Existential counselors will help clients to focus on changing themselves when the situation is unchangeable. How might the counselor accomplish this?
a. By helping a client whose mother has died focus on the pain and turmoil of the loss.
b. By helping a client with inoperable cancer fight death until fighting is no longer possible.
c. By helping a client who is failing high school find the loop hole in the admission. process for college in order to get into a decent institution.
d. By helping a client going through a difficult divorce examine how his choices in dealing with the divorce will impact his children in the long term.
D
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The MMPI tends to focus on personality disorders (formerly Axis II) while the Millon focuses on clinical disorders (formerly Axis I)
a. True b. False
According to Alfred Adler, the purpose of counseling is to:
A. resolve infantile wishes and desires. B. restore faith in self and to overcome feelings of inferiority. C. satisfy basic psychological needs while creating a life script. D. to optimize the innate tendency toward self-actualization.
Which of the following statements is the best example of a goal in existential counseling?
a. Develop a sense of identity that is less dependent on financial status. b. Reduce depressed mood. c. Create greater acceptance of change. d. Reduce existential anxiety and/or fear of being alone.
Religion is usually a source of positive support in times of bereavement. How might it also be a source of additional stress at this time?
A. Sanctions against suicide may prevent religious funerals or burials. B. End of life issues may be proscribed by religious doctrine. C. Family members may argue for their own traditions, without consideration for the wishes of the deceased. D. All of the above.