When assessing the risk of suicide, the counselor should explore:
a. if there is an actual plan.
b. the availability of the method and the degree to which the method is lethal.
c. past, present, and future stressors.
d. all of the above
Answer: d. all of the above
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Which of the following statements best captures the essence of theoretical integration?
(a) Change cannot occur in the past. (b) Mental health is affected more by attitude than interventions. (c ) Creativity is the mother of invention. (d) The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
What, if any, is the difference between interpretation and reframe?
a. There is no discernable difference. b. Both focus on providing a new way of thinking for the client. c. Interpretation reveals new ways of thinking beneath client conversation; reframe defines a new frame of reference for considering issues. d. Interpretation is new ways of thinking provided by the client; reframe is a new frame of reference provided by the interviewer.
One thought pattern that can serve to keep clients stuck in counterproductive behavior has to do with the ways certain behaviors and thoughts yield:
A. disturbing payoffs B. arousing payoffs C. emotional payoffs D. troubling payoffs
A person who perceives neutral events as containing aggressive or threatening meaning is said to possess a
a. social information processing tendency. b. hostile attributional bias. c. coercive family interaction style. d. hypervigilant attentional process.