Test Prep Test Prep Certifications NCE Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  Your patient enters your session excited about the New Age therapy you tried last session. She had brought in an article, and because of her enthusiasm and the fact that it did not require any new training, you had agreed to give it a try. She asks you to continue during this session, but you have done your homework: it's been proven ineffective and, in a select few clients, the condition was slightly worsened. You validate your patient, noting how glad you are that she's excited to try something new. Then you tell her that, unfortunately, you won't be able to continue with these types of treatments. With this act, you are expressing:

  A. Anti-Consumerism

  B. Beneficence

  C. Exploitation

  D. Non-Malfeasance

  Correct Answer: D

  Non-malfeasance" is refraining from providing ineffective treatments or acting with malice towards a patient. "Anti-consumerism" is incorrect because is not a therapeutic or ethical term. "Beneficence" is incorrect because it means that you take actions to benefit others. "Exploitation" is incorrect because it is a therapist's misuse of power to influence and exploit clients for their own benefit and to the clients' detriment.

• Question 32:

  Which is NOT an example of a Computer Assisted Career Guidance System (CACGS)?

  A. SIGI Plus

  B. Choices

  C. Indeed

  D. Discover

  Correct Answer: C

  SIGI Plus, Choices, and Discover are all types of CACGS. CACGS is a term used to describe a computer program that combines career assessment, information, and guidance all into one system. Indeed is a popular job search website.

• Question 33:

  The "fields and levels" approach to group career counseling uses one of the theories developed by which famous theorist?

  A. Jung

  B. Roe

  C. Holland

  D. None of the above

  Correct Answer: B

  Roe's theory consists of 8 fields (Service, Business Contact, Organization, Technology, Outdoor, Science, General Culture, and Arts and Entertainment) and 6 levels (professional and managerial, levels 1 and 2; semiprofessional and small business, level 3; skilled, level 4; semiskilled, level 5; and unskilled, level 6). Carl Jung founded analytical psychology. Holland created the Holland Codes including Realistic, Investigative, Artisitic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC).

• Question 34:

  Which theorist believed a person's personality needs to be congruent with their work environment?

  A. Holland

  B. Parsons

  C. Freud

  D. Moreno

  Correct Answer: A

  Holland believed that if a person chose to work in an environment congruent with their personality, they would feel happier and more satisfied. The six work environments he identified are: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Parsons believed careers had to be matched to talents, skills, and personality.

• Question 35:

  What does RIASEC stand for?

  A. Realistic, Instigating, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional

  B. Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional

  C. Reformed, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional

  D. Realistic, Inquiring, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Committed

  Correct Answer: B

  Career theorist John Holland developed these 6 categories describing different work environments. He believed an individual's personality needed to match their work environment in order to maximize happiness and success.

• Question 36:

  This publication provides key information about a job, including training needed, salary, job outlook, etc.

  A. NBCC

  B. ACA

  C. ASCA

  D. OOH

  Correct Answer: D

  The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is published by the U.S. Department of Labor and contains statistics and information for hundreds of different jobs. NBCC stands for the National Board for Certified Counselors; ACA is the American Counseling Association; ASCA is the American School Counselor Association.

• Question 37:

  A client is 35. She is married, has two kids and is working on a big promotion at work. She is focused entirely on her family and career. Which of Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development is she in?

  A. Intimacy vs. Isolation

  B. Generativity vs. Stagnation

  C. Integrity vs. Despair

  D. Industry vs. Inferiority

  Correct Answer: B

  In the Generativity vs. Stagnation stage, people are focused on contributing to the next generation (the client produced 2 offspring) and to society (the client's meaningful career). Industry vs. Inferiority occurs during the elementary school years and Integrity vs. Despair during late adulthood. It is not Intimacy vs. Isolation because she has gone beyond sharing her life with one other person.

• Question 38:

  Developmental career theorists view career choice as:

  A. stable

  B. fixed

  C. ongoing

  D. optimistic

  Correct Answer: C

  While this may not lead to an individual changing their career, developmental theorists believe an individual's career choice is ongoing. It is a lifelong process where individuals search, evaluate, and process information about themselves and the world around them to figure out where they fit.

• Question 39:

  Which is NOT one of the original 3 stages of career development identified by Ginzberg and his associates?

  A. Exploratory

  B. Fantasy

  C. Tentative

  D. Realistic

  Correct Answer: A

  During childhood, individuals are in the fantasy stage. Through play and imagination, they experience many different careers. Once an individual reaches adolescence, he or she enters the tentative stage. This stage has four sub-stages: interest, capacity, values, and transition. The realistic stage begins around age 17 and lasts through the early 20s. In this stage, the individual will engage in exploration, crystallization, and specification of a specific career. Later, Ginzberg changed his outlook and said that career choice is a life-long process and does not end in the early 20s. Instead, people optimize.

• Question 40:

  A counselor has designed his career counseling group in such a way that it presents a "field and levels" approach to careers. Whose theory is he following?

  A. Holland

  B. Super

  C. Tiedeman

  D. Roe

  Correct Answer: D

  Roe's theory consists of 8 fields (Service, Business Contact, Organization, Technology, Outdoor, Science, General Culture, and Arts and Entertainment) and 6 levels (professional and managerial, levels 1 and 2; semiprofessional and small business, level 3; skilled, level 4; semiskilled, level 5; and unskilled, level 6). Holland created the Holland Codes: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC). Super's theory of career development includes the concept of self-concept and 5 stages of career development: Growth, Exploration, Establishment, Maintenance, and Decline.