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CPCE practice questions

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1. 1. Professional orientation & ethics

   Under the ACA Code of Ethics, a counselor must break confidentiality without consent when:

   A client discusses a past crimeA client discloses a serious and foreseeable risk of harm to an identifiable personA family member asks for session notesA client misses three sessions

2. 2. Professional orientation & ethics

   Which organization accredits counseling graduate programs?

   NBCCCACREPACAAPA

3. 3. Social & cultural diversity

   In Atkinson, Morten, and Sue's minority identity development model, the first stage is:

   Resistance and immersionIntrospectionConformityIntegrative awareness

4. 4. Social & cultural diversity

   A counselor who assumes their own cultural values apply to every client is showing:

   Cultural encapsulationAcculturationCultural relativismAssimilation

5. 5. Human growth & development

   In Piaget's theory, conservation first appears in which stage?

   SensorimotorPreoperationalConcrete operationalFormal operational

6. 6. Human growth & development

   Erikson's stage for adolescence is:

   Industry vs. inferiorityIdentity vs. role confusionIntimacy vs. isolationInitiative vs. guilt

7. 7. Career development

   Holland's RIASEC code describes:

   Life stages of career developmentPersonality types matched to work environmentsCareer decision-making stylesValues clarification steps

8. 8. Career development

   Super's theory is best known for the idea of:

   Circumscription and compromiseThe life-span, life-space career rainbowPlanned happenstanceTrait-and-factor matching

9. 9. Counseling & helping relationships

   Rogers' core conditions are empathy, congruence, and:

   InterpretationUnconditional positive regardConfrontationHomework

10. 10. Counseling & helping relationships

    Which approach uses the A-B-C-D-E model of disputing irrational beliefs?

    Reality therapyREBTGestalt therapyAdlerian therapy

11. 11. Group counseling & group work

    In Tuckman's model, the stage marked by conflict and testing the leader is:

    FormingStormingNormingAdjourning

12. 12. Group counseling & group work

    Yalom's therapeutic factor where members feel they are not alone in their problems is:

    CatharsisUniversalityAltruismCohesiveness

13. 13. Assessment & testing

    A test that consistently measures the same thing over time has high:

    ValidityReliabilityNormingStandardization

14. 14. Assessment & testing

    In a normal distribution, about what percent of scores fall within one standard deviation of the mean?

    50%68%95%99.7%

15. 15. Assessment & testing

    A T-score has a mean of:

    01050100

16. 16. Research & program evaluation

    Rejecting a true null hypothesis is a:

    Type I errorType II errorSampling errorMeasurement error

17. 17. Research & program evaluation

    To compare the means of three or more groups, a researcher would use:

    Chi-squaret-testANOVAPearson r

18. 18. Research & program evaluation

    An evaluation done while a program is running, to improve it, is:

    SummativeFormativeLongitudinalMeta-analytic

19. 19. Counseling & helping relationships

    The 'miracle question' comes from:

    Solution-focused brief therapyPsychoanalysisBehavior therapyExistential therapy

20. 20. Professional orientation & ethics

    Informed consent should be:

    Signed once and never revisitedAn ongoing process throughout counselingOnly needed for minorsOptional for brief counseling