Fundamentals of Counseling Flashcards
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The term 'dual relationship' in counseling ethics refers to:
Answer: Having a professional role and a secondary relationship with a client simultaneously
A dual relationship occurs when a counselor holds a professional role alongside another type of relationship (social, business, romantic) with the same client.
According to Albert Ellis's REBT, psychological disturbance is primarily caused by:
Answer: Irrational beliefs about events and circumstances
REBT holds that it is not external events (A) but irrational beliefs (B) about those events that cause emotional and behavioral consequences (C).
A counselor notices a pattern of feeling personally responsible when clients do not improve. This is most likely an example of:
Answer: Countertransference
Over-responsibility for client outcomes reflects countertransference—the counselor's own unresolved issues affecting their response to the therapeutic relationship.
In systems theory, the concept of 'homeostasis' refers to a family's tendency to:
Answer: Maintain stable, familiar patterns of interaction even when dysfunctional
Homeostasis describes a family system's drive to maintain its equilibrium and familiar interactional patterns, even when those patterns are unhealthy.
The Tarasoff decision established that counselors have a duty to:
Answer: Warn identifiable third parties of credible threats made by clients
The 1976 Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California ruling created the duty-to-warn/protect doctrine for identifiable potential victims.
Which theoretical approach would most likely use a 'miracle question' as a clinical technique?
Answer: Solution-focused brief therapy
The miracle question is a hallmark technique of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg.
When a counselor is working with a client who has a different cultural background, cultural humility requires the counselor to:
Answer: Continuously reflect on their own biases and remain open to learning from the client
Cultural humility involves ongoing self-reflection, acknowledging the limits of one's cultural knowledge, and centering the client as the expert on their own cultural experience.