Quiz #1: Counseling

Maria struggles with balancing her academics and family expectations. In counseling, she learns to identify her strengths in time management and recognize her weakness in setting boundaries. This best demonstrates counseling as:

• An interactive process between counselor and counselee

• A learning process for self-awareness

• A therapy for severe mental disorders

• A short-term advice-giving session

During a counseling session, Juan realized that his way of dealing with conflict (avoiding people) makes situations worse. With the counselor’s help, he decides to try more open communication with friends. According to Dustin and George, this reflects counseling’s goal to:

• Decrease maladaptive behavior and increase adaptive behavior

• Provide direct advice to solve problems

• Avoid conflict entirely by ignoring it

• Focus only on social skills

A student went to a counselor due to constant anxiety before exams. The counselor created a safe environment where the student openly expressed feelings of fear, while the counselor listened and responded with empathy. This reflects counseling as:

• A learning process

• An interactive process

• A medical intervention

• A form of psychotherapy

A counselor facilitates a session where the client learns new coping strategies for stress, such as breathing exercises and positive self-talk. This outcome of counseling is best described as:

• Resolution

• Social inclusion

• Learning

• Therapy

Pedro is going through grief after losing his father. His counselor helped him to process his emotions and accept his loss, allowing Pedro to see his life from a new perspective. This outcome of counseling refers to:

• Learning new strategies

• Resolution of the dilemma

• Social exclusion

• 5. Avoidance of pain

In a peer counseling program, students not only resolve their personal problems but also feel more motivated to help others in their community. According to McLeod (2004), this describes:

• Counseling as a relational process

• Social inclusion

• Adaptive behavior development

• Counseling as psychotherapy

A client came to a counselor because of stress at work. The counselor does not give direct solutions but guides the client to reflect, analyze, and make personal choices. This approach highlights that counseling is:

• Directive advice-giving

• An interactive and learning process

• Focused on controlling client behavior

• Limited only to professional psychologists

Carla went to a psychotherapist because she has schizophrenia, a severe psychological disorder. How does psychotherapy differ from counseling in this situation?

• Counseling can address schizophrenia more effectively

• Psychotherapy is equipped to handle severe disorders, unlike counseling

• Counseling and psychotherapy are completely identical

• Counseling is only for children, while psychotherapy is for adults

A client reports constant low self-esteem. Through counseling, she not only learns about her weaknesses but also recognizes her strengths and builds confidence. Which of the following concepts of counseling does this illustrate?

• Counseling as discipline and profession

• Counseling as interactive relationship

• Counseling as a self-learning process

• Counseling as psychotherapy

During a counseling session, both counselor and counselee actively communicate. The counselor provides empathy, warmth, and tolerance, while the client shares feelings honestly. This illustrates that counseling is successful only if:

• The counselor dominates the discussion

• The counselee depends entirely on the counselor

• Both counselor and counselee work together

• The counselor prescribes a solution