CCIM 101 – Graded A+ Test Questions and Answers
(ALL UNIT COVERED)
Blocking - stop counterproductive behaviour of patient without attacking them
Empathizing - Convey understanding, grasp patient’s world, identify with them by their frame of
reference
Evaluating - Assess behaviour, assess group progress, ongoing after each session
Facilitating - enabling members withing the group, open communication, help members to increase
responsibility
Giving Feedback - Help direct clients so they can reach their goals
Goal setting - the process of working toward something you want to accomplish
Initiating - Bring new ideas to the group, initiate effective group progress
Reflecting Feelings - Let members of the group know they are being heard and understood
Suggesting - Offer advice leading to a point
Interpreting - Possible explanations for certain thoughts, feelings or behaviours’, trying to make them
aware of potential conflicts or contradictions
Risks Associated with Group Work - Patients doing worse, confidentiality, safety, confrontation, one
group member ganging up on another, intimidation
Who warns about potential risks in group work? - The leader
Benefits of group work - social support, getting perspectives from others, learning other adaptive
behaviours’, learn coping skills
, Major goals of group work - To resolve our own conflict, change is possible, learn coping skills, things
can change and get better but may be rough in the beginning, give them hope
How does informed consent relate to group work - Notifies the clients what to expect and the
guidelines and they agree to participate, discuss potential problems. Appropriate both legally and
ethically to warn the client that they may be uncomfortable and there could be confrontation.
What is an encounter group - An enactment of here and now but related to past or future event
How is group counselling different - preventative and educations purposes using the here and now
(shorter)
How is group therapy different - Remediation of past problems/difficulties (longer)
What is the major difference between group counselling and group therapy - Different goals
How are psychotherapy groups different - Education including past and present
How are self-exploration groups different - About personal growth, experience and self-awareness
groups, as leaders its a good idea for us to do them
How are task groups different - designed to assist task forces, committee, big projects
How are psychoeducational groups different - They have a central theme, more structured, specific
How has managed care affected brief interventions and short-term groups - Need to get them done
fast and cost-effective, therapies and groups must be brief and short
Androgynous groups - issues that transcend usual male and female genders, sometimes deal with
gender discrimination
Heterogeneous groups - Diverse, range of ages and genders, microcosm of the social structure that
exists in the everyday world, a little bit of everyone
(ALL UNIT COVERED)
Blocking - stop counterproductive behaviour of patient without attacking them
Empathizing - Convey understanding, grasp patient’s world, identify with them by their frame of
reference
Evaluating - Assess behaviour, assess group progress, ongoing after each session
Facilitating - enabling members withing the group, open communication, help members to increase
responsibility
Giving Feedback - Help direct clients so they can reach their goals
Goal setting - the process of working toward something you want to accomplish
Initiating - Bring new ideas to the group, initiate effective group progress
Reflecting Feelings - Let members of the group know they are being heard and understood
Suggesting - Offer advice leading to a point
Interpreting - Possible explanations for certain thoughts, feelings or behaviours’, trying to make them
aware of potential conflicts or contradictions
Risks Associated with Group Work - Patients doing worse, confidentiality, safety, confrontation, one
group member ganging up on another, intimidation
Who warns about potential risks in group work? - The leader
Benefits of group work - social support, getting perspectives from others, learning other adaptive
behaviours’, learn coping skills
, Major goals of group work - To resolve our own conflict, change is possible, learn coping skills, things
can change and get better but may be rough in the beginning, give them hope
How does informed consent relate to group work - Notifies the clients what to expect and the
guidelines and they agree to participate, discuss potential problems. Appropriate both legally and
ethically to warn the client that they may be uncomfortable and there could be confrontation.
What is an encounter group - An enactment of here and now but related to past or future event
How is group counselling different - preventative and educations purposes using the here and now
(shorter)
How is group therapy different - Remediation of past problems/difficulties (longer)
What is the major difference between group counselling and group therapy - Different goals
How are psychotherapy groups different - Education including past and present
How are self-exploration groups different - About personal growth, experience and self-awareness
groups, as leaders its a good idea for us to do them
How are task groups different - designed to assist task forces, committee, big projects
How are psychoeducational groups different - They have a central theme, more structured, specific
How has managed care affected brief interventions and short-term groups - Need to get them done
fast and cost-effective, therapies and groups must be brief and short
Androgynous groups - issues that transcend usual male and female genders, sometimes deal with
gender discrimination
Heterogeneous groups - Diverse, range of ages and genders, microcosm of the social structure that
exists in the everyday world, a little bit of everyone
