Question 1

Advocacy-oriented counselors do which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Identify the social, political, economic, and cultural factors that affect the client/student 
B)  Recognize the signs indicating that an individual's behaviors and concerns reflect responses to systemic or internalized oppression 
C)  At an appropriate development level, help the individual identify the external barriers that affect his or her development 
D)  All of the above 
E)  Both a and b 
A)  Identify the social, political, economic, and cultural factors that affect the client/student 
B)  Recognize the signs indicating that an individual's behaviors and concerns reflect responses to systemic or internalized oppression 
C)  At an appropriate development level, help the individual identify the external barriers that affect his or her development 
D)  All of the above 
E)  Both a and b D

Question 2

What is the definition of compassion?

Accepted Answer

A)  Feeling another person's pain as if it were one's own and wanting to fix it 
B)  Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it 
C)  Feeling positive about another person despite his or her faults 
D)  Forgiving others for their transgressions 
E)  Both c and d 
A)  Feeling another person's pain as if it were one's own and wanting to fix it 
B)  Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it 
C)  Feeling positive about another person despite his or her faults 
D)  Forgiving others for their transgressions 
E)  Both c and d B

Question 3

As identified by Lewis et al., what are the direct interventions advocacy-oriented counselors use?

Accepted Answer

Lewis et al. have identified several direct interventions that advocacy-oriented counselors may use to support their clients. These interventions are designed to empower clients and address systemic barriers that may be impacting their well-being. While I cannot provide a specific list from Lewis et al. without knowing the exact text or study you are referring to, advocacy-oriented counseling typically includes interventions such as:

1. **Empowerment**: Encouraging clients to take control of their lives and make decisions that are in their best interest.

2. **Psychoeducation**: Providing clients with information about their rights, resources available to them, and how to navigate systems that may be contributing to their issues.

3. **Skill Development**: Assisting clients in developing skills that will enable them to advocate for themselves, such as communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.

4. **Systems Intervention**: Working directly with systems (e.g., schools, workplaces, legal systems) that are affecting the client to promote change that will benefit the client.

5. **Social Justice**: Engaging in actions that promote fairness and equity within the community and address social injustices that affect clients.

6. **Policy Change**: Participating in efforts to change policies that negatively impact clients, which may include lobbying, campaigning, or collaborating with other professionals to influence policy makers.

7. **Community Collaboration**: Building partnerships with community organizations and other stakeholders to create a support network for clients and to address systemic issues.

8. **Referral and Resource Provision**: Connecting clients with resources, services, or other professionals who can provide additional support or specialized services.

9. **Crisis Intervention**: Providing immediate support and intervention in situations where clients are in danger or experiencing a crisis.

10. **Case Management**: Coordinating various services and supports to address the complex needs of clients in a holistic manner.

It's important to note that the specific interventions used by advocacy-oriented counselors can vary depending on the context, the client's needs, and the counselor's area of expertise. Additionally, advocacy work can occur at the individual, community, or systemic level, and counselors may engage in a combination of these interventions to effectively support their clients. If you are looking for information from a specific publication by Lewis et al., please provide more details or the title of the work so that I can give you a more accurate response.

Question 4

Clients who feel anxious and fearful rarely make significant changes in their lives.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

People do not live in a vacuum and counselors must not practice in one regardless of their settings.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Larry's case was presented to illustrate the gift of:

Accepted Answer

A)  hope. 
B)  love. 
C)  courage. 
D)  faith. 
E)  mercy. 
A)  hope. 
B)  love. 
C)  courage. 
D)  faith. 
E)  mercy.

Question 7

What is it that keeps counselors going when the rewards are often more intrinsic that extrinsic?

Accepted Answer

A)  Their tendency to make emotional decisions 
B)  Their enjoyment of working long hours 
C)  The benefit packages they receive along with an excellent salary 
D)  The little amount of education and training that is required compared to most career fields 
E)  The rare honor of entering into another's world and witnessing extraordinary courage, bravery in the face of adversity, and commitment to life-altering change 
A)  Their tendency to make emotional decisions 
B)  Their enjoyment of working long hours 
C)  The benefit packages they receive along with an excellent salary 
D)  The little amount of education and training that is required compared to most career fields 
E)  The rare honor of entering into another's world and witnessing extraordinary courage, bravery in the face of adversity, and commitment to life-altering change

Question 8

Writing editorials, volunteering, and giving presentations are examples of engaging in social advocacy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Compassionate caring that includes a trained approach to alleviating problems is not effective in creating an atmosphere of empathy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The social advocacy movement is one of the few movements that has no critics.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Even when you find yourself liking your clients and feeling a special connection with them, you must constantly be alert to the possibility of countertransference.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Emmaline's case was presented to illustrate the gift of:

Accepted Answer

A)  hope. 
B)  love. 
C)  courage. 
D)  faith. 
E)  mercy. 
A)  hope. 
B)  love. 
C)  courage. 
D)  faith. 
E)  mercy.

Question 13

The author alludes to gifts that her clients have given her. What does she mean by this?

Accepted Answer

A)  She has been given large cash bonuses by some of her more well-to-do clients. 
B)  She has learned valuable life lessons from working with her clients. 
C)  She has been given a discount on services by some of her clients through bartering. 
D)  She has hinted that she loves decorative arts, and thus, on holidays, has been given items for her office by many of her clients. 
E)  None of the above. 
A)  She has been given large cash bonuses by some of her more well-to-do clients. 
B)  She has learned valuable life lessons from working with her clients. 
C)  She has been given a discount on services by some of her clients through bartering. 
D)  She has hinted that she loves decorative arts, and thus, on holidays, has been given items for her office by many of her clients. 
E)  None of the above.

Question 14

In 2003, the American Counseling Association Governing Council endorsed a set of advocacy competencies that all professional counselors should have.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What are some ways counselors can advocate for their profession?

Accepted Answer

Counselors can advocate for their profes

Question 16

Oppression is always intentional.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

________________________ means that White people benefit in an economic, social, or political world created for them that is essentially closed to people of color simply by virtue of their color.

Accepted Answer

A)  White privilege 
B)  Black privilege 
C)  White empowerment 
D)  Black empowerment 
E)  Black disadvantage 
A)  White privilege 
B)  Black privilege 
C)  White empowerment 
D)  Black empowerment 
E)  Black disadvantage

Question 18

An advocacy orientation focuses mostly on systems change interventions and is not particularly focused on empowerment strategies for individual clients.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Why do individuals enter counselor training programs?

Accepted Answer

A)  They tend to be compassionate and want to make a difference in people's lives. 
B)  They hope to become financially rewarded and jobs in the helping professions are lucrative. 
C)  They tend to have poor interpersonal skills and graduate course work in counseling can help to remediate their skill deficits. 
D)  They believe in the purpose of counseling, which is to give people good advice. 
E)  None of the above. 
A)  They tend to be compassionate and want to make a difference in people's lives. 
B)  They hope to become financially rewarded and jobs in the helping professions are lucrative. 
C)  They tend to have poor interpersonal skills and graduate course work in counseling can help to remediate their skill deficits. 
D)  They believe in the purpose of counseling, which is to give people good advice. 
E)  None of the above.

Question 20

____________________entails "scholarship and professional action designed to change societal values, structures, policies, and practices such that disadvantaged or marginalized groups gain increased access to…tools of self determination."

Accepted Answer

A)  Personal justice 
B)  Social justice 
C)  Cultural diversity 
D)  Oppression 
E)  Demarginalization 
A)  Personal justice 
B)  Social justice 
C)  Cultural diversity 
D)  Oppression 
E)  Demarginalization

Advocacy-oriented counselors do which of the following?

What is the definition of compassion?

As identified by Lewis et al., what are the direct interventions advocacy-oriented counselors use?

Clients who feel anxious and fearful rarely make significant changes in their lives.

People do not live in a vacuum and counselors must not practice in one regardless of their settings.

Larry's case was presented to illustrate the gift of:

What is it that keeps counselors going when the rewards are often more intrinsic that extrinsic?

Writing editorials, volunteering, and giving presentations are examples of engaging in social advocacy.

Compassionate caring that includes a trained approach to alleviating problems is not effective in creating an atmosphere of empathy.

The social advocacy movement is one of the few movements that has no critics.

Even when you find yourself liking your clients and feeling a special connection with them, you must constantly be alert to the possibility of countertransference.

Emmaline's case was presented to illustrate the gift of:

The author alludes to gifts that her clients have given her. What does she mean by this?

In 2003, the American Counseling Association Governing Council endorsed a set of advocacy competencies that all professional counselors should have.

What are some ways counselors can advocate for their profession?

Oppression is always intentional.

________________________ means that White people benefit in an economic, social, or political world created for them that is essentially closed to people of color simply by virtue of their color.

An advocacy orientation focuses mostly on systems change interventions and is not particularly focused on empowerment strategies for individual clients.

Why do individuals enter counselor training programs?

____________________entails "scholarship and professional action designed to change societal values, structures, policies, and practices such that disadvantaged or marginalized groups gain increased access to…tools of self determination."

Introduction

Who Answers About Counselors and Clients

What Answers About the Meaning of Counseling, Its Past, and Its Present

What Answers About the Body of Knowledge: Ethics, Social and Cultural Diversity, Human Growth and Development, and Career Development

What Answers About the Body of Knowledge: Helping Relationships, Group Work, Assessment, and Research and Program Evaluation

Where Answers About Settings and Surroundings

When Answers About Processes, Phases, and Procedures

Basic Attending Skills

Basic Responding Skills

Questioning Skills and Systematic Inquiry

Affect and Empathetic Understanding Skills

Responding to Thoughts and Behaviors

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Exam 8: Why Answers About Caring and Social Justice

Advocacy-oriented counselors do which of the following?

What is the definition of compassion?

As identified by Lewis et al., what are the direct interventions advocacy-oriented counselors use?

Clients who feel anxious and fearful rarely make significant changes in their lives.

People do not live in a vacuum and counselors must not practice in one regardless of their settings.

Larry's case was presented to illustrate the gift of:

What is it that keeps counselors going when the rewards are often more intrinsic that extrinsic?

Writing editorials, volunteering, and giving presentations are examples of engaging in social advocacy.

Compassionate caring that includes a trained approach to alleviating problems is not effective in creating an atmosphere of empathy.

The social advocacy movement is one of the few movements that has no critics.

Even when you find yourself liking your clients and feeling a special connection with them, you must constantly be alert to the possibility of countertransference.

Emmaline's case was presented to illustrate the gift of:

The author alludes to gifts that her clients have given her. What does she mean by this?

In 2003, the American Counseling Association Governing Council endorsed a set of advocacy competencies that all professional counselors should have.

What are some ways counselors can advocate for their profession?

Oppression is always intentional.

________________________ means that White people benefit in an economic, social, or political world created for them that is essentially closed to people of color simply by virtue of their color.

An advocacy orientation focuses mostly on systems change interventions and is not particularly focused on empowerment strategies for individual clients.

Why do individuals enter counselor training programs?

____________________entails "scholarship and professional action designed to change societal values, structures, policies, and practices such that disadvantaged or marginalized groups gain increased access to…tools of self determination."

Introduction

Who Answers About Counselors and Clients

What Answers About the Meaning of Counseling, Its Past, and Its Present

What Answers About the Body of Knowledge: Ethics, Social and Cultural Diversity, Human Growth and Development, and Career Development

What Answers About the Body of Knowledge: Helping Relationships, Group Work, Assessment, and Research and Program Evaluation

Where Answers About Settings and Surroundings

When Answers About Processes, Phases, and Procedures

Basic Attending Skills

Basic Responding Skills

Questioning Skills and Systematic Inquiry

Affect and Empathetic Understanding Skills

Responding to Thoughts and Behaviors

Filters