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1. Which of the following is a major reason for counseling people? a) To offer advice to people
b) To help check people to take decisions for themselves
c) To help check waywardness among people.
d) To help the individuals appreciate the need to live well with othersAnswer B
2. Which of these persons is likely to need counseling most? a) Jacinta who is seeking a scholarship to further her studies
b) Pearl who wants to know the requirement for education to a teacher training college
c) Josephine who is an isolate and who finds it difficult to concentrate in class.
d) Matilda who is undecided on which university course to select. Answer C
.3 Which of the following services in guidance is also referred to as
the adaptive service?
a) Appraisal
b) Information
c) Orientation d) Placement
Answer C
.4 Which of these is an important principle ni counseling? a) Confidentiality
b) Facilitation
c) Reality
d) Self-understanding Answer A
5. Which of the following Guidance services uses career conference as a major means of providing the service in the school?
a) Appraisal services
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b) Counseling service c) Information service d) Orientation scrvices c) Answer C
6. Which of the following terms is used to denote the end of a
counseling session? a) Adjournment
b) Closure
c) Finalization d) Termination
Answer D
.7 Al the following factors enhance communication in counseling except the
a) Form of the communication used
b) Nature of the counselor
c) Skills of the client d) Termination
Answer D
8. Which of the following is a core skill in counseling? a) Advising skills
b) Conveying warmth skills
c) Emphatic understanding skills
d) Listening skills
Answer D
9. Which of the following is not a purpose for counseling as proposed
by Byrne (1965)?
a) Intermediate goals
b) Immediate goals
c) Intimate goals d) Ultimate goals Answer C
10. Which of the following about counseling is true?
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a) It involves giving advice to people
b) It involves the individual to change
c) It is directed to the personal needs of the individual
d) It is more concerned with providing information to individuals Answer C
1. Which of the following concepts is closely associated with counscling?
a) Empathy
b) Discordant relations c) Disorientation
d) Self-actualization
Answer A
12. Which of the following is not organized type of counseling? a) Course counseling
b) Immediate counseling
c) Therapeutic counseling
d) Vocational counseling Answer D
13. Which of the following approaches to counseling is also known as the rationale approach?
a) Behavioral therapy approach
b) Directive approach
c) Eclectic approach
d) Psycho-analytical approach Answer B
14. Which of the following counseling approaches involves a selection of different features from various theoretical approaches?
a) Directive approach
b) Eclectic approach
c) Humanistic approach
d) Psycho-analytical approach c) Answer B
15. The counseling strategy whereby the counselor gets the individual to settle and develop trust in him/her is known as.
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a) Creating orientation
b) Establishing genuineness. c) Establishing rapport
d) Exploration
e) Answer C
16. The two types of communication involved in counseling are a) Contact and distant
b) Gestures and orientation c) Personal and non-personal d) Verbal and non-verbal
Answer D
17. A counselor should not talk too much in a counseling relationship because
a) It will check the flow of message from the counselee b) It will confuse the individual in distress
c) It will extend the counseling time
d) There is the need for the counselor to be trusted
Answer A
18. Which of the following services must be made effective if the pupils is to be made to know himself herself well by the guidance program?
a) Appraisal services
b) Consultation services
c) Information services d) Placement services
Answer A
19. Which of the following behaviors will be exhibited by a client who is not being listened to by his Counselor?
a) The client may feel like disclosing all his problems
b) The client may coil into hisher shell.
c) The client may dominate the discussion
d) The client will assume active posture Answer B
20. Which of the following personality characteristics of the counselor will enhance communication?
a) Attentive
b) Bossy
c) Indifferent
d) Talkative Answer A
21. Effective listening in counseling involves all the following process except.
a) Recalling a message
b) Receiving a message
c) Processing a message
d) Sending a message
Answer A
2. This is the ability of the counselor to capture and understand the
message transmitted by clients either verbal or non-verbal, a vague or clear. Which skill is being described here?
a) Acceptance skills
b) Emphatic understanding skills c) Genuineness skills
d) Listening skills Answer D
23. At which of the following processes does the counselor overtly
responds to the client’s message?
a) Processing message
b) Receiving message
c) Sending a message
d) Taking a message Answer C
24. Which of the following is not a listening response in counseling?
a) Evaluating feeling
b) Paraphrasing content
c) Reflecting feeling
d) Summarizing Answer A
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25. Which of the following words does not describe the skill of genuineness as a communication skill ni counseling?
a) Authenticity
b) Confidentiality
c) Congruence
d) Honesty Answer B
26. Which of the following is not a non-verbal communication behavior?
a) Exclamation
b) Bodily contact
c) Facial expression d) Posture
Answer A
27. Which of the following is not considered as pre-requisite for an ideal counseling environment?
a) High degree of privacy
b) Quality of the clients dress
c) Seating arrangements
d) Warm reception for the client Answer B
28. Which of the following persons is associated with counseling? a) B.F. Skinner
b) Carl Rogers
c) L.R. Gray
d) John Weschler
Answer B
29. Which of the following guidance services can be carried out individually or in groups?
a) Appraisal services
b) Counseling services
c) Consultation service d) Placement service
Answer B
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30. Which of the following phrases is commonly used to describe guidance?
a) A systematic and continuous process
b) A plan of action
c) A process of exposing people d) A program of adjustment
Answer A
31. Which of the following skills when exhibited by the counselor will promote continuous interaction between the client and the counsclor?
a) Counseling skills b) Learning skills
c) Questioning skills d) Placement skills
Answer C
32. Which of the guidance services entails the keeping of records of pupils?
a) Appraisal services
b) Follow-up services c) Orientation services d) Information services
Answer A
3. Irene is a guidance officer ni JIS who visits a number of SHS once a year to find out the performance of pupils who left her school. What services is she fulfilling by this activity?
a) Appraisal services
b) Follow-up services c) Orientation
d) Information Answer B
34. Which of these is an important quality the counselor must have? a) Desire
b) Fairness
c) Firmness
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d) Warmth Answer D
35. Which of the following listening responses is associated with the
phrase “Do you mean that. a) Clarification
b) Explanation
c) Paraphrasing content d) Summarizing
Answer A
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36. All the following are known proponents of the directive approach
to counseling except… a) Donaldo Peterson
b) Edmund Williamson
c) John Darley
d) Richard Lazarus
Answer D
Match the approaches to counseling numbered
37-40 with their basic assumptions lettered a-e. Fill the space in the middle with the letter of the correct response.
37. Directive approach
38. Humanistic approach
39. Behavioral approach
40. Psychoanalytical approach
A n s w e r s C
a ) Human beings personalities consist of positive and negative habits both of which are learnt
b ) Man is intrinsically good and trustworthy
c ) Man seeks to use self
understanding as a means of developing potentials
d ) In counseling there is the need t o select, reconcile, and choose appropriate methods from various sources
(e) The counseling process meant
B
E
A
t o help the client become conscious of the unconscious
impulses of the id, ego and super ego
41. Which of the following statements is best for a distinction between guidance and counseling?
a) Guidance is continuous but counseling is done ones
b) Guidance does not require a purpose but counseling addresses a need
c) Guidance deals with persons and objects but counseling deals with persons only
d) Guidance can be done by anyone but counseling cannot be done by any one
Answer D
42. Two people who relate in counseling situation are identified as
a) Interviewer and interviewee b) Client and counselor
c) Pater and counselor
d) Customer and counselor
Answer B
43. Which of the following statements about counseling is true? a) It involves giving advice to people
b) It involves influencing the individual to change.
c) It is directed to the personal needs of the individuals
d) It is more concerned with providing information to individuals Answer C
44. Which of the following concepts is closely associated with
counseling?
a) Self actualization
b) Disorientation
c) Discordant relation d) Empathy
Answer D
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45. Which of the following is major reason for counseling people? a) To offer advice to people
b) To enable people to take decisions for themselves c) To help check waywardness among people
d) To help individuals appreciate the needs to live well with others Answer B
46. Which of the following skills is most needed for effective
counseling?
a) Communication
b) Data gathering
c) Notes taking
d) Organizing Answer A
47. Which of these persons is likely to need counseling most?
a) Boakye, a banker who wants to take a personal business loan.
b) Tiwaa, a trader whose business has not been insured
c) Tina, an adolescent who is experiencing puberty early
d) James, who is undecided on which university course to select Answer C
48. Which of these is an important principle in counseling?
a) Self understanding b) Facilitation
c) Confidentiality
d) Reality Answer C
49. Which of these is an important quality the counselor must have? a) Firmness
b) Fairness
c) Warmth
d) Decisive Answer C
50. Which of the following statements best defines educational guidance?
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a) A process of providing the individual with sufficient information to choose subjects to study
b) A process of helping individuals towards a better understanding of themselves and their potentials.
c) A process of recording the characteristics of pupils for counseling purposes.
d) A process of giving orientation and direction to the students Answer B
51. Which of the following problems can be solved by educational guidance?
a) Too many people secking boarding school
b) Unemployment in the face of manpower shortages in some sectors c) Parental neglect of their children
) Poor relations between school and their community
Answer B
52. Which of the following is a principle of educational guidance? a) It permeate all subjects
b) It should be well monitored
c) It must be self-sustaining
d) It is for all pupils in the school. Answer D
53. Which of the following characteristics is most suitable for the school guidance activity?
a) It should be infused into all school activities
b) It should spell out the roles of all involved in it. c) It should be planned and structured
d) It should focus on ensuring discipline among pupils Answer C
54. Which of the following concepts can be associated with counseling?
a) Psychotherapy
b) Chemotherapy
c) Psychosomatic d) Orientation
Answer A
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5. Which of the following is an objective of school guidance? a) To ensure that students select the right subject
b) To anticipate and prevent crisis from arising in the lives of pupils.
c) To evaluate and monitor the progress of pupils
d) To offer counseling to wayward pupils Answer B
56. Which guidance service entails providing orientation for new pupils?
a) The orientation service
b) The follow up service
c) The information service
d) The appraisal service Answer A
57. Which guidance service entails the keeping of records of pupils? a) The orientation service
b) The follow up service
c) The information service
d) The appraisal service Answer D
58. Sarah is a guidance officer in JHS who visits a number of SHS once a year to find out the performance of pupils who left her school. What services is she fulfilling by this activity?
a) The orientation service
b) The follow up service
c) The information service
d) The appraisal service Answer B
59. Much the guidance service in A to the means of achieving them in the school given in B. Fill the match in the spaces provided at the
side.
Answers
a) Appraisal
b) Consultation
i) Home visit a) ii) Interviews b)
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c) Information
ii) Carrier conferences d) Placement
iv) Testing
e) Counseling
v) Guidance
vi) Liaison with schools and jobs
60. which of the following is a strategy used in counseling? a) Consistency
b) The aligning c) Diagnosing d) Small talk
Answer D
c ) d)
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61. During which step in the counseling process does the counselor help the individual to understand the nature of his or her problem?
a) Closure
b) Exploration
c) Analysis
d) Facilitation Answer C
62. Which of the following is a recognized type of counseling? a) Course counseling
b) Immediate counseling c) Vocational counseling d) Therapeutic counseling
Answer C
63. Which of the following approaches to counseling is also known as the Rational Approach?
a) The psychoanalytic
b) Directive approach
c) Behavioral therapy approach d) Eclectic approach
Answer B
64. Which of the following approaches to counseling believes in dealing with the individual from his internal frame of reference?
a) Directive approach b) Eclectic approach
c) Psychoanalytic
d) Humanistic Answer D
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65. The counseling strategy whereby the counselor protects the individual to settle and develop trust in him\her is known
as.
a) Establishing genuineness b) Creating orientation
c) Exploration
) Establishing rapport
Answer D
66. Which of the following factors is necessary fi the guidance program is to be effective in the School?
a) It must be integrated into the total school program
b) It must target at risk students to access them
c) It must involve tutors who have the fear of God
d) It must be comprehensive Answer A
67. Which of the following services must be made effective if the
pupil is to be made to know himself well by guidance program? a) Information service
b) Placement service
c) Appraisal service
d) Consultation service Answer C
68. Which of the following guidance service can be carried out individually or in a group?
a) The consultation service
b) The counseling service c) Placement service
d) Appraisal service
Answer B
69. For what reason may the guidance programs of two different schools vary?
a) The location of the schools vary
b) The skills of the coordinators vary
c) The needs of the pupils may vary d) The objective sets may vary
Answer C
70. Which of the following phrases is commonly used to describe Guidance?
a) ‘A plan ofaction’
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b) A’ process of exposing pupils’
c) A’ systematic and continuous process d) A’ program of adjustment’
Answer C
71. What is meant by the statement “guidance is development*”?
a) It is only meant for people of the lower developmental stages of
life
b) It helps people adjust to the problems of one stage before proceeding
c) It helps people to develop skills.
d) It is a long process.
Answer B
72. Which of the following reasons best explains why guidance and counseling is not prominent in Ghanaian schools?
a Many people believe its benefit is assumed rather than real. b) There are no trained persons to handle it.
c) It is expensive to operate
d) It will steal pupils time away from studies Answer A
73. What service in guidance do we sometimes call ‘pupils inventory”?
a) Consultation service b) Information service c) Referral service
d) Appraisal service
Answer D
74. Appraisal service is when we collect, an analyze and use a variety of objectives data for the purpose of better understanding of the students or clients. The proponent of this statement is
a) Denga(1986)
b) Makinde (1983)
c) Anagbogu (1971) d) Kohlberg (1961)
Answer B
75. In how many categories are appraisal methods grouped? a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4 Answer B
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76. Appraisal methods are usually grouped into two. Mention them? a) Evaluation and measurement
b) Variable and Variable
c) Validity and evaluation d) Test and non-test.
Answer D
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78.
One example of non – test method are:
(a)utobiographies
(b)
Bibliographies
(c)Research methods
(d) Case study Answer A
In which of the following environment do the two methods of appraisal namely test and non-test methods operate well?
(a)In the primary school
(b) In the Junior high school
(c)In the senior high school
(d) In the tertiary institutions
Answer A
79.
Observation, Interviews, Autobiographies are examples of which of the following?
(a)Test methods in Appraisal service
(b)
Non-test methods in Appraisal service (c) Anecdotal services in guidance
80.
Teacher made test and some standardized tests which we can use in primary schools are examples of the methods we use in
appraisal service. Which method is that?
(d)
Evaluation methods in guidance Answer B
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
Evaluation method
Remedial method Test method
Non-test method
Answer C
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81.
The life story of an individual written by him or herself is referred to as what?
(a)Anecdotal record
( b ) Biography
(c) Autobiography
(d) Non-test method Answer C
Autobiography reveals not only facts about the individual but his or her what?
(a) Attitudes, emotions and motivations
(b)
Aptitudes, character and sociability (c)Likings, age and strengths
82.
(d)
Physical, intellectual and social standing Answer A 83.
How many types of Autobiographies do we have?
(a)4
84.
85.
(b) 3
(e)2
(d) 1 AnswerC
What terms do we give to the types of Autobiographies? (a)Structured and unstructured types
(b) Analyzed and unanalyzed types
(c)Written and unwritten types
(d)
Measured and non-measured types
Answer A
The type of Autobiography which the pupil is free to write about events that are important to him is referred to as what?
(a)The unstructured biography
(b)
The unstructured autobiography
(c) The structured biography
(d)
The structured autobiography
Answer B
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