National Counselor Exam Prep Flashcards
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In structural family therapy (Minuchin), 'enmeshment' refers to:
Answer: Overly diffuse boundaries where members are excessively intertwined
Enmeshment describes families with blurred boundaries where individual autonomy is sacrificed for togetherness.
A counselor practicing Gestalt therapy asks a client to 'speak to' an empty chair. This technique is used to:
Answer: Help the client process unfinished business with someone significant
The empty-chair technique allows clients to express feelings and complete unresolved emotional dialogues with others or with parts of themselves.
Which level of Maslow's hierarchy must generally be met before esteem needs can be fully addressed?
Answer: Belongingness and love needs
Maslow's hierarchy places belongingness and love needs (level 3) immediately below esteem needs (level 4), so social connection typically precedes self-esteem development.
A school counselor notices a student's academic performance has sharply declined. Before concluding the cause is emotional, the counselor should first:
Answer: Rule out learning disabilities or medical factors through appropriate assessment
A comprehensive assessment approach requires ruling out academic or medical contributors before attributing performance decline solely to emotional causes.
The term 'vicarious traumatization' describes:
Answer: Cumulative transformation in a counselor's worldview from repeated exposure to clients' trauma
Vicarious traumatization is a fundamental shift in a counselor's core beliefs and worldview resulting from empathic engagement with traumatized clients over time.
In research, 'internal validity' is threatened by which of the following?
Answer: Failure to randomly assign participants to conditions (selection bias)
Selection bias (non-random assignment) threatens internal validity by making it unclear whether the independent variable — not pre-existing group differences — caused the outcome.
Super's developmental self-concept theory of career development emphasizes that career choice is:
Answer: An implementation of one's self-concept that evolves across the lifespan
Donald Super viewed career development as a lifelong process through which individuals implement and refine their self-concepts in work roles.