CPCE Study Guide 2026
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📋 CPCE Exam Format at a Glance
📚 CPCE Topics to Study (69)
✍️ Sample CPCE Questions & Answers
1. A counselor is required by law to release a minor client's assessment records to the child's parent. This situation illustrates a conflict between:
Legal requirements for disclosure can conflict with the counselor's ethical duty to protect client confidentiality, including assessment data.
2. A counselor using the Adlerian technique of 'acting as if' would ask the client to:
'Acting as if' encourages clients to try out new behaviors and attitudes by pretending they already possess the qualities they desire.
3. The 'happenstance' component of Krumboltz's revised theory suggests that counselors should help clients:
Planned Happenstance Theory encourages curiosity, persistence, and openness so clients can transform chance events into career opportunities.
4. The concept of 'fidelity' as an ethical principle in counseling means:
Fidelity refers to honoring promises, being trustworthy, and maintaining loyalty to ethical obligations in the counselor-client relationship.
5. Privilege in counseling refers to:
Privilege is a legal concept that belongs to the client, protecting their confidential communications from compelled disclosure in court.
6. A counselor uses a career interest inventory to predict job satisfaction five years later. This is an example of assessing:
Predictive validity examines how well a test score forecasts a future criterion, such as job satisfaction measured years later.