Susan is a counselor who is going to administer a questionnaire to her client to assess for symptoms of anxiety. As Susan is reviewing which anxiety questionnaire to administer, she notices several questions on one questionnaire that assessed for hallucinations and other psychotic features, distorted thinking, and paranoia. Assuming that the questionnaire is to be measuring only anxiety symptoms, this questionnaire would be considered to have:
a. Low alternate forms reliability
b. Low inter-rater reliability
c. Low internal consistency
d. High discriminate reliability
c. Low internal consistency
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How should counselors determine if instruments may be biased against some client groups?
a. There is no way to know if an assessment is biased unless a counselor uses it with multiple clients b. Counselors should use clinical judgment on a case-by-case basis to determine if a particular client might think an assessment is biased c. The test manual should provide evidence that the instrument was evaluated for possible bias d. This is not a concern with instruments published after 2005
Treatment manuals standardize the treatment of certain conditions by providing
a. a collection of literature to read and implement. b. documents from previous clients with the same condition(s). c. an empirically validated protocol. d. A counselor's private notes taken from client sessions.
Applications of CBT to obsessive-compulsive disorder have tended to show that cognitive restructuring and exposure alone produce:
a. different outcomes. c. smaller effect sizes than medication. b. equivalent efficacy. d. comparable outcomes to medication.
____________ is a general term used to describe points of view that focus on differences between men and women based on genetics and physiology that promotes biological determinism
a. Existentialism b. Social Constructionism c. Feminism d. Essentialism