Counseling Children 9e Chapters 12-20 (Henderson and Thompson)

What is the goal of rational-emotive-behavioral counseling?

Teach people to think and behave in a more personally satisfying way

Rational-emotive-behavioral counseling is ________. (Communication Style)

Didactic

REBT is founded on the idea that what distresses people is

What they think about an event

According to REBT, people have choices over

What they think and how they reacttheir thoughts and emotions.

REBT proposes that people can be loving and helpful as long as

They do not think irrationally

World-demandingness includes the belief that life should be

Enjoyable

In the ABCDE model of REBT, the B stands for

Behavior

One way counselors can detect irrational thinking is to look for

Overgeneralizations

“I prefer to succeed and it is unpleasant when I fail” would be considered a healthy or an unhealthy belief by Ellis?

Healthy

Which of the following is most correct concerning rational-emotive-behavioral therapy?

“Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” (Shakespeare)

“Men are not disturbed by things, but by the view we take of them.” (Epictetus)

“It is what you tell yourself that makes you feel bad.” (Ellis)
All of the choices are correct

All of the choices are correct

Cognitive therapy focuses on people’s _________ as a pathway to change.

Thinking

Beck believes that various mental disorders have

Particular cognitive patterns

Beck and Weishaar (2008) noted that people are

Actively creating and moving toward goals

Distress occurs when people

Experience a threat to their interests

The Hierarchial Structural Model describes _____ level(s) of cognition.

4 (four)

Cognitive distortions cancel out

Disconfirming evidence

Cognitive therapists see personality as

A reflection of the person’s cognitive organization and structure

According to cognitive therapists, mental illness is the result of

Maladaptive thinking patterns

Which of the following is NOT a fundamental concept in cognitive therapy?

Collaborative empiricism

Guided discovery

Socratic dialogue

Musts, and should

Musts, and should

Which of the following is a stress inoculation technique?

Contingency contracting
Reframing exercises
Dream interpretation
Style of life assessment

Reframing exercises

The individual primarily responsible for the development of Transactional Analysis was

Eric Berne

The Transactional Analysis theory of human nature and relationships is derived from all of the following except

Transgenerational analysis
Structural analysis of personality
Game analysis
Script analysis

Transgenerational analysis

Which of the following is one of the three ego states proposed by TA?

Middle child
Parent
Elderly
Spouse

Parent

According to TA, what is NOT one of the categories of transactions?

Crossed
Complimentary
Symmetrical
Covert or ulterior

Symmetrical

Which of the following is one of four (4) life positions in TA?

“I’m not well - you’re well.”
“I’m okay - we’re okay.”
“I’m not okay - you’re okay.”
“I’m well - you’re not well.”

“I’m not okay - you’re okay.”

One of the most used methods in TA is

Stroking

Berne believed people are born

As princes and princesses

The following dialogue, “Have you seen my glasses?” “Find them yourself.”, would be an example of what type of transaction?

Crossed transaction

Which of Berne’s ego states roughly approximates Freud’s concept of ego?

Adult

According to TA, the child part of the personality includes

The adapted child
The little professor
The free child

Family therapy almost always involves interventions to alter

The way a family system operates

Family therapy uses _______ for diagnosis.

Circular causality

Murray Bowen focuses on how family members could maintain a healthy level of _______ while maintaining _________.

Individuality
Closeness

Jane increasingly confides in her daughter about problems in Jane’s marriage. According to Bowen, this is an example of

Triangulation

For positive changes in an identified client (Family Therapy)

Family members have to change the way they interact

All of the following are premises of structural family therapy EXCEPT:

A functional family may have multiple subsystems
In a functional family, the subject matter of each subsystem should be shared with the other subsystems
A functional family has members who respect boundaries within the family
In a functional family, an appropriate boundary balance is found to be too rigid and too diffuse

In a functional family, the subject matter of each subsystem should be shared with the other subsystems.

Which of the following is central to Bowen’s theory?

Paradoxical interventions
Understanding family emotional systems
Scripts in the family
Child development process

Child development process

Which of the following is true of Minuchin’s work?

He viewed psychosomatic illness as a symptom brought on and maintained by the family.
Both in therapy, he refrained from becoming a “member” of the family, and he viewed psychosomatic illness as a symptom brought on and maintained by the family.
He developed his therapy style while working in a child development center in an affluent neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
In therapy, he refrained from becoming a “member” of the family.

He viewed psychosomatic illness as a symptom brought on and maintained by the family.

Second-order change is (Family Therapy)

When symptom and system are repaired

What is the meaning of “strategic” as related to family therapy?

A specific, brief plan devised by the therapist

Consultation is the process in which the consultant works with a __________ with the goal of bringing about a positive change in the ___________.

Consultee
Client

When a consultant comes to the organization to consult about the mental health or organizational factors, this approach is referred to as:

Program-centered administrative consultation

The approach wherein a consulate presents information about a client who is having some difficulty and asks the consultant for assistance in developing a plan is called

Client-centered case consultation

Process consultation focuses on

How problems are solved and the system in which the problems occur

The consultation model that emphasizes such techniques as reinforcement, punishment, and shaping is referred to as

Behavioral consultation

Behavioral consultation is the application of _________ to the problem-solving process.

Systems theory and principles of learning

The first stage of the consulting process focuses on:

Brainstorming
Goal setting
Information gathering
None of the choices

None of the choices

Collaborative consultation includes voluntary participation, equality, and

Shared accountability

Myrick includes which of the following for clarifying the problem situation?

What are the weakness of the system?
Who will be responsible for the payment?
Who is to take the blame?
What has been done previously?

What has been done previously?

A common interview used by counselors to observe, evaluate, and describe a person's psychological and cognitive functioning at a specific point in time is the

Mental Status Evaluation (MSE)

One of the early play therapists was

Melanie Klein

Which of the following is NOT among the 14 (fourteen) therapeutic powers of play identified by Schaefer?

Relationship enhancement
Mastering developmental fears
Creative thinking
Overcoming inappropriate attachments

Overcoming inappropriate attachments

Kottman suggests that play therapy would NOT be appropriate for children with

Severe conduct disorder

In an effort to understand the home environment of children, the text suggests counselors talk with parents about their values on the competing issues of individualism and

Connectedness

Which of the following is NOT true of filial therapy?

Has been demonstrated to work with clients from many groups
Uses learning theory to develop goals
Parents are not directly involved
A primary goal is to help children reduce problem behaviors

Parents are not directly involved

In Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), the counselor

Does NOT teach or encourage practice sessions

The goal of ecosystemic play therapy is

Helping children have their needs met without interfering with the ability of other people to get their needs met

Because children often believe they are invisible when they put on sunglasses, Gill suggests using sunglasses in her work with ________ children.

Abused

Play media should be chosen on which of the following criteria?

Facilitating the relationship
Helping the counselors gain insight into the child’s world
Encouraging the child’s expression
All of the choices are correct

All of the choices are correct

Prescriptive play therapy invlves

A counselor tailoring the interventions for each child

In groups, children can

Be supported by each other
Practice new behaviors
Learn from other group members
All of the choices are correct

All of the choices are correct

The primary goal of groups with children is

To provide them with chances to make choices and complete them

Types of groups include

Counseling groups
Therapy groups
Psycho-educational groups
All of the choices are correct

All of the choices are correct

A topic that may be addressed successfully in counseling group is

Facing transitions

The type and functioning of a group is determined primarily by its

Goal

All of the following are among the 16 (sixteen) skills used by effective group leaders EXCEPT

Facilitating catharsis for each member
Confronting group members’ behavior
Engaging in appropriate self-disclosure
Observing and identifying the group process

Facilitating catharsis for each member

It is recommended that counselors consider designing groups for children and young adolescents to be more _______ than for older participants.

Action-oriented

Which of the following children might profit more from individual counseling than from group?

An extremely dominating child
A “newcomer” to school
A child whose family is going through a divorce
An underachieving child

An extremely dominating child M

Members are tentative and reserved during what stage of the group process

Initial stage

Child maltreatment refers to

Neglect
S*xual abuuse
Physical abuse
All of these choices and more are correct

All of these choices and more are correct

Reactions children have to abuse vary according to their

Developmental stage

Of the following, which are believed to be more difficult clients because of mistrust?

S*xually abused children
Physically abused children
Emotionally abused children
Both physically abused children and emotionally abused children

S*xually abused children

Which of the following are NOT included in the alcoholic family’s “unspoken rules”?

Do NOT feel.
DO be better and more responsible.
Do NOT blame chemical dependency.
DO have fun.

DO have fun.

Among the common factors of adolescents who display antisocial behavior are

Intact families
Weak social connections
Upper class backgrounds
Below average intelligence

Weak social connections

The most critical factor in helping children through divorce is

Parental support

In coming to terms with death, children need to

Accept the reality of the loss
Experience the pain of the loss
Adjust to an environment in which the significant one is missed
All of the choices are correct

All of the choices are correct

Recommendations for working with children who are depressed include

Life skills training

The best predictor of suicide is

Suicidal ideation

Antisocial behavior refers to

Acts that conflict with social norms

Which of the following is true of exceptional children?

They may fall within a spectrum of exceptional conditions
They deviate from what is considered average or normal
They are different from their peers in some way
All of the choices are correct

All of the choices are correct

A person with handicaps is not limited as much by the disability as by

Society’s attitude toward the condition

What do IDEA and Section 504 have in common?

Both are federal mandates

What guides the provision of education for children with disabilities?

Federal disabilities guidelines

A disability means

A reduction or absence of functioning in a particular body part or organ

Which of the following is NOT an identified disability under IDEA?

Behaviorally/emotionally disabled
ADHD
Autism
Deaf-blindness

ADHD

One of the primary concerns of a counselor working with children with disabilities should be

The child’s self-concept

The definition of “mental disability” includes sub-average general intellectual functioning and which of the following?

Adverse effects on educational performance
Reduced rate of learning
Deficits in adaptive behavior
All of the choices are correct

All of the choices are correct

A counselor’s interventions for children who have special needs

Require knowledge of the needs and characteristics of the child

Most definitions of learning disabilities contain references to all of the following EXCEPT:

Academic and learning difficulties
Neurological functioning
Below average intelligence
Uneven growth patterns

Below average intelligence