What are some best practices to ensure ethical and legal integrity when conducting group counseling?
What will be an ideal response?
Response needs to include the following: Mention of Corey et al. (1995): “best way to avoid malpractice suits is to practice within the boundaries of one’s competency and to practice in a reasonable, ordinary, and prudent manner” and/or identifying the need to understand laws of the state; use written contracts; secure permission from guardians when working with minors; and ensure rights and safety of members.
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When the analyst offers the interpretation—with empathy—of her client's choice to leave home when she became pregnant (even though the client was a teenager) to make it on her own with her baby, this is known as what in psychoanalytic counseling?
a. Intersubjective Responding b. Dream Interpretation c. Free Association d. Understanding-Explaining Sequence
In a number conservation task a set of discrete items is laid out in two rows They are first laid out in exactly the same way, and then one row is moved so that the items are farther apart. Typically, 3- and 4-year-olds
a. recognize that the rows have the same number when they are arranged identically, but believe there are more items when they are farther apart. b. have no trouble with simple number conservation tasks like this, but make mistakes with more abstract math problems. c. can easily decenter from the number of objects to consider the spacing of items at the same time. d. realize that number of items is conserved when they are moved around, because they take into account all the relevant observations at once.
The Gestalt belief that individuals are able to move from one set of needs (foreground) to another (background) and back (foreground) is termed _________________.
a. awareness b. elasticity c. dialogue d. polarity
It is often necessary to challenge many clients as part of the therapeutic process. Doing so in the very early stages of psychotherapy
a. might provoke misunderstanding and a poor working alliance that dooms the relationship b. is necessary and often provides the “spark” that some clients need to more totally engage in the therapy c. is necessary but often not accomplished due to the discomfort many psychotherapists feel when challenging clients d. is necessary and therapeutic, even if the client becomes defensive, hostile, and negative