COUN 5279 COMPREHENSIVE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons to use therapeutic writing? - ✔✔b.
It helps them improve their writing skills.
✔✔Which of the following characterize music as creative arts intervention? - ✔✔d. It
has mood-altering effects.
✔✔Which of the following best describes drama? - ✔✔b. It helps clients gain control of
their lives.
✔✔A counselor working from a solution-focused brief counseling model would most
likely ask which of the following questions? - ✔✔d. When is this not a problem for you
AND how did you progress?
✔✔Which of the following is an example of the miracle question? - ✔✔d. Both- Suppose
that while you are sleeping tonight and the entire house is quiet, a miracle happens. SO,
when you wake up tomorrow morning, what will be different that will tell you that a
miracle has happened? AND If I had a magic wand and could make a miracle happen,
what would be different about your life?
✔✔How many sessions typically constitutes solution-focused brief counseling? - ✔✔Up
to 10 sessions.
✔✔Solution-focused brief counseling is useful with children because... - ✔✔b. It focuses
on a child's strengths.
✔✔Solution-focused brief counseling focuses on... - ✔✔c. Exceptions to problems.
✔✔Solution-focused brief counselors begin the therapeutic process by... - ✔✔a. Asking
a question such as: "As a result of working together, what is one thing that you would
ike to be able to do better?"
✔✔Which of the following is NOT one of the six general techniques that are practiced
throughout the process and procedures of the solution-focused model? - ✔✔c. Training.
✔✔Mark all that apply: Which of the following is one of the five general steps in solution-
focused brief counseling? - ✔✔a. Goaling.
b. Hypothetical.
c. The message.
✔✔Reality therapy rests on the central idea that: - ✔✔b. We choose most of our
behaviors, especially actions, and thus are responsible for what we do, think, and feel.
, ✔✔Which of the following statements is true as it applies to choice theory? - ✔✔d. We
are motivated primarily by internal forces and our behavior is our best attempt to get
what we want.
✔✔Choice theory tends to focus on: - ✔✔b. Doing and thinking.
✔✔Reality therapy was designed originally for working with: - ✔✔b. Youthful offenders
in detention facilities.
✔✔Once clients make an evaluation about their behavior and decide how they want to
change, the reality therapist expects them to: - ✔✔BOTH
a. Develop specific plans to change behavior.
b. Make a commitment to carry out plans in daily life.
✔✔Choice theory posits that we are born with five genetically encoded needs that drive
us all our lives. These five needs are: - ✔✔a. Survival, love and belonging, power,
freedom, and fun.
✔✔According to Glasser, many of the problems of clients are caused by: - ✔✔d. Their
inability to connect or to have a satisfying relationship with at least one of the significant
people in their lives.
✔✔According to REBT theory, self-acceptance implies - ✔✔d. Conditional self-
acceptance.
✔✔Irrational beliefs can be detected by which of the following? - ✔✔BOTH
a. Listening for overgeneralization and demandingness.
b. Through emotional and behavioral reactions.
✔✔REBT stipulates that - ✔✔c. Thoughts govern feelings and behaviors.
✔✔Which of the following is NOT an example of a cognitive distortion? - ✔✔c.
Personification.
✔✔REBT is increasingly being used with children and adolescents to help them not just
"feel better" but to... - ✔✔Get better
✔✔According to REBT, the A-B-C model stands for - ✔✔b. Activating event, beliefs,
consequences.
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a goal of REBT with young children? - ✔✔d. To
differentiate between unconscious and conscious thoughts.
AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons to use therapeutic writing? - ✔✔b.
It helps them improve their writing skills.
✔✔Which of the following characterize music as creative arts intervention? - ✔✔d. It
has mood-altering effects.
✔✔Which of the following best describes drama? - ✔✔b. It helps clients gain control of
their lives.
✔✔A counselor working from a solution-focused brief counseling model would most
likely ask which of the following questions? - ✔✔d. When is this not a problem for you
AND how did you progress?
✔✔Which of the following is an example of the miracle question? - ✔✔d. Both- Suppose
that while you are sleeping tonight and the entire house is quiet, a miracle happens. SO,
when you wake up tomorrow morning, what will be different that will tell you that a
miracle has happened? AND If I had a magic wand and could make a miracle happen,
what would be different about your life?
✔✔How many sessions typically constitutes solution-focused brief counseling? - ✔✔Up
to 10 sessions.
✔✔Solution-focused brief counseling is useful with children because... - ✔✔b. It focuses
on a child's strengths.
✔✔Solution-focused brief counseling focuses on... - ✔✔c. Exceptions to problems.
✔✔Solution-focused brief counselors begin the therapeutic process by... - ✔✔a. Asking
a question such as: "As a result of working together, what is one thing that you would
ike to be able to do better?"
✔✔Which of the following is NOT one of the six general techniques that are practiced
throughout the process and procedures of the solution-focused model? - ✔✔c. Training.
✔✔Mark all that apply: Which of the following is one of the five general steps in solution-
focused brief counseling? - ✔✔a. Goaling.
b. Hypothetical.
c. The message.
✔✔Reality therapy rests on the central idea that: - ✔✔b. We choose most of our
behaviors, especially actions, and thus are responsible for what we do, think, and feel.
, ✔✔Which of the following statements is true as it applies to choice theory? - ✔✔d. We
are motivated primarily by internal forces and our behavior is our best attempt to get
what we want.
✔✔Choice theory tends to focus on: - ✔✔b. Doing and thinking.
✔✔Reality therapy was designed originally for working with: - ✔✔b. Youthful offenders
in detention facilities.
✔✔Once clients make an evaluation about their behavior and decide how they want to
change, the reality therapist expects them to: - ✔✔BOTH
a. Develop specific plans to change behavior.
b. Make a commitment to carry out plans in daily life.
✔✔Choice theory posits that we are born with five genetically encoded needs that drive
us all our lives. These five needs are: - ✔✔a. Survival, love and belonging, power,
freedom, and fun.
✔✔According to Glasser, many of the problems of clients are caused by: - ✔✔d. Their
inability to connect or to have a satisfying relationship with at least one of the significant
people in their lives.
✔✔According to REBT theory, self-acceptance implies - ✔✔d. Conditional self-
acceptance.
✔✔Irrational beliefs can be detected by which of the following? - ✔✔BOTH
a. Listening for overgeneralization and demandingness.
b. Through emotional and behavioral reactions.
✔✔REBT stipulates that - ✔✔c. Thoughts govern feelings and behaviors.
✔✔Which of the following is NOT an example of a cognitive distortion? - ✔✔c.
Personification.
✔✔REBT is increasingly being used with children and adolescents to help them not just
"feel better" but to... - ✔✔Get better
✔✔According to REBT, the A-B-C model stands for - ✔✔b. Activating event, beliefs,
consequences.
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a goal of REBT with young children? - ✔✔d. To
differentiate between unconscious and conscious thoughts.
