Exam 7: Defining Strategies and Selecting Interventions

Which of the following theoretical approaches might be inappropriate for traditional Asian clients?

When working with clients of a different culture, it may sometimes be necessary to use interventions that are directed to the environment rather than the client.

The counselor's choice of a strategy is not affected by the client's previous efforts to change.

In the textbook example where the Igbo student sought counseling, the Afrocentric approach involved:

A counseling strategy could be thought of as:

Time is a critical element of crisis counseling.

Counseling goals may be thought of as:

The proper choice of a counseling strategy includes a number of other considerations, including a time orientation.

According to the text, all problems:

In the past decade, clients have become increasingly passive recipients of services.

Understanding the client's problems often requires that the counselor:

Ellis' RET might be thought of as a cognitive therapy.

The American culture and society tend to be far less individual-centered than most other cultures.

Counseling strategies that focus upon human relationship interactions are generally thought of as:

The Eurocentric approach to case conceptualization could be said to:

Cognitive interventions are most appropriate when the client needs to act differently.

In determining a counseling strategy, one must relate what is known about the case to a plan of action.

The text suggests that when the client functions at an affective level and the counselor's orientation is behavioral.

There is no particular relationship between the counseling strategy and the interventions one uses.

The counselor's worldview might be defined as: