Foundations of CMHC Midterm Review

Foundations of CMHC Midterm Review What is the American Counseling Association? - ✔✔The primary association representing professional counselors. What was the purpose of the Vision 20/20 force? - ✔✔To strengthen the p ...

Foundations of CMHC Midterm Review What is the American Counseling Association? - ✔✔The primary association representing professional counselors. What was the purpose of the Vision 20/20 force? - ✔✔To strengthen the profession. Kaplan and Gladding (2010) described how many areas that are critical to promote the mission of the counseling profession? - ✔✔Seven What is considered an important instrument in the therapeutic process? - ✔✔The counselor. Within the humanistic-existential approach in counseling, the most important figure was: - ✔✔Rogers Concepts such as classical and operant conditioning are consistent with which theoretical approach? - ✔✔Behavioral Counselors should demonstrate what types of skills when working with clients? - ✔✔All of the above: warmth, empathy, hopeful Which of the following is essential to becoming an effective counselor? - ✔✔Examining and confronting personal beliefs and values How many common stages are in the counseling process? - ✔✔Six What is central in the counseling process? - ✔✔Counselor-client relationship True or false: counseling and psychotherapy are more similar than different. - ✔✔True True or False: "Counselor" refers to the professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals." - ✔✔True True or false: The definition of professional counseling has been the same over time. - ✔✔False True or false: For therapy to be effective, unconditional positive regard, congruence, and empathy with the client must be provided by the therapy. - ✔✔True True or false: Most counselors have a perspective based on a singular theoretical approach. - ✔✔False Professional counseling was born: - ✔✔1913 The founder of professional counseling was: - ✔✔Parsons __________________________ factors were influential in the development and maintenance of the counseling profession. - ✔✔Societal Early on, the focus and growth of the counseling profession were in: - ✔✔Educational institutions Why were increasingly more counseling organizations forming between the 1940s and 1960s? - ✔✔To respond to the needs of the U.S. population. Which of the following is a true statement regarding federal acts and legislation that were enacted in the mid to late 1950s? A. It downplayed the importance of mental health and decreased mental health initiatives. B. It allowed funding for more research studies but not mental health centers. C. It recognized that mental health was a critical issue in health. D. Family counselors were created. - ✔✔C. It recognized that mental health was a critical issue in health. The common values of the counseling profession are indicated in: - ✔✔The Code of Ethics A current issue in professional counseling that has resulted from an increase in technology includes: - ✔✔distance counseling Which of the following is not one of the current issues in professional counseling? A. Evidence-based practices B. HIPPA C. Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) D. All of the above are current issues - ✔✔D. All of the above True or false: a small group of disaffected social workers who realized that case management was not enough for individuals contributed to the founding of the counseling profession. - ✔✔True True or false: counseling was previously referred to as guidance. - ✔✔True True or false: Professional counseling is one of the oldest mental health professions. - ✔✔False True or false: Professional counselors can be licensed in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. - ✔✔True True or false: there is a small degree of common values held by counselors. - ✔✔True Why is professional counseling identity important? - ✔✔For counselors and the public to understand what they are competent in. For counselors to better understand who they are professionally. For a community and sense of belonging to be amongst counselors. What was the purpose of the 20/20 - A Vision for the Future of Counseling? - ✔✔Strengthen counselor identity Which of the following might occur as a result of counselor burnout? - ✔✔Stress-related health problems According to the American Psychology Association, psychology is the study of: - ✔✔Mind and behavior The counseling profession is different than that of social work, in that social work focuses on: - ✔✔Social justice and social advocacy Which of the following is considered a similarity between counseling and psychology? A. Required graduate training on development and family B. Licensure and certification C. Professional identity and organizations D. Graduate program accreditation requirements. - ✔✔A. Required graduate training on development and family Differences between counseling and psychology include all of the following except: A. State licensure requirements B. Require graduate training C. Professional identify and organizations D. Counseling as a service to clients - ✔✔Counseling as a service to clients Consultation involves: - ✔✔A helping relationship where a professional works with individuals and/or groups. What is the purpose of counselors working with other professionals? - ✔✔To enhance the overall quality of services to clients What type of consultant provides services to change student's behavior or the behavior of the adults involved with students in an educational environment? - ✔✔school-based consultant True or false: the types of services professional counselors and other mental health professionals provide overlap. - ✔✔True True or false: Limited efforts have been made to differentiate professional counseling from other mental health professions. - ✔✔False True or false: In 2010, counseling has been redefined as the application of mental health, psychological, or human development principles through cognitive, affective, behavioral, or systematic intervention strategies that address wellness, personal growth, or career development, as well as psychopathology. - ✔✔True True or false: Marriage and family therapy is considered to be one of the counseling specializations. - ✔✔True True or false: There has been a decreasing need for consultation at the postsecondary level. - ✔✔False All of the following are important in the development of a counselor except: A. Counselor self-efficacy B. Counselor orientation C. Counselor cognitive complexity D. Counselor identity - ✔✔B. Counselor orientation ________________ is the conceptualization of who an individual is as a counselor. - ✔✔Identity ________________ relates to confidence and describes one's beliefs about ability level to practice the different aspects of counseling. - ✔✔self-efficacy In 2008, the highest percentage of counselors were: - ✔✔Vocational and school counselors This historical roots of the counseling profession are from which counseling specialty area? - ✔✔Career counseling Which of the following is not considered a counseling specialty area? - ✔✔Industrial and organizational counseling Which counseling specialty focuses on assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, psychotherapy, and crisis management? - ✔✔Mental Health counseling What is the main difference between marriage and family therapists and individual counselors? - ✔✔How the problem is viewed The purpose of career counseling is to: - ✔✔Help individuals identify suitable occupational paths Help individuals develop skills needed to seek out and apply for jobs Help individuals overcome career concerns and career transitions. What is one of the most important ways for an individual can begin to develop their counselor identity? - ✔✔Enhance self-understanding True or false: It is desirable for a counselor to demonstrate limited cognitive complexity. - ✔✔False True or False: The setting in which a counselor decides to practice should align with one's professional goals and personal interests. - ✔✔True True or False: Understanding and developing oneself, both personally and professionally, are the most influential on counselor development. - ✔✔True What is trauma? - ✔✔Negative events that produce distress Which of the following is not true regarding crises? A. A crisis is considered an event. B. The result of a crisis is often instability. C. Outcomes of a crisis can be negative and significant D. It involves an individual's response to an event or combination of events. - ✔✔A. A crisis is considered an event. How is a crisis and disaster different? - ✔✔A disaster is an event A crisis results from: - ✔✔An individual's inability to use coping skills Why is prevention an essential element of crisis response planning? - ✔✔It helps to increase safety and reduce risk prior to crisis events _________________ involves developing a crisis plan or protocol that is followed if a crisis event occurs. - ✔✔Preparedness __________________ is the implementation of interventions and crisis plans for individuals who have experienced crisis situations. - ✔✔Emergency response What term refers to one's ability to cope with hardship or to adjust to change and resume one's normal functioning without showing negative impacts? - ✔✔Psychological resilience What are two common disorders associated with disasters? - ✔✔PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder Which of the following is not one of the phases of the three-phase treatment approach for treating children after a disaster? A. Train teachers and parents in basic interventions B. Identify children's typical and clinical symptoms C. Implement appropriate interventions that integrate play D. Help the child process all aspects of the disaster early in the treatment. - ✔✔D. Help the child process all aspects of the disaster early in the treatment. How might counselors assist individuals after a disaster? - ✔✔Conduct mental health and risk assessments Assess for suicide Implement interventions to build coping skills True or false: Trauma can impact one's psychological, biological, and sociological functioning. - ✔✔True True or false: Individuals are only impacted by large-scale crises. - ✔✔False True or false: Counselors play a role in crisis management by aiding in recovery efforts after a disaster. - ✔✔True True or false: Recovery after individuals experience a crisis situation is often not a short-term process. - ✔✔True True or false: Crises and natural disasters impacts individuals but not communities. - ✔✔False True or false: While a crisis is temporary, it can still be considered mental illness - ✔✔False What is considered the fourth force of counseling? - ✔✔Multicultural counseling When did multicultural counseling proliferate? - ✔✔1960s Which of the following is not one of the elements that make up the foundation of multicultural counseling competencies? Skills Psychotherapy Knowledge Awareness - ✔✔Psychotherapy What is considered the fifth force of counseling? - ✔✔Social justice counseling Which of the following is not a level at which advocacy occurs? Chrono level Meso level Macro level Micro level - ✔✔Chrono level When can a counselor refer culturally diverse clients to other professionals? - ✔✔When they are practicing outside of their competence. _________________________________ is defined as supervision between a culturally competent supervisior and a supervisee. - ✔✔Culturally responsive supervision. When did counselors begin to see social justice perspectives more legitimized and integrated into counseling? - ✔✔2000s Which of the following are ethical challenges to social justice counseling? A. Understanding professional boundaries B. Lack of advocacy training. C. Balancing individual and advocacy counseling D. All of the above. - ✔✔D. All of the above Which of the following is a critique of the social justice movement? A. Social justice is not consistent with the philosophy and mission of counselors B. It has been argued that advocacy counseling is actually social work. C. Advocacy and social justice are too time consuming D. Fewer individuals are interested in pursuing counseling because of its emphasis on the social justice - ✔✔B. It has been argued that advocacy counseling is actually social work. True or false: MCCs refer to multicultural counseling competencies. - ✔✔True True or false: Multicultural competence is described as "the extent to which a psychotherapist is actively engaged in the process of self-awareness, obtaining knowledge, and implementing skills in working with diverse individuals." - ✔✔True True or false: Although multicultural competence is important, it is not included in the ACA code of ethics. - ✔✔False True or false: Social justice counseling emerged when the need for counselors to advocate and make necessary change for their clients were highlighted. - ✔✔True https://studysites.sagepub.com/sangganjanavanich/study/chapter.htm - ✔✔ _____________________ refers to a hierarchical and evaluative relationship between two individuals or parties, with one being an individual with more experience and holding a higher status and the other being an individual with less experience and holding lower status in a given professional relationship. - ✔✔Supervision A counselor in training is overseen by: - ✔✔Supervisor or instructor Which of the following is the purpose of supervision? - ✔✔Increase competence Enhance development Encourage self-awareness _____________________________ is an intrapsychic phenomenon that unconsciously occurs on the part of the supervised. - ✔✔Parallel process Which model of supervision holds the notion that all individuals are continually growing? - ✔✔Developmental __________________________ help counselors understand how they should behave as counseling professionals. - ✔✔Ethical standards __________________________ are agreed upon rules of society designed to protect public safety, health, and welfare. - ✔✔Laws FERPA: - ✔✔A. Applies to institutions receiving funding from the United States Department of Education B. Allow parents and students and inspect and review educational records C. Provide parents and students the right to exercise some control over disclosure of information. What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act? - ✔✔It protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their job _______________________________ is the client's expectation that information shared with a counselor remains private. - ✔✔Confidentiality ____________________________ is a legal procedure that ensures clients and research participants are aware of potential risks and costs involved in a treatment or procedure. - ✔✔Informed consent Which of the following ethical practices is most frequently violated, with complaints filed against counselors and professional sanctions being warranted? - ✔✔Dual relationship What is the ultimate goal of ethical guidelines in the counseling profession? - ✔✔To minimize risk of harm to clients _________________________ indicates that right and wrong varies on the person, circumstances, or social situation, whereas ____________________ indicates that there is only one true and valid moral code that applies to all people, in all places, and at all times. - ✔✔Ethical relativism; ethical absolutism The study of ethics, especially for beginning-level counselors, is often frustrating because: - ✔✔There is too much ambiguity in the history and practice of ethics True or false: If a counselor behaves in an unethical manner, they will likely receive a legal punishment for the violation. - ✔✔False True or false: Laws impacting the counseling profession are identical across states. - ✔✔False True or false: Confidentiality may be breached when the counselor believes that the client is a risk of harm to themselves or others. - ✔✔True True or false: Public trust is critical to the counseling profession. - ✔✔True True or false: In counseling, there is only one ethical decision-making model that is used. - ✔✔False