Prepare for your National Counselor Exam (NCE) with these practice questions and answers. This guide covers counseling theories, ethics, assessment methods, group counseling, and intervention techniques.
Q: ABC model
Answer: Used in REBT. A-situation B-belief C-emotional response
Q: ACA
Answer: American counseling association. Primary representative association in the US. Validates and expands counseling
Q: Adlerian counseling
Answer: Focuses on modifying client belief systems to create a healthier perspective.
Q: Behavioral therapy
Answer: Focuses on helping clients improve their moods through altering the actions.
Q: Acculturation
Answer: When a person adapts their own culture to accommodate elements of a new culture
Q: Affective domain
Answer: Focused on non-cognitive understanding such as emotions, personality, interests…
Q: Affect display actions
Answer: Type of body language. Actions which convey emotions.
Q: Analytical perspective
Answer: Branch of psychodynamic theory developed by Carl Jung. Considers collective unconscious. Q
Q: ADA
Answer: Requires that all public buildings are accessible
Q: CACREP
Answer: Counsel for accreditation of counseling and related education programs.
Q: B F skinner
Answer: Famed for developing the classical conditioning model of learning.
Q: Carl Rogers
Answer: Developed person-centered therapy model. A self directive, humanistic therapy.
Q: Civil rights act
Answer: Prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, and nationality
Q: Classical conditioning
Answer: Involves creating a link between neutral stimulus and a desired response. First studied by Pavlov.
Q: Clinical psychology
Answer: The treatment of a mentally ill individual, and the study of other behavioral anomalies and psychiatric problems.
Q: Cognitive therapy
Answer: Asserts that clients can understand their own thought processes, that they have personal meaning and discovering the meanings will lead to personal improvement.
Q: Cognitive domain
Answer: Focused on intellectual, knowledge-oriented testing.
Q: Counseling psychology
Answer: Emphasis in treating otherwise healthy individuals who are struggling with problems of a psychological nature.
Q: Dereflection
Answer: A distraction technique in logotherapy that attempts to draw attention away from the problem.
Q: Developmental career approaches
Answer: Focuses on career development as a process. Ginzberg and super’s theories.
Q: Dorothea Dix
Answer: Improved the treatment of mentally ill individuals.
Q: Dynamic equilibrium
Answer: A state where things are constantly changing but the balance of the system is maintained.
Q: Eclectic therapy
Answer: A combination of multiple approaches in treatment of patients.
Q: Edmund husserl
Answer: Developed phenomenological approach.
Q: Edward tichener
Answer: Worked with wilhelm Wundt to develop structuralism.
Q: Erik erikson
Answer: A psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth of human babies
Q: 4 consultation models
Answer: Mental health, training workshop, behavioral, and process
Q: Gestalt therapy
Answer: Asserts that individuals attempting to change into something they are not causes stagnation
Q: Jean Piaget
Answer: Studied the development of children’s understanding and developed a model of development.
Q: Maslows hierarchy of needs
Answer: Physical, safety, belonging and love, esteem, self-actualization
Q: Multicultural therapy
Answer: Considers the cultural factors relevant to a clients situation
Q: Murray Bowen
Answer: Worked in family therapy. Developed differentiation and emotional fusion.
Q: Operant conditioning
Answer: Involves creating an association between actions and consequences. Studied by skinner.
Q: Qualia
Answer: Abstract term used in phenomenology it describe a persons unique perception.
Q: Psychodynamic therapy
Answer: Identifies and works through maladaptive functions of the subconscious. Actions are controlled by unconscious motivations.
Q: Satirs 4 dysfunctional communicators
Answer: Computer, distractor, placator, blamer
Q: Simon- Binet scale
Answer: First IQ test
Q: Somatic symptoms
Answer: Physical symptoms. Emphasized by cultures less trusting of counseling
Q: Structuralism
Answer: first major school of thought in psychology which attempted to deconstruct reactions to basic motives behind them.
Q: Structured observation
Answer: The observer defines ahead of time the elements and behaviors they wish to observe.
Q: Test validity
Answer: The extent to which a test actually tests the information it’s supposed to
Q: Test reliability
Answer: The extent to which a test is consistent among individuals.
Q: Viktor Frankel
Answer: Developed logotherapy
Q: Virginia Satir
Answer: Family therapy. Studied triadic relationships and dysfunctional communication patterns.