PSYC 388 - Part 1 (Unit 1-4) questions with
correct answers
Define counselling using the CCPA Definition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
overall aim of counsellors is to provide an opportunity for people to work
towards living more satisfyingly and resourcefully.
Counselling relationships will vary according to need but may be concerned
with developmental issues, addressing and resolving specific problems, making
decisions, coping with crisis, developing personal insights and knowledge,
working through feelings of inner conflict or improving relationships with
others.
List the major events that influenced the development of counselling from
before 1900 to 2000. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Before 1900
-Counselling grew out of humanitarian concern for the lives of those impacted
by the Industrial Revolution Moral Therapy Movement (France/Canada)
-Mental Health Movement (1900-1909) + Clifford Beers (Advocate (with lived
experience) for better mental health facilities and reform in treatment of those
with mental illness) Co-founded CMHA in 1918.
-Vocational Guidance Movement (1900-1909) + Frank Parsons (Choosing a
vocation was matter of knowledge of work, knowledge of self, and matching
two together through reasoning)
1910s to 1940s.
, -Smith-Hughes Act of 1917: $$$ for vocational guidance and education. 1920s:
Edward Thorndike challenged vocational orientation of counselling, argued for
the broadening of counselling.
-Psychometrics were embraced, which helped the discipline be respected in
scientific community but neglected sociology, biology, anthropology.
-1931: First mention of "counselling" in literature.E.G. Williamson in 1930s:
-First counselling theory, which emphasized direct, counsellor-centered
approach and the counsellor's teaching, mentoring, and influencing skills.
Premise: Individuals had traits that could be integrated in variety of ways to
form factors (constellations of individual characteristics). Counsellor must
ascertain a deficiency in the client and then prescribe a procedure to rectify the
problem.
-Late 1930s: WWII created role for psychologists and counsellors in both US
and Canada: test construction, administration, scoring for selecting and
classifying military personnel.
-1939: CPA formed by E.A. Bott, George Humphrey, Roy Liddy.
-1942: Carl Rogers published Counselling and Psychotherapy, which
challenged the counsellor-centered approach of Williamson as well as major
tenets of Freudian psychoanalysis. He also emphasized the importance of the
client and gave them responsib
Identify and briefly discuss at least five important factors that have influenced
the development of counselling in Canada since 1960. - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔1)Community mental health movement, which helped bring counselling
out of education and into mainstream
2) Shift in focus from remediation to prevention and emphasis on positive
psychology: growth and development of persons
3)Recognition and standardization of the counselling discipline
correct answers
Define counselling using the CCPA Definition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The
overall aim of counsellors is to provide an opportunity for people to work
towards living more satisfyingly and resourcefully.
Counselling relationships will vary according to need but may be concerned
with developmental issues, addressing and resolving specific problems, making
decisions, coping with crisis, developing personal insights and knowledge,
working through feelings of inner conflict or improving relationships with
others.
List the major events that influenced the development of counselling from
before 1900 to 2000. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Before 1900
-Counselling grew out of humanitarian concern for the lives of those impacted
by the Industrial Revolution Moral Therapy Movement (France/Canada)
-Mental Health Movement (1900-1909) + Clifford Beers (Advocate (with lived
experience) for better mental health facilities and reform in treatment of those
with mental illness) Co-founded CMHA in 1918.
-Vocational Guidance Movement (1900-1909) + Frank Parsons (Choosing a
vocation was matter of knowledge of work, knowledge of self, and matching
two together through reasoning)
1910s to 1940s.
, -Smith-Hughes Act of 1917: $$$ for vocational guidance and education. 1920s:
Edward Thorndike challenged vocational orientation of counselling, argued for
the broadening of counselling.
-Psychometrics were embraced, which helped the discipline be respected in
scientific community but neglected sociology, biology, anthropology.
-1931: First mention of "counselling" in literature.E.G. Williamson in 1930s:
-First counselling theory, which emphasized direct, counsellor-centered
approach and the counsellor's teaching, mentoring, and influencing skills.
Premise: Individuals had traits that could be integrated in variety of ways to
form factors (constellations of individual characteristics). Counsellor must
ascertain a deficiency in the client and then prescribe a procedure to rectify the
problem.
-Late 1930s: WWII created role for psychologists and counsellors in both US
and Canada: test construction, administration, scoring for selecting and
classifying military personnel.
-1939: CPA formed by E.A. Bott, George Humphrey, Roy Liddy.
-1942: Carl Rogers published Counselling and Psychotherapy, which
challenged the counsellor-centered approach of Williamson as well as major
tenets of Freudian psychoanalysis. He also emphasized the importance of the
client and gave them responsib
Identify and briefly discuss at least five important factors that have influenced
the development of counselling in Canada since 1960. - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔1)Community mental health movement, which helped bring counselling
out of education and into mainstream
2) Shift in focus from remediation to prevention and emphasis on positive
psychology: growth and development of persons
3)Recognition and standardization of the counselling discipline
