Madeline is running a weekly group (8-weeks) for women experiencing difficulty in adjusting to motherhood. Participants were previously screened and do not meet the diagnosis for depression, although many members experience feelings of sadness, loss of energy, isolation, and loss of interest. During group sessions, participants spend time engaging each other to explore and identify the challenges and benefits associated with being a new parent, participate in stress-reducing exercises, and discuss and identify goals to which they will commit to reaching. Which type of group is characterized by the scenario presented above?

A professional counselor is interested in finding a measure that expresses clients’ levels of depression to use in her practice. Specifically, she wants to administer the measure over the course of the counseling at regular intervals to document the efficacy of the intervention she employs. It is important, therefore, that the measure has good test-retest reliability. As she looks through the information available on different publishers’ websites, what statistic, in particular, should this counselor focus on so she can select a measure with the strongest test-retest reliability.  

Which career theorist established six separate and unique personality and work environment types (i.e. realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional)? 

You are about to begin work with a new client and have received a mailing of testing information from a school psychologist at the child’s school. As you open the materials you see that the WISC-IV intelligence test had been administered to the child earlier that year but due to a clerical slip up, most of the testing information is missing. In fact, all you are able to determine is that the child’s overall IQ score was converted to a standard Z score of 2. What is the child’s IQ score? 

Ryan was participating in a group focusing on stress reduction. During most of the sessions, he had been, for the most part, silent. When confronted about this by another member of the group, he stated that he was listening and internally reflecting on the conversation. He then took issue with being confronted by the group member stating that it was his right to remain silent if he so wished. Which behavior is Ryan displaying in the group?

Jane is an 8-month-old infant who is participating in an experiment assessing the attachment relationship with her mother, Regina. Regina leaves the room for a few minutes and upon her return, Jane reacts with extreme fear and cowers. The procedure is then repeated. The mother leaves the room for a short time. The second time Regina returns, the infant reacts with extreme confusion and a lack of awareness about what to do next. What type of attachment style best describes the scenario above? 

In a counseling group, which of the following is a basic task the counselor takes on related to group communication patterns?

According to Erikson, late adulthood is the period in one’s life when which of the following psychosocial difficulties in most likely to be experienced?   

What percentage of scores would be found between the mean and 1 standard deviation below the mean (-1) for a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15?

Many individuals of Latino/a descent value interdependence within the extended family. It is recommended that counselors avoid which of the following choices?