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The main goal of mental health consultation is
a. Following the problem-solving process
b. Increasing the client's capacities
c. Increasing the capacity of the consultee
d. Identifying evidence-based interventions.
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Describe the different phases of systems change, including what is ideally accomplished at each phase and how the consultant can help to make that happen.
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What is the purpose of an IEP team?
a. For all professionals to discuss a student's weaknesses compared to his/her peers.
b. To discuss a child's progress throughout the year/ reporting period, and determine next goals and programs/ resources needed.
c. To conduct interviews for a FBA on the student's behavior.
d. To determine how building funds should be allocated.
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Describe the different methods a consultant may use to coach a consultee.
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Poor classroom management skills, failure to engage students and _________________ are the common reason for attrition with teachers.
a. Many students with learning disabilities in a classroom
b. Lack of support by the principal
c. A belief of fixed intelligence
d. Feeling of isolation
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Describe three core features of intensive technical assistance.
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What are the four lacks that a consultee might have concerning their client?
a. Expertise, confidence, skill, objectivity.
b. Classroom management, teacher relationships, confidence expertise.
c. Knowledge, skill, confidence, objectivity.
d. Knowledge, skill, teacher relationships, objectivity.
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What are some differences between elementary and high schools? How might these organizational or structural differences affect systems change?
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What are the 4 stages in the behavioral consultation interview, in order?
a. Problem identification, problem analysis, plans implementation, plan evaluation.
b. Plan evaluation, problem analysis, and plan implementation, problem identification.
c. Problem identification, FBA, problem solving, plan evaluation.
d. FBA, problem identification, plan evaluation, problem solving.
Q:
Describe a system you are involved with and how it has changed over time. Compare these changes with the concept of episodic or continuous change.
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Discuss the concept of treatment fidelity in the consultation process.
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Compare and contrast some potential positive and negative outcomes to implementing a district value added modeling program.
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Describe consultation at each tier of MTSS.
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Describe three of the 9 questions Parrett and Bundge (2009) suggest effective schools continuously examine. How might a school consultant help promote best practices in this area?
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Discuss how collaboration and consultation are alike and how they are different.
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High-poverty, high-performing schools (HP2) teach reading across the curriculum because poor literacy skills are a significant barrier to accessing information in textbooks and other resources.
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The consultant must have the content expertise to be effective.
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Mentoring is generally short-term and focused on accomplishing specific tasks.
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Well-validated treatments will naturally be found acceptable to consultees.
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Without ownership of the solutions, educators and other practitioners may lack the sense that they are personally needed to see that these solutions are carried out correctly or successfully.
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In a collaborative model, the role of "expert" may shift from one participant to another.
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Professional development can consist of any formally established approach that has an agenda, a structured set of goals and activities, and a method of evaluation.
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There is a preponderance of empirical support the effectiveness of school consultation.
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Any person with the skills and knowledge to serve in a staff development capacity should be encouraged to do so.
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Districts prevail in most due process cases.
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Systems involved in episodic change were identified to be more successful than those engaged in continuous change.
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NCLB
a. Requires teachers to have a master's degree
b. Discourages consultation because of its expense
c. Is the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
d. Has been credited with closing the gap in achievement among all students.
Q:
Effective schools are too rigid or too open in their response to external pressures and engage in episodic change.
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Transition planning is
a. Preparing youth with disabilities for adult life
b. The right to participate in the least restrictive environment
c. Assessing whether an student's disability caused him to break a school rule
d. Preparing a general education teacher to serve a student with disabilities in her classroom.
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Edmonds (1979) identified highly effective schools with having 7 characteristics that include: clear and focused school mission, safe and orderly environment, high expectations of students and staff, opportunity to learn/time on task, instructional leadership, frequent progress monitoring, and positive home-school relations.
Q:
The law that protects the rights of students with disabilities to attend public school is
a. No Child Left Behind
b. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
c. Common Core State Standards
d. Response to Intervention
Q:
Charisma is one of the most important qualities of being a good leader.
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MTSS stands for
a. Multiple Treatments Standards System
b. Math Tertiary System of Services
c. Multiplication, Times, Subtraction and Substitution
d. Multi-Tiered System of Services
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Many of the leaders of HP2 schools describe their leadership style as governed by a sense of moral responsibility that evokes in their staff and students a feeling that they are part of something important and bigger than themselves.
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Which one of the following is NOT an expectation about the nature of collaborative consultation:
a. The consultant is a trained professional.
b. Establishing a relationship based on mutual respect and trust is essential for successful consultation.
c. The problem lies within the child.
d. The referral concern should direct the problem-solving process.
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Like academic or behavioral interventions provided at a school, technical assistance can occur in multi-tiered system of service.
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State agency data for Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas will usually be more current than census data.
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The Interest Profiler, which is a part of the O*NET system measure
a. Kuder's constrtucts
b. Super's constructs
c. MBTI constructs
d. Holland's constructs
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Card sorts are a good example of a
a. Quantitative assessment device
b. A qualitative assessment device
c. An assessment device that that be used either quantitatively or qualitatively
d. None of the above. It is used as a clinical assessment device.
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Goldman and other pronounced the marriage of tests and inventories as dead. This pronouncement appears to be.
a. On target
b. Off base. The marriage is alive and well
c. In agreement with current postmodern thinking
d. b & c above
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The individual who has had the greatest impact on the assessment of interests appears to be
a. Super
b. Lent
c. Holland
d. Rotberg
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Which of the following philosophical and measurement constructs are correctly paired?
a. Postmodernism and qualitative assessment
b. Logical positivism and qualitative assessment.
c. Constructivism and qualitative assessment
d. a & c above
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Many of the constructs of interest to career counselors such as interests, values, and self-efficacy can be assessed quantitatively or qualitatively. Which of the following constructs has received the greatest attention in the last few years by people interested in qualitative assessment?
a. Values
b. Needs
c. Self-efficacy
d. Decision-making style
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The Internet is potentially a valuable tool in the assessment process. Of the following uses of the Internet, which one seems to have the least potential for use with tests?
a. Test selection
b. Orientation to testing
c. Test administration
d. Test interpretation
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Tinsley and Bradley stress that perhaps the essential aspect of test interpretation is
a. Integrating results with other data
b. Checking on past test results
c. Going over the technical weaknesses of the instruments
d. Softening "bad news"
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In the area of test interpretation, which of the following is most likely to be true?
a. Some approaches to test interpretation are better than others according to research
b. Clients prefer individual interpretation to group interpretation, but in terms of what is learned, individual interpretation is not superior
c. Clients prefer individual interpretation to other approaches and it is better when considering what clients learn
d. Clients prefer group interpretation of some types of tests and inventories and individual interpretation of inventories that contain sensitive material
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Which of the following is LEAST LIKELY to be a source of bias in the assessment process?
a. The content of the device
b. Motivation on the part of the client
c. Language
d. The counselor's attitude
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The chief difference between values and needs is:
a. Needs are more difficult to measure
b. Values are more likely to be determinants of behavior
c. Values are learned; needs are not
d. Values and needs are essentially the same
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Which of the following does not qualify as a qualitative assessment device?
a. Genogram
b. Personality inventory
c. Card sort
d. Role playing
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Qualitative assessment devices
a. Are interpreted ideographically
b. Eliminate dialectic barriers to interpretation
c. Are typically interpreted more subjectively
d. a & c above
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Which of the following distinguishes between tests and inventories?
a. Inventories are measures of optimal performance while tests measure typical or average performance
b. Inventories have lower reliability coefficients
c. Tests are usually time limited and inventories are not
d. Most inventories are self-scored
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Which of the following has NOT been identified as a deficiency of the trait and factor approach to assessment?
a. Clients are placed in a dependent role
b. Clients' ability to self-assess is not strengthened
c. T & F emphasizes finding a career that "fits" rather than actively involving clients in an active search for a career
d. T & F advocates have not been concerned about test bias
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It is safe to say that in the past personality inventories have not been widely used in career counseling and this is a trend that is likely to continue.
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One of the controversies surrounding the SDS focuses on the use of raw scores versus scores derived from norms. The essence of this argument is that the proponents of norm based scores believe that women in particular are underrepresented in the Social, Artistic, Conventional areas because of the use of raw scores.
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Of the currently available interest inventories, the SII was the first available and is still one of the most useful.
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From a psychometric point of view interest inventories such as the SDS and the SII are quite sound.
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The use of values inventories and qualitative approaches to assessing values has been supported empirically
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Needs and values are synonymous terms.
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The genogram was originally developed by Norman Gysbers to use as a tool in career counseling.
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Card sorts have been used almost exclusively as a substitute for paper and pencil interest inventories.
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Role playing can be used to assess a client's social skills as well as to remediate or strengthen them.
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Self-efficacy expectations are roughly analogous to self-confidence ratings.
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One of the major points made by those who favor qualitative assessment over quantitative approaches is that the client is more a collaborator in the qualitative approach to assessment.
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It is widely acknowledged that Goldman's stance that the marriage between testing and counseling has failed is correct.
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Educators have long touted education as one of the answers to reducing poverty in the U. S. Based on the latest statistics this assertion seems to be most accurate
a. Accurate if workers earn at least a bachelor's degree
b. Accurate if workers earn a post bachelor's degree
c. Accurate if workers complete high school
d. Generally accurate. Workers make more money as their education increases.
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Placing jobs offshore is a common phenomenon in today's global economy. What can accurately be said about the United States and offshoring?
a. The U. S. has lost many manufacturing jobs to China and Mexico
b. The U. S. has gained manufacturing jobs from Europe
c. Overall manufacturing jobs continue to decrease in the U. S.
d. All of the above
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The industry first hit by widespread worker displacement because of technology was
a. Textiles
b. Mining
c. Electronics
d. Agriculture
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The program that is designed to move workers with disabilities who are receiving social security benefits without fear of losing their benefits is
a. Ticket to work
b. America works
c. Disabled workers entitlement act
d. American with disabilities act.
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Zunker identified which of the following aspect of the career counseling process that may be particularly problematic when the clients have disabled?
a. Relationship development
b. History taking because of the limited experience
c. Assessment
d. Termination
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The percentage of the U. S. population that is classified as disabled is approximately
a. 5
b. 8
c. 10
d. Over 15
Q:
Which of the following trends among older workers is changing?
a. Taking early retirement
b. Starting small businesses after retiring from their careers.
c. Volunteering after retirement.
d. Rejoining the workforce after a year or so of retirement.
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The largest minority group in the US
a. Hispanics
b. African American
c. Asian Americans
d. Native Americans
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When engaging in career counseling with culturally different clients, which of the following can be disregarded?
a. Language differences
b. Acculturation
c. Gender
d. None of the above
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Of the following statements about older workers, which is true?
a. They are less productive.
b. They have higher incidence of mental health problems.
c. They have more serious health problems
d. b & c above.
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In the following list, which individual is least likely to find a program or agency to assist them with their career related problems?
a. The widow or divorcee without children.
b. The released offender.
c. The veteran.
d. The school dropout.
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People who leave the military may encounter a number of problems because of
a. lack of salable job skills
b. age discrimination
c. personal problems acquired in the military
d. discrimination against the military
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Rehabilitation services are available to person who are at least
a. 14 years old
b. 16 years old
c. 18 years old
d. Not age restricted
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The sheer number of people in this country who have criminal records makes this a major problem for career development specialists.
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Sexual harassment in the workplace occurs when members of one sex create a hostile environment that limit the functioning of members of the opposite sex.
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The culturally different category can, and often does, include people who have been in this country for several generations.