PSYC 418 (Counseling Skills) – Exam Week 5 with Answers – 100 out of 100 points

PSYC 418 (Counseling Skills) – Exam Week 5 with Answers – 100 out of 100 points Questions 1. Focusing the interview enables ______. 2. A number of regions of the ______ are activated by attentional task preparation and execution. 3. The community genogram is used to help clients understand how their ______ might affect their current feelings and thoughts. 4. Multiculturally oriented counseling is more likely than traditional counseling to focus on ______ . 5. Advocacy is ______ . 6. What type of client is MOST likely to benefit from a community genogram? 7. The community genogram is used to help clients understand how their ______ might affect their current feelings and thoughts. 8. When beginning a new interview/counseling relationship, the focus is usually on: 9. A counselor is most likely looking for ______ and ______ when he or she suggests to the client that creating a community genogram may be helpful. 10. Which one of the following examples is NOT an example of a counselor acting for social justice or as an advocate? 11. The idea of ______ suggests that our family and community history and experiences live within each of us. 12. "Vanessa, we've been working together for two weeks. Today I'm glad you can openly express your feelings to me." With this response, how is the interviewer trying to focus the client? 13. "Financially, things were tight last time. How will it be this time?" ______ is the primary focus of this paraphrase and open question. 14. Clients tend to talk about or focus on topics to which the counselor or interviewer gives primary attention. This is known as ______ . 15. Instructions: Counselor responses follow. Identify what type of focus the responder is using in the reply to the following statement. Client: I just found that I'm pregnant. I don't know who it was, but I have an idea who it is most likely to be. But no one is likely to help. My family doesn't know yet, and they really deserted me last time I got in trouble. I've only talked to them a few times, and we are starting to get along again, but now... I wonder what's going to happen. I just feel lost. Counselor response: "You must feel lost." 16. The community genogram is particularly helpful for us in understanding: 17. What was the core emphasis of the second interview with Nelida? 18. There are many ways to focus attention in the counseling session. What are other focus possibilities besides individual client focus, problem focus, and interviewer focus? 19. "What do you see in your genogram that reminds you of good times?" By using this question, how is the interviewer trying to focus the client? 20. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of mutuality focus?