CECE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY - ✔✔also known as individual therapy that was invented by
Alfred Alder who was interested in/believed that feelings of inferiority could be
motivating. Believed each chld is born with unique capabilities and inherently moving
toward the future. Believed these feelings motivated people to strive for wholeness,
superiority, and perfection
Private Logic - ✔✔Private or unconscious beliefs about self, others, and the world.
holisitic - ✔✔Future oriented, humanistic, and socially focused
Play Therapy - ✔✔is a systematic use of a theoretical power through an interpersonal
process where play therapists use their power of play to help clients/children with
psychosocial difficulties and issues and to achieve optimal growth and development.
The goal is for children to learn about themselves, self efficacy, helps children explore
alternatives/ perceptions of a problem, practice problem solving, and increase
emotional vocab
Rollo May - ✔✔Father of existential therapy
Existential Therapy - ✔✔Invented by Viktor Frankl who believed that people need
meaning or and hope in life and that people are responsible for their own actions. If
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,there is no hope no hope or meaning then the psychological mind can decrease and die.
Choices that people make determines their essence
Ludwig Binswanger: - ✔✔pioneer who developed one of the first aproaches in
existential therapy
Person centered Counseling - ✔✔By Carl Rogers who believed in the importance of
communicating feelings, honest, open and a caring relationship with others
.Emphasizes the therapeutic/empathetic relationship.
Actualized Tendency - ✔✔Leads Directionality in life , and its about a person reaching
their full potential
Rational Emotive Therapy - ✔✔By Albert Elis, believed that children should be taught
positive mental health concepts and should be used in school. His goal was to help
individual's learn rational principles so that they can reduce emotional distress.
Emotional or Behavioral problems can result from irrational beliefs. IF you think
rationally, then you can have healthy behaviors. ABC MODEL AND CAT MODEL-
created
Subjective Goal - ✔✔Goal of ideal self
Gestalt Therapy - ✔✔By Fritz Perls, Therapist helps clients accept all thoughts and
experiences. therapy in which the therapist helps clients to accept all parts of their
feelings and subjective experiences, using leading questions and planned experiences
such as role-playing. Need identifiication and fullfilment.
Style of Life - ✔✔represents the manifestation of the creative self and describes a
person's unique way of achieving superiority
Behavior Therapy - ✔✔therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of
unwanted behaviors
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, operant conditioning - ✔✔increase or decrease in consequence after a behavior
Collective Guilt - ✔✔an emotional response that people can experience when they
perceive their group as responsible for illegitimate wrongdoings
Creative Interventions - ✔✔Helpful for Children or clients who may be resistant to
counseling process and it helps build a trusting relationship. Helps children with their
feelings, express themselves, learn about themselves, and express what is going on in
their lives.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy - ✔✔By Steve De Shazer and Insoo Kim Beg, with their
associates at Family Brief Therapy Center. Approach , not a theory is futire oriented,
goal directed with highlighting the importance of finding a solution. Counselors do not
focus on the problem, and it is strength based approach. Clients describe their lives and
what they want to gain from i or what they want to achieve. Counselors focus on their
strengths and abilities not their weakness's.
Reality Therapy - ✔✔By WIlliam Glasser, emphasized personal responsibility, and there
is an emphasis on choice theory too in explaining human behavior. Focuses on what
clients can control, along with choices and behavior. WDEP is in this theory.
Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) - ✔✔is a framework that systematically
differentiates support for students who may have academic, behavioral, emotional or
social challenges, and this framework differentiates the type of support needed into
tiers. The supports are to help increase positive outcomes for students for all students.
ASCA - ✔✔A professional organization that professionals like school counselors who
provide direction and ethical or moral standards during the counseling process and
laws that the counselors may have to abide by. Asca also provides licensure standards,
certification, and standards for counseling
CACREP - ✔✔the counselor for accreditation and school counselor competencies
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AND ANSWERS
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY - ✔✔also known as individual therapy that was invented by
Alfred Alder who was interested in/believed that feelings of inferiority could be
motivating. Believed each chld is born with unique capabilities and inherently moving
toward the future. Believed these feelings motivated people to strive for wholeness,
superiority, and perfection
Private Logic - ✔✔Private or unconscious beliefs about self, others, and the world.
holisitic - ✔✔Future oriented, humanistic, and socially focused
Play Therapy - ✔✔is a systematic use of a theoretical power through an interpersonal
process where play therapists use their power of play to help clients/children with
psychosocial difficulties and issues and to achieve optimal growth and development.
The goal is for children to learn about themselves, self efficacy, helps children explore
alternatives/ perceptions of a problem, practice problem solving, and increase
emotional vocab
Rollo May - ✔✔Father of existential therapy
Existential Therapy - ✔✔Invented by Viktor Frankl who believed that people need
meaning or and hope in life and that people are responsible for their own actions. If
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY OLIVIA WEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 1
,there is no hope no hope or meaning then the psychological mind can decrease and die.
Choices that people make determines their essence
Ludwig Binswanger: - ✔✔pioneer who developed one of the first aproaches in
existential therapy
Person centered Counseling - ✔✔By Carl Rogers who believed in the importance of
communicating feelings, honest, open and a caring relationship with others
.Emphasizes the therapeutic/empathetic relationship.
Actualized Tendency - ✔✔Leads Directionality in life , and its about a person reaching
their full potential
Rational Emotive Therapy - ✔✔By Albert Elis, believed that children should be taught
positive mental health concepts and should be used in school. His goal was to help
individual's learn rational principles so that they can reduce emotional distress.
Emotional or Behavioral problems can result from irrational beliefs. IF you think
rationally, then you can have healthy behaviors. ABC MODEL AND CAT MODEL-
created
Subjective Goal - ✔✔Goal of ideal self
Gestalt Therapy - ✔✔By Fritz Perls, Therapist helps clients accept all thoughts and
experiences. therapy in which the therapist helps clients to accept all parts of their
feelings and subjective experiences, using leading questions and planned experiences
such as role-playing. Need identifiication and fullfilment.
Style of Life - ✔✔represents the manifestation of the creative self and describes a
person's unique way of achieving superiority
Behavior Therapy - ✔✔therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of
unwanted behaviors
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, operant conditioning - ✔✔increase or decrease in consequence after a behavior
Collective Guilt - ✔✔an emotional response that people can experience when they
perceive their group as responsible for illegitimate wrongdoings
Creative Interventions - ✔✔Helpful for Children or clients who may be resistant to
counseling process and it helps build a trusting relationship. Helps children with their
feelings, express themselves, learn about themselves, and express what is going on in
their lives.
Solution Focused Brief Therapy - ✔✔By Steve De Shazer and Insoo Kim Beg, with their
associates at Family Brief Therapy Center. Approach , not a theory is futire oriented,
goal directed with highlighting the importance of finding a solution. Counselors do not
focus on the problem, and it is strength based approach. Clients describe their lives and
what they want to gain from i or what they want to achieve. Counselors focus on their
strengths and abilities not their weakness's.
Reality Therapy - ✔✔By WIlliam Glasser, emphasized personal responsibility, and there
is an emphasis on choice theory too in explaining human behavior. Focuses on what
clients can control, along with choices and behavior. WDEP is in this theory.
Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) - ✔✔is a framework that systematically
differentiates support for students who may have academic, behavioral, emotional or
social challenges, and this framework differentiates the type of support needed into
tiers. The supports are to help increase positive outcomes for students for all students.
ASCA - ✔✔A professional organization that professionals like school counselors who
provide direction and ethical or moral standards during the counseling process and
laws that the counselors may have to abide by. Asca also provides licensure standards,
certification, and standards for counseling
CACREP - ✔✔the counselor for accreditation and school counselor competencies
COPYRIGHT © 2025 BY OLIVIA WEST, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 3
