Clinical Mental Health Final Exam QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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What is evidence-based counseling? - ✅✅Counseling interventions based on outcome
research.
What does NBCC stand for? - ✅✅The National Board for Certified Counselors
What are the five moral principles that form the foundation for ethical guidelines? -
✅✅Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, Beneficence, Justice, and Fidelity
Counselors need to be aware of their own ____________ to effectively work with clients from
diverse backgrounds. - ✅✅Beliefs, attitudes, and feelings associated with cultural differences
Which acronym is used to help counselors systematically consider various cultural influences,
and what does this acronym stand for? - ✅✅Age & generational influences
Developmental disabilities
Disabilities acquired later in life
Religion (and/or spirituality)
Ethnicity (may include race)
Social status (or social class)
Sexual orientation
Indigenous heritage
National origin
Gender (and gender socialization)
(ADDRESS)
The counseling process and the direction it will take are influenced by the ________ of the
client's presenting problem. - ✅✅Seriousness
What is the primary goal of assessment in counseling? - ✅✅To collect data about client's
behaviors, characteristics, and contexts that will facilitate clinical decision making and
evaluation.
The Wellness Wheel, a holistic theoretical model of wellness, is used to
____________________. - ✅✅Understand individuals from a holistic perspective.
What is the purpose of client outcome evaluation? - ✅✅To evaluate treatment and outcomes
with specific clients.
,Assessing suicidality is an important reality for clinicians to understand. What acronym is used
to help assess suicidality, and what does it stand for? - ✅✅Specificity: How detailed and
specific are the plans for suicide?
Lethality: How deadly are the means that the client plans to use?
Access to means: How available are the means for suicide?
Proximity of social support: How close by are safe people who can provide support and/or
assistance.
SLAP
Which types of groups, discussed in the textbook, have training standards developed by the
ASGW? - ✅✅Psychoeducational
Counseling
Psychotherapy
Task/Work
Identify at least one of the family counseling approaches described in the text. -
✅✅Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Brief solution-focused
Strategic
Structural
Narrative
The transition framework provides a way of understanding pivotal events and nonevents that
people encounter throughout a lifetime. Identify the three transition terms described in the
textbook, and what they mean. - ✅✅Anticipated transition: normative or expected
Unanticipated transition: unexpected; positive or negative
Nonevent transition: expected, but do not occur
Treatment plans help set the course for counseling, are required by managed care, and explain
what will take place in counseling. What is included in a treatment plan, and what does each
section mean? - ✅✅Presenting Concern: The presenting concern of the client
Goal: The goal for counseling, which is related to the client's presenting problem, and is
S.M.A.R.T; based on what is going well, and what needs to be worked on
Objective: Specifically, what the client wants to change
Interventions: What will occur in counseling to help the client achieve the goal. based on what
has already been tried, and how it worked; includes who else will be involved in the counseling
process; considers what type of activities the client responds best to; what research has shown to
be most effective for this type of concern
What is the goal of community-based mental health? - ✅✅To provide a comprehensive
system of care designed in partnership with the community, service providers, and payers.
, The textbook highlights different types (or specialty areas) of coaching. Identify at least two
areas of coaching specialty that counselors may specialize in. -
✅✅Executive/Corporate/Business/Leadership
Health and Wellness
Career
Personal/Life
Identify at least 4 pragmatic considerations for building a private practice - ✅✅Office Space
Billing
Paperwork
Insurance
Attorneys
Emergency Contacts
Identify at least one type of Caplan's four types of mental health consultation? - ✅✅Client
centered case consultation
Consultee centered case consultation
Program centered administrative consultation
Consultee centered administrative consultation
There are many acceptable formats for writing case notes; many known for their acronyms.
Identify at least one acceptable format. - ✅✅STIPS Format
Goals and Action Plan Format
SOAP Format
DAP Format
Ethical and legal issues related to trustworthy communication include privacy, confidentiality,
and privileged communication. What do these terms mean? - ✅✅Privacy: the legal right of
the client to determine what information about him or herself will be shared with others.
Confidentiality: a promise by a professional not to disclose information revealed within the
counseling relationship except under specific mutually understood conditions.
Privileged communication: the protection of confidentiality between two parties that belongs to
the client not the counselor.
Brofenbrenner's Bioecological Model illustrates the way child development is influenced by
multilayered interactions. The five interactive systems are ____________. - ✅✅Microsystem:
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What is evidence-based counseling? - ✅✅Counseling interventions based on outcome
research.
What does NBCC stand for? - ✅✅The National Board for Certified Counselors
What are the five moral principles that form the foundation for ethical guidelines? -
✅✅Autonomy, Nonmaleficence, Beneficence, Justice, and Fidelity
Counselors need to be aware of their own ____________ to effectively work with clients from
diverse backgrounds. - ✅✅Beliefs, attitudes, and feelings associated with cultural differences
Which acronym is used to help counselors systematically consider various cultural influences,
and what does this acronym stand for? - ✅✅Age & generational influences
Developmental disabilities
Disabilities acquired later in life
Religion (and/or spirituality)
Ethnicity (may include race)
Social status (or social class)
Sexual orientation
Indigenous heritage
National origin
Gender (and gender socialization)
(ADDRESS)
The counseling process and the direction it will take are influenced by the ________ of the
client's presenting problem. - ✅✅Seriousness
What is the primary goal of assessment in counseling? - ✅✅To collect data about client's
behaviors, characteristics, and contexts that will facilitate clinical decision making and
evaluation.
The Wellness Wheel, a holistic theoretical model of wellness, is used to
____________________. - ✅✅Understand individuals from a holistic perspective.
What is the purpose of client outcome evaluation? - ✅✅To evaluate treatment and outcomes
with specific clients.
,Assessing suicidality is an important reality for clinicians to understand. What acronym is used
to help assess suicidality, and what does it stand for? - ✅✅Specificity: How detailed and
specific are the plans for suicide?
Lethality: How deadly are the means that the client plans to use?
Access to means: How available are the means for suicide?
Proximity of social support: How close by are safe people who can provide support and/or
assistance.
SLAP
Which types of groups, discussed in the textbook, have training standards developed by the
ASGW? - ✅✅Psychoeducational
Counseling
Psychotherapy
Task/Work
Identify at least one of the family counseling approaches described in the text. -
✅✅Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Brief solution-focused
Strategic
Structural
Narrative
The transition framework provides a way of understanding pivotal events and nonevents that
people encounter throughout a lifetime. Identify the three transition terms described in the
textbook, and what they mean. - ✅✅Anticipated transition: normative or expected
Unanticipated transition: unexpected; positive or negative
Nonevent transition: expected, but do not occur
Treatment plans help set the course for counseling, are required by managed care, and explain
what will take place in counseling. What is included in a treatment plan, and what does each
section mean? - ✅✅Presenting Concern: The presenting concern of the client
Goal: The goal for counseling, which is related to the client's presenting problem, and is
S.M.A.R.T; based on what is going well, and what needs to be worked on
Objective: Specifically, what the client wants to change
Interventions: What will occur in counseling to help the client achieve the goal. based on what
has already been tried, and how it worked; includes who else will be involved in the counseling
process; considers what type of activities the client responds best to; what research has shown to
be most effective for this type of concern
What is the goal of community-based mental health? - ✅✅To provide a comprehensive
system of care designed in partnership with the community, service providers, and payers.
, The textbook highlights different types (or specialty areas) of coaching. Identify at least two
areas of coaching specialty that counselors may specialize in. -
✅✅Executive/Corporate/Business/Leadership
Health and Wellness
Career
Personal/Life
Identify at least 4 pragmatic considerations for building a private practice - ✅✅Office Space
Billing
Paperwork
Insurance
Attorneys
Emergency Contacts
Identify at least one type of Caplan's four types of mental health consultation? - ✅✅Client
centered case consultation
Consultee centered case consultation
Program centered administrative consultation
Consultee centered administrative consultation
There are many acceptable formats for writing case notes; many known for their acronyms.
Identify at least one acceptable format. - ✅✅STIPS Format
Goals and Action Plan Format
SOAP Format
DAP Format
Ethical and legal issues related to trustworthy communication include privacy, confidentiality,
and privileged communication. What do these terms mean? - ✅✅Privacy: the legal right of
the client to determine what information about him or herself will be shared with others.
Confidentiality: a promise by a professional not to disclose information revealed within the
counseling relationship except under specific mutually understood conditions.
Privileged communication: the protection of confidentiality between two parties that belongs to
the client not the counselor.
Brofenbrenner's Bioecological Model illustrates the way child development is influenced by
multilayered interactions. The five interactive systems are ____________. - ✅✅Microsystem:
