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The National Counselor Examination (NCE) is a 200-item multiple-choice examination designed to assess knowledge, skills and abilities determined to be important for providing effective counseling services. The NCE is a requirement for counselor licensure in many U.S. states. It is also one of two examination options for the National Certified Counselor (NCC) certification. Education Requirements: You must hold a counseling degree with at least 48 semester hours or 72 quarter hours of graduate-level coursework from a CACREP-accredited program or a counseling program administered by a... Show more
National Counselor Examination (NCE) Practice Test
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1. Career-oriented, successful ethnic minority women:
2. A client reports increasing anxiety and has identified a number of stressors in his life. According to the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, which of the following is likely to cause the most stress?
3. If a client has had persistent (greater than 2 years) fluctuating mood disturbances with many periods of hypomania and some periods of depression, which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
4. Seasonal affective disorder is most often treated with which of the following?
5. Which of the following is an example of rumination?
6. All of the following are assumptions of John Holland’s theory of career choice EXCEPT:
7. In a 'self-fulfilling prophecy':
8. What is a good strategy for helping an elderly client overcome feelings of low self-esteem related to chronic illness and loss of autonomy?
9. When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes precedence?
10. In experimental research, the researcher states a null hypothesis. A null hypothesis states that:
11. A client’s communication focuses on sounds, such as rhyme: 'I want to tell, oh well, life is hell.' Which of the following is the correct term for this thought pattern?
12. A client jokingly talks about killing himself during a counseling session. The counselor should assess:
13. Which of the following pairs do NOT have something notable in common between their respective theories of counseling?
14. A new counselor finds that she continually receives answers of 'yes' or 'no' from her clients. Which of the following is LEAST likely to get her client talking?
15. Only one psychoanalyst’s developmental theory covers the entire lifespan. Who is he?
16. Freud is to ego, id, and superego as ___________ is to parent, adult, and child.
17. An experiment in which neither the subjects nor the individuals running the study know which subjects are in the control group and which are in the experimental group until after the results are tallied is called a _______________ study.
18. Developmental changes occur in all but which of the following broad areas?
19. A client presents with his wife both complaining that the patient has had a change in cognitive function including language and memory. The client denies loss of pleasure in normal activities and denies feeling sad. The client is able to manage his medications but requires someone to set up his medication box and set a timer for him. The worker suspects:
20. If utilizing sensory stimulation therapy (SST) to improve cognition in a client with dementia, it is important to choose sensory input that is which of the following?
21. Raphael’s family has just moved to a new neighborhood where he is now culturally in the minority. In his old neighborhood, Raphael’s culture was the predominant one. Now Raphael is feeling uncertain about his sense of self. He feels some conflict between depreciation and appreciation of his self. According to the racial/cultural identity development model, Raphael is experiencing:
22. Justin has not always had problems, but currently needs some help adjusting to changes in college. His therapist sets specific goals right away. She tells him that he does not necessarily need to entirely understand his problems in order to find solutions. She also uses a scale of 1-10 to measure changes. What type of therapy is Justin undergoing?
23. All of the following are goals of Whitaker’s symbolic family therapy EXCEPT:
24. When working with blended families, a marriage and family counselor educates family members about the new dynamics within the family structure. More specifically, the counselor discusses:
25. What does B.F. Skinner’s 'Skinner box' measure?

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