PYC3705 Transformative Counselling Encounters (2021 - Semester 1 and Semester 2 - Assignment 3)

PYC3705 – Transformative Counselling 2021 – Semester 1 and Semester 2 – Assignment 3 Question #1: Which of the following is NOT a good motivation for becoming a counsellor? 1. you like to give advice 2. you have personal characteristics that you think would make you a good counsellor 3. you have a desire to help others and have done some research on counselling as a career 4. you feel that counselling would be personally rewarding career 5. all of the answers are good reasons to become a counsellor Question #2 What is the ultimate aim of counselling for the individuals to attain? 1. Self-knowledge 2. Self-direction 3. Self-discovery 4. Self-understanding Question #3: Most important to developing competence in the micro skills is ... 1. understanding the concepts 2. audio and videotape feedback 3. learning to identify and classify skills 4. practice Question #4: The Transformative counselling encounters module remind us that ... 1. All interviewing involves multicultural and diversity dimensions. 2. Diversity includes areas often missed by definitions of multiculturalism such as experience with trauma, social class, family background, and location and language. 3. We will be spending a lifetime learning more about the many issues of diversity. 4. All of the above. Question 5: The goal of reflection of feeling is to ... 1. Help clients make implicit (or partially implicit) feeling explicit and clear. 2. Identifying feelings that the client denies. 3. Make clients aware of the importance of emotion. 4. All of the above. Question 6: Sorting out mixed feeling is best done, according to the authors of the Transformative Counselling Encounters study guide, by ... 1. Using the exact words of the client. 2. Paraphrasing feelings clearly, encouraging, and then summarizing. 3. Nothing ambivalent words such as ‘confusion’ and discovering underlying deeper feelings through questioning and reflection of feeling. 4. Carefully brining out additional specifics of the client’s emotional world. Question 7: “I feel really terrible. My folks have divorced. They have moved apart and I don’t know where to live.” Which would be a reflection of feeling in response to this client? 1. “You’re really confused.” 2. “Really terrible?” 3. “Sounds like you’re really upset and are confused as to what to do next.” 4. “Looks like you have had a bad experience. I can see that it would be tough deciding what to do next.” Question 8: A counsellor is providing counselling consulting services to a manager of an international mining company about his strengths and effectiveness within the organisation. The manager is required to travel to remote areas of the world and consulting sessions have become irregular due to his work. Nevertheless, the manager is motivated to continue, and he suggests that email could serve as a means for maintaining regular contact. The counsellor has some concerns about communicating electronically. How should the counsellor best address her concerns regarding electronic communication? 1. Ensure the latest encryption protocols are installed on the psychologist’s email. 2. Include a disclaimer in every electronic communication with the client. 3. Discuss the issue of confidentiality before engaging in email consulting. 4. Insist that the client obtain the counsellor’s permission before forwarding any email communication to a third party. 5. Keep copies of all electronic communications with the client. Question 9: Your close friend comes to you with an emotional dilemma that does not seem to have any apparent solutions. The most appropriate first response would be: 1. Take her mind off the immediate problem by talking about something else. 2. Give her your complete attention and focus on understanding the full extent of what she is feeling. 3. Brainstorm solutions that could help resolve the problem. Question 10: A counsellor has been treating a client for a driving phobia following a traffic accident when she was driving a work car. During the course of therapy, the client discloses that she has recently submitted a worker’s compensation claim for bullying. The counsellor then receives a valid subpoena to provide all his client records from the workers compensation authority. What is the most appropriate response to the subpoena? 1. The psychologist is not obliged to release any information as client records are subject to professional privilege. 2. The psychologist should only release information about the client that you judge to be in their best interests. 3. The psychologist should release a summary of the client records but retain a more detailed set of notes. 4. The psychologist must release all information that is requested as there is no professional privilege. 5. The psychologist must not release the client records as it constitutes a breach of confidentiality.