Elements of Counseling
Scott T. Meier/Susan R. Davis
1. Define the process of counseling.
2. Define eclectic counseling.
3. What does Research tell us about outcome measures and
various counseling approaches?
4. Identify what beginning counselors must do to master
the process of counseling.
5. How does one know what approach to use with a client?
6. If you allow your clients to lead in the initial stages
of counseling, what will begin to develop?
7. Is it necessary for a therapist to space time between
clients and if so what is the purpose of this time?
8. When social work counselors invite their clients into
a working alliance what social work values are being addressed?
9. In order for informed consent to be valid the client
must have four attributes.
10. Define pace and lead the client.
11. How much should a counselor talk during a session?
12. Is silence a benefit to the counseling process ---
defend your decision.
13. Are you comfortable with silence?
14. Define empathy.
15. Define confrontation.
16. In latter stages of counseling what is the purpose
of confrontation?
17. Define process.
18. What is a counselor's style based on?
19. Define Resistance in counseling.
20. Give an example of resistance in the counseling process.
21. What happens to clients when they learn how to recognize
and express feelings?
22. What does planning for termination at the beginning
of counseling encourage?
23. Does the physical characteristics of the counselor
and the counseling setting affect the counseling process?
List some variables for each.
24. What does self-exploration do for the client?
25. Identify a fault of beginning counselors.
26. Which one is most advantageous in the counseling process?
The strategy to encourage self-
exploration or the strategy
of premature problem solving.
27. Who bears the ultimate responsibility for change?
28. Define self-efficacy.
29. If a counselor asks a sequence of questions how may
the client feel?
30. Discuss the value of listening to your client.
31. Identify examples of nonverbals.
32. Give an example of how a counselor directs a client's
intangible feelings and thoughts to facts.
33. After reading the book and answering the test questions,
indicate on a scale of 1-10 with one being
the least and ten being the most
if this enhanced your learning.
34. Define metaphor.
35. Define summarize.
36. Define sympathy.
37. Define agreement in relation to: the counselor
--- friends and family.
38. Human behavior has multiple causes and no counselor
can always be aware of all the factors helping
and hindering change. Identify
and list some of these factors.
39. Define irrational thinking.
40. Define judgemental.
41. Identify factors that may change a counselor's assessment.
42. Are the terms sin and forgiveness counseling concepts?
43. Define assume.
44. Are you able to know a client's thoughts and or feelings?
45. Define crisis.
46. Define suicide.
Define lethality.
Define method in relation to suicide.
Is suicide risk more feasible
if the client has previously attempted suicide?
47. With suicidal clients who needs to maintain control?
48. Counselors need to pay attention to their stereotypes,
biases, faith beliefs and spirituality.
Identify client issues that
could also confound the counseling process?
49. Is one to one counseling always the treatment of choice?
State two other methods of
therapeutic intervention.
50. Define Moxley (1989) term linkage.
51. Is it possible for a client to deteriorate during the
counseling process?
52. If you cannot help every client, what action is required?
53. Is it wise to push a client with frustrating comments
and confrontation?
54. Name the therapeutic approach that emphasizes frustration
and confrontation.
55. What is the benefit of the research process to counselors?
56. Is it necessary to document your work?
57. List the five benefits of validation through documentation.
58. List what you should write in your notes.
59. As a counselor, how would you respond with no-shows?
60. As a counselor if you cancel a session, what is a standard
rule?
61. Has managed care an effect on private counseling?
62. What do managed care companies value most?
63. Enter one of the websites on the Internet and explore
an interest, then list the web site you used.
64. Is it important to know yourself before you engage
in counseling?
65. How did you decide to become a social worker and or
counselor?
66. What emotions are you uncomfortable with?
67. At what rate of change do most people change?
68. How will you deal with your clients expressed feelings
for you (word) and (action)?
69. How will you handle your feelings (word) and (action)
for your client?
70. What does the NASW code of Ethics direct in relation
to questions #68 and #69.
71. Define supervision.
72. What are you expected to know about yourself as a counselor?
73. Define tests.
74. For what purpose does a counselor employ tests?
75. For ethical questions what and or who would you consult?
76. Identify precedents that the Tarasoff and Tarasoff
II cases set in motion for counselors to act on.
77. Define affect.
78. Define cognition.
79. Define behaviors.
80. Define permanence of change.
81. Define Desynchrony.
82. Brief comment on: Person-Centered Counseling.
83. Behavioral counseling.
84. Cognitive, cognitive/behavioral counseling, and social
learning theory.
85. Gestalt counseling.
86. Psychoanalytic and psycho dynamic counseling.
87. Existential counseling.
88. Group counseling.
89. Family Systems Counseling.
90. Brief therapy.
91-100. Brief comment on Research on counseling and psycho-therapy
and outcome measures.