NCE STUDY

According to Erickson, when an individual fails to develop a strong sense of identity, the
individual will have troubles with the development of:

Super's model of career development would be in agreement with all of the following statements except:

When all the test items on a given test have a high positive correlation, what would you say regarding the validity of this instrument?

What is the basic function of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972?

Last month, Rob and Rhonda, both in their early sixties, lost their home to foreclosure. Due to their age, they feel that they have no time to recover financially from their losses. Rob lost his pension when he was given the chance to retire with severance pay from his job last year. Rhonda and Rob are in your office, and Rhonda asks for your help. Rhonda informs you that Rob appears to be depressed due to the recent losses and has lost interest in her and their marriage. Rhonda also tells you that she has been unsuccessful in trying to motivate Rob in any way. Rob blames Rhonda for not agreeing to allow the family to move to Georgia to accept a position with another company saying he would still be employed if she had not stood in his way. Rhonda tells you that her entire family lives nearby. Rhonda is very close to her mother emotionally, and she does not want to move away from them. Rhonda says she is totally frustrated with the whole situation. In Bowenian therapy, your goal would be:

According to Freud, in the Anal stage, an anal-retentive personality may develop. What is the fixation of this personality?

The purpose of Aronson's Jigsaw Classroom technique is to:

If you have designed a test that measures military leadership and want to explore if there are other constructs that are responsible for military leadership, you would probably want to use which of the following techniques?

In Urie Brofenbrenner's ecological systems theory, the systems including the setting where a child lives is referred to as which of the following?

The ABCs in REBT are:

Negative reinforcement is defined as:

Albert Ellis thinks that the therapeutic relationship is:

The Tarasoff decision does not have a significant effect on which one of the following issues:

The three aspects of David Olson's Family Circumplex Model are:

Group interactions among members are focused on an individual's description of an event in one member's life. Members comment and suggest what this individual should have done. The group members are focusing on the past, which suggests that the group is in which stage?

You can't seem to get your daughter to come home at the time that both of you have agreed upon. You are thinking of using punishment to "help" her remember what time she should be home. The main reason for NOT using punishment as a method of altering this behavior is:

If Millon, MMPI, and CAT scores are used to predict GPA in a psychology program, then the statistical technique used to accomplish this would be:

Systematic desensitization has been found useful with psychological problems in which the primary difficulty is:

Maslow's needs for growth include:

A client has held the same job for the past 15 years since graduating from college and is currently bored and unstimulated by her present position. The client continues to be late and does not take pride in her work. A session with the client indicates that she took the position as an accountant because of her parents' influence, but her true interest was in the arts. Further work with the client indicates, however, that her work-related values are consistent with her present job. You would evaluate her current difficulty to be:

A client is frequently admitted to the hospital for somatic disorders. Medical examination and testing conclude that an organic basis for the symptoms cannot be established. For lack of understanding, the client dismisses the notion of how his emotional state is related to his somatic disorders and refuses to be seen by the staff psychiatrist. The psychiatrist refers the client to the therapist for discharge and suggests that the therapist develop an aftercare plan that will keep the client from continued visits to the hospital. The therapist might:

Steve and Beth force their son Eddie into therapy because he is failing classes at school and acting out. What might a strategic therapist do?

You have a relatively passive client who is going to an assertiveness-training weekend. After the weekend, your client reports back to you that at first, the techniques being practiced and discussed made him feel uneasy, distressed, and unsettled. These feelings would be consistent with:

Sam and Julie were married for 23 years with the marriage ending in divorce. During the marriage, Julie felt unloved by Sam, a money-motivated man who catered to his mother's wishes to the detriment of their marriage. Sam hoped to gain a large inheritance from his mother, a retired physician, by following her wishes. During the marriage, Sam requested that the couple seek marital counseling so that he would appear to have done everything to save the marriage before filing for divorce. The couple entered couples counseling. During counseling, in an individual session, Sam disclosed to the therapist that he had an affair during the marriage and that made him decide to go ahead with a divorce. During a subsequent couples session, Julie questions the therapist about whether Sam admitted to having an affair which Julie highly suspected. She said she needed to know for her peace of mind. Sam disclosed his extramarital affair in an individual session with his therapist. Therapists must decide who is the client and whose interests they will serve in therapy, protecting the client from unauthorized disclosure of personal information. This is an issue of:

In Erikson's psychosocial stages of development, each stage presents a conflict which the individual must resolve before advancing to the next stage. Which conflict is associated with Erickson's fourth stage - the school age?

In the initial meeting with a patient, he tells you that he feels insanely jealous and has never been so angry in his life. The reason for his anger is that his girlfriend of five years currently is seeing someone else. Your gut feelings tell you that besides being depressed, your patient may suffer from poor impulse control. The first thing you should do in this situation is:

Zunker, in his analysis of reasons why career planning and development centers are not focused in their mission and goals in high schools, indicates all of the following except:

A woman whose husband has just committed suicide brings her daughter to therapy to have the daughter work on her grief. The daughter and her father were very close, and now that he is gone, the girl is upset. While dealing with this dilemma, you realize the mother also is suffering and needs to deal with her grief issues. You might:

Your client states, "My mother is in the hospital with cancer, and she is not eating, and my sisters are not getting along. I see my mother a few times a week, but I think that there is more that I should be doing." As the therapist, you respond, "Your mom is having difficulty, and your sisters are having problems?" Your response is an example of:

Creating and structuring boundaries between multi-generational families would create:

Marci and Ben come to your office complaining that their marriage is in trouble. Ben accuses Marci of having affairs when she talks to people on the phone for her growing travel business. Marci is a well-educated woman who wants her husband to trust her. Marci says Ben is "paranoid" and does not know how to make Ben trust her. Ben is Marci's second husband, and he presents as dependent, clingy and suspicious. He appears to be living on Marci's income due to a disability that would allow him to work, however, he refuses to make an effort to find employment. Ben appears angry, frustrated, and speaks loudly to Marci during their session with you. Marci is openly sad and frustrated and ready, she says, to leave the marriage but is conflicted about her decision. Marci tells you that yesterday she hung up the phone on her father, in anger, for a comment he made regarding the marital situation. Marci's father is also on disability, able to do some work, but refuses to seek employment, making life difficult for Marci's mother. "You hung up the phone on your father yesterday. You complained about your husband not trusting you, and that you are angry. Based on what you have told me, I think your anger is deflected from your husband. He does the same thing, and you are afraid to tell him, and that is why you got angry at your father." This is an example of a(n) ____________ approach to therapy.

Twenty-seven-year-old Jenna reports that she is seeking therapy because the court mandated that she engage in five sessions of therapy. She comes to your office and appears to not be particularly interested in deriving benefit from her therapy sessions; she just wants to complete the sessions and terminate therapy. Jenna reports to you that she may file insurance claim forms to pay for her sessions and that she needs to have proof for the court that she attended all five sessions. Jenna signs a release of information form, allowing you to release the appropriate documentation to the court. Assume that you are Jenna's therapist and before the initial session you learn that Jenna may pay for her therapy sessions through her insurance plan stating that she has financial problems and therapy may not be possible if you do not accept insurance as payment for therapy. What payment related issue(s) must you discuss with Jenna prior to the onset of therapy?

SIGI and CHOICES are computer software designed to use interests and aptitudes to help match clients to careers. These programs are based on the theories of:

Sol has come to you, a career counselor, because he is having difficulty in determining which career path to choose. On the one hand, Sol likes to be clean, neat, orderly, and to know what is expected of him. On the other hand, Sol likes to be spontaneous, creative, and free to express his feelings. Chances are Sol's Holland code is:

Which one of the following measurements would have the highest frequency of reliability?

When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to

As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to

A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of relationship difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had multiple abortions, and seems to use abortion as a birth control method. You are personally opposed to abortion. How should your personal beliefs impact the therapeutic relationship?

You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for six months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you do?

You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a client you are counseling. What do you do?

What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file?

You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren’t sleeping or eating well, find you are highly distractible, and generally are less in-touch with your emotional state. You should

A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former counselor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is your responsibility in this case?

You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend her wedding. Would it be ethical to do so?

While involved with a research study, you learn that several of your students are using confidential material in an unethical manner. You had no prior knowledge of this, and all of your safeguards for professional practice were appropriate. Are you, as the principal researcher, responsible for the student’s behavior?

When publishing research, it is important to

When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes precedence?

An ethics violation should NOT be reported when

What does multicultural/diversity counseling refer to?

Most ethical issues are related to