Counseling Psychology Pre-Test
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Course Introduction
Counseling Psychology is a branch of psychology focused on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan. This course explores a wide range of concerns commonly addressed in counseling settings emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental, and organizational. Students will engage with major theories of counseling, methods of assessment, evidence-based intervention strategies, multicultural competencies, and ethical considerations in practice. Emphasis is placed on helping individuals cultivate well-being, alleviate distress, resolve crises, and improve their ability to function in diverse environments.
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Crisis Intervention Strategies 8th Edition by
Richard K. James
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Chapter 1: Approaching Crisis Intervention
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Q1) Characteristics of effective crisis workers must include:
A)burnout.
B)being of the same race,sex,religion,etc.of the person in crisis so there is some common ground.
C)being older and having the experience of age.
D)resiliency,poise,and flexibility.
Answer: D
Q2) Basic crisis intervention,while often brief,is not brief therapy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) An eclectic approach to crisis intervention means:
A)perceiving crisis as an internal and external state of affairs.
B)that people are viewed as products of both heredity and social learning.
C)not being locked into any theoretical approach in a dogmatic fashion.
D)dealing with the equilibrium/disequilibrium aspects of the crisis.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Culturally Effective Helping
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Q1) A major criticism of current multicultural practices is that current cultural competency practices are too exclusive and are backed by little research.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The client's past history and cultural background have little to do with the here-and-now conditions of a crisis.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) During a crisis intervention the emic perspective is important for crisis workers to understand because it:
A)represents how outside experts view the local culture.
B)represents how members view their local culture.
C)reflects a Hollywood version of the local culture.
D)portrays a culture through the eyes of social media.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Intervention and Assessment Models
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Q1) Follow-up is an important task because:
A)clients will not follow through on plans without help.
B)success in maintaining precrisis equilibrium is critical.
C)keeping track of the client's long term needs and re-establishing broken relationships is important in moving beyond the crisis and putting it in the past.
D)crises are short-term and once the plan is made the crisis is finished.
Answer: B
Q2) The psychobiology of humans in crisis is important because:
A)dramatic changes in neurotransmitters have little practical effect when crises occur.
B)abnormal changes in neurotransmitters often occur during crises,which effects clients' rationality.
C)legal drugs have no effect on the crises people encounter.
D)psychobiological functioning is not important to assess during crises.
Answer: B
Q3) Melancholy is one of the descriptors on the Affective scale.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Tools of the Trade
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Q1) If a worker quietly sat by and allowed a client to cry for five minutes and bemoan her broken engagement,the worker would be engaging in ______ as a technique.
A)sympathy eliciting
B)catharsis
C)empathic responding
D)providing support
Q2) A good owning statement may mean making a value judgment about a client's behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Owning feeling is probably more important in crisis intervention because of the need to be directive.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Providing protection means:
A)shielding the client from potential traumatic events post crisis.
B)safeguarding clients from engaging in harmful and destructive behavior.
C)creating a space where the client's thoughts and emotions will escalate.
D)allowing clients to avoid talking about the reasons they are in crisis.
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Chapter 5: Crisis Case Handling
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Q1) The difference between the goal of a long-term therapist and a crisis interventionist would be:
A)comprehensive personality change versus restoring precrisis functioning.
B)focusing on cognition and affect as opposed to behavior.
C)setting long-term goals as opposed to short term goals.
D)not dealing with crisis clients as opposed to dealing with crisis clients.
Q2) Community mental health clinics must provide 24-hour service,as mandated by the Community Mental Health Act of 1963.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In long-term therapy,one of the times that there is a major risk of a crisis occurring is:
A)at the start of therapy.
B)in the middle of therapy.
C)at the end of therapy.
D)there is no one particular period of therapy that is more likely for a crisis to occur.
Q4) Mobile crisis teams have now been replaced by CIT officers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Telephone and Online Crisis Counseling
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Q1) Telephone and online counseling pose far fewer ethical dilemmas because the worker is not face-to-face with the client and doesn't know the client's identity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Disinhibition effect:
A)means that the crisis worker disinhibits the client's suicidal/homicidal ideation.
B)is a common psychological malady of sex callers.
C)means that clients open up faster and with more personal information when they are on the Internet.
D)means the worker must immediately attempt to anchor the client in concrete reality because of the disinhibiting effects of a psychotic episode.
Q3) One of the major disadvantages to telephone counseling is that the worker may have to refer to ready-made lists of feeling words,questions on the topic,and worst of all,keep reference notes,which can all be distracting to the intervention process.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Q1) PTSD is different for children and adults.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Treatment for PTSD can best be described as: A)multimodal/multiphasic.
B)atheoretical.
C)stress inoculation.
D)eclectic.
Q3) Terr (1995)proposed a division of childhood trauma into two categories that she called Type I and Type II traumas.What is the difference?
A)Type I targets very young children and Type II targets adolescents.
B)Type I results from natural causes and Type II results from man-made causes.
C)Type I derives from sudden,distinct,traumatic experiences and Type II derives from long standing,repeated ordeals.
D)Type I stems from childhood sexual or physical abuse and Type II stems from environmental catastrophes.
Q4) What are the behavioral differences between Terr's Type I and Type II childhood trauma?
Q5) Wage an argument for or against EMDR.
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Chapter 8: Crisis of Lethality
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Q1) Considering the myth that when a person has attempted suicide and pulls out of it the danger is over,a crisis worker should remember that if such a client seemed unusually serene and nonlethal toward self:
A)an important danger signal for that client would be a period of euphoria following the depressed or suicidal episode.
B)then,in case the client committed suicide,it would definitely be an impulsive act.
C)then,the crisis worker would probably have misinterpreted the client's score on The Triage Assessment Scale.
D)All three of the statements are valid.
Q2) The suicidal/homicidal person who engages in an expressive act of harming self or others is:
A)engaging in an act designed to reduce psychological pain.
B)expressing a specific behavioral tendency towards euthanasia.
C)demonstrating one or more of the common myths about client lethality.
D)manifesting acts that are characteristic of Shneidman's cognitive characteristics.
Q3) What goes into a "Stay Alive" contract?
Q4) What are some of the "Don'ts" in managing suicidal clients?
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Chapter 9: Sexual Assault
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Q1) The recommended treatment of choice for sexually abused children is:
A)Gestalt therapy.
B)psychoanalytic.
C)play therapy.
D)psycho-education about abusers.
Q2) Rape education programs are effective in preventing rape.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An intrusive but effective method for extinguishing PTSD in adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse is______ of the event.
A)psychoanalytic processing
B)behavioral conditioning and desensitization
C)prolonged exposure through flooding and cognitive restructuring
D)mindfulness and acceptance therapy
Q4) Some men use rape to "punish" women who have done them "wrong."
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the intergenerational family dynamics often found when sexual abuse is present.
Q6) Discuss the clinical indicators that a child may have been sexually abused.
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Chapter 10: Partner Violence
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Q1) Walker's theory of learned helplessness has been hotly debated.Walker sees it as a sophisticated coping mechanism that allows women to survive a potentially lethal relationship while many feminists see it as demeaning of women in that they fit into the stereotype of "helpless females." Take a position for or against learned helplessness in battering relationships.
Q2) Common client problems that shelter workers must deal with is not:
A)grieving over the "death" of the relationship.
B)terror attacks.
C)manipulation of the worker by dependent clients.
D)the presence of emotional support.
Q3) Extensive reviews of the characteristics of battered women reveal that the only common characteristic was that the women had:
A)codependent personalities.
B)witnessed or been victims of personal violence as children.
C)a history of emotional/ psychological instability.
D)specific personality profiles on personality tests that typed them as dependent and other-controlled.
Q4) Choose one of the domestic violence models discussed in the book.Wage an argument as to why it is the BEST model.
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Chapter 11: Family Crisis Intervention
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)As a family adjusts in the weeks following a crisis event they must mostly be aware of caring for their own.
B)In the aftermath of a crisis event a family must first concentrate on staying together.
C)Adaption after a crisis involves family learning to depend on themselves.
D)Individual family members continue to make meaning in their lives without interruption.
Q2) Predispositioning in crisis intervention with families does not involve:
A)placing yourself in a helpful place with the family.
B)beginning after you have heard the families story.
C)revisiting it periodically throughout the crisis intervention process.
D)rapport building with families.
Q3) Problem exploration in family crisis intervention involves all but which one of the following?
A)Focusing on the ability of the family to function
B)Identifying a family's strengths and resources as a way to address the crisis
C)Attending to the influence of the crisis on family dynamics
D)Listening to the one family member who seems to be most coherent for solutions
Q4) Provide a comparison and contrast of two family crisis models.
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Chapter 12: Personal Loss
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Q1) A DIVORCE map is a way of getting at:
A)previous unseparated attachments.
B)finding and disputing the client's irrational beliefs.
C)restoration activities.
D)loss orientation.
Q2) Which of the following isnot found in complicated grief and mourning?
A)Severe separation anxiety and distressed yearning
B)Denial,repression and avoidance of the loss
C)Intense intrusive thoughts about the deceased
D)Reformulation of loss in a context of growth
Q3) An appropriate example of providing immediate,short-term,and brief crisis intervention with the bereaved following a sudden death would be:
A)working through long buried guilt feelings.
B)planning new relationships now that the loved one is gone.
C)referral to a support group.
D)providing referral sources to make arrangements for the funeral,and information about autopsy and donor rights.
Q4) Discuss the pros and cons of stage models of grief.Provide an argument for a stage model of grief.
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Chapter 13: Crisis in Schools
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Q1) Describe the difference between a crisis intervention coordinator and a crisis response coordinator.Why are both of these positions needed on a crisis response team?
Q2) Schools should not be in the memorial business.That's the job of funeral homes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Interviewing potential EVJOs should start by asking them if they have a plan to carry out their threats.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Schools are generally very safe places to be.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss risk assessment and intervention with an EVJO student.
Q6) Of the following approaches to gang intervention,which has been the most successful?
A)Peer counseling and mediation
B)"Get tough"
C)Individual and group counseling
D)Intervention programs have low rates of effectiveness
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Chapter 14: Violent Behavior in Institutions
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Q1) Workers who use validation therapy with the elderly believe that its use may resolve past issues and reduce stress even though the client may not make sense.
A)True
B)False
Q2) University counseling centers are prone to sacrifice safety concerns in an attempt to create a warm,caring,confidential atmosphere.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of the following intervention strategies,which would be least likely to help prevent violence?
A)Management's commitment to budgetary efficiency
B)Management's commitment to security planning
C)Doing a work-site analysis to boost staff morale
D)Providing inconsistent staff training in de-escalation
Q4) After a violent incident,the institution may want to:
A)do a disciplinary investigation to determine if there was negligence.
B)conduct both Critical Incidents Stress Debriefing and a psychological autopsy.
C)use flooding procedures to immediately get the staff member back on the job.
D)immediately return to business as usual and ignore this rare event.
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Chapter 15: Legal and Ethical Issues
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Q1) Crisis workers who review their interactions with clients and consider the impact of their interventions on themselves,their clients,and the ecology of the intervention are engaging in:
A)self-care.
B)ethical decision-making.
C)affect heuristic.
D)reflective practice.
Q2) When considering how to respond in a specific situation,it can be helpful to listen to:
A)soothing music.
B)your heartbeat.
C)the sound of cars on a busy street.
D)your personal values.
Q3) One difference between ethics and law is that:
A)laws are proactive while ethics are reactive.
B)ethical codes are often aspirational while laws are mandatory.
C)ethical codes are mandatory while laws offer guidance.
D)laws are reactive while ethics are proactive.
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Chapter 16: Burnout, vicarious Traumatization, and Compassion Fatigue
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Q1) You are the supervisor of several teams of crisis workers covering a large geographical region.Discuss a plan to prevent worker burnout.
Q2) Having fun is a critical part of burnout-proofing oneself.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Countertransference is the:
A)attributing traits and behaviors of significant others and events in the worker's past to the client.
B)attributing traits and behaviors of significant others and events in the client's past to the worker.
C)instigating agent of acute traumatic stress disorder.
D)displacement and externalization of negative feelings onto significant others in the life of the crisis worker.
Q4) Human service workers who do crisis work experience negative effects more than other types of human service workers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why does compassion satisfaction appear to be a buffer against burnout?
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Chapter 17: Disaster Response
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Q1) The disillusionment phase occurs about three months into the chronosystem of a disaster's aftermath.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There are people in the world who see the western world's mental-health-type disaster mitigation as useless and contrived.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The mesosystem measures the time element across which a disaster develops.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Facebook is not a critical ingredient in disaster communication.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe how disaster mental health started in the United States.
Q6) The exosystem includes:
A)communications created by word-of-mouth,cell phones,and local newspapers.
B)timelines for easing or exacerbating the crisis.
C)the community and even state or regional entities.
D)federal agencies such as NIMH and FEMA.
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Chapter 18: Chemical Dependency
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Q1) The quickest and easiest way to get an addict clean is to go "cold turkey" and let them suffer the consequences of physical withdrawal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the decision variables as to whether a drug abuser will be treated as an in- or outpatient is based on:
A)whether the client is a polyuser.
B)whether the treatment program is AA-based or not.
C)whether the client's withdrawal is going to be severe.
D)how the client will pay for treatment.
Q3) Treatment "secrets" are a way of trying to co-opt treatment and blackmail staff.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Enabling is:
A)the natural and logical consequence of drug dependence.
B)not treatable to the extent that few positive outcomes may be anticipated.
C)a character deficit of the co-dependent.
D)an attempt to keep the family in equilibrium.
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Chapter 19: Crisishostage Negotiation
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Q1) Of the following,which is nottrue of hostage takers?
A)They have reached an acute level of frustration.
B)They are attempting to problem-solve.
C)They want to harm the hostage so as to show the world they mean business.
D)They are seeking attention.
Q2) In gathering information,a hostage negotiator would first:
A)attempt to determine who the hostage taker is so as to obtain a profile.
B)determine the reason the hostages were taken so as to know how to negotiate.
C)find out who the hostages are so the Stockholm syndrome could be used.
D)know the physical layout of the site so as to determine the best and safest route of attack if necessary.
Q3) Which statement best describes the depressed hostage taker?
A)He/She has a false system of beliefs with hallucinations and delusions.
B)He/She is confused and unable to make a decision,with generally reduced energy and affect.
C)He/She is narcissistic,attention-seeking.
D)He/She conflicts with society,blames others,is concerned only for him-/herself.
Q4) Compare and contrast hostage negotiation with persons from a low-context and high-context culture.
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