Counseling Psychology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Counseling Psychology is a course that explores the principles, theories, and practices involved in helping individuals improve their personal, social, and emotional functioning through psychological counseling. Students will examine key therapeutic models, the counselor-client relationship, ethical and multicultural considerations, assessment techniques, and intervention strategies. Emphasis is placed on developing effective communication, listening, and problem-solving skills to facilitate change and growth in diverse client populations. The course provides both theoretical foundations and practical applications, preparing students for roles in mental health settings, educational institutions, and community agencies.
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology 3rd Canadian Edition by John Hunsley
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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Clinical Psychology
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Q1) The experiment with little Albert and the furry white animals showed
A)that conditioning principles could explain the development of phobias.
B)that conditioning principles could explain the development of obsessions.
C)that psychodynamic principles could be demonstrated in the lab.
D)that psychodynamic principles had a large influence on learning.
Answer: A
Q2) The cost of mental illness to Canadian society is estimated at ______ dollars.
A)$57 million
B)$121 million
C)$1.5 billion
D)$63 billion
Answer: D
Q3) Worldwide,the number of medical students seeking psychiatric training has
A)decreased dramatically since the 1980s.
B)decreased slightly since the 1980s.
C)increased slightly since the 1980s.
D)increased dramatically since the 1980s.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Contemporary Clinical Psychology
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Q1) According to Sinclair 1993),modern interest in developing ethical codes for research and professional services can be traced to
A)the Nuremburg war crime trials that occurred after the Second World War.
B)psychologists' involvement in the First World War.
C)America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
D)lobbying by animal rights groups in the 1960s.
Answer: A
Q2) The Mutual Recognition Agreement:
A)was signed by the APA and CPA to recognize the equivalence of the accreditation processes in the USA and Canada.
B)identifies core competencies required for professional practice in psychology in Canadian provinces and the North West Territories.
C)will be signed in 2017 to require that all professional training occur within accredited as opposed to unaccredited)programs.
D)allows licensed psychologists to use the title 'Dr'.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Classification and Diagnosis
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Q1) Classification __________ refers to the usefulness of a classification scheme.
A)utility
B)reliability
C)validity
D)applicability
Answer: A
Q2) A first-time father is reporting a great deal of anxiety surrounding his new role as a parent.A psychologist using a developmental psychopathology approach would first: A)ask about the client's past history with symptoms of mental illness.
B)utilize a dimensional approach to diagnosing anxiety.
C)investigate how much the anxiety interferes with transitioning into this new role. D)recommend that the new father enrol in parent training to help reduce his anxiety.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) When beginning research on a new topic the selection of an appropriate research design should follow:
A)formulation of the study procedures.
B)a thorough review of the published research on the topic of interest.
C)consideration of ethical issues in testing of the hypothesis.
D)operationalization of key concepts.
Q2) Case studies can be beneficial in
A)making connections between phenomena that have not previously been examined.
B)formulating and then testing hypotheses efficiently.
C)addressing threats to internal validity.
D)providing adequate protection against threats to external validity.
Q3) Aspects of data analysis that influence the validity of the conclusions drawn about the results of the research study is referred to as
A)clinical significance.
B)face validity.
C)self-report measures.
D)statistical conclusion validity.
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Chapter 5: Assessment: Overview
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Q1) Which of the following tests uses developmental norms?
A)Rorschach Inkblot Test.
B)Graduate Record Examination.
C)Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales.
D)Thematic Apperception Test.
Q2) The extent to which a test provides a relatively pure measure of a psychological construct,and is not contaminated by other psychological constructs,is referred to as
A)discriminant validity.
B)concurrent validity.
C)predictive validity.
D)convergent validity.
Q3) Specificity refers to the relative proportion of ________ identified by the assessment.
A)true positives
B)true negatives
C)false positives
D)false negatives
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Chapter 6: Assessment: Interviewing and Observation
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Q1) Self-monitoring strategies can provide information on A)the baseline rate of a problem or behaviour.
B)conditions that may provoke or maintain problem behaviour. C)behaviour that the psychologist cannot observe in session.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Unstructured clinical assessment interviews _____________ regular conversations.
A)do not follow a script and should be the same as B)do not follow a script and are distinct from C)follow a script and should be the same as D)follow a script and are distinct from
Q3) When completing a suicide risk assessment,the psychologist ought to focus their questions upon the
A)client's history of suicidal behaviour and current suicidal thoughts.
B)degree to which the client has concrete plans to commit suicide.
C)client's access to the means to carry out suicide.
D)all of the above.
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Chapter 7: Assessment: Intellectual and Cognitive Measures
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Q1) Wechsler introduced ________ to measure intelligence.
A)mental age/chronological age
B)deviation scores
C)z-scores
D)t-scores
Q2) According to the Wechsler scales,if Jose scores one standard deviation above the mean,his IQ is
A)100.
B)110.
C)115.
D)120.
Q3) Digit Span,Arithmetic,and Letter-Number Sequencing are subtests of the WAIS-IV that contribute to the ___________ index.
A)processing speed
B)working memory
C)perceptual reasoning
D)verbal comprehension
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Chapter 8: Assessment: Self-Report and Projective Measures
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Q1) An individual seeks help from a psychologist regarding a possible mood disorder and is administered the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III.interpreting the results of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III,a psychologist must to be aware that the MCMI-III tends to
A)underpathologize test-takers.
B)overpathologize test-takers.
C)Artificially diminish correlations between scales.
D)be more accurate in assessing some individuals than others.
Q2) Which approach to test construction involves retaining items that discriminate between two clearly defined groups?
A)Item approach
B)Content approach
C)Empirical criterion-keying approach
D)Construct approach
Q3) The NEO Personality Inventory-3 is based on what model of personality?
A)Cognitive-social
B)Five-factor
C)Personality type categories
D)Triarchic theory of personality
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Chapter 9: Assessment Integration and Clinical Decision-Making
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Q1) Research on retrospective recall indicates that
A)only minor daily events are recalled poorly.
B)both minor daily events and major life events are recalled poorly.
C)only major life events are recalled poorly.
D)neither minor daily events nor major life events are recalled poorly.
Q2) Maria is driving in traffic,when suddenly another car cuts her off.She mutters to herself "That driver is a nasty person,why can't s/he learn to drive?" This overestimation of the influence of personality traits and underestimation of the influence of situational effects on another person's behaviour is known as
A)inferring causation from correlation.
B)a fundamental attribution error.
C)a hindsight bias.
D)an affect heuristic.
Q3) Case formulation is required when:
A) there are complex issues of differential diagnosis.
B)the psychologist works within a psychodynamic framework.
C)there are no evidence based treatments to meet the person's symptom profile.
D)the psychologist has been asked to make recommendations about treatment.
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Chapter 10: Prevention
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Q1) Research has shown that _______________ can be effective for children exposed to traumatic events.
A)psychodynamic therapy
B)cognitive-behaviour therapy
C)play therapy
D)psychological debriefing
Q2) Positive characteristics that are associated with decreasing the chances that an individual will develop a problem or disorder are referred to as
A)positive factors.
B)protective factors.
C)effective factors.
D)risk factors.
Q3) Primary intervention
A)occurs before a disorder has developed.
B)occurs immediately after a disorder is identified.
C)is the main intervention used to manage mental disorders.
D)is only successful when combined with other types of intervention.
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Chapter 11: Intervention: Overview
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Q1) Psychodynamic theories assume that individuals are prone to conflicts between the A)ego and transference.
B)id and transference.
C)id and ego.
D)superego and countertransference.
Q2) A Canadian receiving psychological services is most likely to be A)living in a rural area.
B)living in a two parent family.
C)male.
D)university educated.
Q3) The unconscious application of expectations and emotional experiences,based on important early relationships,to subsequent interpersonal relationships is known as: A)process-experience. B)introspection.
C)transference.
D)counter-transference.
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Chapter 12: Intervention: Adults and Couples
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Q1) In the final stage of CBT the psychologist focuses on:
A)challenging long-standing beliefs.
B)challenging negative automatic thoughts.
C)adopting a more positive activity schedule.
D)predicting future challenges.
Q2) There are evidence-based psychological treatment for
A)very few affective disorders.
B)the most commonly encountered mental disorders.
C)most personality disorders.
D)all ICD diagnoses.
Q3) The Canadian Psychological Association task force on evidence-based psychological services recommended that psychologists give the strongest weight to:
A)syntheses of studies that balance internal and external validity.
B)expert consensus.
C)prior experience in treating a problem.
D)primary research that is high in internal and external validity.
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Chapter 13: Intervention: Children and Adolescents
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Q1) Huey and Polo's 2008)meta-analysis of the efficacy of evidence-based treatments with ethnic minority youth found
A)evidence that a number of treatments are probably efficacious in the treatment of minority youth.
B)evidence that the majority of treatments examined were definitely efficacious in the treatment of minority youth.
C)that treatments were equally effective for both minority and non-minority youth.
D)that treatments were not effective for either non-minority or minority youth.
Q2) Research reviews in the 1950s and 1960s by Levitt concluded that there was ____________ evidence for the efficacy of child psychotherapy.
A)no
B)only some
C)a moderate amount of D)overwhelming
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Chapter 14: Intervention: Identifying Key Elements of Change
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Q1) Meta-analyses of the child and adolescent treatment literature have found A)no differences between treatments.
B)cognitive-behavioural treatments to be more efficacious than other treatments.
C)psychodynamic treatments to be more effective than other treatments.
D)humanistic play therapy)treatments to be more effective than other treatments.
Q2) Research that examines what happens within and across psychotherapy sessions is known as:
A)process research.
B)effectiveness research.
C)outcome research.
D)efficacy research.
Q3) Rosenzweig's 1936)hypothesis that all psychotherapies must be equivalent in their effects is referred to as the
A)Tropical bird effect.
B)Dodo bird verdict.
C)Chameleon result.
D)Common factors approach.
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology, clinical Neuropsychology, and Forensic Psychology
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Q1) CBT treatments for insomnia
A)can be delivered inexpensively and effectively.
B)can be delivered only in individual therapy.
C)are more expensive than pharmacotherapy.
D)have only shown effectiveness in the short-term.
Q2) Research has demonstrated that there is _______________ between performance on a neuropsychological test and performance of the activities of daily living.
A)no simple correspondence
B)a very strong causal link
C)some relationship
D)no relationship
Q3) Participation and Activity Limitation Survey PALS)data from 2006 revealed that _____________was/were the most common disability in those aged over 65.
A)a chronic health condition
B)mobility problems
C)chronic pain
D)learning disability
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