COUNSELING A COMPREHENSIVE
PROFESSION COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS FULL
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●● Modern emphasis of counseling
Answer: wellness
Development
Mindfulness
Meaningfulness
Mattering
Growth
remediation of mental disorders
for individuals, groups, couples, and families across the life span
●● Guidance
Answer: focuses on helping people make important choices that affect
their lives
●● Difference between counseling and guidance
,Answer: guidance focuses on helping individuals choose what they
value most, whereas counseling helps them make changes
●● Focus of psychotherapy (or therapy)
Answer: serious problems associated with intrapsychic disorders (such
as delusions or hallucinations)
internal conflicts
personality issues (such as dependency or inadequacy in working with
others)
●● Emphasis of psychotherapy
Answer: especially analytically based therapy,(a) the past more than the
present,
(b) insight more than change,
(c) the detachment of the therapist,
(d) the therapist's role as an expert
●● long-term relationship
Answer: 20 to 40 sessions over a period of 6 months to 2 years
●● 20/20: A Vision for the Future of Counseling consortium
Answer: defined counseling
, ●● Counseling
Answer: a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals,
families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education,
and career goals (20/20: A Vision for the Future of Counseling)
●● How is counseling a dynamic process?
Answer: Counselors not only focus on their clients' goals, but they also
help clients accomplish them.
●● Effectiveness of a counselor and of counseling depends on numerous
variables
Answer: • the personality and background of the counselor
• the formal education of the counselor
• the ability of the counselor to engage in professional counseling-related
activities
●● Counselors should possess personal qualities of
Answer: Curiosity and inquisitiveness
Ability to listen
Comfort with communication
Empathy and compassion
Emotional insightfulness
Introspection
PROFESSION COMPREHENSIVE TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS FULL
REVIEW PACKAGE
●● Modern emphasis of counseling
Answer: wellness
Development
Mindfulness
Meaningfulness
Mattering
Growth
remediation of mental disorders
for individuals, groups, couples, and families across the life span
●● Guidance
Answer: focuses on helping people make important choices that affect
their lives
●● Difference between counseling and guidance
,Answer: guidance focuses on helping individuals choose what they
value most, whereas counseling helps them make changes
●● Focus of psychotherapy (or therapy)
Answer: serious problems associated with intrapsychic disorders (such
as delusions or hallucinations)
internal conflicts
personality issues (such as dependency or inadequacy in working with
others)
●● Emphasis of psychotherapy
Answer: especially analytically based therapy,(a) the past more than the
present,
(b) insight more than change,
(c) the detachment of the therapist,
(d) the therapist's role as an expert
●● long-term relationship
Answer: 20 to 40 sessions over a period of 6 months to 2 years
●● 20/20: A Vision for the Future of Counseling consortium
Answer: defined counseling
, ●● Counseling
Answer: a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals,
families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education,
and career goals (20/20: A Vision for the Future of Counseling)
●● How is counseling a dynamic process?
Answer: Counselors not only focus on their clients' goals, but they also
help clients accomplish them.
●● Effectiveness of a counselor and of counseling depends on numerous
variables
Answer: • the personality and background of the counselor
• the formal education of the counselor
• the ability of the counselor to engage in professional counseling-related
activities
●● Counselors should possess personal qualities of
Answer: Curiosity and inquisitiveness
Ability to listen
Comfort with communication
Empathy and compassion
Emotional insightfulness
Introspection
