Treatment Planning in Counseling Pre-Test Questions
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Treatment Planning in Counseling explores the essential process of developing effective, individualized plans to guide clients toward their therapeutic goals. This course covers assessment techniques, goal setting, intervention selection, and progress monitoring, emphasizing evidence-based practices and cultural competence. Students will learn to collaborate with clients to formulate clear, measurable objectives, adapt interventions to diverse needs, and ethically document treatment plans. Through case studies, role-plays, and application of theoretical models, participants gain practical skills necessary for creating dynamic treatment plans in various counseling settings.
Recommended Textbook Theory and Treatment Planning in Counseling and Psychotherapy 2nd Edition by Diane
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Chapter 1: Counseling Theory, Competency, Research, and
You: Connecting the Dots
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Q1) EST's meet all of the following criteria EXCEPT:
A) use of no-treatment control, alternative treatment, and placebo treatment groups.
B) a specific population with a specific identified problem.
C) use of reliable and valid outcome measures.
D) treatment based on theoretical orientation vs. use of a written treatment manual.
Answer: D
Q2) Therapeutic theories provide ___________________________________________.
A) a step-by-step guideline for sessions
B) a means for sifting through information and identifying key areas of change
C) therapists a way to speak the language of the client.
D) a replacement for medication.
Answer: B
Q3) There is much disagreement between professional mental health organizations and federal and state laws regarding the key issues and principles.
A)True
B)False
Answer: FALSE
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Chapter 2: Treatment Planning
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Q1) The counselor need not address diversity issues with each treatment task,as long as diversity is addressed by some tasks in the working phase.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Each phase of the clinical treatment plan is comprised of ______________ and
A) assessment; intervention
B) treatment tasks; client goals
C) problem identification; symptom measurement
D) initial tasks; transitional tasks
Answer: B
Q3) A good treatment plan will reflect a chosen theory by the ________________ used to write treatment tasks.
A) theory-based treatment plan
B) client goals
C) language and interventions
D) problem-focused approach
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) Countertransference takes place when a counselor
A) keeps their emotional reactions toward the client out of counseling
B) projects back onto a client in a way that affects therapeutic neutrality
C) has insight into their unconscious reactions to their clients
D) shares an undesirable feeling about a client with the client
Answer: B
Q2) Freud's drive theory is comprised of the idea that the human psyche is fueled by the energy of instinctual drive.The energy of the system is known as
A) sexuality
B) object Relations
C) libido
D) superego
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Jungian Analytic Psychology
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Q1) Jung's original concept of personality types identifies three general elements comprised of two polarities.These elements include all of the following,EXCEPT:
A) extravert/introvert which describe general attitude and orientation.
B) thinking/feeling which refers to how people organize information and made decisions.
C) intuitive/sensing which describes people's typical style of experiencing the world.
D) perceiving/judging which refers to how people orient to things outside themselves.
Q2) What strengths does this approach have for working with diverse clients? What are the weaknesses?
Q3) Analyzing childhood experiences,symbols,dreams,and archetypes to bring the unconscious to conscious awareness is an intervention typical of the _______________ phase of Jungian analysis.
A) assessment
B) initial C) closing
D) working
Q4) Describe the role of the counselor in Jungian analytical psychology?
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Chapter 5: Adlerian Individual Counseling
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Q1) Before Adlerian counselors can move to working and closing phase goals,which focus mostly on increasing social interest,they must first address early phase goals which address crisis symptoms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Unlike other depth psychologists of the time,Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology focused on understanding a person's ______________________________.
A) ego identity
B) subjective reality
C) projections
D) childhood
Q3) Adlerian assessment identifies the client's level of social interest in each of the six life tasks,which include all of the following,EXCEPT: ___________________________.
A) work
B) communal life and friendship
C) love relationships
D) personal happiness
Q4) Explain the role of psychoeducation in Adlerian counseling.
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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) What is the fundamental instrument of change in person-centered counseling?
A) Analysis of dreams
B) Focused Attending
C) The client
D) The counselor
Q3) Rob,a client,is describing an intense emotional experience and reports feeling very angry but smiles while telling the story.Carla,his person-centered counselor,might use which intervention to address discrepancies in Rob's presentation?
A) clarifying
B) reflecting
C) immediacy
D) confrontation
Q4) List and describe Roger's three core conditions that the therapist must create in the counseling relationship.
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Chapter 7: Existential Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) Which statement below best represents the existential concept of freedom and responsibility?
A) A person's greatest freedom is how he/she chooses to make meaning and respond to life circumstances.
B) A person's life is determined by God, genetics, and family, not choice.
C) Real choice in life is impossible because we have conditioned automatic responses.
D) Freedom comes automatically to people, without responsibility.
Q2) How do existential counselors view the goals of therapy?
Q3) An I-Thou relational encounter is best represented by which of the following examples?
A) diagnosing a client
B) a profound moment of witnessing
C) planning a wedding
D) ordering dinner at a restaurant
Q4) What do existential counselors believe about the purpose of life?
Q5) Describe the I-Thou relationship.
Q6) What are three interventions that existential counselors utilize in session? Describe each.
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Chapter 8: Gestalt Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) Gestalt counselors work with clients to confront their "shoulds" in order to help clients
A) avoid taking existential responsibility for their lives
B) regulate emotions in unhealthy ways
C) confront others putting pressure on them
D) live authentically
Q2) The idea that Gestalt counselors use their whole personhood to make real authentic contact with clients is best explained as counselors
A) expressing few emotions to protect the client
B) avoiding making or admitting mistakes in session
C) freely sharing their thoughts and feelings as they occur in session
D) employing confrontation frequently in session
Q3) What is meant by the statement,"The more one tries to change (and be who one is not),the more one stays the same."
Q4) Why is it important for the counselor to encourage the client to stay with difficult feelings?
Q5) What is the person of the counselor and why is it important?
Q6) What is meant by an "experiential" approach to therapy?
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Chapter 9: Foundational Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches
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Q1) The long term goal of cognitive-behavioral counseling is best described by which of the following statements?
A) The goal is to enable clients to independently solve their own problems by recognizing dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors early enough to prevent them from creating distress.
B) The goal is for clients to be able to partner with counselors to solve their problems by the counselor reflecting dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors early enough to prevent them from creating distress.
C) The goal is to enable clients to independently solve their own problems by recognizing dysfunctional thoughts a behaviors after they occur so the client does not do the same thing again.
D) The goal is to enable clients to understand events in their childhood that created problems and cause dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors in order to prevent them from occurring again in the future.
Q2) How/why does cognitive-behavioral counseling align more closely with DSM diagnosis than other approaches?
Q3) 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) The overarching goal of TF-CBT in to optimize the client's adaptive function in all areas of life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In addition to individual sessions and group skills training,DBT may utilize all of the following ancillary treatments EXCEPT:
A) psychopharmacology.
B) substance abuse treatment.
C) vocational counseling.
D) surgical intervention.
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Q4) Explain why the use of validation is important to the client.
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Chapter 11: Systemic Family Counseling and Therapy
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Q1) The purpose of enactments in systemic counseling is
A) to avoid seeing couples or family arguing in your office
B) to observe and restructure couple and family interactions in your office
C) to hear couples and families describe how they interact
D) to help couples and families to argue in a healthy manner in your office
Q2) Systemic counselors view the presenting problem not as an individual problem but a __________ one,specifically an interactional one,even if the counselor is working with an individual.
A) dysfunctional
B) pathological
C) independent
D) relational
Q3) How do boundaries play a role in the family system?
Q4) List and describe 3 effective interventions employed by systemic therapists?
Q5) What are the benefits of using systemic therapy with diverse client populations?
Q6) How does homeostasis play a role in the family structure and system?
Q7) How are symptoms viewed by systemic therapists?
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Chapter 12: Solution-Based Approaches
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Q1) What is the role of the counselor in solution-focused counseling?
Q2) Assessing client strengths can be achieved by __________________________________.
A) listening carefully for examples of the problems
B) suggesting interventions for the client to use
C) utilizing exceptional questions
D) directly asking about strengths, hobbies, and areas of life that are going well
Q3) When a solution-based counselor uses the client's language to describe their experience,such as "ending the blahs",this is refer to as
A) channeling language
B) beginner's mind
C) optimism and hope
D) echoing client's key words
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) Each of the following are in line with the purpose of collaborative reflecting teams EXCEPT:
A) to develop diverse strands of conversation.
B) to offer comments that evaluate or judge the client in any way, positive or negative.
C) to avoid coming to agreement on any one description of what is going on with the client.
D) to allow for multiple, contradictory perspectives to linger.
Q2) What role does curiosity play in collaborative counseling?
Q3) ___________________ are broad societal stories,sociocultural practices,assumptions,and expectations about how we should live.
A) Dominant voices
B) Dominant choices
C) Dominant discourses
D) Dominant groups
Q4) What is the philosophic stance of a collaborative counselor and how does it affect the therapeutic relationship?
Q5) In what ways is collaborative counseling ideal for working with diverse populations?
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Chapter 14: Feminist and Multicultural Counseling and Psychotherapy
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Q1) Define and describe the egalitarian relationship.
Q2) The experience in feminist counseling,in which both the client and the counselor see,know,and experience responsiveness from each other is known as
A) joining
B) mutual empathy
C) kismet
D) intuition
Q3) Feminist counselors use assertiveness training to help empower clients.The goal of assertiveness training is for clients to
A) attend only to the needs of self
B) attend only to the needs of others
C) defend themselves from attackers
D) attend to both the needs of self and others with balance
Q4) When considering DSM diagnosis,feminist counselors
A) refuse to utilize such classification systems
B) use diagnostic labels in ways that are normalizing
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C) find diagnostic labels unhelpful at all times
D) do not consider the impact of labels in a client's view of him or her self
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Chapter 15: Introduction to Theoretical Integration
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Q1) Discuss the difference between a theory and a philosophy.
Q2) Some counselors draw techniques from multiple approaches with more concern for identifying interventions likely to work for the client than concern for theoretical principles.This is referred to as _____________________________.
A) common factors
B) assimilative integration
C) systemic treatment selection
D) technical eclecticism
Q3) 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
Q4) Discuss briefly each of the following: constructivism,social-constructivism,structuralism/postconstructuralism.
Q5) Why might a counselor want to use integration?
Q6) What qualities define good integration?
Q7) Explain first-order and second-order cybernetics.
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Chapter 16: Integrative Case Conceptualization
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Q1) According to the author,what is one of the major problems with case conceptualization and assessments in general?
A) Healthy emotionally engaged boundaries look the same for everyone.
B) There is really only one set of ethnic norms.
C) The more similar clients are to us, the less we expect them to share our values and behavioral norms.
D) There are no objective standards against which a person can be measured.
Q2) When assessing client,Gestalt counselors look for where their clients are "stuck" in the cycle of making contact-otherwise known as ____________________________.
A) sources of life meaning
B) personal constructs and facades
C) trust of self
D) contact boundary disturbances.
Q3) List and describe three elements of a case conceptualization.
Q4) Systemic family counselors use genograms to assess all of the following EXCEPT:
A) substance and alcohol abuse and dependence.
B) dreams and aspirations.
C) sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.
D) personal qualities and/or family roles.
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