California LMFT Clinical Exam with all Correct & 100%
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What must be displayed when advertising? ✔Correct Answer-List license number. List license name
and number on an DBA. (Legal)
Is it prohibited to advertise fees? ✔Correct Answer-No. Ok to disclose standard consultation fees
or a range of fees.
But it's prohibited to advertise fees that don't reveal all variables and material factors of fees. (Legal)
Is it prohibited to advertise professional superiority? ✔Correct Answer-Yes, unless substantiated by
objective scientific evidence or claim is relevant to the service. (Legal)
How should professional competence be advertised? ✔Correct Answer-Accurately (Ethical)
Can you advertise with patient testimonials? ✔Correct Answer-No. (Ethical)
Motivational Interviewing ✔Correct Answer-Treatment model focusing on resolving ambivalence
and using persons own values and concerns to elicit change. Rooted in client centered therapy.
What are the 4 principals of Motivational Interviewing? ✔Correct Answer-Express empathy -
Attempt to see the world as client.
Develop Discrepancy - Between expressed values and behaviors.
Roll with Resistance - Don't challenge, argue, or use fear tactics.
Support Self-Efficacy - Highlight client strengths. Elicit hope.
What are the Motivational Interviewing stages of change? ✔Correct Answer-Pre contemplation
(defending, non-motivation), Contemplation (ambivalent yet recognizing), Preparation (committed),
Action (engagement), Maintenance (maintain).
What are the OARS of motivational interviewing? ✔Correct Answer-Open-ended questions
(designed to encourage robust answers), Affirmations (encouraging statements when clients make
good choices), Reflecting (demonstration of understanding of client with statements), Summarizing
(Paraphrasing for transitions and closings)
Confidentiality is Legal or Ethical? ✔Correct Answer-Both
Can someone authorize release of confidentiality for a deceased client? ✔Correct Answer-Yes. By
authorization from a personal representative.
What should be obtained in a group therapy setting to maintain confidentiality? (Ethical) ✔Correct
Answer-An agreement among group members to respect the confidentiality of the group.
Is a therapist obligated to maintain confidentiality in the event a client steals from or victimizes the
therapist? ✔Correct Answer-No.
The other instances where the client has no right to confidentiality include: ✔Correct Answer-1. A
court order.
2. An order from the state board/commission/or an administrative agency.
Verified Answers |Latest Version| Already Graded A+
What must be displayed when advertising? ✔Correct Answer-List license number. List license name
and number on an DBA. (Legal)
Is it prohibited to advertise fees? ✔Correct Answer-No. Ok to disclose standard consultation fees
or a range of fees.
But it's prohibited to advertise fees that don't reveal all variables and material factors of fees. (Legal)
Is it prohibited to advertise professional superiority? ✔Correct Answer-Yes, unless substantiated by
objective scientific evidence or claim is relevant to the service. (Legal)
How should professional competence be advertised? ✔Correct Answer-Accurately (Ethical)
Can you advertise with patient testimonials? ✔Correct Answer-No. (Ethical)
Motivational Interviewing ✔Correct Answer-Treatment model focusing on resolving ambivalence
and using persons own values and concerns to elicit change. Rooted in client centered therapy.
What are the 4 principals of Motivational Interviewing? ✔Correct Answer-Express empathy -
Attempt to see the world as client.
Develop Discrepancy - Between expressed values and behaviors.
Roll with Resistance - Don't challenge, argue, or use fear tactics.
Support Self-Efficacy - Highlight client strengths. Elicit hope.
What are the Motivational Interviewing stages of change? ✔Correct Answer-Pre contemplation
(defending, non-motivation), Contemplation (ambivalent yet recognizing), Preparation (committed),
Action (engagement), Maintenance (maintain).
What are the OARS of motivational interviewing? ✔Correct Answer-Open-ended questions
(designed to encourage robust answers), Affirmations (encouraging statements when clients make
good choices), Reflecting (demonstration of understanding of client with statements), Summarizing
(Paraphrasing for transitions and closings)
Confidentiality is Legal or Ethical? ✔Correct Answer-Both
Can someone authorize release of confidentiality for a deceased client? ✔Correct Answer-Yes. By
authorization from a personal representative.
What should be obtained in a group therapy setting to maintain confidentiality? (Ethical) ✔Correct
Answer-An agreement among group members to respect the confidentiality of the group.
Is a therapist obligated to maintain confidentiality in the event a client steals from or victimizes the
therapist? ✔Correct Answer-No.
The other instances where the client has no right to confidentiality include: ✔Correct Answer-1. A
court order.
2. An order from the state board/commission/or an administrative agency.
