Instructions: Counselor responses follow. Identify what type of focus the responder is using in the reply to the following statement. ? Client: I just found that I'm pregnant. I don't know who it was, but I have an idea who it is most likely to be. But no one is likely to help. My family doesn't know yet, and they really deserted me last time I got in trouble. I've only talked to them a few
times, and we are starting to get along again, but now... I wonder what's going to happen. I just feel lost. ? Counselor response: "You must feel lost."? ? This is an encourager with a ____.
A) ?focus on the client
B) ?focus on the main theme or problem
C) ?focus on others
D) ?focus on family
A
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a. instruct clients to call a 24-hour mental health hotline number or report to a hospital emergency room. b. give clients their home phone number. c. supply clients with a pager number by which the counselor may be reached. d. avoid accepting clients for counseling who may have between session emergencies. e. explain to clients that any situation they are dealing with can be resolved at the next regularly scheduled counseling session.
The therapeutic modality for most programs for batterers relies on
a. an empathic listening and responding approach to assure clients they are heard and cared for. b. a confrontational approach to catch minimizing and projecting of inadequate and insecure behaviors onto significant others. c. a cognitive-behavioral approach that changes irrational thinking, self-sabotaging, selective forgetting, setting oneself up for violence, and other maladaptive cognitions. d. a dynamic approach that helps achieve insight into present behaviors by interpreting and understanding past behaviors from childhood.
How could professional school counselors without teaching experience be at a disadvantage?
A. Schools prefer to hire counselors who were formerly teachers. B. Professional school counselors are expected to become skilled at teaching. C. They are not at a disadvantage now, though they used to be. D. Biased administrators will evaluate them unfavorably.
One of the early uses of virtual reality in counseling has been with the treatment of individuals who have been diagnosed with ______.
A. somatoform disorder B. PTSD C. insomnia D. schizophrenia