Counseling Theories, Techniques, and Evidence-Based Practices
CRC · 34 questions
- A VR client keeps saying they 'want work' but repeatedly misses job interviews. Which clinical problem-solving move best fits before only labeling nonadherence?
- After a failed job tryout, two next steps look plausible: revise the vocational goal or add on-the-job supports. What best demonstrates structured clinical problem-solving?
- A client with a mobility impairment needs practical rehabilitation techniques for community mobility before job search. Which approach best matches disability-specific rehab technique selection?
- A counselor helps a client with visual impairment learn compensatory strategies for workplace navigation. Which focus best reflects appropriate rehab techniques for sensory disability?
- A client recovering from injury asks for 'just Freudian analysis' as a quick path back to work. How should the counselor match theory to rehab goals?
- A counselor uses CBT thought records to address catastrophic thinking that blocks a client's return-to-work plan. What does this technique primarily target?
- Person-centered reflective listening is used with a discouraged SSI applicant before setting vocational goals. What is the main counseling purpose of this technique here?
- A client with alcohol use disorder repeatedly arrives intoxicated to placement appointments. What is the most appropriate rehab counseling response?
- A counselor coordinates with an outpatient SUD program so vocational goals do not sabotage early recovery. Which timing judgment is most sound?
- A client with schizophrenia and cannabis use presents with both psychiatric and addiction needs. What planning implication follows from co-occurring disorders understanding?
- A counselor nearly mistakes medication side effects for primary substance intoxication in a dual-diagnosis client. What is the most appropriate next literacy step?
- Early sessions feel cold and the client begins canceling. Which alliance-focused response is most appropriate?
- A counselor missed an important cultural holiday the client had flagged, and the alliance ruptures. What best demonstrates alliance repair?
- A client says they 'should' look for work but shows no plan. Which motivational interviewing approach fits best?
- A counselor argues with a precontemplative client about laziness. Which MI-consistent correction is best?
- A newly hired client with autism needs coaching on break-room norms and supervisor communication. Which counseling focus best fits workplace socialization skills?
- A client keeps sending escalating emails to coworkers. What workplace socialization counseling response is most appropriate?
- A client with major depression needs a rehab-compatible treatment plan linking therapy, medication follow-up, and job-search pacing. Which planning approach is most appropriate?
- A state VR client with PTSD starts night-shift warehouse tryouts and reports flashbacks tied to loud pallet jacks and dark aisles. What is the counselor’s best next move in treatment and vocational planning?
- A county rehab counselor notices a client’s interview panic includes racing heart, avoidance of phone screens, and catastrophic thoughts—not only weak handshake practice. Staff had labeled it a soft-skills gap. What should the counselor recognize?
- A transition-age youth with a disability keeps changing career interests while exploring identity, peer belonging, and independence—typical late-adolescent development. How should the rehab counselor apply human growth and development knowledge?
- An older adult newly acquiring a disability grieves the loss of a long-held skilled-trades worker identity and resists discussing “new” jobs. What developmental/aging-informed counseling approach fits best?
- A client with serious mental illness benefits from psychiatric rehabilitation skills training (e.g., social and independent living skills) alongside individual counseling. What does this illustrate for CRC practice?
- A high-need client with serious mental illness cycles through hospital ERs, misses clinic visits, and loses housing supports that destabilize rehab goals. What counselor-depth response best reflects intensive psychosocial rehab system knowledge?
- A counselor serves a client with significant psychiatric disability who wants competitive work. Which evidence-based vocational approach best matches supported employment principles?
- Standard competitive openings do not fit a client’s unique strength/need profile after significant disability. What evidence-informed vocational option should the counselor consider?
- A VR client with panic disorder avoids buses needed for a promising training site. What best reflects facilitating EBP counseling for clinical diagnoses within rehab practice?
- A counselor recommends only unstructured “venting” sessions for a client with PTSD when trauma-focused evidence-based practices are indicated and available. What should a CRC candidate conclude?
- A client in early recovery from a substance use disorder wants job placement while still building sobriety supports. What best reflects EBP SUD counseling coordinated with vocational goals?
- A CRC trainee feels unusually irritated by a “resistant” client and starts shortening sessions. What clinical supervision response best fits supervision theory?
- An agency equates monthly caseload productivity checks with clinical supervision for CRC staff. What distinction should the counselor make?
- A counselor adopts a new interview-anxiety technique solely because a popular blog praised it, without reviewing outcome evidence. What EBP utilization principle applies?
- Before adopting a new soft-skills curriculum agency-wide, a rehab team asks whether any evaluation or outcome data exist. What EBP skill is being applied?
- A client holds an absolute belief that “disabled people can’t work” and refuses job exploration despite functional capacity for selected roles. Which individual counseling technique application fits best?