Deck 3: Counseling and Group Techniques: Exploring Skills, Philosophies, and Interventions

Question 1

Some counseling techniques are appropriate for individual counseling, while others apply more to group counseling. Which of the following counselor skills applied to individual as well as group counseling?

A)summarizing
B)consensus taking
C)moderating
D)linking

Answer 1

summarizing

Question 2

The counseling profession is based upon some general philosophical propositions. Which of these is not one of them?

A)counseling aims to promote human growth and development
B)counseling considers physical as well as psychosocial environment.
C)counseling facilitates person-environment fit.
D)counseling is a clearly defined helping relationship.

Answer 2

counseling is a clearly defined helping relationship.

Question 3

Which counselor intervention most closely follows client verbalizations?

A)reflection of feeling
B)confrontation
C)restatement of content
D)positive regard

Answer 3

restatement of content

Question 4

Which of these is not one of the core elements of the helping relationship?

A)psychodynamics
B)theory
C)social influence
D)human relations

Question 5

Maslow believes that individuals are unable to reach self-actualization until they

A)face reality
B)identify irrational beliefs
C)satisfy lower order needs
D)resolve transference issues

Question 6

Counselors who choose their approach and techniques according to the needs and capacity of each individual client are said to be

A)humanistic
B)affective
C)cognitive
D)eclectic

Question 7

The "mediator" is an important dimension of which type of consultation?

A)mental health
B)triadic
C)process
D)behavioural

Question 8

When a counselor's response includes congruent ideas and feelings from another frame of reference to facilitate client exploration, Ivey would say the counselor is using

A)basic empathy
B)reflection of meaning
C)additive empathy
D)skill integration

Question 9

"Empty chair" is a group technique used by which type of group counselor?

A)gestalt
B)behavioural
C)transactional analysis
D)adlerian

Question 10

Johari's window is a technique used to indicate differences in.

A)cohesion
B)orientation
C)openness
D)behaviour

Question 11

Which type of group counselor views people as basically positive and moving toward actualization?

A)behavioural
B)group centered
C)adlerian
D)psychoanalytic

Question 12

Oral or written behavioural agreements in groups counseling are referred to as

A)trust
B)issue
C)contracts
D)conclusions

Question 13

Brainstorming is a process used by groups for problem solving. Which of these is not a characteristic of brain storming?

A)there is a time limit
B)ideas are critically evaluated
C)quantity of ideas is foremost
D)creativity overrides practicality

Question 14

In rational-emotive and cognitive- behavioural therapy groups the focus is more on thoughts than on feelings. These techniques help people become aware of their

A)self-denial
B)defenses
C)self-talk
D)depression

Question 15

Self-disclosure involves

A)"war stories"
B)sharing self-knowledge with the group
C)dumping negative feelings on the group
D)"letting it all hang out"

Question 16

When a group member projects feelings deriving from past relationship onto the therapist, it is called

A)counter transference
B)transference
C)reframing
D)confrontation

Question 17

Confidentiality may be breached by a counselor

A)when ordered by the court
B)when a member is no longer part of the group
C)to the parents or spouse of the group members
D)under no circumstances

Question 18

Role playing is an effective technique used in group counselling. Which of the following is not a benefit of role playing?

A)practicing new skills
B)identifying effective and in effective behaviors
C)escaping from being oneself
D)preparing for real-life situations