CRC Counseling Theory 5 â Questions and Answers
Question 1: A rehabilitation counselor applies 'role induction' at the start of counseling. This technique primarily serves to:
- Assign the client a specific role in group therapy
- Prepare clients for what to expect from the counseling process (Correct answer)
- Analyze the client's typical social roles and functioning
- Establish transference dynamics early in treatment
Correct answer: Prepare clients for what to expect from the counseling process
Role induction involves orienting clients to the counseling processâexplaining its rationale, structure, and expectationsâwhich has been shown to improve engagement and reduce dropout.
Question 2: Which theorist introduced the concept of the 'inferiority complex' and its role in motivating human behavior?
- Sigmund Freud
- Alfred Adler (Correct answer)
- Carl Jung
- Erik Erikson
Correct answer: Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler proposed that all humans begin life with feelings of inferiority and that striving to overcome these feelings is the primary motivating force behind human behavior.
Question 3: In dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), the core dialectic the therapist must balance is:
- Confrontation and support
- Acceptance and change (Correct answer)
- Insight and behavioral activation
- Cognitive restructuring and exposure
Correct answer: Acceptance and change
Linehan's DBT is built on the dialectic of accepting clients exactly as they are while simultaneously pushing for change, holding both positions without favoring one exclusively.
Question 4: A counselor who reflects on how their own cultural background may bias their perception of a client is demonstrating:
- Cultural encapsulation
- Cultural self-awareness (Correct answer)
- Multicultural counseling competence domain: knowledge
- Empathic confrontation
Correct answer: Cultural self-awareness
Cultural self-awarenessârecognizing how one's own values, assumptions, and biases influence counselingâis a foundational multicultural competency in the awareness domain.
Question 5: In psychoanalytic theory, 'sublimation' is best described as:
- Repressing unacceptable impulses into the unconscious
- Channeling unacceptable impulses into socially constructive activities (Correct answer)
- Projecting one's own feelings onto another person
- Reverting to earlier, less mature behavioral patterns under stress
Correct answer: Channeling unacceptable impulses into socially constructive activities
Sublimation is considered a mature defense mechanism in which unacceptable sexual or aggressive impulses are redirected into socially valued activities such as art, sports, or work.
Question 6: The rehabilitation counseling concept of 'coping with disability' is most aligned with which theoretical framework?
- Psychoanalytic drive theory
- Cognitive-behavioral and adjustment theories (Correct answer)
- Classical conditioning models
- Jungian archetype theory
Correct answer: Cognitive-behavioral and adjustment theories
Coping with disability in rehabilitation counseling draws heavily from cognitive-behavioral frameworks and adjustment theories (Livneh and Antonak) that examine appraisal, coping strategies, and psychosocial adaptation.
Question 7: Which of the following best illustrates 'paradoxical intention,' a technique from Viktor Frankl's logotherapy?
- Asking the client to keep a journal of irrational thoughts
- Encouraging the client to intentionally bring on or wish for their feared symptom (Correct answer)
- Having the client rehearse assertive behaviors in session
- Guiding the client through a hierarchy of anxiety-provoking images
Correct answer: Encouraging the client to intentionally bring on or wish for their feared symptom
Paradoxical intention asks clients to intend or wish for the very thing they fear, which breaks the anticipatory anxiety cycle by reducing avoidance and the fear of the symptom itself.
CRC Counseling Theory 5
A rehabilitation counselor applies 'role induction' at the start of counseling.
This technique primarily serves to: