Deck 2: Toward a Comprehensive Model for Professional School Counseling

Question 1

An underlying theme of the National School Counselor Training Initiative is that school counselors need to be integral participants in closing the gap between poor students and students of color and their more advantaged peers.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

An example of a direct responsive counseling intervention is:

A) meeting directly with students to help them make decisions
B) resolving problems
C) changing environmental circumstances
D) all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Achieving __________________ is a systematic process that incorporates evaluation of one's programmatic efforts.

A) advocacy
B) consistency
C) evaluation
D) accountability

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A balanced school counseling program is designed to provide both __________________ prevention programming and __________________ counseling interventions.

A) comprehensive, specific
B) specific, comprehensive
C) proactive, responsive
D) responsive, proactive

Question 5

The concept that every student receives the necessary interventions and support services needed to be academically successful most closely aligns with which goal of a balanced approach to school counseling?

A) attend to the affective and cognitive development of all students
B) provide both prevention programming and responsive services
C) be an advocate for all students
D) achieve accountability

Question 6

School counselors are expected to collect and analyze __________________ to determine program effectiveness.

A) data
B) report cards
C) attendance records
D) pre and post-tests

Question 7

In what year did the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) first present the National Model for School Counseling Programs?

A) 2000
B) 2002
C) 2005
D) 2012

Question 8

The passage of this legislation provided federal funds to the states for the enhancement of school counseling programs and to colleges and universities to update working school counselors and train new ones.

A) The George-Barden Act of 1946
B) The National Defense Education Act of 1958
C) The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975
D) The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Question 9

His strengths-based approach, which emphasizes the counseling relationship and climate, impacted the field unlike the work of any person before him.

A) E. G. Williamson
B) Carl Rogers
C) Frank Parsons
D) Clifford Beers

Question 10

The early evolution of school counseling occurred in what order?

A) Psychometric Movement, Mental Health Movement, Vocational Guidance Movement, School Guidance Profession
B) Mental Health Movement, Psychometric Movement, School Guidance Profession, Vocational Guidance Movement
C) Vocational Guidance Movement, School Guidance Profession, Mental Health Movement, Psychometric Movement
D) Vocational Guidance Movement, Psychometric Movement, Mental Health Movement, School Guidance Profession

Question 11

In 1908, __________________ established a Vocation Bureau in Boston, the purpose of which was to provide vocational guidance for out-of-school youths.

A) Frank Parsons
B) Jesse B. Davis
C) Anna Y. Reed
D) Eli W. Weaver

Question 12

The most recent available data indicates the current school counselor to student ratio is approximately________________.

A) 300 to 1
B) 375 to 1
C) 470 to 1
D) 600 to 1

Question 13

Students of color develop in the exact same manner as non-minority students.

Question 14

The ASCA National Model is percieved as a flexible template that individual school districts can use to create programs that reflect their own needs and accountability expectations.

Question 15

A counselor helping a teacher design and implement a plan for helping a child interact more successfully with classmates is an example of a(n) __________________ responsive counseling intervention.

A) direct
B) indirect
C) cooperative
D) successful