Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) – NCE Exam Prep Guide
with Practice Questions and Answers | 2024/2025 Study Resource
This document is a complete prep guide for the 2024/2025 National Counselor
Examination (NCE), required for LPC licensure. It includes high-quality practice
questions with detailed answers and covers all key domains such as human growth and
development, counseling theories, group work, ethics, assessment, and career
development. Ideal for graduate-level counseling students and professionals preparing
for licensure with a guaranteed pass approach.
1. Mimesis: as defined by Minuchin, the copying of a family's style by a counselor.
2. Perverse triangle: as used by Hayley, the situation in which two members of a
family team up against another member in an effort to reduce his/her authority.
3. Skeleton keys: as used by Steve deShazer, a standard intervention that can
be used in dealing with several problems.
4. Integrative psychotherapy: the integration of multiple therapy approaches,
used by 30% to 50% of therapists.
5. XO: an abbreviation used by counselors. X means treatment and O indicates
observation. Can also indicate a measurement, score or dependent variable.
6. Describe the principles of ethical decision-making and the purpose of the
ACA Code of Ethics.: each counselor has his or her own ethical standards, some
general principles underlie many of the ethical decisions counselors make.
, These principles include: beneficence, not causing harm, respect for freedom of
choice and self-determination, fairness, and honoring commitments.
The ACA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice is a document produced by
the ACA that establishes principles of ethical behavior to which all ACA members
must adhere.
7. Explain the Tarasoff Case and the duty to protect.: 1976
Tarasoff family sued the University of California Board of Regents
Prosenjit Poddar, a client of a university psychologist, murdered Tatiana Tarasoff.
psychologist, in maintaining confidentiality, had failed to warn Ms Tarasoff that
Poddar was a danger to her.
counselors are now required to warn their clients intended victims even when the
warning violates both confidentiality and privileged information.
8. duty to protect: a counselor has a responsibility to protect clients from suicide.
The counselor should have procedures and guidelines in place for handling
such situations, be aware of referral possibilities, and be thoroughly familiar with
signs that the client may be planning suicide.
9. Describe ERIC: ERIC is the acronym for the Educational Resources
Information Center, an electronic library of educational research and
information. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences, a part of the U.S.
Department of Education, ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of
journals and other literature from
1966 to the present. The database also has a growing number of full-text
materials.
Currently ERIC indexes more than 650 journals and offers free, full-text access to
over 100,000 other materials.
with Practice Questions and Answers | 2024/2025 Study Resource
This document is a complete prep guide for the 2024/2025 National Counselor
Examination (NCE), required for LPC licensure. It includes high-quality practice
questions with detailed answers and covers all key domains such as human growth and
development, counseling theories, group work, ethics, assessment, and career
development. Ideal for graduate-level counseling students and professionals preparing
for licensure with a guaranteed pass approach.
1. Mimesis: as defined by Minuchin, the copying of a family's style by a counselor.
2. Perverse triangle: as used by Hayley, the situation in which two members of a
family team up against another member in an effort to reduce his/her authority.
3. Skeleton keys: as used by Steve deShazer, a standard intervention that can
be used in dealing with several problems.
4. Integrative psychotherapy: the integration of multiple therapy approaches,
used by 30% to 50% of therapists.
5. XO: an abbreviation used by counselors. X means treatment and O indicates
observation. Can also indicate a measurement, score or dependent variable.
6. Describe the principles of ethical decision-making and the purpose of the
ACA Code of Ethics.: each counselor has his or her own ethical standards, some
general principles underlie many of the ethical decisions counselors make.
, These principles include: beneficence, not causing harm, respect for freedom of
choice and self-determination, fairness, and honoring commitments.
The ACA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice is a document produced by
the ACA that establishes principles of ethical behavior to which all ACA members
must adhere.
7. Explain the Tarasoff Case and the duty to protect.: 1976
Tarasoff family sued the University of California Board of Regents
Prosenjit Poddar, a client of a university psychologist, murdered Tatiana Tarasoff.
psychologist, in maintaining confidentiality, had failed to warn Ms Tarasoff that
Poddar was a danger to her.
counselors are now required to warn their clients intended victims even when the
warning violates both confidentiality and privileged information.
8. duty to protect: a counselor has a responsibility to protect clients from suicide.
The counselor should have procedures and guidelines in place for handling
such situations, be aware of referral possibilities, and be thoroughly familiar with
signs that the client may be planning suicide.
9. Describe ERIC: ERIC is the acronym for the Educational Resources
Information Center, an electronic library of educational research and
information. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences, a part of the U.S.
Department of Education, ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of
journals and other literature from
1966 to the present. The database also has a growing number of full-text
materials.
Currently ERIC indexes more than 650 journals and offers free, full-text access to
over 100,000 other materials.
