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1. Piaget's studies of the cognitive growth of children are an example of which of the following types of research?

2. Which of the following is least desirable in group counseling?

3. What diagnostic criteria would a counselor consider while assessing the severity of intellectual disability of a seven-year-old client?

4. Your client is new to therapy and tells you of their skepticism about the effectiveness of counseling and questions the treatment plan.

Which of the approaches below will be most effective at engaging them?

5. Generally, the provision of career counseling for persons at midlife and older should

6. 1.What should a treatment team do when a client meets treatment goals earlier than anticipated?

7. Which intervention is evidence-based for a client experiencing depression?

8. An important emphasis of behavior therapy is:

9. You have been assigned to assess a 21-year-old client who presents as disheveled and confused. During the initial part of the interview, you note rapid speech, agitation, and paranoia. Based on your observations, which of the following is an appropriate next step when making a diagnosis?

10. Which of the following factors would be most salient in the treatment of a client who grew up in an urban neighborhood and is currently unemployed?

11. At the beginning of a group counseling process, the counselor informs group members that after each group session each will be asked to provide brief, anonymous, and positive or negative written comments about the counselor's behaviors during the group sessions. The counselor states that the comments will be typed by a secretary to further protect clients' identities prior to review by the counselor. This counselor is proposing a process that will produce data most useful for:

12. In family counseling, when a counselor attempts to help one family member become more assertive, the counselor recognizes that

13. What is the process by which offspring develop an attachment to the primary caregiver?

14. According to research by John Gottman on counseling married couples, which of the following is not a predictor of divorce or marital misery?

15. Which of the following is not equivalent to the other three in a normal distribution?

16. What is the prominent activity in career construction counseling?

17. What would a counseling researcher focus on at the termination of the counseling relationship?

18. During an intake session, a client reports persistent worry, muscle tension, difficulty concentrating, and excessive anxiety occurring more days than not for the past six months.

What is the most appropriate preliminary diagnostic impression?

19. Which therapeutic approach would utilize outsider witness groups to integrate social resources in supporting client change?

20. When counselors build an alliance and demonstrate an understanding of the client's issues and concerns, they are using which foundational skills?

21. In some family counseling processes, attention is given to discussions about the behaviors of participating family members and members of the extended family (e.g., grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins). A primary reason for including these discussions in the family counseling process is to:

22. A counselor receives a gift from a long-term client near the end of treatment. The gift is inexpensive and culturally significant to the client.

What is the most ethical response?

23. Which of the following is a major assumption of behavior therapy?

24. Individual variation in modes of perceiving, remembering, and thinking, or distinctive ways of comprehending, storing, and utilizing information, is known as:

25. A counselor conducting group counseling for retired persons should

26. What is the best diagnosis for a 40-year-old client who reports feeling hopeless and worthless, difficulty concentrating, and suicidal ideation nearly every day for the past two weeks, and who previously experienced the same symptoms as a traditionally-aged college student?

27. Counselors who follow behavioral orientations to counseling believe that anxiety evolves from:

28. Once a person's higher needs have been gratified, the needs' intensity temporarily:

29. Anorexia nervosa is commonly associated with which of the following?

30. An organizational risk factor for compassion fatigue in social service agencies is:

31. How would a counselor demonstrate empathy in a counseling session?

32. To elicit strengths that might improve the likelihood of goal attainment, a counselor might ask the client which of the following?

33. Which Holland personality type should be assigned to a person who enjoys engaging in verbal persuasion to gain power and social status?

34. Feminist counselors suggest that:

35. What is the appropriate emphasis in career counseling with persons who are vocationally immature?

36. Which theorist stressed the impact of birth order in the family constellation?

37. What group theory uses lifestyle assessment?

38. Which of the following is a factor not initially addressed in the treatment of a client diagnosed with substance use disorder?

39. How would a counselor apply internal family systems therapy with an individual having relationship difficulties?

40. What is an offense toward a client that a counselor might unintentionally commit in session?