Exam 8: Initial Assessment in Counseling

Clients who perceive their counselors as __________, __________, and __________, tend to have better outcomes in counselor than clients who do not have such perceptions.

When interviewing clients, counselors need to attend to both the _____________ and the __________ of the interview.

An effective initial interview should involve a balance of gathering information and:

How would the information gathered in the initial interview vary depending on the clinical setting?

In general, a strength of interviews as an assessment strategy is that:

Which of the following is not a common symptom of depression?

In addition to the six required categories of the MSE it also important to include _______________________ in the MSE report.

In ___________, clients are instructed to mark the given words or phrases that apply to them.

One of the major advantages of unstructured interviews is:

A psychosocial interview is typically associated with:

Informal checklists that do not have psychometric data:

In an intake interview, health and medical conditions should:

The issues that clients have are:

An instrument that requires clients to rate their level of anxiety from (1)not at all anxious to (5)extremely anxious is a:

What are the appropriate way(s)to assess suicide potential, depression, and substance abuse?

Once the counselor has identified each of the significant problems the client is experiencing, the next step is to

Central tendency error refers to the tendency for individuals to:

Which of the following is not included in a typical mental status exam (MSE)?

When interviewing children, counselors should:

In an initial interview, it is usually better to use: