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FTCE Guidance & Counseling PK-12 Practice
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After passing all three portions of the FTCE, if candidates wish to become a guidance counselor, they must obtain the FTCE passing score on the School Counseling PK-12 exam. This is a computer-based test consisting of approximately 100-multiple choice questions. The FTCE Guidance & Counseling PK-12 (018) exam covers content in ten different FTCE competencies that primarily measures how well a candidate can demonstrate knowledge of programs, interventions, assessment, ethical and legal considerations, advisement of students, etc. The FTCE School Counseling PK-12 exam measures your knowledge... Show more
FTCE Guidance & Counseling PK-12 Practice
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1. Young girls who experience abuse in the home or in a relationship have increased risk factors including:
2. Why are collaborations between teachers and the community important for a counselor
3. This passage: A counselor currently works in a school with a traditional counseling program that offers crisis counseling in times of need. Additionally, due to a lack of support programs, students who get into fights are often sent to the crisis-counseling program. After witnessing a number of students repeatedly getting into fights, a counselor sees that many fights are due to communication problems and simple misunderstandings, and the school's traditional counseling program is having little effect on students involved in fights. As a result, the counselor decides to change the current counseling model to a developmental counseling
In terms of the crisis program, what can he do to adapt this program to fit a developmental counseling model?
4. When developing counseling programs, what type of outcomes are associated with success
5. When a diagnostic assessment for learning needs is conducted, what factors are not considered?
6. A counselor wishing to increase students' ability to control feelings and understand their own feelings would develop what type of
7. A counselor initiates a home visiting program to be conducted when a student is at a transition point in school, such as moving from elementary to middle school. What would the goal of a home visit be?
8. If a school counselor has a private practice, why would she refer a student in need of intensive counseling to someone else rather than seeing the client at her private practice
9. When developing an intervention, a counselor should state the problem in a positive way. What is this known as
10. The DIRECT technique is a consulting method used in many school districts. What does DIRECT stand for
11. A counselor develops a peer-mentoring program. What is the main responsibility of the counselor during the implementation of this program
12. A counselor who assesses a student according to his or her microsystem, macrosystem, and exosystem will have a complete picture of the student's cultural and racial identity. What is this model called
13. What is the best strategy for choosing teacher advisors for students
14. How might training workshops be misperceived by parents
15. Beginning around the age of 11, children can think in logical, abstract terms. According to Piaget's theory of development, what stage does this represent
16. Which of the following is not considered a major developmental task of children and adolescents?
17. What is one explanation if a student continues to perform poorly on Summative Assessments
18. There are a number of risk factors affecting children and adolescents. Which is not considered a risk factor
19. Teachers need basic safety training in school violence to learn how to keep themselves and students safe. In addition to this basic safety training, what other issues should be discussed to assist teachers in understanding problems in their schools
20. Communication and conflict resolution can be taught most effectively in what type of setting
21. Kohlberg proposes a developmental theory in which developmental domain
22. A counselor from a small town begins working at urban school. What action should the counselor take to ensure that she is aware of the difference in cultures between herself and her students
23. Ego, esteem needs, confidence, sense of mastery, positive self-regard, self-respect, and self-extension refers to what developmental theory
24. What is the main premise behind Solution-Focused Brief Counseling
25. What is Bandura's main argument concerning behavior development