Deck 8: Why Answers About Caring and Social Justice

Question 1

Why do individuals enter counselor training programs?

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.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

What is the definition of compassion?

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

Answer 2

B

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

E

Question 4

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

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 5

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

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

Question 6

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

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

Question 7

As a clinician, the author made the following comment to her client Larry: "It seems to me that everyone has been working harder for you than you have. Everyone seems to be dancing around for your benefit but you sit the dance out." This intervention:

A) was excessively confrontational.
B) illustrates that clinicians can feel irritable.
C) had a profoundly negative impact on Larry's life.
D) had a profoundly positive impact on Larry's life.
E) a, b, and c

Question 8

____________________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."

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

Question 9

________________________ 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.

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

Question 10

Advocacy-oriented counselors do which of the following?

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

Question 11

White Euro-centric ways of thinking still dominate American culture but they often do not match the many diverse, cultural experiences of the U.S.

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

Oppression is always intentional.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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.

Question 21

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

Question 22

What are some ways counselors can advocate for their profession?