CPCE CPCE MCQ 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: The counseling technique of 'reflecting feelings' primarily serves to:
- Offer advice based on client emotions
- Demonstrate empathy and check the counselor's understanding of the client's emotional state (Correct answer)
- Redirect the client to cognitive content
- Confront the client's irrational beliefs
Correct answer: Demonstrate empathy and check the counselor's understanding of the client's emotional state
Reflecting feelings communicates empathic understanding and invites the client to confirm or clarify the counselor's perception of their emotional experience.
Question 2: Piaget's concrete operational stage typically spans which age range?
- 0–2 years
- 2–7 years
- 7–11 years (Correct answer)
- 12 years and older
Correct answer: 7–11 years
During the concrete operational stage (ages 7–11), children develop logical thinking applied to concrete objects and understand conservation.
Question 3: A counselor working with a Vietnamese American client repeatedly emphasizes Western values of individualism. This reflects a failure to:
- Use evidence-based practices
- Demonstrate cultural humility and awareness of collectivist values (Correct answer)
- Apply cognitive-behavioral techniques
- Conduct a formal intake assessment
Correct answer: Demonstrate cultural humility and awareness of collectivist values
Cultural humility requires recognizing that collectivist cultures may prioritize family and community over individual autonomy.
Question 4: In career counseling, Super's Life-Span, Life-Space theory introduced the concept of:
- Career anchors
- Work adjustment
- The career rainbow and life roles (Correct answer)
- Occupational daydreams
Correct answer: The career rainbow and life roles
Super's theory uses the 'career rainbow' metaphor to depict how individuals occupy multiple life roles (worker, parent, student) across their lifespan.
Question 5: Which of the following best describes a norm-referenced assessment?
- A test that measures mastery of specific content objectives
- A test that compares an individual's score to a standardized comparison group (Correct answer)
- A test that evaluates performance against a predetermined cutoff
- A test developed collaboratively with the client
Correct answer: A test that compares an individual's score to a standardized comparison group
Norm-referenced tests interpret a person's score relative to the performance of a normative sample.
Question 6: The ACA Code of Ethics requires counselors to make reasonable efforts to provide services to clients who cannot afford standard fees. This obligation is related to which ethical principle?
- Fidelity
- Nonmaleficence
- Justice (Correct answer)
- Autonomy
Correct answer: Justice
Justice in counseling ethics involves treating clients fairly and ensuring equitable access to services regardless of financial status.
Question 7: A client in a substance abuse group discloses information about a fellow group member outside of sessions. The counselor's first responsibility is to:
- Report the client to their employer
- Address group confidentiality norms and reinforce ground rules (Correct answer)
- Terminate the disclosing member from the group
- Contact the disclosed member to warn them
Correct answer: Address group confidentiality norms and reinforce ground rules
Counselors cannot control members' behavior outside the group but are responsible for educating members about confidentiality norms within the group.
CPCE CPCE MCQ 3
The counseling technique of 'reflecting feelings' primarily serves to: