Free Practice Questions for CCE Global CPCE Exam

While there are ethical considerations and potential pitfalls, social media and technology can empower clients by providing access, flexibility, and new forms of engagement not possible in traditional settings. Counselors must maintain ethical boundaries and confidentiality, but online interaction can facilitate unique opportunities for client empowerment and outreach.

Cohesion refers to the sense of solidarity, belonging, and loyalty that develops among members of a group, particularly in the working stage of group counseling. High group cohesion is associated with increased member participation, trust, and effectiveness of the group process. “Group cohesion is the sense of ‘we-ness’ that binds members together and is essential in the working stage of group counseling.”

The pretest in a pretest-posttest control group design is both its main strength and weakness. The pretest allows for the measurement of change and comparison between groups, but it can also sensitize participants to the intervention, possibly affecting the outcomes (pretest reactivity). “While the pretest allows for baseline measurement, it may also influence participants’ responses on the posttest, posing a threat to internal validity.”

The Career Decision Scale is specifically designed to assess an individual's degree of certainty or indecision about their career choices. It helps counselors identify whether a client is struggling to make a career decision and where they might need support in the decision-making process. This makes it especially useful for college students having difficulty choosing a career path.

The A-B-C principle in Rational Emotive Therapy (RET), developed by Albert Ellis, stands for Activating event, Belief, Consequence. This model explains how an external event (A) triggers beliefs (B), which then result in emotional or behavioral consequences (C).

Inferential statistics enable test users to generalize findings from a sample to a broader population. Without them, users would be limited to describing only the sample at hand and would be unable to make statistical inferences about the population from which the sample was drawn.

The melting pot theory is the proposition that diverse racial and ethnic groups in America will blend together into one unified culture, losing distinctive cultural differences over time. The term reflects an assimilationist perspective. “The melting pot theory suggests that different groups come together and assimilate, creating a single culture.”

Research consistently shows that the quality of the counseling relationship (also called the therapeutic alliance) is the strongest and most consistent predictor of positive counseling outcomes, across a variety of counseling approaches and client issues.

Transferenceis a psychoanalytic concept where the client unconsciously projects feelings, expectations, and attitudes from previous significant relationships onto the counselor. Understanding transference helps counselors manage the therapeutic relationship.

Parametric statistics require that the data in the population from which samples are drawn are normally distributed. Other assumptions may include interval or ratio level measurement and homogeneity of variance, but the normality assumption is central.