A primary competency for school counselors who wish to be effective in counseling diverse students is to
a) embrace one of the European oriented theories of practice
b) learn basic attending skills, especially eye contact
c) become aware of their own cultural values and biases
d) be accepting of all student behavior no matter how anti-social.
c
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1.Since individuals evaluate themselves through the imagined eyes of others, their narratives tell stories about themselves of which they expect and hope others will approve. 2.Rather than re-author their narratives, as clients begin to understand their desire for control the therapist and client can work to adapt alternative ways of coping and behavior to the original narrative. 3.What clinical experience and research indicate is that to decrease negative affect, narrative therapists work with clients to avoid it. 4.Vicarious experience, or watching others perform a behavior and inferring one’s self-efficacy on the basis of the model’s performance, is not an effective source of changing a client’s self-efficacy:
REBT holds that neurotic problems directly stem from:
a. impaired family relationships. b. childhood traumatic events. c. magical, non-validated thinking. d. physiological predispositions.
Understanding group dynamics is central to all of the following EXCEPT
a. Maintaining a viable family b. Long term maintenance of psychological health c. Effective business d. Facilitating mother-child bonding
Counseling theory is helpful because:
A. it provides a blueprint for action. B. it organizes knowledge and information in ways that allow for easy retrieval. C. it develops rules to explain, predict, and guide behaviors. D. all of the above.