Discuss the concept of strengths-based counseling.

What will be an ideal response?


Strengths-based counseling focuses on student assets and “positive messages”. It is a positive approach that highlights the student as the expert of his or her life in the counseling dynamic in addition to exploring how strengths and resilience traits have encouraged both coping skills and success in areas of the student’s life. The approach has two goals: (1) problem prevention and reduction and (2) skills acquisition.

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______ uses quantitative data and results to assist in the interpretation of qualitative findings.

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following is NOT one of the three domains assessed on the MMPI-Adolescent-Restructured Form (MMPI-A-RF)?

a. emotional/internalizing dysfunction b. interpersonal dysfunction c. behavioral/externalizing dysfunction d. thought dysfunction

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All of the following are examples of how to break a substance abuse habit, except:

(a) Get arrested every time you purchase heroine (b) Have a positive experience every time you smoke marijuana (c) Replace cocaine use with AA meetings (d) Gradually reintegrate back into social situations where alcohol is present

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Who suggested that the stage of development from ages 6 to 11 emphasizes industriousness; that is, children learn that productivity brings recognition and reward?

a. Super
b. Gottfredson
c. Kail and Cavanaugh
d. Erikson

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