CPCE quiz

According to the foot-in-the-door compliance technique, which has two distinct steps, a counselor who needs to make a home visit to a resistant client's home

• a. should conduct the interview from the porch

• b. should double-bind the client

• c. should ask to come to the home

• should exclude accurate empathy, but never ask to enter the home

Answer explanation

ABD all can be used but do not show foot in the door technique.

Most countries have an official language, stated viewpoint, and a central government. This is reflected mainly by

• a. national culture

• b. human culture

• c. regional culture

• d. ecological culture

Answer explanation

big business and high-tech media are lessening the gap between national cultures. an individual living on the opposite side of the earth could be wearing the same prestigious pair of designer jeans as you.

empathy and counselor effectiveness scales reflect the work of

• a. Perls and Berne

• b. Ellis and Harper

• c. Prochaska's transtheoretical model

• d. Carkhuff and Gazda

Answer explanation

The Carkhuff scale rates the counselor from 1-5. Higher the rating the better the counselor is facilitating client growth.

In gestalt therapy, a paradigm that focuses on awareness in the here and now incorporates

• a. psychodrama

• b. aaron becks cognitive therapy, which asserts that maladaptive thinking creates emotional disturbance and thus clients should record dysfunctional thoughts.

• c. conditioned reflex therapy

• d. client centered therapy

Answer explanation

a. psychodrama uses roll-playing into the treatment process. client may act out a painful incident in his or her life. created by Jacob L. Moreno (who coined the term group therapy).

Gestalt therapy emphasizes experiments and exercises .

A group with more than one leader is said to utilize coleaders. Coleadership is desirable because

• a. the group can go on even if one leader is absent

• b. two leaders can focus on group dynamics better than one leader since two indivs. will have better observational skills

• c. leaders can process their feelings between sessions

• d. all of the above.

Answer explanation

d. coleadership has many advantages.

also, they can supply more feedback

learn from each other and model effective communication to the group.

Research into the phenomenon of career maturity reflects the work of

• a. john crites

• b. anne roe

• c. john holland

• d. nancy schlossberg

Answer explanation

a. also referred to as "vocational maturity"

• d. mentions schlossberg - adult career development

Which group was the most instrumental in opposing counselor licensure?

• a. social workers

• b. psychiatrists

• c. psychologists

• d. AAMFT members

Answer explanation

c. some hypothesize that psychologists wanted a monopoly on nonmedical mental health services, esp the right to collect third-party payments.

• - point that one time psychologists were debased and called "junior psychiatrists" therefore did to counselors what psychiatrists had done to them.

• - Tides are turning

in the late 1970s, AACD (ACA since 1992), began to focus heavily on professional credentialing. This lead to the formation of..

• a. CCMHS

• b. NBCC

• c. CACREP. 1981

• d. APGA. 1952

Answer explanation

b. National Board for certified Counselors NBCC

Dr. X recommends to his clients at the agency where he practices that he would rather counsel them in his private practice. Ethically speaking...

• a. Dr. X has every right to do this

• b. Dr. X is diverting agency clients to his practice and this is unethical

• c. guidelines do not address this practice

• d. NBCC and ACA actually encourage this method for private practitioners who wish to increase the # of clients they assist.

Answer explanation

b. great way to get fired from your agency !

all of the following are difficulties with career testing except:

• a. stereotyping

• b. the tests all take at least three hours to administer

• c. the counselor may rely too heavily on test results

• d. many tests are biased in favor of white middle class clients

Answer explanation

b. most instruments take less than an hour to complete