COUN 506 EXAM WEEK 4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AVAILABLE

COUN 506 EXAM WEEK 4 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AVAILABLE • Question 1 4 out of 4 points Which answer below describes what should be on the professional disclosure statement to the client? Selected Answer: All the above • Question 2 4 out of 4 points From the lecture, there were several reasons why someone will have a resistance to confession. Which answer below is NOT one of those reasons? Selected Answer: Humbleness of spirit • Question 3 4 out of 4 points Which list below provides the best response to the question of what ethical standards you are going to use in your practice of counseling? Selected Answer: Provide clients with a professional disclosure, an informed consent, follow all ethical guidelines you fall under, and protect confidentiality. • Question 4 4 out of 4 points In the lecture, according to Ohlschlager, what are some of the most common legal or ethical pitfalls? Selected Answer: Counseling beyond competency, advising against medical treatment, sexual misconduct, and inappropriate use of psychological tests. • Question 5 4 out of 4 points McMinn emphasizes that the counselor’s motivation needs to be examined as the counselor confronts the client. What is a true statement based on that discussion? Selected Answer: All of these are true • Question 6 4 out of 4 points McMinn (as reviewed in the lectures) describes several ways to confront sin in the life of a counselee. What factors should a counselor take into account before choosing one of the confrontation techniques? Selected Answer: Whether a trust relationship has been established between the counselor and client • Question 7 4 out of 4 points The lectures reviewed Nouwen’s concept of “hospitality” in counseling. What is true from that discussion? Selected Answer: Simply welcoming a counselee in need can have positive therapeutic effects • Question 8 4 out of 4 points The lectures distinguished the effects of “original sin” and “personal sins.” What is true from that discussion? Selected Answer: The concept of original sin would suggest that we are all prone to distort the wholesome elements of God’s creation. • Question 9 4 out of 4 points Based on McMinn’s counseling “map,” the lecture posed a series of questions to help a counselor identify where the client was in terms of self/need/relationship. What is a true statement from that discussion? Selected Answer: If clients hope that the counselor is the ultimate solution to their problems, this reveals what they believe about “need” • Question 10 4 out of 4 points The lectures talked about attributional styles. What is true from that discussion? Selected Answer: We actually experience the most freedom when we take responsibility for our choices and behavior • Question 11 4 out of 4 points Which statement is NOT true regarding ethical standards for counseling practice? Selected Answer: Ethical guidelines provide the counselor with a step-by- step method of counseling. • Question 12 0 out of 4 points The lectures talked about some important points with regard to confidentiality. What is a true statement from that discussion? Selected Answer: There are times when confidentiality must be broken • Question 13 4 out of 4 points The lectures talked about counseling ethics guiding how we directly confront clients about their behavior. From that lecture, what is a true statement? Selected Answer: Counseling ethics would direct that a counselor “do no harm” even when confronting wrong behavior, that the counselor is aware of his/her attitudes, and that the counselor is aware of the power dynamics at play with redemption being the goal of confrontation. • Question 14 4 out of 4 points When a Christian counselor looks at the role of sin in client problems, what is a true statement? Selected Answer: All of these • Question 15 4 out of 4 points From McMinn’s discussion on confrontation during counseling (as reviewed in the lecture) what is a true statement? Selected Answer: Helping a client see potential outcomes to behavior (the concept of acherit) can be a legitimate form of confrontation • Question 16 4 out of 4 points Which statement below is true concerning the "work of the Holy Spirit" in counseling? Selected Answer: All the above • Question 17 4 out of 4 points When putting together your informed consent document for a client, what item should you include as part of that document? Selected Answer: All the above • Question 18 4 out of 4 points From the lecture, in questioning yourself regarding ethical decision- making, which answer is NOT used? Selected Answer: When do we discuss fees? • Question 19 4 out of 4 points From the perspective of secular psychology, the concept of “sin” can best be described as Selected Answer: None of the above • Question 20 4 out of 4 points It is important that counselors help clients overcome resistance to legitimate confession. Which of the following statements does NOT fit with the lecture emphasis? Selected Answer: A hesitancy to confess is rarely rooted in a wrong concept of god • Question 21 4 out of 4 points The lecture explained how psychology would accept the “concept of sin.” What is a true statement from that discussion? Selected Answer: In psychology, the real problem is how one interprets or feels about a behavior, not the behavior itself. • Question 22 4 out of 4 points Which answer below is NOT one of the ethical concerns given regarding confrontation? Selected Answer: Internal pain • Question 23 2 out of 2 points As we consider “sin” as a factor in human problems and behavior, the perspective from psychology is that psychopathology, rather than a sin nature, is the cause of emotional problems. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 24 2 out of 2 points Clients with an internal attribution style, would primarily seek counseling to feel better about themselves, rather than confront and change their own problematic behavior. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 25 2 out of 2 points According to McMinn, ‘pondering” as a form of confrontation would be considered a gentle way to confront. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 26 2 out of 2 points For our profession to thrive, we need to focus resources on professional development to keep Christian counseling grounded in the Scriptures and in effective spiritual practices. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 27 2 out of 2 points In difficult relationships, many people try to avoid painful realities by insisting that any honest evaluation of behavior is judging and therefore off-limits. Selected Answer: Famil y • Question 28 2 out of 2 points What are some helpful interventions we can do with clients? Selected Answer: All of the above