Clinical Mental Health Final Exam
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2025/2026
What is evidence-based counseling? - correct answer ✔Counseling interventions based on outcome
research.
What does NBCC stand for? - correct answer ✔The National Board for Certified Counselors
What are the five moral principles that form the foundation for ethical guidelines? - correct answer
✔Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, Beneficence, Justice, and Fidelity
Counselors need to be aware of their own ____________ to effectively work with clients from diverse
backgrounds. - correct answer ✔Beliefs, attitudes, and feelings associated with cultural differences
Which acronym is used to help counselors systematically consider various cultural influences, and what
does this acronym stand for? - correct answer ✔Age & generational influences
Developmental disabilities
Disabilities acquired later in life
Religion (and/or spirituality)
Ethnicity (may include race)
Social status (or social class)
Sexual orientation
Indigenous heritage
National origin
Gender (and gender socialization)
,(ADDRESS)
The counseling process and the direction it will take are influenced by the ________ of the client's
presenting problem. - correct answer ✔Seriousness
What is the primary goal of assessment in counseling? - correct answer ✔To collect data about client's
behaviors, characteristics, and contexts that will facilitate clinical decision making and evaluation.
The Wellness Wheel, a holistic theoretical model of wellness, is used to ____________________. -
correct answer ✔Understand individuals from a holistic perspective.
What is the purpose of client outcome evaluation? - correct answer ✔To evaluate treatment and
outcomes with specific clients.
Assessing suicidality is an important reality for clinicians to understand. What acronym is used to help
assess suicidality, and what does it stand for? - correct answer ✔Specificity: How detailed and specific
are the plans for suicide?
Lethality: How deadly are the means that the client plans to use?
Access to means: How available are the means for suicide?
Proximity of social support: How close by are safe people who can provide support and/or assistance.
SLAP
Which types of groups, discussed in the textbook, have training standards developed by the ASGW? -
correct answer ✔Psychoeducational
Counseling
Psychotherapy
Task/Work
, Identify at least one of the family counseling approaches described in the text. - correct answer
✔Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Brief solution-focused
Strategic
Structural
Narrative
The transition framework provides a way of understanding pivotal events and nonevents that people
encounter throughout a lifetime. Identify the three transition terms described in the textbook, and what
they mean. - correct answer ✔Anticipated transition: normative or expected
Unanticipated transition: unexpected; positive or negative
Nonevent transition: expected, but do not occur
Treatment plans help set the course for counseling, are required by managed care, and explain what will
take place in counseling. What is included in a treatment plan, and what does each section mean? -
correct answer ✔Presenting Concern: The presenting concern of the client
Goal: The goal for counseling, which is related to the client's presenting problem, and is S.M.A.R.T;
based on what is going well, and what needs to be worked on
Objective: Specifically, what the client wants to change
Interventions: What will occur in counseling to help the client achieve the goal. based on what has
already been tried, and how it worked; includes who else will be involved in the counseling process;
considers what type of activities the client responds best to; what research has shown to be most
effective for this type of concern
Question and answers verified to pass
2025/2026
What is evidence-based counseling? - correct answer ✔Counseling interventions based on outcome
research.
What does NBCC stand for? - correct answer ✔The National Board for Certified Counselors
What are the five moral principles that form the foundation for ethical guidelines? - correct answer
✔Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, Beneficence, Justice, and Fidelity
Counselors need to be aware of their own ____________ to effectively work with clients from diverse
backgrounds. - correct answer ✔Beliefs, attitudes, and feelings associated with cultural differences
Which acronym is used to help counselors systematically consider various cultural influences, and what
does this acronym stand for? - correct answer ✔Age & generational influences
Developmental disabilities
Disabilities acquired later in life
Religion (and/or spirituality)
Ethnicity (may include race)
Social status (or social class)
Sexual orientation
Indigenous heritage
National origin
Gender (and gender socialization)
,(ADDRESS)
The counseling process and the direction it will take are influenced by the ________ of the client's
presenting problem. - correct answer ✔Seriousness
What is the primary goal of assessment in counseling? - correct answer ✔To collect data about client's
behaviors, characteristics, and contexts that will facilitate clinical decision making and evaluation.
The Wellness Wheel, a holistic theoretical model of wellness, is used to ____________________. -
correct answer ✔Understand individuals from a holistic perspective.
What is the purpose of client outcome evaluation? - correct answer ✔To evaluate treatment and
outcomes with specific clients.
Assessing suicidality is an important reality for clinicians to understand. What acronym is used to help
assess suicidality, and what does it stand for? - correct answer ✔Specificity: How detailed and specific
are the plans for suicide?
Lethality: How deadly are the means that the client plans to use?
Access to means: How available are the means for suicide?
Proximity of social support: How close by are safe people who can provide support and/or assistance.
SLAP
Which types of groups, discussed in the textbook, have training standards developed by the ASGW? -
correct answer ✔Psychoeducational
Counseling
Psychotherapy
Task/Work
, Identify at least one of the family counseling approaches described in the text. - correct answer
✔Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Brief solution-focused
Strategic
Structural
Narrative
The transition framework provides a way of understanding pivotal events and nonevents that people
encounter throughout a lifetime. Identify the three transition terms described in the textbook, and what
they mean. - correct answer ✔Anticipated transition: normative or expected
Unanticipated transition: unexpected; positive or negative
Nonevent transition: expected, but do not occur
Treatment plans help set the course for counseling, are required by managed care, and explain what will
take place in counseling. What is included in a treatment plan, and what does each section mean? -
correct answer ✔Presenting Concern: The presenting concern of the client
Goal: The goal for counseling, which is related to the client's presenting problem, and is S.M.A.R.T;
based on what is going well, and what needs to be worked on
Objective: Specifically, what the client wants to change
Interventions: What will occur in counseling to help the client achieve the goal. based on what has
already been tried, and how it worked; includes who else will be involved in the counseling process;
considers what type of activities the client responds best to; what research has shown to be most
effective for this type of concern
