Deck 13: The Convergence of Career and Mental Health Approaches to Counseling

Question 1

Those with personality disorders attempt to cope with everyday activities and relationships with inflexibility and maladaptive behavior.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Depression is easy to diagnosis.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Career indecision is the inability of a person to commit to a course of action that will result in preparation for and ntering into a specific career or occupation.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

If an individual has low self-esteem in one situation, he or she will have low self-esteem in another situation.

Question 5

Fear is the emotional response to real or perceived imminent danger, whereas anxiety is anticipation of future threat.

Question 6

According to Fabian (1999), there are three key counselor strategies that affect the entry of those with Serious Mental Disorders into the labor force. Which one of the following is not one of the discussed counselor strategies?

A) Endorsing the value of work
B) Focusing on careers rather than just obtaining jobs
C) Talking with potential employers
D) Stressing client strengths rather than deficits

Question 7

The ADA prohibits discrimination in:

A) All employment practices
B) Job application procedures
C) Hiring, firing, advancement
D) Compensation and training

Question 8

What percentage of men and what percentage of women have at least one personality disorder?

A) 5 percent (men), 5 percent (women)
B) 8 percent (men, 10 percent (women)
C) 18 percent (men), 16 percent (women)
D) 36 percent (men), 40 percent (women)

Question 9

Kjos (1995) pointed out that effective career counseling with those with per- sonality disorders includes the ability to:

A) Recognize the traits that make up specific personality disorders that may inhibit (or enhance) career development.
B) Develop treatment plans that capitalize on the positive aspect of individual client personality styles.
C) Work with such clients to maximize their strengths
D) All of the above

Question 10

How many American adults, in a given year, have a mood disorder?

A) 5 million
B) 12 million
C) 21 million
D) 35 million

Question 11

Match the philosophical shift from twentieth century career development to twentyfirst century life-design that needs to occur if we are to meet the needs of the millennial generation:

-Prohibits employment discrimination against qualified individuals withdis abilities.

A) Fear
B) Job retention groups
C) Americans with Disabilities Act
D) Anxiety
E) John Holland

Question 12

Match the philosophical shift from twentieth century career development to twentyfirst century life-design that needs to occur if we are to meet the needs of the millennial generation:

-Self-Directed Search

A) Fear
B) Job retention groups
C) Americans with Disabilities Act
D) Anxiety
E) John Holland

Question 13

Match the philosophical shift from twentieth century career development to twentyfirst century life-design that needs to occur if we are to meet the needs of the millennial generation:

-The emotional response to real or perceived imminent danger

A) Fear
B) Job retention groups
C) Americans with Disabilities Act
D) Anxiety
E) John Holland

Question 14

Match the philosophical shift from twentieth century career development to twentyfirst century life-design that needs to occur if we are to meet the needs of the millennial generation:

-The anticipation of a future threat

A) Fear
B) Job retention groups
C) Americans with Disabilities Act
D) Anxiety
E) John Holland

Question 15

Match the philosophical shift from twentieth century career development to twentyfirst century life-design that needs to occur if we are to meet the needs of the millennial generation:

-Effective for those who are currently employed

A) Fear
B) Job retention groups
C) Americans with Disabilities Act
D) Anxiety
E) John Holland

Question 16

The historical assumption was that career-related issues were somehow separate from and qualitatively different from personal issues.

Question 17

It is easy to determine whether some individuals have brought mental illness into the workplace or if the workplace has induced their mental illness.

Question 18

Counselors must be well versed in the needs of immigrants, refugees, and others who need career services and may be experiencing mental health issues as well.

Question 19

As a rule, most mental health counselors are well versed in career issues or may lack enthusiasm for career counseling.

Question 20

Covered in the definition of a "disability" is an individual who has a mental impairment that substantially limits major life activities, and includes those with SMDs who have recovered from a mental illness.

Question 21

Individuals with marked pathology often cannot manage work tasks well. False

Question 22

People with long-term mental illness can overcome barriers when programs offer speedy placement into actual rather than sheltered work sites.

Question 23

Personality is a pattern of cognitive, affective, and behavioral traits that endure over extended periods of time and manifest in a learned and predictable structure of overt and covert behaviors.

Question 24

Career indecisiveness is a personality dysfunction and generally involves pain andanxiety in making any decision.

Question 25

Self-esteem and depression are not related.

Question 26

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder.

Question 27

Research has indicated that people with social phobia are underemployed and are more anxious than healthy people about beginning a job and show less job satisfaction than their healthier counterparts.

Question 28

Those with PTSD symptoms may appear functional in the workplace until a trigger event sets off trauma-related symptoms.

Question 29

The most common treatment methods for treating PTDS and acute stress symptoms are cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as well as the expressive and relational therapies.

Question 30

According to the ADA, people with alcoholism are considered to be people with a disability and thus, as is the case for those with SMDs, are protected under the law if they are qualified to perform the essential functions of the job.

Question 31

Throughout the twentieth century, mental health consequences of unemployment have changed significantly.

Question 32

Unemployment can lead to poor mental health.

Question 33

Young adults with a childhood diagnosis of ADHD were 50 times more likely to be unemployed and were more likely to have been fired or laid off than their counterparts without ADHD.

Question 34

Males and females react to job loss in similar ways.

Question 35

There are optimal levels of stress.