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PC6440 Child and Adolescent Counseling
Midterm Study Guide
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Childhood began to be recognized as a special part of life during which of these historical periods:
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John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau emphasized that children
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a. Were property of their parents
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b. Deserved to be raised with thought and care
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c. Should learn to work at an early age
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d. May not be qualified to receive an education
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One of the most significant indicators of poor long-term outcomes for children is
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b. Lack of health insurance
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d. Grandparents living far away
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Well-being can be described as
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d. Judging life positively and feeling good
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Resilience is
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c. Ability to handle stress positively
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The frontal lobe of the brain controls
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The largest part of the brain is the
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Ethnic identity development models have which of the following stages?
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a. Immersion and introspection
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b. Dissonance and commitment
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c. Resistance and advocacy
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The main areas of multicultural competence focus on awareness, knowledge and
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10. List Maslow’s five Hierarchy of Needs (in order):
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11. List Piaget’s Four Stages of Cognitive Development
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Which of the following is a counselor characteristic that leads to successful counseling outcomes?
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a. Situational ethical stance
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d. Openness and flexibility
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Successful counseling treatments include which of these components?
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a. Focus on problem etiology
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Ventilation, a common factor of therapeutic change, means that people
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a. Meet outside when possible
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c. Have a place to express to express emotions and still be accepted
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d. Learn deep breathing techniques
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When children are forced into counseling, their reactions may include
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d. Fear, anger and resistance
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Step 2 in the authors’ six-stage counseling model is which of these?
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a. Understanding the child
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b. Clarifying the child’s expectations
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c. Exploring what has been done to solve the problem
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d. Defining the problem through active listening
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A helpful hint for asking children questions is to
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a. Use pronouns instead of names
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b. Use names instead of pronouns
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c. Use time sequence such as what was first, second, etc.
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d. Ask “Do you understand what I mean?”
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Virtue ethics focus on which of the following?
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Formal permission given by a client for the beginning of counseling is known as
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d. Privileged communication
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Respect for autonomy of clients
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a. Does not apply to children in the justice system
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b. Supersedes all other ethical principles
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d. Depends on the age of majority in the state
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Failure to create and maintain counseling records
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b. Allows counselors to maintain confidentiality
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c. Prevents FERPA violations
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d. Opens the counselor to lawsuits for malpractice
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In the case of serious and foreseeable harm, the counseling has a duty to
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a. Protect themselves from licensure board violations
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b. Inform an identifiable, potential victim
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c. Call the ethics hotline
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Suicide risks for children and adolescents are
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a. A prevalent and lethal problem
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c. Not sufficient situations to notify parents
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Mandated reporting of child abuse exists
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b. To supplement ethical codes
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d. To support Departments of Human Services
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The definition of malpractice includes
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a. Working with a child’s parents
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b. Responding to a subpoena
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c. Acting when the counselor sees a duty
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d. Professional misconduct
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Freud’s major principles were based on which of the following?
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a. His work with Charcot on hypnosis
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b. His clinical study of patients undergoing treatment
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c. His discussions with colleagues in the Vienna
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d. His work with Little Hans
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Freud viewed all people as
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c. Torn between different schedules of reinforcement
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According to Freud, the ego
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a. Contains all our basic human instincts
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b. Mediates balance between reality and our impulses
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c. Our personal moral standard
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d. Incorporates our conscience
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Erikson’s stage in which children learn to be productive is known as
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b. Autonomy vs. shame and doubt
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c. Industry vs. inferiority
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d. Identity vs. confusion
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Theodore has a friend who moved. He tells his therapist that he doesn’t miss his friend and really doesn’t care. His parents have reported that he no longer plays with others. This is an example of which of these concepts:
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A helpful aspect of biblicounseling includes child
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a. Reading about alternative solutions
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b. Writing a book report for a teacher
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c. Being entertained by the counselor
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d. Connecting to the title of the book
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The fundamental goal of psychoanalytic play therapy is that the child
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a. Learn to free associate
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b. Gain insight into self
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c. Transfer affection to the play therapist
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d. Enhance the current pain
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Which of the following concepts is related to the psychoanalytic play therapy process?
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Object relations theory is based on the assumption that
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a. The ego must be the stronger than the id
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b. Potty training predicts a person’s adult relationships
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c. Developmental stages must be resolved appropriately
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d. Adult relationships center on our earliest, intense connections
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Rogers viewed people as
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a. Trapped by their instincts
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Rogers definition that reads “totality of the perceptions of the child” refers to the concept of
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d. The basis of understanding a client
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In client-centered counseling, the counselor focuses on
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The most current terminology for Rogers’ theory is which of the following:
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a. Person-centered therapy
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b. Client-centered therapy
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One of the core conditions of Rogers’ type of therapy include
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A critical skill in child-centered counseling is
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Motivational interviewing incorporates goals related to
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In child-centered play therapy the focus stays on
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a. The materials the child chooses
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b. The structure of the child’s play
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d. The pace of the child’s play
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An aspect of person-centered therapy relevant across cultures is
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a. Focus on growth and development
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b. Not emphasizing cultural differences
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d. Recognition of common defense mechanisms
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According to the Gestalt therapy philosophy, people have psychological problems because
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a. their career aspirations do not match their life styles
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b. they have become separated from important parts of themselves such as emotions
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c. their intrinsic and extrinsic reward systems do not meet their needs
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d. they have not reconciled their ideal self and their real self
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Gestalt therapists focus on which of the following techniques
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Gestalt therapy emphasizes
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Gestalt therapy concentrates on
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According to Perls, when people are trapped in their phony layer, they
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a. Have become aware of how they limit themselves
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b. Are aware of fears that maintain their games
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c. Have integrated themselves with their experiences
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d. Have social masks to hide themselves
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The school counselor asks Jamal to talk about how much he likes his new sister. Then the counselor asks him to sit in another chair and explain things he does not like. This is an example of which of the following Gestalt techniques?
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Gestalt therapy takes which of the following views for examining a problem?
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a. Contextual factors that impact the situation
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b. Global, big picture view
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c. Systemic implications of the situation
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d. Specific aspects of the situation
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The time orientation of Gestalt therapy can best be explained as
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c. Integration of past-present-future
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Skinner believed people are products of their
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b. Awareness of the here-and-now
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c. Experiences and environment
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d. Psychic introspections
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In the ABC model of behavioral counseling, please list what each letter stands for. (hint: pg 250)
A_______________
B_______________
C_______________
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The scientific method used by behavioral counselors includes which of the following
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b. Global view of problems
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Extinction is the process of
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a. Reinforcing a behavior by presenting a reward
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b. Reducing a behavior by providing a reward for not doing it
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c. Reducing a behavior by ignoring it
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d. Increasing a behavior by rewarding its opposite
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Shaping involves learning by
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a. Mastering small steps of the task
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b. Executing the most important step of the task
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c. Reinforcing the completion of the task
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d. Creating a model of the task
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Goals of behavioral counseling differ from goals in other theories in which of the following way?
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a. Focus on the action causing the thought
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c. Focus on global perspective
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d. Focus on the thought behind the action
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The first step in behavioral counseling involves (hint: see page 251)
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c. Describing target behavior
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Dave has rehearsed approaching a new person within the counseling session. The counselor asks him to approach one new person during the coming week and try out this new behavior which is an example of which of the following techniques
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