Richard is a 37-year-old man, presenting in counseling for what he labels as stress. He is a first-year graduate student in a counseling program. Richard left his previous career because of a downfall in the economy resulting in the loss of his job 2 ½ years ago. Richard reports that he gets very sweaty, nauseous, and tense when coming to school for his once-a-week classes. He also reports that
his symptoms worsen when he has an assignment due, a presentation, or any type of quiz or exam. Richard has missed 1 class this semester due to his symptoms, and cannot afford to miss any more. Using a psychodynamic approach, choose the best example of an Initial Phase Counseling GOAL.
a. Decrease emotional reactivity to perceived threats to self to reduce anxiety.
b. Decrease client's attempts to avoid existential angst and responsibility to reduce anxiety.
c. Increase empowerment and feelings of "mattering" to reduce anxiety.
d. None of the above
A
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Which of the following represents the four stages of the process of Jungian psychotherapy?
a. interpretation, goal setting, education, termination b. rapport building, confession, working, transformation c. early, middle, late, termination d. confession, elucidation, education, transformation e. awareness, education, self-actualization, termination
Marilyn's 5-year-old daughter has the flu and needs to be admitted to the hospital for dehydration. Marilyn wants to stay overnight with her in the hospital, but the head nurse refuses her request. When Marilyn comes to you for help, you find out the hospital procedure for overnights, discuss this with Marilyn, and decide that you both should try to approach the head nurse about the situation. In this instance, you are using which of the following indirect client services?
a. Outreach activities b. Client advocacy c. Confronting ethical issues d. Networking
Netiquette is important because if I MAKE A TYPO AND HIT THE CAPS KEY IT WOULD MEAN TO A SAVVY NET USER THAt I was
a. shouting at them. b. deemphasizing previous statements. c. signifying I needed a time out to think things over d. all of the above.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The final draft of the first APA Ethics Code was adopted in 1952 and published in 1953. 2. According to Hobbs, the Ethics Code was designed to control psychologists’ behavior. 3. One purpose of the Ethics Code is to provide a guide to what psychologists should reasonably expect of themselves and others. 4. A profession that demonstrates it can monitor itself is more vulnerable to external regulation. 5. The current Ethics Code was first approved in 2002 and with two standards revised in 2010.