PSY 623 STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Multiple Relationships - ✔✔Any instance in which the therapist has a relationship
(i.e., ongoing interaction) outside therapist. Sometimes necessary (ex. small town).
Discuss in therapy.
✔✔Minimizing Risks in Multiple Relationships - ✔✔-set healthy boundaries
-discuss risks and benefits
-refer or seek supervision if necessary
✔✔Supervision - ✔✔Provides a forum for examining your beliefs, attitudes, personality
characteristics, and behaviors as they affect your clients and the
therapeutic process
✔✔Administrative Supervision - ✔✔The purpose is to see that counselors who are
employed are doing their
jobs competently.
✔✔Goals of Clinical Supervision - ✔✔• To protect the welfare of clients
• To promote supervisee growth and development
• To monitor supervisee performance and to serve as a gatekeeper for the profession
• To empower the supervisee to self-supervise and carry out these goals as an
independent professional.
✔✔Informed Consent in Supervision - ✔✔When supervisees learn what they can expect
in supervision and what to
do to achieve success, they are empowered to express expectations, make
decisions, and become active participants in the supervisory process.
✔✔One way to clarify the shared responsibility in a therapeutic
relationship - ✔✔contract, which is based on a negotiation
between the client and the therapist to define the therapeutic
relationship.
✔✔Using techniques - ✔✔Must have a clear understanding and a sense of expected
outcomes of their interventions.
✔✔Criticisms of DSM 5 - ✔✔Overdiagnosing, moving away from mind/body connection
✔✔When to do a suicide risk assessment - ✔✔Depression, mentions wanting things to
end etc.
, ✔✔Cultural Issues in Assessment and Diagnosis - ✔✔Failure to give adequate weight
to cultural factors can result in
misdiagnoses that perpetuate stereotypes based on race, ethnicity, gender,
and sexual orientation.
✔✔evidence-based practice - ✔✔clinical decision making that integrates the best
available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
✔✔According to professional ethical principles on testing, it would be unethical for a
therapist to - ✔✔perform testing and assessment services for which they have not been
adequately trained.
✔✔____________ is the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise
in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences. - ✔✔Evidence-based
practice
✔✔Competence in working with couples and families only comes with - ✔✔years of
training and supervision
✔✔Which of the following is a sex-biased response to problems presented in couples'
therapy? - ✔✔Encouraging couples to accept the fact that child rearing is primarily the
responsibility of the mother
✔✔____________ is based on Western American assumptions (such as individualism
and universalism), which limits its usefulness among different cultural groups. - ✔✔DSM
✔✔The skills and training required to effectively and appropriately treat clients in a
specific area of practice, and is both an ethical and legal concept, is the definition for: -
✔✔therapist competence
✔✔In the event that a practitioner is sued, he or she should: - ✔✔promptly retain an
attorney.
✔✔Generally, the best way to proceed when you have concerns about the behavior of a
colleague is to: - ✔✔deal directly with the colleague, unless doing so would compromise
a client's confidentiality.
✔✔____________ occurs when a supervisor has concurrent or consecutive
professional or nonprofessional relationships with a supervisee in addition to the
supervisor-supervisee relationship. - ✔✔Multiple-role relationships in supervision
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Multiple Relationships - ✔✔Any instance in which the therapist has a relationship
(i.e., ongoing interaction) outside therapist. Sometimes necessary (ex. small town).
Discuss in therapy.
✔✔Minimizing Risks in Multiple Relationships - ✔✔-set healthy boundaries
-discuss risks and benefits
-refer or seek supervision if necessary
✔✔Supervision - ✔✔Provides a forum for examining your beliefs, attitudes, personality
characteristics, and behaviors as they affect your clients and the
therapeutic process
✔✔Administrative Supervision - ✔✔The purpose is to see that counselors who are
employed are doing their
jobs competently.
✔✔Goals of Clinical Supervision - ✔✔• To protect the welfare of clients
• To promote supervisee growth and development
• To monitor supervisee performance and to serve as a gatekeeper for the profession
• To empower the supervisee to self-supervise and carry out these goals as an
independent professional.
✔✔Informed Consent in Supervision - ✔✔When supervisees learn what they can expect
in supervision and what to
do to achieve success, they are empowered to express expectations, make
decisions, and become active participants in the supervisory process.
✔✔One way to clarify the shared responsibility in a therapeutic
relationship - ✔✔contract, which is based on a negotiation
between the client and the therapist to define the therapeutic
relationship.
✔✔Using techniques - ✔✔Must have a clear understanding and a sense of expected
outcomes of their interventions.
✔✔Criticisms of DSM 5 - ✔✔Overdiagnosing, moving away from mind/body connection
✔✔When to do a suicide risk assessment - ✔✔Depression, mentions wanting things to
end etc.
, ✔✔Cultural Issues in Assessment and Diagnosis - ✔✔Failure to give adequate weight
to cultural factors can result in
misdiagnoses that perpetuate stereotypes based on race, ethnicity, gender,
and sexual orientation.
✔✔evidence-based practice - ✔✔clinical decision making that integrates the best
available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
✔✔According to professional ethical principles on testing, it would be unethical for a
therapist to - ✔✔perform testing and assessment services for which they have not been
adequately trained.
✔✔____________ is the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise
in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences. - ✔✔Evidence-based
practice
✔✔Competence in working with couples and families only comes with - ✔✔years of
training and supervision
✔✔Which of the following is a sex-biased response to problems presented in couples'
therapy? - ✔✔Encouraging couples to accept the fact that child rearing is primarily the
responsibility of the mother
✔✔____________ is based on Western American assumptions (such as individualism
and universalism), which limits its usefulness among different cultural groups. - ✔✔DSM
✔✔The skills and training required to effectively and appropriately treat clients in a
specific area of practice, and is both an ethical and legal concept, is the definition for: -
✔✔therapist competence
✔✔In the event that a practitioner is sued, he or she should: - ✔✔promptly retain an
attorney.
✔✔Generally, the best way to proceed when you have concerns about the behavior of a
colleague is to: - ✔✔deal directly with the colleague, unless doing so would compromise
a client's confidentiality.
✔✔____________ occurs when a supervisor has concurrent or consecutive
professional or nonprofessional relationships with a supervisee in addition to the
supervisor-supervisee relationship. - ✔✔Multiple-role relationships in supervision
