MC Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. Which model says that a crisis can lead to both opportunities for growth and possible risks? → Danger and Opportunity Model
2. Which term describes the tendency for clients from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to have more restricted career aspirations due to structural barriers? → Social class and career opportunity gap
3. Trust in a relationship is affected by a person's cultural competence. → True
4. Which assessment tool is specifically designed to measure anxiety symptoms and is widely used in both research and clinical practice? → GAD-7
5. Which of the following are traits that everyone has from birth: → Primary Dimensions
6. Which thinker made important contributions to behavior therapy by discovering classical conditioning? → Ivan Pavlov
7. The cognitive key is about how people feel when they are in a crisis. → FALSE
8. The goal of the Community Mental Health Act of 1963 was: → Provide mental health treatment for individuals in crisis
9. A excellent program to help an agency become more culturally competent: → Involves understanding and addressing biases
10. Which domain focuses on thinking or thought processes, forming one of the three foundations for a comprehensive approach to counseling practice? → Cognitive domain
11. Which of the following instances for refusing services would NOT qualify as discrimination? → Smell
12. A meta-analysis in counseling research synthesizes findings from multiple studies primarily to: → Calculate an overall effect size across the body of research
13. Which diagnostic manual is the primary reference used by licensed counselors in the United States for classifying mental health disorders? → DSM-5-TR
14. Many of the people who lived through the 1942 fire in Coconut Grove were in crisis, which led to the development of which mental health treatment? → Crisis Intervention
15. A counselor wants to compare a client's test score to how others in the general population performed. This requires the use of: → Normative data
16. Which term refers to groups that are time-limited, structured, consist of 8 to 12 weekly sessions, and focus on specific issues? → Brief group therapy
17. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) includes validity scales primarily to: → Detect response bias and inconsistency
18. When a counselor helps a client construct a career narrative using storytelling and personal meaning-making, they are using: → Career construction theory (Savickas)
19. What is the core focus of cognitive therapy? → Changing dysfunctional thinking
20. A counselor using a single-subject research design (SSRD) is most likely interested in: → Tracking an individual client's progress across baseline and intervention phases
21. According to Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) refers to: → The gap between what a child can do alone and what they can achieve with skilled guidance
22. What term describes an approach that focuses on differences, includes aspects from multiple approaches, but is not advisable due to a lack of integration? → Eclectic
23. "Culture" refers to both a person's race and his or her background. → TRUE
24. What is a general framework that guides your understanding of group processes, interventions, and potential outcomes? → Theory
25. A counselor evaluating their own program uses a 'logic model' to: → Visually map inputs, activities, outputs, and expected outcomes
26. Which domain focuses on feelings and emotions, forming one of the three foundations for a comprehensive approach to practice? → Affective domain
27. John Bowlby's attachment theory proposes that infants develop secure attachments to caregivers primarily based on which factor? → The caregiver's responsiveness and sensitivity to the infant's needs
28. When a client in early recovery reports intense cravings for their substance of choice, the counselor should: → Normalize cravings and teach urge surfing and coping strategies
29. Which of these is a "common belief about a group's members?" → Stereotype
30. What is the term used to describe comprehensive regulations and guidelines governing the operation of a business? → Office policies and procedures