Section 1:

1. Introduction
2. The counselor as a therapeutic person
3. Personal counseling for the counselor

QUIZ

Answer the following either T (True) or F (False).

1. One of the most important instruments a counselor has to work with is his or her self as a person.
2. The person and the professional are intertwined entities that cannot be separated in reality.
3. If we hope to promote growth and change in our clients, we must be willing to promote growth in our own lives.
4. The knowledge and skills we gain for counselling are essential by themselves for establishing and maintaining effective therapeutic relationships.
5. Counseling is not an intimate form of learning.
6. It is within the context of a person-to-person relationship that the client experiences growth.
7. Self-evaluation expands your awareness of self and builds the foundation for developing your professional abilities.
8. If as counselors we hide be­hind the safety of our professional role, our clients will keep themselves hidden from us.
9. It is through our own genuineness and our aliveness that we can significantly touch our clients.
10. As therapists we serve as models for our clients.
11. Counselors can be therapeutic persons and model awareness and growth for their clients?
12. It is important for any therapist to fully exemplify all personal and characteristics traits in order to be an effective therapist.
13. The willingness to struggle to become a more therapeutic person is the crucial quality for the counsellor.
14. Effective counselors have an identity.
15. They feel alive, and their choices are life-oriented
16. An effective counselor should be stern and should not have a sense of humor.
17. They make mistakes and are willing to admit them.
18. The counsellor knows how to say no, which allows them to keep a balance in their lives.
19. The goal of becoming an effective counselor is an un-going process, necessary for promoting personal growth.
20. Counselors should have the experience of being clients at some time.
21. Personal therapy can be instrumental in healing the healer.
22. Clients often feel worse as they give up their defenses and open themselves to their pain.
23. As counselors we can take our clients no further than we have been willing to go in our
24. Going through therapy will not help us develop patience with our patients!



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25. In preparing for counseling, which of the following sKills and techniques the counsellor can acquire:
    1. A knowledge of the theories of personality and psychotherapy,
    2. Learn diagnostic and intervention techniques,
    3. Learn about the dynamics of human behavior.
    4. All of the above
26. Which of the following are ways you can re-evaluate and work on your development as a person?
    1. Needs
    2. motivations
    3. Personality traits
    4. All the above
27. If we model by engaging in appropriate self-disclosure, our clients will tend to be honest with us in the therapeutic relationship.
    1. Self Confidence
    2. Realness
    3. Affirmation
    4. Self- Discipline
28. The process by which counselor unconsciously transfer feeling unto their clients is called?
    1. Transference
    2. Countertransference
    3. Counseling
    4. Self- exploration

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29. For , you can acquire a - of the theories of and psychotherapy, you can learn and intervention techniques, and you can learn about the of human .
30. To every session we bring our qualities and the experiences that have influenced us. In my judgment this human is one of the most powerful of the therapeutic .
31. Counselling demands a who is to shed -roles and be a real in a .
32. If we become technical and leave our reactions, values, and self out of our work, the result will be counseling.
33. can become of what they are of becoming, or they can become than they be.
34. Our most of clients in a direction is our example of who we are and how we make about the of life we want to .
35. In my the degree of aliveness and health of the counselor is the variable that determines the outcome.
36. should be viewed not as an in itself but as a means to help a counselor become a more person who will have a greater chance of having an on .
37. Opportunities for can be in helping counselors-in-training assess their for this profession.
38. It is that we know why we want to in the lives of .
39. Student would do well to their and despair but to avoid deciding too soon that they are unsuited to be counselors.
40. Being forces us to our blocks related to loneliness, power, death, , our parents, and so on.
41. If we have great difficulty in with and guilt in ourselves, chances are that we will do something to dilute these when they in our clients.
42. If counselors are not actively involved in the pursuit of their own wounds, they will probably have considerable entering the world of a client.
43. If we are not person­ ally to the value of , we will not clients that they should pay the price of their .
44. Indeed, counseling as a is very different from merely reading about the process.
45. It is to think that counselors can completely rid them­selves of any traces of that they can ever fully certain issues from the past.
46. Name 3 negative behaviors that a counsellor can model that may be imitated by the client.
47. Name 3 ways we can best inspire and teach our clients in the best sense of the words.
48. Briefly discuss one ethical issue that may arise between the counsellor and the client during a counseling session.
49. Give your perspective on the view for the need for counselors to experiencing some level of therapy before attempting to counsel others.

Section 2:

1. The counselor values and the therapeutic process
2. Becoming an effective multicultural counselor

QUIZ

Answer the following either T (True) or F (False).

1. The importance of self-exploration for counselors carries over to the values and beliefs they hold.
2. An excellent focus for the process of self-searching is examining how your values are likely to affect your work as a counselor.
3. Counseling and therapy are forms of indoctrination
4. Counseling is synonymous with preaching
5. Our values do influence the way counselors practice.
6. Our values do influence the way counselors practice.
7. It is essential that the counselor not short- circuit a client’s exploration.
8. Goals and therapeutic methods are not expressions of the counselor’s philosophy of life.
9. It is the counselor’s role to establish the goals of counseling.
10. It is critical that the general goals of counselors be congruent with the personal goals of the client.
11. Clients usually show up for counselling with well define goals.
12. The intake session can be used to focus on the client’s goals or lack of them.
13. Clients often want and need to know where their therapist stands to critically examine their own thinking.
14. If the counselor is unable or unwilling to be objective in areas where there are value conflicts with client, a referral must be done.
15. If the counselor is unable or unwilling to be objective in areas where there are value conflicts with client, a referral must be done.
16. The purpose of counseling is to teach clients how to discover their own values?
17. It is justifiable for counselors to impose their values on clients?
18. Clients have a right to know the counselor’s perspective before they get involved professionally.

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19. Unfortunately, many counselors are in their mission of to people out. The is that by virtue of their greater wisdom they will provide answers for the troubled client
20. As we are often not to let our show lest they bias the direction are to take.
21. The counselor’s is to a in which clients can examine their thoughts, feelings, and actions and eventually arrive at solutions that are best for them.
22. The function of a counselor is not to or clients of the proper to take but to help them assess their behavior so that they can determine the degree to which it is for them.
23. If clients that what they are doing is not , it is appropriate to them to new ways of to help them move closer to their .
24. Therapy ought to with an of the expectations and . Clients initially tend to have ideas of what they expect from therapy.
25. It is essential that the counselor be able to understand, respect, and work within the framework of the client’s world rather than forcing the client to fit neatly into the therapist’s scheme of values.
26. Counselors should be willing to express their values openly when they are relevant to questions that come up in their sessions with clients.
27. Counseling is a process whereby clients are challenged to honestly evaluate their values and decide for themselves in what ways they will modify those values and their behavior.
28. Clients have a to know your before they get involved with you .
29. What counselling implication may arise if counselors are not aware of his or her personal values?
30. Karen a college student has recently found out that she is pregnant she is worried that her situation will prevent her from furthering her studies, and she is considering an abortion. Your value for life goes against her decision.
    1. Discuss the importance of the role of values in counselling.
    2. How would you go about helping her and still maintain your values.

Section 3:

1. Becoming an effective multicultural counselor

QUIZ

Answer the following either T (True) or F (False).

1. Part of the process of becoming an effective counselor involves learning how to recognize diversity and shaping your counseling practice to fit the client’s world.
2. Counselors bring their own heritage with them to their work, so they must know how cultural conditioning has influenced the directions they take with their client.
3. >Effective counseling must take into account the impact of culture.
4. Three dimensions of competency involve beliefs and attitudes, knowledge, and skill.
5. Effective counselors seek to examine and understand the world from the vantage point of their clients.
6. It is not the counselor’s role to understand the worldview of their clients.
7. Culturally skilled counselors know how to help clients make use of indigenous support systems.
8. Multicultural counseling is enhanced when practitioners use methods and strategies and define goals consistent with the life experiences and cultural values of their clients.
9. It is not unrealistic to expect a counselor to know everything about the cultural background of a client.
10. It is a good idea for counselors to ask clients to provide them with the information they will need to work effectively.
11. Practitioners who truly respect their clients will be aware of client’s hesitations and will not be too quick to misinterpret this behavior.
12. It takes time, study, and experience to become an effective multicultural counselor.

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13. It is essential for counselors to develop to cultural differences if they hope to make that are with the of their .
14. Unless the social and context of clients is into consideration, it is most to appreciate the nature of their struggles.
15. Many students have come to characteristics such as making their own choices, expressing what they are , being open and , and striving for independence.
16. need to determine whether the assumptions they have made about the nature and of therapy are appropriate for diverse populations.
17. Multicultural cannot be simply to cultural and , to a body of knowledge, or to a set of skills. Instead, it requires a combination of all of these areas.
18. What is effective Multicultural Counseling?
19. Briefly define Culture
20. Discuss briefly how a counselor can acquire competencies in Multicultural Counseling?
21. Explain briefly the following dimensions of competency stated by Sue, Arredondo, and McDavis (1992), and Arredondo and her colleagues (1996).
    1. Beliefs and attitudes of culturally skilled counselors:
    2. Knowledge of culturally skilled counselors:
    3. Skills and intervention strategies of culturally skilled counselors:

Section 4:

1. Issues faced by beginning therapists
2. Staying alive as a person and as a professional
3. Summary

QUIZ

Answer the following either T (True) or F (False).

1. Most beginning counselors, regardless of their academic and experiential backgrounds, anticipate meeting their initial clients with ambivalent feelings.
2. Our willingness to recognize and deal with these anxieties, as opposed to denying them by pretenses, is a mark of courage.
3. Inexperienced therapists too often fail to appreciate the values inherent in simply being themselves.
4. The unrealistic expectation that we must be superhuman leads to be­ coming ossified in fixed roles.
5. Perhaps one of the most common self-defeating beliefs with which we burden ourselves is that we must be perfect.
6. A related fear that most of us have is of facing our limitations as counselors.
7. There is a delicate balance between learning our realistic limits and challenging what we sometimes think of as being “limits”.
8. A related fear that most of us have is of facing our limitations as counselors.
9. Many beginning therapists experience the anxiety of not seeing the fruits of their labor.
10. Therapy is a responsible matter, but it need not be deadly serious
11. The therapist should assume full responsibility for the direction and outcomes of therapy.
12. Many clients seek a “magic answer” as a way of escaping the anxiety of making their own decisions.
13. Client­ initiated contracts and specific assignments are helpful in keeping the focus of responsibility on the client.
14. A common mistaken notion is that giving advice is the same as counseling.
15. Effective counselors avoid using techniques in a hit-or-miss fashion, to fill time, to meet their own needs, or to get things moving.
16. It is important to realize that you cannot continue to give and give while getting little in return.
17. Evaluate your goals, priorities, and expectations to see if they are realistic and if they are getting you what you want.
18. Counselors can acquire an extensive theoretical and practical knowledge and can make that knowledge available to their clients.
19. Formulating contracts can continue during the entire counseling relationship.
20. It is important to accept that there is no “right” way to conduct therapy and that wide variations in approach can be effective.

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21. A level of demonstrates that we are of the un­ certainties of the future with our and of our to really be there and with them.
22. The are rich for exchanges and for gaining from fellow interns who have many of the same , fears, and .
23. Because we are self-conscious and when we begin , we tend to be concerned with what the say and with the of how we should .
24. At end are who lose themselves in their role and behind a facade. At the other end are who too hard to prove that they are . At either of these we are not being .
25. Although we may well know that are not , we often that there is little room for error.
26. Rather than trying to others and their way through situations, they can always the and then set out to find information or answers. It takes to admit , but there is a in being open about them.
27. A issue that many counselors is how to with clients who seem to constant .
28. Many are in that they are required by a order to therapy. In these you may well be in your to establish relationship.
29. It is important to that laughter or humor does not mean that work is not being There are times, of course, when laughter is used to up or to escape from the experience of threatening .
30. The therapist needs to between that and humor that enhances the situation.
31. The way in which structure their has for the balance of that will characterize the client/therapist relationship.
32. Early during the course of , it is your to discuss specific matters such as length and overall duration of the , confidentiality, , and used to achieve goals
33. The central of counseling is to clients their own strengths, what is - them from using their , and clarify what kind of they want to be.
34. It is to understand the rationale for each used and to be sure the are with the of therapy.
35. Counselors-in-training to be about the to mimic the of a , therapist, or some other .
36. A danger is that the burnout can feed off of , so that feel more and more isolated.
37. It is that counselors -that even though realities do exert a toll on energy, they can be in bringing about changes, in their and in themselves.
38. Develop your own for keeping yourself personally and .
39. Avoid burdens that are the responsibility of .
40. One of the issues in the profession concerns the of the counselor as a in the relationship.
41. If are to growth and in their , they must be to promote in their own lives by their own choices and by to become aware of the ways in which they have ignored their own for growth.
42. What is the central function of counselling?
43. Mark a college student has recently gotten into some trouble and was sent to you by the courts to help him. Mark however, would rather be attending class than coming to see you. How do you plan to deal with this involuntary client?
44. As a supervisor you have noticed a new therapist on you team has been overly absorbed in a new case of hers, and it has started to affect her daily function. What do you think is her problem and what advice you give her?