GACE: School Counseling TEST 1 & 2
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If parents ask a school counselor to disclose what their child has said during individual
counseling, which of the following is the most appropriate response by the counselor?
A. Summarize and paraphrase what their child has discussed
B. Explain to them the importance of confidentiality and ask if they would be willing not to ask
for details of their child's counseling sessions
C. Tell them that a counselor cannot violate a client's confidentiality
D. Ask them to get their child's consent to have the counselor share information about the
counseling sessions - Answer Option (B) is correct. This question tests understanding of the
ethical issues regarding parental access to information about services received by their minor
children. While parents have a legal right to this information, it is true that the counselor's
relationship with the minor child and the child's feelings of safety rest largely on the
confidentiality the counselor offers. Disclosing counseling session information to parents
without the child's knowledge may compromise this trust. Counselors cannot legally refuse to
disclose information, even if it might negatively affect the counseling process. For these
reasons, it is most appropriate to try to get the parent's willing cooperation in keeping the
counseling process confidential, within the legal limits regarding harm to the child or others.
According to the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Ethical Standards for School
Counselors, which of the following is NOT a specific responsibility of the school counselor when
using computer technology to work with students?
A. Ensuring computer applications are appropriate for the individual needs of students
B. Ensuring that computer applications are free from discriminatory information and values
C. Training students in how to correctly use the computer applications
D. Performing content validation studies on computer applications - Answer Option (D) is
correct. This question tests knowledge of the ASCA's ethical standards on the use of computer
technology when working with students. Ensuring that applications are appropriate for the
needs of the students, ensuring that the applications are nondiscriminatory, and ensuring that
students know how to use the applications are all required by the ASCA's standards. Ensuring
content validity is not a requirement.
Rosy was an excellent student throughout her years in elementary school. She enjoyed
participating in Girl Scouts and reading historical fiction. Now that she is in middle school, she
hangs out with students that have different values than her family's, she spends less time than
she used to studying and reading, and she wears less conservative clothing than she did in
elementary school. She recently told her mother that she does not know if she wants to
,continue participating in Girl Scouts. Which of the following developmental stages is Rosy
illustrating?
A. Trust versus mistrust
B. Autonomy versus shame and doubt
C. Identity versus role confusion
D. Intimacy versus isolation - Answer Option (C) is correct. The scenario describes a struggle
between identity and role confusion, which is one of the stages in Erik Erikson's theory of
psychosocial development.
A needs assessment was recently administered in an elementary school located in an
impoverished rural community. The results of the assessment show that 75 percent of the
students in the school do not have access to nutritious snacks and meals in the afternoons and
on weekends. In collaboration with the school counseling program, a local community
organization decides to help the students by coordinating a "backpack buddy" program. The
program provides nutritious food each weekend to students in need. Whose developmental
theory does the organization's nutrition program draw on?
A. Sigmund Freud's
B. Jean Piaget's
C. Lev Vygotsky's
D. Abraham Maslow's - Answer Option (D) is correct. The backpack intervention program is
seeking to meet the students' basic physiological needs. According to Abraham Maslow,
physiological needs must be met before other higher order needs can be met.
Ms. Barber, a counselor, is conflicted because she is working with a student, Lucy, whose
lifestyle is not consistent with her own religious values. She occasionally gives advice to Lucy
about ways to improve her lifestyle. According to the American School Counseling Association
(ASCA), the school counselor is violating which of the following ethical principles?
A. Avoiding dual relationships with students and school personnel
B. Facilitating brief and solution-focused therapy
C. Informing parents, guardians, and/or the appropriate authorities when a student poses a
danger to self or others
D. Respecting students' values and beliefs and not imposing one's own values and beliefs on
them - Answer Option (D) is correct. According to the ASCA, school counselors must respect
students' values and beliefs; counselors cannot impose their own beliefs on students and their
families.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), also known as the Buckley
Amendment, grants a student and his or her parents access to which of the following?
, A. The school counselor's private case notes about the student
B. All official school records regarding the student
C. Teacher's grade books for all students
D. Reports to child protective services for abuse or neglect about the child - Answer Option (B)
is correct. FERPA grants students, and their parents or guardians, rights to access to official
student records. After students turn 18, they have sole right to access records.
Mr. Baer, the school counselor, receives a subpoena to disclose information regarding his work
with a child whose parents are in the middle of a custody dispute. Mr. Baer should do which of
the following first?
A. Send the records home with the student to provide to the parents
B. Contact the student and discuss the situation
C. Contact the school system's attorney to seek guidance
D. Contact the school principal to seek guidance - Answer Option (C) is correct. Georgia's state
law provides privilege to licensed professional counselors, but not to school counselors. Given
the complicated nature of the law, consulting a legal representative is appropriate.
School counselors can effectively implement their role in the curriculum in all of the following
ways EXCEPT
A. consultation
B. collaboration
C. classroom guidance
D. accountability activities - Answer Option (D) is correct. The school counselor's
accountability activities are aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of the counseling center;
therefore, they are not related to the counselor's role in the curriculum.
Which of the following is an appropriate reason for a school counselor to disclose information
that a student has shared?
A. The student has a serious contagious disease, but no one is at risk of contracting the disease.
B. A concerned teacher asks about the welfare of the student.
C. The counselor is assisting the student in gaining employment.
D. The counselor is assisting in the prevention of imminent danger to the student or to others. -
Answer Option (D) is correct. School counselors have a duty to warn if there is potential harm
to the student or to others.
Latest Exam Fully Solved 2026
Updated.
If parents ask a school counselor to disclose what their child has said during individual
counseling, which of the following is the most appropriate response by the counselor?
A. Summarize and paraphrase what their child has discussed
B. Explain to them the importance of confidentiality and ask if they would be willing not to ask
for details of their child's counseling sessions
C. Tell them that a counselor cannot violate a client's confidentiality
D. Ask them to get their child's consent to have the counselor share information about the
counseling sessions - Answer Option (B) is correct. This question tests understanding of the
ethical issues regarding parental access to information about services received by their minor
children. While parents have a legal right to this information, it is true that the counselor's
relationship with the minor child and the child's feelings of safety rest largely on the
confidentiality the counselor offers. Disclosing counseling session information to parents
without the child's knowledge may compromise this trust. Counselors cannot legally refuse to
disclose information, even if it might negatively affect the counseling process. For these
reasons, it is most appropriate to try to get the parent's willing cooperation in keeping the
counseling process confidential, within the legal limits regarding harm to the child or others.
According to the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Ethical Standards for School
Counselors, which of the following is NOT a specific responsibility of the school counselor when
using computer technology to work with students?
A. Ensuring computer applications are appropriate for the individual needs of students
B. Ensuring that computer applications are free from discriminatory information and values
C. Training students in how to correctly use the computer applications
D. Performing content validation studies on computer applications - Answer Option (D) is
correct. This question tests knowledge of the ASCA's ethical standards on the use of computer
technology when working with students. Ensuring that applications are appropriate for the
needs of the students, ensuring that the applications are nondiscriminatory, and ensuring that
students know how to use the applications are all required by the ASCA's standards. Ensuring
content validity is not a requirement.
Rosy was an excellent student throughout her years in elementary school. She enjoyed
participating in Girl Scouts and reading historical fiction. Now that she is in middle school, she
hangs out with students that have different values than her family's, she spends less time than
she used to studying and reading, and she wears less conservative clothing than she did in
elementary school. She recently told her mother that she does not know if she wants to
,continue participating in Girl Scouts. Which of the following developmental stages is Rosy
illustrating?
A. Trust versus mistrust
B. Autonomy versus shame and doubt
C. Identity versus role confusion
D. Intimacy versus isolation - Answer Option (C) is correct. The scenario describes a struggle
between identity and role confusion, which is one of the stages in Erik Erikson's theory of
psychosocial development.
A needs assessment was recently administered in an elementary school located in an
impoverished rural community. The results of the assessment show that 75 percent of the
students in the school do not have access to nutritious snacks and meals in the afternoons and
on weekends. In collaboration with the school counseling program, a local community
organization decides to help the students by coordinating a "backpack buddy" program. The
program provides nutritious food each weekend to students in need. Whose developmental
theory does the organization's nutrition program draw on?
A. Sigmund Freud's
B. Jean Piaget's
C. Lev Vygotsky's
D. Abraham Maslow's - Answer Option (D) is correct. The backpack intervention program is
seeking to meet the students' basic physiological needs. According to Abraham Maslow,
physiological needs must be met before other higher order needs can be met.
Ms. Barber, a counselor, is conflicted because she is working with a student, Lucy, whose
lifestyle is not consistent with her own religious values. She occasionally gives advice to Lucy
about ways to improve her lifestyle. According to the American School Counseling Association
(ASCA), the school counselor is violating which of the following ethical principles?
A. Avoiding dual relationships with students and school personnel
B. Facilitating brief and solution-focused therapy
C. Informing parents, guardians, and/or the appropriate authorities when a student poses a
danger to self or others
D. Respecting students' values and beliefs and not imposing one's own values and beliefs on
them - Answer Option (D) is correct. According to the ASCA, school counselors must respect
students' values and beliefs; counselors cannot impose their own beliefs on students and their
families.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), also known as the Buckley
Amendment, grants a student and his or her parents access to which of the following?
, A. The school counselor's private case notes about the student
B. All official school records regarding the student
C. Teacher's grade books for all students
D. Reports to child protective services for abuse or neglect about the child - Answer Option (B)
is correct. FERPA grants students, and their parents or guardians, rights to access to official
student records. After students turn 18, they have sole right to access records.
Mr. Baer, the school counselor, receives a subpoena to disclose information regarding his work
with a child whose parents are in the middle of a custody dispute. Mr. Baer should do which of
the following first?
A. Send the records home with the student to provide to the parents
B. Contact the student and discuss the situation
C. Contact the school system's attorney to seek guidance
D. Contact the school principal to seek guidance - Answer Option (C) is correct. Georgia's state
law provides privilege to licensed professional counselors, but not to school counselors. Given
the complicated nature of the law, consulting a legal representative is appropriate.
School counselors can effectively implement their role in the curriculum in all of the following
ways EXCEPT
A. consultation
B. collaboration
C. classroom guidance
D. accountability activities - Answer Option (D) is correct. The school counselor's
accountability activities are aimed at demonstrating the effectiveness of the counseling center;
therefore, they are not related to the counselor's role in the curriculum.
Which of the following is an appropriate reason for a school counselor to disclose information
that a student has shared?
A. The student has a serious contagious disease, but no one is at risk of contracting the disease.
B. A concerned teacher asks about the welfare of the student.
C. The counselor is assisting the student in gaining employment.
D. The counselor is assisting in the prevention of imminent danger to the student or to others. -
Answer Option (D) is correct. School counselors have a duty to warn if there is potential harm
to the student or to others.
