Why is it important for counselors to “check” their own personal values?
What will be an ideal response?
Self-awareness of one’s own judgments and biases is essential in effective counseling. Personal, social, and cultural values impact an individual’s behavior not only for the client but for the counselor as well. The relationship between counselor and client is interactional and therefore differences in values may arise.
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The clinician’s countertransference with AOD clients most often grows out of which experience?
a. Growing up in a family with an alcoholic or drug dependent parent; b. The clinician’s own use of alcohol and/or other drugs; c. Expectations or pressure from referring individuals or agencies that the clinician get the client clean and sober; d. All of the above.
Adler thought that dreams
a. express unconscious conflicts b. represent some current problems of the person c. were great diagnostic tools d. were not of interest in helping the client
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Based on the best available data, 20% of youth in the United States currently suffer from a mental or behavioral disorder. 2. One of the strengths of defining abnormality based on degree of impairment is that it takes into account the distress of those around the individual. 3. The DSM-5 definition of mental disorder highlights how disorders are dependent on the relationships between people and do not merely exist within the diagnosed individual.
Which of the following is true of biomedical research carried out in Germany between 1933 and 1945?
a. All restraints and ethical limitations were removed on researchers when studying individuals from “undesirable” groups within German society b. Research work between 1933 and 1945 with human subjects was tolerated but not supported with public funds and grants to the researchers c. Records of human subject experimentation in that era in Nazi Germany were destroyed when it was obvious that Germany was losing the war d. Severe punishment was suffered by German biomedical researchers after the war at the Nuremberg Trials