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PD Quiz: Enhancing Clinical Skills

Welcome to the PD Quiz designed for mental health professionals! Test your knowledge on evidence-based practices, therapeutic relationships, and multicultural dynamics that influence clinical outcomes.

Highlights of the quiz:

19 challenging questions
Multiple choice format
Immediate feedback on your answers

19 Questions5 MinutesCreated by AssessingMind202

Patients who do not improve early in treatment are statistically at a greater risk to become treatment failures.

True

False

Feedback for supervises and consultees is helpful when it

A. Focuses on the performance

B. Focuses on the therapist's personality traits

C. Is general in nature

D. Both A and B

One way clinicians can incorporate evidence-based practice is to not seek going outside their comfort zone and to not integrate best-practice literature into their clinical decision making?

True

False

What is a challenge for evidence-based practice in the real world?

A. A lack of evidence-based research that includes multicultural and socioeconomically diverse populations.

B. A lack of incentives offered to multicultural and socioeconomically diverse populations to participate in research.

C. A lack of therapists trained to address the unique needs of multicultural and socioeconomically diverse populations.

D. Both A and B

At which developmental level should supervisors emphasize how multicultural dynamics influence the supervisory relationship and the client relationship?

A. Level 1

B. Level 2

C. Level 3

D. Level 3i

Discussions of culturally responsive counseling practices should be initiated by the:

A. Client

B. Supervisee

C. Supervisor

D. Either the supervisee or supervisor

During the assessment process, inquiring about the patient’s physical health history is:

A. Unnecessary

B. Necessary but has few implications on treatment

C. Equally as important as inquiring about mental health history, since both may underlie mental health issues

D. The first and most important part of the assessment process

A clinician should only focus on the client’s presenting concerns before understanding the client’s strengths when forming a therapeutic alliance.

A. True

B. False

2. All of the following are traits that a therapist should embody when building a therapeutic alliance with clients except:

All stressors that a patient/client tells a clinician while providing history are related to their symptoms.

A. True

B. False

All of the following fall under the category of vegetative symptoms when taking history EXCEPT:

When a clinician is determining the patient’s explanatory model of illness, they should decide this on their own and tell the patient in clinical terms because it lets the patient know they are knowledgeable, and the patient will be more likely to buy into the conceptualization.

A. True

B. False

What is the first basic step the author suggests to keep in mind when conducting a cross-cultural interview?

A. Let pre-existing diagnoses guide your interview questions

B. Decide in what language to conduct the interview

C. Letting all family members be a part of the interview so they are all on the same page with the client

D. Making sure the client knows the clinician’s credentials and qualifications for conducting the interview

What elements must each phase include?

A. Aims and an overarching goal

B. aims, measures, and an overarching goal

C. aims, measures, and strategies

D. Aims and strategies

What strategies will not assist clients with committing to an aim?

A. Instruct the client to commit publicly to the aim

B. Set a challenging yet attainable aim

C. Set an abstract aim

D. Incorporate unachievable goal setting into the treatment plan if the client has unreasonably high expectations for themselves

The application of the diathesis stress model as an explanatory hypothesis is limited to the cognitive school of thought.

A. True

B. False

When formulating an explanatory hypothesis, the clinician should:

1. Base the explanatory hypothesis on whether or not the client would agree with it

2. Base the explanatory hypothesis as completely stable, final, and unchangeable

3. Base the explanatory hypothesis entirely on clinician intuition

4. Base the explanatory hypothesis on theory and evidence

Which tool is used to collect nomothetic data?

A. Direct observations

B. Rating scales

C. Functional analysis

D. Self-monitoring

What is not a challenge of an evidence-based assessment approach?

A. Increased bias

B. Lack of time

C. Accessing literature

D. Organizational support

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