CPCE Review: Helping Relationships, Career Development, and Assessment (Question Style)

Comprehensive practice flashcards covering Person-Centered, Gestalt, REBT, Cognitive, and Family therapies, Career Development theories (Parsons, Holland, Super, etc.), and Assessment/Testing psychometrics for CPCE preparation.

According to Carl Rogers, what are the three core conditions for Person-Centered Therapy?

Empathy, Congruence, and Unconditional Positive Regard.

In Gestalt Therapy, what technique involves a client speaking to a chair that represents another person?

Empty Chair.

What are the key concepts of Fritz Perls' Gestalt Therapy?

Awareness, responsibility, focusing on the present (Here and Now), and resolving Unfinished Business.

What model does Albert Ellis use in REBT to address irrational beliefs?

The ABCDE Model.

In Cognitive Therapy, Aaron Beck focuses on which two factors that affect emotions?

Automatic thoughts and cognitive distortions.

What are the primary buzzwords associated with Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology?

Inferiority, Birth Order, and Social Interest.

What is the acronym for the technique used in William Glasser's Reality Therapy?

WDEP.

What concerns are addressed in Irvin Yalom's Existential Therapy?

Death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness.

Who is associated with Logotherapy and the belief that humans seek meaning and purpose?

Viktor Frankl.

B.F. Skinner’s Behavioral Therapy is known for which learning process?

Operant Conditioning, involving Reinforcement, Punishment, and Shaping.

Which concept is Albert Bandura known for in Social Learning Theory?

Self-Efficacy and Modeling.

What method did Joseph Wolpe develop for treating anxiety and phobias?

Systematic Desensitization, which uses relaxation plus gradual exposure.

What does the acronym BASIC-ID stand for in Arnold Lazarus' Multimodal Therapy?

Behavior, Affect, Sensation, Imagery, Cognition, Interpersonal, and Drugs/Biology.

What is the 'Miracle Question' and who developed it?

A technique used in Solution-Focused Therapy, developed by Steve de Shazer.

In Murray Bowen’s Family Systems, what is the term for a three-person emotional configuration?

Triangulation (or Triangles).

What concepts are central to Salvador Minuchin's Structural Family Therapy?

Boundaries, Enmeshment, and Disengagement.

What are the five communication styles identified by Virginia Satir?

Placater, Blamer, Computer, Distractor, and Congruent.

What technique in Jay Haley's Strategic Family Therapy involves 'prescribing the symptom'?

Paradoxical Interventions.

Who is known as the 'Father of Career Counseling' and developed Trait and Factor Theory?

Frank Parsons.

What are the six personality types in John Holland's RIASEC model?

Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.

Define 'Congruence' within John Holland’s theory.

The match between a person's personality type and their work environment.

List the five career stages in Donald Super’s Life-Span Life-Space Theory.

Growth, Exploration, Establishment, Maintenance, and Disengagement.

What is 'Planned Happenstance' in John Krumboltz’s theory?

The idea that unexpected opportunities can influence careers and result from learning experiences.

According to Anne Roe’s Needs Theory, what influences career choice?

Parent-child relationships; specifically, warm parenting leads to people-oriented occupations, and cold parenting leads to less people-oriented ones.

Define 'Circumscription' and 'Compromise' in Linda Gottfredson’s theory.

Circumscription is eliminating career options early, and Compromise is choosing realistic alternatives based on gender, social class, and prestige.

What are the three stages of career choice development according to Eli Ginzberg?

Fantasy, Tentative, and Realistic.

Which intelligence test is used for adults aged $16+$?

WAIS-IV (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale).

What is the primary use of the MMPI-2?

To measure personality and psychopathology for diagnostic clarification.

What is a projective test where a client creates stories about pictures?

TAT (Thematic Apperception Test).

Define Reliability and Validity in assessment.

Reliability means consistency; Validity means the test measures what it claims to measure (accuracy).

According to the normal distribution rule ($68-95-99.7$), what percentage of scores fall within $1$ standard deviation?

$$68\%$$

Describe the relationship between the Mean, Median, and Mode in a Positive Skew.

The tail points to the right and $\text{Mean} > \text{Median} > \text{Mode}$.

What are the Mean and Standard Deviation for a Z Score and a T Score?

Z Score: $\text{Mean} = 0, \text{SD} = 1$; T Score: $\text{Mean} = 50, \text{SD} = 10$.

If an individual has an IQ of $100$ and the SEM is $\pm 5$, what is the likely range of their true score?

$$95-105$$

What does a Percentile Rank indicate?

The percentage of people scoring below an individual; it is not the same as percent correct.