COUN 500 Final questions and
answers graded A+ 2025/2026
Do no harm, even inadvertently - correct answer ✔✔non-maleficence
Avoid imposing one's own values and beliefs onto clients and respect clients' right to make own
decisions - correct answer ✔✔Autonomy
Keep promises and uphold trust in the professional counseling relationship - correct answer
✔✔Fidelity
Treat individuals fairly and without prejudice - correct answer ✔✔Justice
Actively work for the good of clients and society - correct answer ✔✔Beneficence
The counseling profession differs from other mental health professions in that it adheres to -
correct answer ✔✔A holistic approach to working with individuals, known as the wellness
model
As a result of deinstitutionalization of large numbers of individuals who suffered from severe
mental disorders, this Act established comprehensive community mental health centers across
the country - correct answer ✔✔The Community Mental Health Act of 1963
Which of the following professional associations started out as the American Personnel and
Guidance Association, following a merger of four existing professional organizations in 1952? -
correct answer ✔✔American Counseling Association
,Professional organizations such as the Council on Counseling and Related Educational Programs
(CACREP) and the American Counseling Association serve counselors and the counseling
profession through which of the following activities - correct answer ✔✔Providing continuing
education
Promoting our professional identity
Creating opportunities to connect with other professionals with similar interests
Which of the following provide legal sanction for a profession and is regulated through codes
developed at the state level? - correct answer ✔✔Licensure laws
Meditational processes - correct answer ✔✔Social learning
Micro and macrosystems - correct answer ✔✔Ecological systems
Classical conditioning - correct answer ✔✔Behaviorist
Tools of intellectual adaptation - correct answer ✔✔Sociocultural
Unconscious motivations and multiple ego states - correct answer ✔✔Psychoanalytic
Characterizing life-span development, which of the following is the brain's ability to change and
adapt to positive or negative environmental influences? - correct answer ✔✔Neuroplasticity
Resilience is best described as which of the following? - correct answer ✔✔A dynamic process
affected by development and interactions with the environment
, In which of the following theoretical approaches was the influence of early parent-child
relationships on development first emphasized? - correct answer ✔✔Psychoanalytic
Which form of identity is defined as a person's concept of self that stems from his or her
membership within a group? - correct answer ✔✔Social identity
Which of the following is the notion that social identities overlap and create various forms of
oppression and discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔Intersectionality
Tying together the client's thoughts and feelings to promote client self-understanding - correct
answer ✔✔Summarizing
Body language and behaviors that convey to clients that you are
interested in them and their issues - correct answer ✔✔Attending skills
Nonverbal gestures or use of key words used by the client
conveying interest - correct answer ✔✔Encouragers
Tuning into what seems to be most pertinent to the client issue
at hand - correct answer ✔✔Selective attention
Rephrasing and conveying empathetic understanding of the
essence of what the client has said - correct answer ✔✔Paraphrasing
Which of the following is not a characteristic of effective individual counseling? - correct answer
✔✔Consistently giving the best advice to clients about how to resolve difficult problems
answers graded A+ 2025/2026
Do no harm, even inadvertently - correct answer ✔✔non-maleficence
Avoid imposing one's own values and beliefs onto clients and respect clients' right to make own
decisions - correct answer ✔✔Autonomy
Keep promises and uphold trust in the professional counseling relationship - correct answer
✔✔Fidelity
Treat individuals fairly and without prejudice - correct answer ✔✔Justice
Actively work for the good of clients and society - correct answer ✔✔Beneficence
The counseling profession differs from other mental health professions in that it adheres to -
correct answer ✔✔A holistic approach to working with individuals, known as the wellness
model
As a result of deinstitutionalization of large numbers of individuals who suffered from severe
mental disorders, this Act established comprehensive community mental health centers across
the country - correct answer ✔✔The Community Mental Health Act of 1963
Which of the following professional associations started out as the American Personnel and
Guidance Association, following a merger of four existing professional organizations in 1952? -
correct answer ✔✔American Counseling Association
,Professional organizations such as the Council on Counseling and Related Educational Programs
(CACREP) and the American Counseling Association serve counselors and the counseling
profession through which of the following activities - correct answer ✔✔Providing continuing
education
Promoting our professional identity
Creating opportunities to connect with other professionals with similar interests
Which of the following provide legal sanction for a profession and is regulated through codes
developed at the state level? - correct answer ✔✔Licensure laws
Meditational processes - correct answer ✔✔Social learning
Micro and macrosystems - correct answer ✔✔Ecological systems
Classical conditioning - correct answer ✔✔Behaviorist
Tools of intellectual adaptation - correct answer ✔✔Sociocultural
Unconscious motivations and multiple ego states - correct answer ✔✔Psychoanalytic
Characterizing life-span development, which of the following is the brain's ability to change and
adapt to positive or negative environmental influences? - correct answer ✔✔Neuroplasticity
Resilience is best described as which of the following? - correct answer ✔✔A dynamic process
affected by development and interactions with the environment
, In which of the following theoretical approaches was the influence of early parent-child
relationships on development first emphasized? - correct answer ✔✔Psychoanalytic
Which form of identity is defined as a person's concept of self that stems from his or her
membership within a group? - correct answer ✔✔Social identity
Which of the following is the notion that social identities overlap and create various forms of
oppression and discrimination? - correct answer ✔✔Intersectionality
Tying together the client's thoughts and feelings to promote client self-understanding - correct
answer ✔✔Summarizing
Body language and behaviors that convey to clients that you are
interested in them and their issues - correct answer ✔✔Attending skills
Nonverbal gestures or use of key words used by the client
conveying interest - correct answer ✔✔Encouragers
Tuning into what seems to be most pertinent to the client issue
at hand - correct answer ✔✔Selective attention
Rephrasing and conveying empathetic understanding of the
essence of what the client has said - correct answer ✔✔Paraphrasing
Which of the following is not a characteristic of effective individual counseling? - correct answer
✔✔Consistently giving the best advice to clients about how to resolve difficult problems
