NCE National Counseling Exam latest update

A behavioral counselor is working with a client who complains of anxiety. Together the counselor and the client examine both the antecedents and consequences of the behavior (anxiety). Understanding the nature of operant conditioning, the counselor and the client decide to eliminate the unwanted behavior through extinction by A. aversive counterconditioning B. implosion or flooding C. punishment D. thought stopping - answerB. implosion or flooding A counselor is developing a genogram during the second session in family counseling. As the clients talk of their family backgrounds, the counselor realizes that the wife in counseling is actually her second or third cousin of which the woman is unaware. The counselor decides - answerto tell the woman they are relatives and refer the family after explaining her ethical position. Maria, a 25-year-old Latina woman, is in career counseling. In reviewing her background, the counselor determines that she has followed the 'rules' and expectations of her close-knit family. She now finds herself in a position needing to support her family on her own and can't decide between three different occupational possibilities which she has heard about. Maria may be characterized as A. career inefficacious