In treating suicidal clients, it is most helpful when counselors
a) Help clients overcome their weaknesses
b) Determine clients' motivations for wanting to commit suicide
c) Emphasize client strengths to promote self-esteem
d) Remind clients how much their family would miss them if they committed suicide
C
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What will be an ideal response?
Focusing on a client's judgmental opinion of another person may not be helpful because
A. doing so is clearly a friendship skill. B. it leads away from the client's emotions. C. it may be inaccurate. D. both B and C.
The Eugenics movement believed which of the following?
a. Testing could be used to identify slow learners and the information gained could be used to help them learn better. b. Testing was a poor substitute for other methods (e.g. interviewing) of understanding the person. c. Information from testing could be used to determine which groups of people were intellectually inferior. d. The SATs could be used to help identify slow learners so that one could help these individuals gain entrance into college.
When an inquiry about a client's disposition is made by a governmental agency such as public health officials, the counselor's main responsibility is to:
a. provide only enough information to guard the public health interest. b. provide information only about whether the client is in treatment. c. provide information about whether the client is in treatment, and whether the client is complying with the treatment plan. d. protect confidentiality.