Clinical Mental Health Counseling Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Clinical Mental Health Counseling focuses on the theories, practices, and ethical standards involved in providing mental health services to individuals, groups, and families. The course covers assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and intervention strategies for a variety of mental health disorders. Students gain knowledge about multicultural competence, crisis intervention, case management, and the role of counselors within community and clinical settings. Emphasis is placed on the development of counseling skills, self-awareness, and understanding the legal and ethical responsibilities of mental health professionals.
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Theory and Treatment Planning in Counseling and Psychotherapy 2nd Edition by
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Diane R. Gehart
Chapter 1: Counseling Theory, Competency, Research, and
You: Connecting the Dots
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Q1) The mental health movement to become more evidence based involves using existing research to inform clinical decisions and treatment planning,and which of the following?
A) Learning evidence-based treatments that are specific for working with distinct populations and issues.
B) Focusing that research in one area to gain expertise and skimming other areas to ensure basic understanding.
C) Becoming well versed in one evidence-based theory, so that it can be applied efficiently and effectively.
D) Understanding that once you have practiced for some time, this will no longer be necessary.
Answer: A
Q2) Efficacious and specific treatments meet all of the same criteria as EST's and which of the following additional criteria?
A) Utilize only the unique components of a specific theory.
B) Reflect at least three of the common factors.
C) Prove superior to at least two other studies.
D) Be subjected to two independent investigations.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Treatment Planning
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Q1) Two tasks that are almost always present in the initial phase of treatment are ________________________________.
A) assigning a diagnosis and providing referrals
B) establishing a therapeutic relationship and clarifying boundaries
C) establishing a therapeutic relationship and assessing individual, family, and social dynamics
D) providing a diagnosis and assessing individual, family, and social dynamics
Answer: C
Q2) The primary function of client goals in the working phase is to address ____________________________.
A) crisis issues and stabilize crisis symptoms
B) dynamics that create and/or sustain client symptoms or problems
C) the global issues which move the client toward greater heath
D) monitoring the quality of the therapeutic relationship
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) Ronald is a 37-year-old man,presenting in counseling for what he labels as stress.He is a first-year graduate student in a counseling program who left his previous career because of a downfall in the economy resulting in the loss of his job.Ronald reports that he gets very sweaty,nauseous,and tense when going to school.Ronald has missed 1 class this semester due to his symptoms,and cannot afford to miss anymore.Choose the best example of an initial phase psychodynamic goal for this client.
A) Decrease client's attempts to avoid existential angst and responsibility to reduce anxiety.
B) Increase empowerment and feelings of "mattering" to reduce anxiety.
C) Decrease emotional reactivity to perceived threats to self to reduce anxiety.
D) Increase coping skills necessary to reduce symptoms of anxiety.
Answer: C
Q2) The concept of a holding environment as it relates to the counselor-client relationship incorporates which of the following?
A) The counselor incorporates touch into the counseling relationship.
B) The counselor allows the client to work with overwhelming stimuli.
C) The counselor provides a supportive, nurturing environment.
D) The counselor offers personal information and opinions.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Jungian Analytic Psychology
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Q1) What strengths does this approach have for working with diverse clients? What are the weaknesses?
Q2) The _________ is the part of the personality that develops in our interactions and results in problems when a person identifies with this rather than the Self.
A) persona
B) anima/animus
C) hero
D) trickster.
Q3) Like other depth psychology,Jungian analysis believes transference plays an important role the process of counseling and consists of a three state approach that entails recognizing ________________,_______________,and
A) projections; culture, gender, & archetypal elements; who the counselor is apart from the projection
B) complexes; personality types; polarities
C) the conscious; the unconscious; the persona
D) unpleasant; socially unacceptable; immoral aspects of the character
Q4) Describe the relationship between the ego and the Self?
Q5) Describe the role of the counselor in Jungian analytical psychology?
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Chapter 5: Adlerian Individual Counseling
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Q1) Which three general categories do Adlerian's use for psychodynamic formulation during assessment?
A) interpsychic, intrapsychic; extropsychic
B) social factors; social motivation; social status
C) neurotic symptoms; psychotic symptoms; personality disorders
D) ego identity; the Self; persona
Q2) Closing phase goals in Adlerian therapy seek to go beyond lack of symptoms and move toward _____________________________________________.
A) decreasing feelings of loneliness, parental anger, trauma, and loss
B) focusing on insecurities which affect the quality of relationships
C) developing habits of living that promote wellness and social interest
D) encouraging clients to recognize basic mistakes before they happen in order to prevent further mistakes
Q3) The goal: develop more realistic expectations of performance at work is an example of ______________________.
A) an initial phase goal
B) a working phase goal
C) a closing phase goal
D) a non-Adlerian goal
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Chapter 6: Person-Centered Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) Person-centered counseling was developed by ______________________________.
A) Rogers
B) Whitaker
C) Gestalt
D) Satir
Q2) Maria,a counselor working from a person-centered approach,is in the initial phase of counseling with a 26-year-old client named David.David reports that he was recently asked to take a leave of absence from law school for "anger related issues." As David describes recent incidents in the classroom and in his graduate housing complex,he describes moments of rage but indicates that it was "not that big of a deal" and "that no one was hurt." Maria notices that David is becoming visibly upset as he talks,but he continues to report he is "fine." What would be an appropriate initial goal for David in counseling?
A) Increase experience of overwhelming emotions to reduce angry outbursts.
B) Increase ability to recognize and constructively express emotions to reduce angry outbursts.
C) Reduce angry outbursts.
D) Increase ability to view self as responsible for problem situations and active agent in making changes to reduce angry outbursts.
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Chapter 7: Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) Describe the I-Thou relationship.
Q2) Describe the concept of death anxiety from an existential counseling perspective.
Q3) Existential counseling and person-centered counseling work toward _______________ _________________________.
A) curing mental illness
B) helping people live more authentic and self-actualized lives
C) dealing with crises in identity
D) fostering healthy relationships with others
Q4) What do existential counselors believe about the purpose of life?
Q5) In existential counseling,the counselor-client relationship involves cultivating the type of presence that characterizes I-Thou connections.The experience of the client is best described in which of the following statements?
A) The client's inherent tendency to strive for positive growth is activated.
B) The client is able to develop awareness and differentiate self from non-self.
C) The client is encouraged to promote social change to reduce forms of oppression.
D) The client feels "seen" and "heard" on a profound level.
Q6) How do existential counselors view the goals of therapy?
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Chapter 8: Gestalt Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) When a person has integrated polarities,they have ____________________________.
A) accepted more aspects of the self
B) made peace with who and what one is
C) a responsive relationship with the environment
D) trust in the self and life itself
Q2) Gestalt counselors offer clients their presence in __________ experiences in the counseling session.
A) emotional
B) unhampered
C) unconscious
D) here-and-now
Q3) Asking your client to speak aloud while in session what she is afraid to say to an actual person,would be an example of _____________.
A) language modification
B) experiment
C) body awareness
D) dream work
Q4) What is meant by the statement,"The more one tries to change (and be who one is not),the more one stays the same."
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Chapter 9: Foundational Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches
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Q1) ____________________ approaches are based on the premise that psychological disorders result from dysfunctional thinking and beliefs and that improvement comes from modifying thought patterns and beliefs.
A) Behavioral
B) Cognitive
C) Traditional
D) Conditioned
Q2) Explain Beck's concept of distorted cognitions and identify at least one common distortion.
Q3) In reality therapy,counselors analyze behavior to help clients
A) understand the source of their problems
B) decrease personal responsibility for all the events in their life
C) look at the way the rest of world, "the real world", looks at the problem
D) take responsibility for the quality of their lives and make choices to improve their situations.
Q4) What is meant by the terms in-vivo and flooding?
Q5) What is meant by the statement,"cognitive behavioral goals are specific and measurable?
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Chapter 10: Evidence-Based Cognitive-Behavioral
Approaches: Dialectic Behavior Therapy and
Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
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Q1) As part of the conceptualization process,April's counselor has asked her to help develop a step-by-step description of the events that led to April arguing with her supervisor when she felt micromanaged.The therapist is conducting a ________________ with April.
A) problem analysis
B) therapy-interfering analysis
C) behavioral chain analysis
D) quality of life-interfering behavioral analysis
Q2) Max,a borderline client who professes to believe that all people are untrustworthy,is seeing a DBT therapist who is working to address this belief and help Max see that this expectation is not always accurate.From a DBT perspective,what is the counselor doing?
A) Attempting to relieve client suffering by applying a a strict set of interventions.
B) Providing empathy in order to encourage change.
C) Educating the client on the way the world really is.
D) Working to engage dialectic tension in order achieve synthesis and transcend the tensions.
Q3) Explain why the use of validation is important to the client.
Q4) What is synthesis?
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Chapter 11: Systemic Family Counseling and Therapy
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Q1) Each of the following: good/bad child,understanding/strict parent,logical/emotional,role model/rebel are examples of ___________________.
A) hierarchies
B) complementary roles
C) coalitions
D) subsystems
Q2) Emotionally focused therapy focuses on the emotional system of the couple and uses ______________________ to help couples restructure their interactional patterns for the purpose of increasing emotional intimacy and addressing attachment needs.
A) mirroring
B) affect heightening
C) projection
D) behavior modification
Q3) List and describe 3 effective interventions employed by systemic therapists?
Q4) Which of the following statements is TRUE when viewing the family as a system?
A) One single person in the family orchestrates the interactional patterns.
B) One single person can be blamed for family distress.
C) Personal characteristic are independent of the system.
D) All behavior makes sense in context.
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Chapter 12: Solution-Based Approaches
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Q1) All of the following statements are an appropriate example of compliments used by solution-based counselors EXCEPT:
A) You not only followed through on the chart idea we developed last week but you came up with your own additional strategies.
B) You made real progress toward your goal this week.
C) You have worked really hard this week to talk with your son on the phone.
D) You really are a great dad.
Q2) Solution-based counselors believe that ______________ is inevitable and always possible.
A) happiness
B) satisfaction
C) hope
D) change
Q3) How do solution-focused counselors view problems?
Q4) All of the following are reasons coping questions are used EXCEPT:
A) to generate hope.
B) to increase motivation.
C) to increase insight.
D) to promote agency.
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Chapter 13: Narrative and Collaborative Approaches
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Q1) __________________ is the term used to describe when stories or subplots in which the problem-saturated story do not play out in its typical way with no dramatic ending or particularly notable outcome.
A) Problem narrative
B) Happy ending
C) Dull story
D) Unique outcome.
Q2) What is the nature of the relationship between counselor and client in narrative counseling?
Q3) Which of the following is an example of an externalizing question?
A) If by some miracle you woke up some morning and were not anxious anymore, how, specifically, would your life be different?
B) Have there been times when you have been able to get the best of the anxiety?
C) What are the consequences for your life and relationships of being anxious?
D) What are you most anxious about?
Q4) In what ways is collaborative counseling ideal for working with diverse populations?
Q5) What is externalizing and how is it used in narrative counseling?
Q6) What role does curiosity play in collaborative counseling?
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Chapter 14: Feminist and Multicultural Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) Feminist counseling relationships should not be misinterpreted as conflict free."Good conflict" in a counseling relationship involves all EXCEPT:
A) each person feeling heard and understood.
B) each person remaining present and responsive.
C) each person feeling a sense of safety and trust.
D) each person never feeling disconnected.
Q2) Feminist counselors see women as developing the self ______________________.
A) in isolation
B) in and through relationships
C) autonomously
D) separate from others
Q3) Which of the following is a major principle in the feminist counseling process?
A) Clients rely on the therapist to define and shape the therapy process.
B) Clients ignore that ways in which disconnection fuels their presenting problems.
C) Clients find ways to avoid oppressive experiences in their communities.
D) Clients experience the counseling relationship as empathic and authentic.
Q4) Feminist counselors do not take on male clients.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Introduction to Theoretical Integration
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Q1) It is likely that an unplanned approach of integration or eclecticism will result in the counselor doing what he/she feels like with little understanding of how or why.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Maricella,a counselor for 15 years,has chosen to incorporate the core conditions of person-centered counseling to build relationships and solution-generating questions from solution-focused counseling to generate hope.This is an example of
A) Solution-focused counseling
B) common factors approach
C) assimilative integration
D) systemic treatment selection
Q3) _____________ is a process of borrowing from more than one theory.
A) eclecticism
B) joining
C) integration
D) combining.
Q4) What qualities define good integration?
Q5) Discuss the difference between a theory and a philosophy.
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Chapter 16: Integrative Case Conceptualization
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Q1) Applying Erickson's Psychosocial Developmental Stages in clinical counseling is useful for which of the following?
A) Helping clients more quickly identify core dynamic patterns that are affecting all areas of life.
B) To better understand the client's internal dynamics, particularly those that are contributing to the presenting problem.
C) Helping clients identify unconscious or semi-conscious erroneous assumptions about life to develop a system of private logic that supports them in pursuing their life goals.
D) Understanding the larger developmental concerns that may be underlying the problems clients bring to session.
Q2) Helping a client to identify their strengths relies heavily on _______________________.
A) the counselor's ability to view or "see" the flip side of the presenting problem
B) the client's insight into him or her self
C) the counselor's expertise in assessment
D) the client's ability to view or "see" the flip side of the presenting problem
Q3) List and describe three elements of a case conceptualization.
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