CPCE MCQ Flashcards
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) is grounded in which therapeutic style?
Answer: Collaborative, evocative, and autonomy-supporting
MI is characterized by a collaborative partnership that draws out the client's own motivations and honors their autonomy to change.
A counselor who consistently reschedules appointments for a client who reminds them of a difficult sibling may be experiencing:
Answer: Countertransference
Countertransference occurs when the counselor's unresolved issues are activated by the client, influencing the counselor's behaviors.
Kohlberg's postconventional level of moral development is characterized by:
Answer: Abstract principles of justice that may transcend societal rules
At the postconventional level, moral reasoning is guided by universal ethical principles that may conflict with existing laws or social norms.
In a school counseling comprehensive program model (ASCA), 'responsive services' primarily addresses:
Answer: Immediate needs or crises that arise during the school year
Responsive services in the ASCA model provide short-term counseling and crisis intervention for students with immediate needs.
The Tarasoff decision established a counselor's 'duty to protect,' which typically requires the counselor to:
Answer: Warn an identifiable potential victim when a client poses a credible threat of serious harm
The Tarasoff ruling held that therapists must take reasonable steps to protect foreseeable victims when a client presents a credible, serious threat.
Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate when data is skewed and includes extreme outliers?
Answer: Median
The median is resistant to extreme scores, making it the preferred measure of central tendency for skewed distributions.
Existential counseling focuses primarily on helping clients address issues of:
Answer: Freedom, responsibility, meaning, and the inevitability of death
Existential counseling addresses the 'givens of existence' — death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness — as the source of existential anxiety.