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What is the central function of counseling?

• Directing clients' lives

• Helping clients recognize their strengths and make decisions

• Resolving clients' struggles for them

• Providing advice and information

What is the common mistaken notion about counseling?

• Counseling is about giving advice

• Counseling is about providing information

• Counseling is about directing clients' lives

• Counseling is about making decisions for clients

What is the best measure of effectiveness as counselors?

• Clients becoming dependent on counselors

• Clients expressing appreciation and feeling empowered

• Counselors resolving all client struggles

• Clients continuously seeking advice

What is the role of a therapist in counseling?

• To give advice and information

• To be a friend and expert

• To provide alternatives and confront clients

• To help clients make independent choices and accept consequences

What is the purpose of asking clients questions like 'What possibilities do you see?'

• To avoid confronting clients

• To provide solutions

• To help clients make independent choices

• To foster dependence

What is the main goal of counseling according to the text?

• To provide direction to clients

• To challenge and confront clients

• To help clients modify the quality of their life

• To make decisions for clients

What is the common escape by many clients according to the text?

• Using their freedom to act

• Trusting themselves to find solutions

• Not trusting themselves to find solutions

• Depriving themselves of the opportunity to act freely

What is the role of a counselor in helping clients according to the text?

• To make decisions for clients

• To challenge and confront clients

• To help clients make independent choices and accept consequences

• To provide solutions to clients

What is the purpose of defining and clarifying your professional role as a counselor?

• To help you realize the professional roles you assume

• To limit the range of appropriate roles

• To discourage counselors from reflecting on their roles

• To confuse beginning counselors

What is the main function of counseling according to the text?

• To provide advice and information

• To resolve clients' struggles for them

• To help clients recognize their strengths and make decisions

• To direct clients' lives