and Counselling Exam UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
7 major job functions essential to rehab counseling - CORRECT ANSWER 1)
Vocational counselling and consultation
2) Counselling interventions
3) community-based rehabilitation service activities
4) case management
5)applied research
6) assessment
7) professional advocacy
vocational guidance - CORRECT ANSWER Guidance is informed advice. Giving
information and sharing information relative to careers. Examples: referring for aptitude,
achievement, interest, and personality test, heling explore opportunities at universities
Vocational Counselling - CORRECT ANSWER A structured process of intervention
with the objective of helping the individual define thoughts and feelings, in the case of career
and possible occupations. Examples; assisting through a process that promotes identification,
personal needs and desires, likes and dislikes, and fears.
Intake Interview - CORRECT ANSWER Purpose is to gather information. Requires
good communication skills
Characteristics of effective communication - CORRECT ANSWER 1) Listening
2) Questioning
3) Presenting and responding
4) Non-verbal communication
, When are questions problematic - CORRECT ANSWER 1) Bombardment
2) Multiple questions
3) Rhetorical questions
4) Blaming questions
5) Culturally inappropriate
Empowering Words - CORRECT ANSWER Someone is NOT afflicted with MS, they
have MS
She is not a victim of work-related injury, she experienced a work-related injury.
Denotative Language - CORRECT ANSWER conveys content
Connotative Language - CORRECT ANSWER conveys feelings
Paraphrasing - CORRECT ANSWER rewriting or restating another person's ideas or
thoughts into your own words
Three Stage approach to helping - CORRECT ANSWER 1) Exploration - finding and
learning what is wrong
2)Goal setting and planning - what client wants to what needs to be done to get there
3) Action and implementation - develop goals and strategies - this includes monitoring and
making adaptations if necessary
Two common counselling interventions - CORRECT ANSWER 1) Cognitive -
behavioural approach - emphasizes on changing distorted thinking
2) Motivational Interviewing
Examples of cognitive distortions - CORRECT ANSWER 1) Filtering
2) polarized thinking