Which of the following is the correct listing of the six basic ethical principles in counseling?
correct answers autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, fidelity, and veracity
Which of the following about the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is true?
correct answers
Which of the statistical tests below would be used in a study examining ethnicity and the
decision to start family counseling. correct answers
Which of the theorists listed below suggested that personality-based approaches to career
counseling rest on the premise that job satisfaction reflect unconscious needs? correct answers
Anne Roe
Which one of the following are methods for helping to establish the reliability of a test? correct
answers Split-Half Reliability
Which statistical test should be used given the following information: examining differences
between two groups where the same participants were tested more than once? correct answers t-
test for dependent sample
Which type of group emphasizes primary prevention? correct answers guidance or
psychoeducational groups
Who is associated with the BASIC I.D. Assessment process, which is a part of Multimodal
therapy? correct answers Arnold Lazarus
Who is credited with being the "father" of professional guidance and the counseling profession?
correct answers Parsons
You are about to begin work with a new client and have received a mailing of testing
information from a school psychologist at the child's school. As you open the materials you see
that the WISC-IV intelligence test had been administered to the child earlier that year but due to
a clerical slip up, most of the testing information is missing. In fact, all you are able to determine
is that the child's overall IQ score was converted to a standard Z score of 2. What is the child's IQ
score? correct answers
You are engaged in a prevalence study that is investigating if the percent of clients that present
with depression during the month of December is significantly different from what would be
expected. Which test statistic would be appropriate for use in your study? correct answers
You have been working with a client who you have assessed to be at high risk for harm to
himself. As a result of your concern, you discuss this client in supervision on a regular basis.
During your last session the client shares that he has been engaging in behaviors that have
steadily increased in the level of risk they present. Because of your concern, you seek out your
, supervisor to discuss whether the situation has reached a point where breaking confidentiality
would be appropriate. From a professional values perspective, which ethical principles would
most likely come into play during the discussion with your supervisor? correct answers
You have just begun work at an outpatient clinic as a counselor. As luck would have it, you have
been hired to replace a counselor who just retired and therefore you have a full caseload right
from the start. As you are reviewing the case files you notice right away that the clinic uses the
Symptom Checklist 90-R as a primary screening measure for all clients seeking services. Also,
part of the clinic's assessment system is converting each client's SCL-90-R raw score first to a T-
score and then to a percentile rank. As you get to the folder of the last client your predecessor
assessed, you notice that she neglected to do the T-score to percentile rank conversion on the
Depression Scale and therefore this becomes the first psychometric act for you to complete at
your new job. In which percentile does the client's Depression T-score of 40 falls? correct
answers 16th Percentile
Your practice is focused on providing counseling services for children. Prior to beginning work
with a child client a counselor is required to do which of the following? correct answers
Which of the following terms captures a recognition of the complexity related to different
cultures, cultural values, and the diversity of beliefs inherent in those cultures? correct answers
Ethnocentrism
Which of the following are the first three stages in Prochaska's Transtheoretical framework?
correct answers 1. Precontemplation 2. Contemplation (comes and goes quickly, pt comes in
with respiratory complaint and smoking worsens symptoms) 3. Preparation 4. Action (avoid
triggers) 5. Maintenance 6. Termination
Which of the following terms refers to the stimulus that creates an automatic response in an
organism? (In the Pavlov's dog scenario, it is the meat powder). correct answers Unconditioned
Stimulus
Which of the following is true of counseling groups? correct answers they focus on interpersonal
relations among the members
Which of the following would NOT be considered one of a group member's rights? correct
answers complete confidentiality
Which of the following is NOT appropriate for the preliminary screening session? correct
answers focusing the session only on the personal history of the applicant
Which of the following skills is used to build cohesion in a group? correct answers
Which of the following is NOT an example of a therapeutic factor in group work? correct
answers universality