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CPCE Exam Top Questions with accurate answers, 100% Accurate, rated A+ When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to - ✔✔-Inform the patient of the limits of confi ... dentiality As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to - ✔✔-jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling process will proceed A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of relationship difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had multiple abortions, and seems to use abortion as a birth control method. You are personally opposed to abortion. How should your personal beliefs impact the therapeutic relationship? - ✔✔-Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on the therapeutic relationship You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for six months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you do? - ✔✔-Accept or decline depending on the circumstances You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a client you are counseling. What do you do? - ✔✔-Limit, as much as possible, any possibly damaging personal information and obtain written permission from your client to share confidential information What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file? - ✔✔-Accept or decline depending upon circumstances You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or eating well, find you are highly distractible, and generally are less in-touch with your emotional state. You should... - ✔✔-Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if continuing with your clients poses any threat of being detrimental to the counseling process A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former counselor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is your responsibility in this case? - ✔✔-It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on a current or past client, so you should decline You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend her wedding. Would it be ethical to do so? - ✔✔-Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a breach of ethics While involved with a research study, you learn that several of your students are using confidential material in an unethical manner. You had no prior knowledge of this, and all of your safeguards for professional practice were appropriate. Are you, as the principal researcher, responsible for the student's behavior - ✔✔-Yes, you are ultimately responsible When publishing research, it is important to - ✔✔-Give credit to other contributors or sources, not plagiarize, and submit material to only one journal at a time When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes precedence? - ✔✔-Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics An ethics violation should NOT be reported when - ✔✔-A counselor has been retained to review another counselor who is in question; and when confidentiality rights would be violated What does multicultural/diversity counseling refer to? - ✔✔-Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches beneficial to specific groups and an approach that all counselors should ethically be aware of Most ethical issues are related to - ✔✔-Confidentiality Only one psychoanalyst's developmental theory covers the entire lifespan. Who is he? - ✔✔-Erik Erikson The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to which psychoanalyst? - ✔✔-Sigmund Freud What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four stages - ✔✔-Formal Operations Identity Crisis - ✔✔-Erik Erikson Positive Psychology - ✔✔-processes that contribute to optimal functioning/ not focusing on abnormalities Smoking habit to Sigmund Freud - ✔✔-Oral Fixation Most mental health professionals believe - ✔✔-no one theory of development completely explains the process John Bowlby - ✔✔-Attachment Theory Lawrence Kohlberg's three levels of morality - ✔✔-Pre-conventional, Conventional, and postconventional Female version of Freud's Oedipus complex - ✔✔-Electra Complex Researcher known for Rhesus Monkeys - ✔✔-Harry Harlow Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔-Theory of human motivation - psychological, safety, love, affection, belongingness Down Syndrome - ✔✔-Chromosomal abnormality John Watson - ✔✔-Little Albert experiment Albert Bandura's best-known research - ✔✔-Bobo Doll study What did Lev Vygotsky stress in his development theory? - ✔✔-Cultural Context and language Freudian Defense Mechanism - ✔✔-Repression Imprinting - ✔✔-Konrad Lorenz Incorporating several therapeutic theories in your work - ✔✔-eclectic Complaining of feeling restless, mood swings, times of hopelessness, periods of high energy and creativity in which she can go days without sleep - ✔✔-Bipolar Client presents with his wife both complaining the patient has had a change in cognitive function including language and memory. Client denies loss of pleasure in normal activities and denies feeling sad, but client is able to manage his medications but requires someone to set up his medication box and set a timer for him. - ✔✔-Neurocognitive Disorder Disorder of thought; disorder of mood - ✔✔-Schizophrenia; bipolar disorder Mirroring back client's verbalizations, and not passing judgment. Facilitating in assisting his client in reaching resolution of the presenting problems. - ✔✔-Rogerian, client-centered therapy Binge eating coupled with inappropriate methods of controlling one's weight may be a symptom of - ✔✔-Bulimia Concerns of his health; reports chronic intestinal difficulties, but has not sought medical treatment for his concerns. For the last five years he rarely feels at ease while at his job. Feels uneasy when outside the home - ✔✔-Agoraphobia loss of appetite; nervousness, and recurrent nightmares of a past hospital experience from years prior, where she says she almost died - ✔✔-PTSD Actively defiant of instructions, argues regularly, spiteful, and resentful. School performance is marginal. - ✔✔-Oppositional defiant disorder 40-year old client not feeling comfortable socially after gaining weight. Unwilling to try new activities and avoiding activities he once found enjoyable - ✔✔-Avoidant Personality Disorder Client believes his favorite actress is in love with him. He is appropriate in every other way and substance use is not the factor - ✔✔-Delusional Disorder Cyclothymia - ✔✔-Mild form of bipolar disorder. Cause is unknown Client needs help with substance use, uses recreationally on the weekends. Two DUIs within 3 years - ✔✔-Stimulant Use Disorder Complaints about significant Chronic back pain and shoulder pain (basis of a disability claim), when seen he looks fully physical capable of bending and picking up things - ✔✔-Malingering - to receive an external reward Symptoms of Schizophrenia categorized in three groups - ✔✔-Positive, Negative, and Disorganized Couple comes in. Wife displays feelings of distrust and no tolerance for relationships and also experiences excessive over-valuation "he's the best thing that every happened to me" - ✔✔-Borderline Personality Disorder A patient diagnosed with depression/suicide ideation suddenly appears to feel better and think more clearly - ✔✔-Suicide has increased! 20 year-old male college student. Last 6-7 months grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior and speech, hallucinations, poor responses - ✔✔-Schizophrenia...Paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual When a client's physical symptoms have a psychological cause it is referred to as - ✔✔-Conversion Disorder Appraisal - ✔✔-Any means by which by which a counselor assesses a client. ie: mental health exam, IQ test Type of test - NCE - ✔✔-Objective Test created by David Wechsler - ✔✔-IQ When administering tests to a client, the counselor should always - ✔✔-Inform the client of limitations of testing Validity (In testing) - ✔✔-How accurate the test is Reliability (in testing) - ✔✔-How consistent the results are The only test you are using with your client has a reliability of .60, you should... - ✔✔-disregard the results of the test as the reliability is too low Francis Galton - ✔✔-Inherited intellectual abilities; father of behavioral genetics; personality traits are passed down J.P. Guilford - ✔✔-individual differences and intellect; creativity Developed the first intelligence test - ✔✔-Alfred Binet and Theophilus Simon Rorschach - ✔✔-Inkblot test Most researched test in history - ✔✔-MMPI; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Psychometrics - ✔✔-Psychological measurement; measures the inner workings of the mind and behavior Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - ✔✔-Personality test You say a word to your client and he answers back with the first thing that comes to mind. What theorist developed the method you're using - ✔✔-Carl Jun [Show More]

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