COUN 6100 orientation to the counseling
profession Chapter 1- Becoming a
Professional Counselor (week 4) Exam
questions with correct answers
counseling is... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-specific, specialized, and distinguishable from other
mental health disciplines by its philosophy, its evolution, and focus.
What was the purpose of a counselor 500 years ago? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-to facilitate wise
choices and decisions or to promote adjustment of mental health
Counseling evolved from - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the guidance movement and actively
differentiated itself from psychotherapy
Historical distinctions between guidance and psychotherapy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Guidance
referred to guiding or helping others make choices about vocation, lifestyle, or education.
Psychotherapy assumed a medical model, meaning the person receiving health was somehow
ill.
Psych: short term, medical model, alleviate symptoms, past is most important, goal of insight,
therapist as expert
Counseling: short term, wellness model, improve quality of life, focus on here and now, goal of
change, counselor as a collaborator
psychotherapy timing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychotherapy involves an in depth long term
commitment (12-50+ sessions) requiring advanced therapeutic training and expertise and
addressing serious long term and enduring conditions, such as personality disorders,
complicated bereavement, sexual abuse, and other significant trauma
,counseling timing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Counseling applies a process oriented theoretically
based approach (humanistic-existential, cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, systemic) to
address cognitive, affective and behavioral changes jointly agreed to by the counselor and
client, and is usually time limited (6-25 sessions in clinics, 2-10 sessions in schools)
What does counseling address? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Counseling addresses client knowledge
and skill needs in areas such as changing family issues, grief and loss, and adjustment to normal
developmental challenges
what model does psychotherapy use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-medical model. client is ill and
needs to be cured.
what approaches does counseling use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-developmental and wellness
approaches. Goal is for client to attain and maintain wellness
20/20 committee - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-20/20 committee was a collaborative effort among
31 counseling organizations in 2005. It was called "20/20:a vision for the future of counseling".
They agreed on a definition of counseling. 20/20 committee also came to consensus on issues
to advance the counseling profession, deal with the strengthening professional identify, present
as one profession, develop a licensure portability system, promote client welfare, improve the
public perception of the counseling profession, improve the research support for counseling,
and focus on counseling students and prospective students.
20/20 committee definition of counseling - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-counseling is a professional
relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families and groups to accomplish mental
health, wellness, education and career goals
5 elements of counseling: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Requires graduate level education, needs
adherence to ethical standards and encourages licensure, certification, and organizational
membership and involvement
2. Counseling is holistic and concerns itself with treating the entire person- without stepping
outside one's area of competence
, 3. Focuses on relatively healthy functioning individuals who are experiencing difficulty
4. Empirically driven and based on theoretically sound underpinnings and interventions
5. Involves the facilitation of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional change
The emergence of counseling psychology within the field of psychology led to... - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-the emergence of mental health counseling
Main differences between psychology and counseling lie in... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-education
and training. Psychology usually requires a doctorate degree and counseling requires masters,
but much of basic coursework at masters level is very similar in both programs.
compared to counselors, Psychologists tend to focus more heavily on... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
assessment, longer term psychotherapy, and more serious emotional and personality disorders
Clinical training for psychologists vs counselors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-some of the training for
psychologists is in an inpatient setting to help gain experience in treatment of severe psychiatric
disorders. Some training counselors receive is equivalent to what psychologists receive, but the
focus of counselor training is usually approached from a developmental or wellness path as
opposed to pathology
Counselors and psychologists are both licensed by... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-state
Who blazed the trail for licensure for counselors? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Social workers blazed
trail for licensure for counselors: Licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) could pass state laws
and regulations recognizing their title and practice at the masters level years before counselors.
Recent focus among professional counselors on ________________ has traditionally been a
prominent role of social workers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-social justice and client advocacy
profession Chapter 1- Becoming a
Professional Counselor (week 4) Exam
questions with correct answers
counseling is... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-specific, specialized, and distinguishable from other
mental health disciplines by its philosophy, its evolution, and focus.
What was the purpose of a counselor 500 years ago? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-to facilitate wise
choices and decisions or to promote adjustment of mental health
Counseling evolved from - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the guidance movement and actively
differentiated itself from psychotherapy
Historical distinctions between guidance and psychotherapy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Guidance
referred to guiding or helping others make choices about vocation, lifestyle, or education.
Psychotherapy assumed a medical model, meaning the person receiving health was somehow
ill.
Psych: short term, medical model, alleviate symptoms, past is most important, goal of insight,
therapist as expert
Counseling: short term, wellness model, improve quality of life, focus on here and now, goal of
change, counselor as a collaborator
psychotherapy timing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychotherapy involves an in depth long term
commitment (12-50+ sessions) requiring advanced therapeutic training and expertise and
addressing serious long term and enduring conditions, such as personality disorders,
complicated bereavement, sexual abuse, and other significant trauma
,counseling timing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Counseling applies a process oriented theoretically
based approach (humanistic-existential, cognitive behavioral, psychodynamic, systemic) to
address cognitive, affective and behavioral changes jointly agreed to by the counselor and
client, and is usually time limited (6-25 sessions in clinics, 2-10 sessions in schools)
What does counseling address? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Counseling addresses client knowledge
and skill needs in areas such as changing family issues, grief and loss, and adjustment to normal
developmental challenges
what model does psychotherapy use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-medical model. client is ill and
needs to be cured.
what approaches does counseling use? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-developmental and wellness
approaches. Goal is for client to attain and maintain wellness
20/20 committee - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-20/20 committee was a collaborative effort among
31 counseling organizations in 2005. It was called "20/20:a vision for the future of counseling".
They agreed on a definition of counseling. 20/20 committee also came to consensus on issues
to advance the counseling profession, deal with the strengthening professional identify, present
as one profession, develop a licensure portability system, promote client welfare, improve the
public perception of the counseling profession, improve the research support for counseling,
and focus on counseling students and prospective students.
20/20 committee definition of counseling - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-counseling is a professional
relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families and groups to accomplish mental
health, wellness, education and career goals
5 elements of counseling: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Requires graduate level education, needs
adherence to ethical standards and encourages licensure, certification, and organizational
membership and involvement
2. Counseling is holistic and concerns itself with treating the entire person- without stepping
outside one's area of competence
, 3. Focuses on relatively healthy functioning individuals who are experiencing difficulty
4. Empirically driven and based on theoretically sound underpinnings and interventions
5. Involves the facilitation of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional change
The emergence of counseling psychology within the field of psychology led to... - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-the emergence of mental health counseling
Main differences between psychology and counseling lie in... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-education
and training. Psychology usually requires a doctorate degree and counseling requires masters,
but much of basic coursework at masters level is very similar in both programs.
compared to counselors, Psychologists tend to focus more heavily on... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
assessment, longer term psychotherapy, and more serious emotional and personality disorders
Clinical training for psychologists vs counselors - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-some of the training for
psychologists is in an inpatient setting to help gain experience in treatment of severe psychiatric
disorders. Some training counselors receive is equivalent to what psychologists receive, but the
focus of counselor training is usually approached from a developmental or wellness path as
opposed to pathology
Counselors and psychologists are both licensed by... - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-state
Who blazed the trail for licensure for counselors? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Social workers blazed
trail for licensure for counselors: Licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) could pass state laws
and regulations recognizing their title and practice at the masters level years before counselors.
Recent focus among professional counselors on ________________ has traditionally been a
prominent role of social workers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-social justice and client advocacy
