COUNSELOR EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
●● Robert Carkhuff
Answer: conducted studies which revealed that therapy does not always
have a positive outcome. He developed a five-point scale for measuring
empathy, genuineness, concreteness and respect in counseling;
Level 1 - The therapist is defensive and may exhibit discrepancies
between voice and non- verbal cues.
Level 2 - The therapist exhibits a professional and impersonal
demeanor.
Level 3 - The therapist is implicitly defensive or professional.
Level 4 - The therapist demonstrates neither defensiveness nor a façade.
Level 5 - The therapist is significantly involved in the relationship with
the client, and is open to experiences and feelings both pleasant and
unpleasant without being defensive or resorting to professionalism. The
therapist's verbalizations match his or her inner feelings.
●● Restatement
Answer: rephrasing what the client has said with emphasis on the
cognitive message.
●● Reflection
,Answer: rephrasing what the client has said with emphasis on the feeling
(affective) part of the message.
●● Paraphrasing
Answer: using different words to restate what the client has said in order
to gain better understanding of the message.
●● Summarizing
Answer: concise statement of the main points or ideas discussed in a
session.
●● Client's Silence
Answer: may mean that a person is thinking, bored, hostile, or waiting
for the other person to take the lead.
●● Confrontation
Answer: is the technique in which the counselor identifies discrepancies
and presents them to the client. It may also refer to a difference in
perception between the counselor and the client.
●● Structuring
Answer: is the process of defining the nature, limits and goals of
counseling as well as the roles of the client and counselor.
, ●● Five tasks of Healthy Individuals
Answer: Witmer Sweeney identified five tasks associated with healthy
individuals who perform them throughout various interactions;
spirituality, or the concept of having ethical or moral guidelines
self-regulation, in which the person has a positive sense of identity and
self-esteem
work, which includes physical tasks and economic stability
friendship, including those close relationships with others besides family
members
love, which involves intimacy, trust, and giving of oneself to another
●● Motives for Helping Others Through Counseling
Answer: Many counselors enter into these relationships as the helper in
order to feel as if they are making a contribution to society. The action of
serving others shifts the focus away from oneself and current problems
or distractions.
Counselors may decide to become helpers, because the people they serve
have similar problems to their own. Some counselors choose to work
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
●● Robert Carkhuff
Answer: conducted studies which revealed that therapy does not always
have a positive outcome. He developed a five-point scale for measuring
empathy, genuineness, concreteness and respect in counseling;
Level 1 - The therapist is defensive and may exhibit discrepancies
between voice and non- verbal cues.
Level 2 - The therapist exhibits a professional and impersonal
demeanor.
Level 3 - The therapist is implicitly defensive or professional.
Level 4 - The therapist demonstrates neither defensiveness nor a façade.
Level 5 - The therapist is significantly involved in the relationship with
the client, and is open to experiences and feelings both pleasant and
unpleasant without being defensive or resorting to professionalism. The
therapist's verbalizations match his or her inner feelings.
●● Restatement
Answer: rephrasing what the client has said with emphasis on the
cognitive message.
●● Reflection
,Answer: rephrasing what the client has said with emphasis on the feeling
(affective) part of the message.
●● Paraphrasing
Answer: using different words to restate what the client has said in order
to gain better understanding of the message.
●● Summarizing
Answer: concise statement of the main points or ideas discussed in a
session.
●● Client's Silence
Answer: may mean that a person is thinking, bored, hostile, or waiting
for the other person to take the lead.
●● Confrontation
Answer: is the technique in which the counselor identifies discrepancies
and presents them to the client. It may also refer to a difference in
perception between the counselor and the client.
●● Structuring
Answer: is the process of defining the nature, limits and goals of
counseling as well as the roles of the client and counselor.
, ●● Five tasks of Healthy Individuals
Answer: Witmer Sweeney identified five tasks associated with healthy
individuals who perform them throughout various interactions;
spirituality, or the concept of having ethical or moral guidelines
self-regulation, in which the person has a positive sense of identity and
self-esteem
work, which includes physical tasks and economic stability
friendship, including those close relationships with others besides family
members
love, which involves intimacy, trust, and giving of oneself to another
●● Motives for Helping Others Through Counseling
Answer: Many counselors enter into these relationships as the helper in
order to feel as if they are making a contribution to society. The action of
serving others shifts the focus away from oneself and current problems
or distractions.
Counselors may decide to become helpers, because the people they serve
have similar problems to their own. Some counselors choose to work
