking, but keep a watch.

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Question 12

Which does not describe Reality Therapy?&#10;A)The focus is to help clients change in the here and now.&#10;B)The major goal is to hold people accountable for their behavior and to teach them better and more effective ways of getting their needs met.&#10;C)One focus of this therapy is to help clients see how issues from their past continue to influence them and to help them with it.

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Question 13

Of these steps in crisis intervention which is or are considered the most important? Choose those that apply.&#10;A)Give support.&#10;B)Assist with action plans.&#10;C)Arrange for follow-up.&#10;D)Intervene right away.

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Question 14

Which of these element words would not be dealt with in Gestalt therapy?&#10;A)Rage&#10;B)Unresolved grief&#10;C)Resentments&#10;D)Childhood issues

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Question 15

A 33 year old nurse visits a bar alone. That is something she has a habit of doing. While there she is persuaded by three men to go outside with them. She is raped by the men while outside and left outside the bar. The police are called by a bar visitor when discovering her on the ground. She is taken to a clinic designed to provide rape assessment and chemical abuse treatment. After agreement to admission what steps would be appropriate for the counselor to take?

A)Request STD screening and inform client of the need for a several week wait for results.
B)Contact parents or friends immediately to enlist their support.
C)Discharge after medical staff deems a physical assessment shows it is appropriate.
D)Refer her to AA and advise that she get a woman sponsor to work the steps to address her alcoholism and process the rape incident.

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Question 16

What should a counselor advise clients to tell their children about the client's disease?&#10;A)Children have a fifty perhaps chance of developing the disease of addiction if one of their parents has had it&#10;B)There is no need to mention it, as it is not contagious&#10;C)Never drink, because you never know when you could catch it&#10;D)Drink with caution and be aware that you are more likely than others to develop the disease

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Question 17

The A-B-C approach is used in which of the following therapy approaches?&#10;A)Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy.&#10;B)Person Centered Therapy.&#10;C)Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.&#10;D)Existential therapy.

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Question 18

A woman enters treatment directly from jail after being convicted of killing her husband, which she said shedid to stop him from physically assaulting her. When she enters the program she is addicted to heroin, but completes her treatment, obtains a sponsor, and finds new employment removed from her old neighborhood and job. She also plans to return to the area where she lived before. Which of the following will not be conducive to her continued recovery?

A)Obtaining a sponsor
B)Moving back to her old neighborhood
C)Obtaining new employment
D)Obtaining employment away from her old neighborhood

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Question 19

In deciding how best to determine the level of a client's depression as the symptoms vary, what would be the best instrument to use?&#10;A)The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.&#10;B)The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.&#10;C)The Beck Depression inventory 11.

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Question 20

What therapy approach is characteristic by unconditional positive regard, genuineness and accurate empathy?&#10;A)Reality Therapy&#10;B)Analytic-oriented Therapy&#10;C)Existential Therapy&#10;D)Person-centered Therapy

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Deck 3: Counseling