CECE Comprehensive Exam Study Guide with Complete
Solutions.
According to your text, some of the things that cause our children problems are:
A. The changing world, values, and crises
B. Too many refined products in their diets
C. The focus on self-esteem
D. A competitive environment correct answers A. The changing world, values, and crises
One of the continuing challenges for many children is:
A. Enmeshed extended families
B. Unchanging values
C. High stakes testing
D. Poverty correct answers D. Poverty
Brazelton and Greenspan's "irreducible needs" include all the following EXCEPT:
A. Physical protection
B. Working alliances
C. Nurturing relationships
D. Opportunities to learn correct answers B. Working alliances
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Principles for counseling children are completely different than principles for counseling
adults
B. Counseling involves a relationship between counselor and client in which the counselor helps
the client resolve a problem
C. Child counseling focuses on children with learning, social, or behavioral problems and who
are classified as being severely disturbed
D. Counseling is always helpful correct answers B. Counseling involves a relationship between
counselor and client in which the counselor helps the client resolve a problem
A counselor working with children focuses on:
A. Treating children with serious emotional and behavioral problems
B. Helping children with learning, social, or behavioral problems, using both preventive &
remedial techniques
C. Normal developmental concerns only
D. Growth and development and the effect of childhood experiences on the adult correct answers
B. Helping children with learning, social, or behavioral problems, using both preventative &
remedial techniques
,Children bring three pieces of information to the counseling session. That information includes
their problem or concern, their feelings about the problem, and:
A. Their friend's expectations
B. Their parent's expectations
C. Their expectations of the counselor
D. Their expectations of themselves correct answers C. Their expectations of the counselor
Which of the following is one of the categories of personal strengths related to resilience?
A. Buffers
B. Extraneous variables
C. A sense of purpose
D. Emotional disturbance correct answers C. A sense of purpose
Resilience can be considered:
A. Rare
B. Not identified before age 6
C. Keeping barriers in place
D. Coping well with negative circumstances correct answers D. Coping well with negative
circumstances
Community services available for children and families can be classified as:
A. Supportive
B. Preventative
C. Rehabilitative
D. All of the above correct answers D. All of the above
One of the categories of problems children bring to counseling includes:
A. A lack of skills
B. Dietary concerns
C. Beauty issues
D. Homework assignments correct answers A. A lack of skills
Maslow's hierarchy of needs contains five levels. In order, they are:
A. Safety needs, physiological needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization
B. Self-actualization, love and belonging, physiological needs, safety needs and self-esteem
C. Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization
D. Love and belonging, safety needs, physiological needs, self-actualization, and self-esteem
correct answers C. Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-
actualization
, The dramatic changes in the _______ brain have the biggest implications for counselors.
A. Adult
B. Toddler
C. Adolescent
D. Older adult correct answers C. Adolescent
Challenges that counselors may face in their work with children from diverse ethnic groups
include:
A. Similar world views
B. Mistaken assumptions about cultural assimilation
C. Both mistaken assumptions about cultural assimilation and stereotypical generalizations
D. Stereotypical generalizations correct answers C. Both mistaken assumptions about cultural
assimilation and stereotypical generalizations
A prominent theorist that explains children's cognitive development is:
A. Thorensen
B. Piaget
C. Bronfenbrenner
D. Glasser correct answers B. Piaget
The process of becoming like another culture is called:
A. Becoming culturally competent
B. Encapsulation
C. Acculturation
D. Ethnic identity development correct answers D. Ethnic identity development
Erikson's model proposed:
A. Friendship stages
B. Stages of cognitive development
C. Tasks for social development
D. Language development correct answers C. Tasks for social development
Bowlby explained a theory of:
A. Attachment
B. Crisis
C. Grief
D. Birth order correct answers A. Attachment
The differences between mental health and mental illness can be a difference in:
Solutions.
According to your text, some of the things that cause our children problems are:
A. The changing world, values, and crises
B. Too many refined products in their diets
C. The focus on self-esteem
D. A competitive environment correct answers A. The changing world, values, and crises
One of the continuing challenges for many children is:
A. Enmeshed extended families
B. Unchanging values
C. High stakes testing
D. Poverty correct answers D. Poverty
Brazelton and Greenspan's "irreducible needs" include all the following EXCEPT:
A. Physical protection
B. Working alliances
C. Nurturing relationships
D. Opportunities to learn correct answers B. Working alliances
Which of the following statements is true?
A. Principles for counseling children are completely different than principles for counseling
adults
B. Counseling involves a relationship between counselor and client in which the counselor helps
the client resolve a problem
C. Child counseling focuses on children with learning, social, or behavioral problems and who
are classified as being severely disturbed
D. Counseling is always helpful correct answers B. Counseling involves a relationship between
counselor and client in which the counselor helps the client resolve a problem
A counselor working with children focuses on:
A. Treating children with serious emotional and behavioral problems
B. Helping children with learning, social, or behavioral problems, using both preventive &
remedial techniques
C. Normal developmental concerns only
D. Growth and development and the effect of childhood experiences on the adult correct answers
B. Helping children with learning, social, or behavioral problems, using both preventative &
remedial techniques
,Children bring three pieces of information to the counseling session. That information includes
their problem or concern, their feelings about the problem, and:
A. Their friend's expectations
B. Their parent's expectations
C. Their expectations of the counselor
D. Their expectations of themselves correct answers C. Their expectations of the counselor
Which of the following is one of the categories of personal strengths related to resilience?
A. Buffers
B. Extraneous variables
C. A sense of purpose
D. Emotional disturbance correct answers C. A sense of purpose
Resilience can be considered:
A. Rare
B. Not identified before age 6
C. Keeping barriers in place
D. Coping well with negative circumstances correct answers D. Coping well with negative
circumstances
Community services available for children and families can be classified as:
A. Supportive
B. Preventative
C. Rehabilitative
D. All of the above correct answers D. All of the above
One of the categories of problems children bring to counseling includes:
A. A lack of skills
B. Dietary concerns
C. Beauty issues
D. Homework assignments correct answers A. A lack of skills
Maslow's hierarchy of needs contains five levels. In order, they are:
A. Safety needs, physiological needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization
B. Self-actualization, love and belonging, physiological needs, safety needs and self-esteem
C. Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization
D. Love and belonging, safety needs, physiological needs, self-actualization, and self-esteem
correct answers C. Physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-
actualization
, The dramatic changes in the _______ brain have the biggest implications for counselors.
A. Adult
B. Toddler
C. Adolescent
D. Older adult correct answers C. Adolescent
Challenges that counselors may face in their work with children from diverse ethnic groups
include:
A. Similar world views
B. Mistaken assumptions about cultural assimilation
C. Both mistaken assumptions about cultural assimilation and stereotypical generalizations
D. Stereotypical generalizations correct answers C. Both mistaken assumptions about cultural
assimilation and stereotypical generalizations
A prominent theorist that explains children's cognitive development is:
A. Thorensen
B. Piaget
C. Bronfenbrenner
D. Glasser correct answers B. Piaget
The process of becoming like another culture is called:
A. Becoming culturally competent
B. Encapsulation
C. Acculturation
D. Ethnic identity development correct answers D. Ethnic identity development
Erikson's model proposed:
A. Friendship stages
B. Stages of cognitive development
C. Tasks for social development
D. Language development correct answers C. Tasks for social development
Bowlby explained a theory of:
A. Attachment
B. Crisis
C. Grief
D. Birth order correct answers A. Attachment
The differences between mental health and mental illness can be a difference in:
