SAMPLE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

1. Rogers believed:
a. much of counseling should be a question and answer period.
b. questions provide a direct means to become personally involved with the client and should be used in this way.
c. the counselor should react to the feeling expressed in the question rather than to the question per se.
d. the counselor should never respond directly to a question asked by the client.

2. Silence on the part of the counselor:
a. can be considered a response.
b. should be used extensively.
c. doesn't communicate anything to the client.
d. interferes with the client's communication.

3. The three R's of reality therapy are:
a. reason, related, rebuild.
b. relate, re-evaluate, re-educate.
c. reality, responsibility, re-educate.
d. reality, responsibility, right and wrong.

4. According to the textbook, when an interview becomes bogged down, the counselor should:
a. wait in patient silence.
b. ask if client is tired.
c. move about the room.
d. ask the client to summarize.

5. According to the textbook, if a client is asked a why question, he will usually:
a. evaluate his behavior.
b. condemn his behavior.
c. rationalize his behavior.

6. In order to know the real existential person, a counselor must:
a. experience and live with a person.
b. study a person carefully.
c. analyze a person.
d. identify with a person.

7. One way of removing obstacles to effective communication is to:
a. respond vaguely so that the interviewee will not consider you to be judgmental.
b. practice restating what the interviewee has said and felt before responding.
c. interrupt if you are afraid that you do not understand the interviewee's intended meaning.
d. talk an equal amount, but never more, than the interviewee.

8. In applying the principles of behavior modification to counseling a student who exhibits maladaptive behavior:
a. the emphasis is on helping the student understand why he behaves the way he does.
b. give the student a choice between alternative and acceptable behaviors.
c. manipulate the environment so as to teach the student more appropriate behavior.
d. help the student work through the unpleasant feelings which are causing his maladaptive behavior.

9. Confidentiality is a consistent problem faced by school counselors when writing job recommendations.  To assist counselors in dealing with this problem, we (authors) suggest four principles of operation.  Which statement(s) below are a part of these four principles?
a. the counselor should accept the responsibility for maintaining a close relationship with admissions and employment officers, and they should contribute only certain information to these individuals.
b. the gathering of this information should be a counselorCschool administrative responsibility.  This information includes grades, intellectual and academic test scores, as well as teachers' recommendations.
c. the counselor should have his own personal records.  These should be kept in the minimum, and if they contain any information that might in the future be damaging to a client, the records should be periodically destroyed.
d. the counselor's first loyalty is to his principal.

10. There are three things a client always brings to the counseling session.  Which one of the
following is not included?
a. conflict
b. problem
c. expectations
d. feelings


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