CECE Exam 2024 questions with verified
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Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔group work refers to the dynamic interaction between collections of
individuals for prevention or remediation of difficulties or for the enhancement of personal
growth/enrichment through the interaction of those who meet together for a commonly agreed upon
purpose
Goals of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Learn to trust self and others • Self knowledge • Recognize
the commonality among members • Find alternative ways of resolving conflict • Increase self direction •
Learn more effective social skills • Become more sensitive to other's needs • Learn how to confront
appropriately • Clarify expectations, goals, and values
Advantages of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔People learn in a social context • Experience social
support • Source of new behaviors • Learn some counseling skills • Peer confrontation • Able to play a
variety of roles • Group norms develop • Any biases of the counselor may be addressed more readily •
Replicates the participant's everyday world • Safe place to practice new skill
Yalom 4 Stages of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔-Orientation: Search for meaning, attempts to
determine group structure and meaning; search for similarities among group members; members look to
leader for approval, acceptance, and answers -Conflict: Members attempt to establish preferred amount
of initiative and power; establish a control hierarchy; members may express hostility toward therapist
(resistance) o --Cohesion: Unity, intimacy, closeness emerge; trust and self disclosure increase;
attendance improves; cohesiveness becomes analogous to therapist-client relationship oTermination
Yalom's 11 Curative Factors in Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔o altruism o universality o
interpersonal learning o imparting information o developing socialization techniques o imitative behavior
o group cohesiveness o catharsis o corrective recapitulation of the primary family group o instillation of
hope o existential factors (individual alone is responsible)
Michael Waldo vs. Yalom on GT - correct answer ✔✔Suggested different levels of Yalom's leadership
function were needed depending on needs/diagnostic criteria of the group and the clinical setting
, Jacob Moreno on GroupTherapy - correct answer ✔✔Theater of Spontaneity in Vienna, 1921 •
Psychodrama: emphasizes enacting conflicts or crisis situations in the present o Focus is on the here and
now o Goal is to reorganize individual's perceptions
Tuckman 5 Stages of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Forming: In this stage, most team members are
positive and polite. Some are anxious, as they haven't fully understood what work the team will do.
Others are simply excited about the task ahead. -Storming: people start to push against the boundaries
established in the forming stage ▪ Disagreements and personality clashes must be resolved before the
team can progress out of this stage -Norming: all team members take the responsibility and have the
ambition to work for the success of the team's goals -Performing: The team members are now
competent, autonomous and able to handle the decision-making process without supervision -
Adjourning/mourning: termination
Corey 6 Stages of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔
Ethical Guidelines for Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Informed consent: tell the client before
counseling about the rights and expectations -Should be obtained before counseling begins
Confidentiality: difficult to assure in group counseling -Leader must impress the need for it on all group
members -Exceptions: danger to self or others, court actions, or signed waivers
Research: group members are asked for permission before participating in research
Group counselor training: counselors have acquired skills and competencies through education and
experience
Group member's rights include: o Freedom from undue pressure o Participation is voluntary o Freedom
of exit o Right to use of the group's resources
Development - correct answer ✔✔systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur
between conception and death
Theory - correct answer ✔✔a group of logically organized and related hypotheses that attempts to
explain a problem
Categories of Theories of HG&D - correct answer ✔✔Learning: behavioral theories, social learning
theories, and information processing theories
• Cognitive
solutions
Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔group work refers to the dynamic interaction between collections of
individuals for prevention or remediation of difficulties or for the enhancement of personal
growth/enrichment through the interaction of those who meet together for a commonly agreed upon
purpose
Goals of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Learn to trust self and others • Self knowledge • Recognize
the commonality among members • Find alternative ways of resolving conflict • Increase self direction •
Learn more effective social skills • Become more sensitive to other's needs • Learn how to confront
appropriately • Clarify expectations, goals, and values
Advantages of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔People learn in a social context • Experience social
support • Source of new behaviors • Learn some counseling skills • Peer confrontation • Able to play a
variety of roles • Group norms develop • Any biases of the counselor may be addressed more readily •
Replicates the participant's everyday world • Safe place to practice new skill
Yalom 4 Stages of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔-Orientation: Search for meaning, attempts to
determine group structure and meaning; search for similarities among group members; members look to
leader for approval, acceptance, and answers -Conflict: Members attempt to establish preferred amount
of initiative and power; establish a control hierarchy; members may express hostility toward therapist
(resistance) o --Cohesion: Unity, intimacy, closeness emerge; trust and self disclosure increase;
attendance improves; cohesiveness becomes analogous to therapist-client relationship oTermination
Yalom's 11 Curative Factors in Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔o altruism o universality o
interpersonal learning o imparting information o developing socialization techniques o imitative behavior
o group cohesiveness o catharsis o corrective recapitulation of the primary family group o instillation of
hope o existential factors (individual alone is responsible)
Michael Waldo vs. Yalom on GT - correct answer ✔✔Suggested different levels of Yalom's leadership
function were needed depending on needs/diagnostic criteria of the group and the clinical setting
, Jacob Moreno on GroupTherapy - correct answer ✔✔Theater of Spontaneity in Vienna, 1921 •
Psychodrama: emphasizes enacting conflicts or crisis situations in the present o Focus is on the here and
now o Goal is to reorganize individual's perceptions
Tuckman 5 Stages of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Forming: In this stage, most team members are
positive and polite. Some are anxious, as they haven't fully understood what work the team will do.
Others are simply excited about the task ahead. -Storming: people start to push against the boundaries
established in the forming stage ▪ Disagreements and personality clashes must be resolved before the
team can progress out of this stage -Norming: all team members take the responsibility and have the
ambition to work for the success of the team's goals -Performing: The team members are now
competent, autonomous and able to handle the decision-making process without supervision -
Adjourning/mourning: termination
Corey 6 Stages of Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔
Ethical Guidelines for Group Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Informed consent: tell the client before
counseling about the rights and expectations -Should be obtained before counseling begins
Confidentiality: difficult to assure in group counseling -Leader must impress the need for it on all group
members -Exceptions: danger to self or others, court actions, or signed waivers
Research: group members are asked for permission before participating in research
Group counselor training: counselors have acquired skills and competencies through education and
experience
Group member's rights include: o Freedom from undue pressure o Participation is voluntary o Freedom
of exit o Right to use of the group's resources
Development - correct answer ✔✔systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur
between conception and death
Theory - correct answer ✔✔a group of logically organized and related hypotheses that attempts to
explain a problem
Categories of Theories of HG&D - correct answer ✔✔Learning: behavioral theories, social learning
theories, and information processing theories
• Cognitive
