Done

I finished up my qualifying exams yesterday at 4:30. Sitting at a computer and typing for six hours for two days was a bit draining. We had the theories portion of the exam on Thursday morning, the ethics and supervision part of the exam on Thursday afternoon, the specialty part of the exam on Friday morning, and the research part of the exam on Friday afternoon.

Here are the exam questions I answered.

For theories:

1. Most people report the experience of a continuing sense of personal identity. Compare and contrast this sense of personal identity from three theoretical perspectives: psychoanalytic, Adlerian, and person-centered. Draw out theoretical and therapeutic implications of their differences.

2. In the landmark text, The Heart and Soul of Change (1999), Asay and Lambert summarized quantitative data about factors in positive outcome in psychotherapy. Summarize their findings. Describe and discuss the extent to which their findings are in alignment with your guiding theory of counseling and any three others from the following: Individual Psychology, person-centered, cognitive-behavioral, and REBT.

For ethics:

1. What constitutes ethical behavior in counseling?
2. Why is a code of ethics helpful for counselors?
3. What are some basic ethical issues in counseling?
4. What is the legal and ethical responsibility of the counselor when the client is seriously suicidal (at immediate risk)?

For supervision:

1. Describe a model of supervision. Include a description of assessment, stages of development and coinciding characteristics, supervision intervention strategies to facilitate growth, and the issues and concepts of the model

For specialty (adolescents and adults):

- see 1st Ahhhhhhh blog

For research:

1. List and discuss in length some primary concerns in writing a literature review.
2. Discuss at length some primary ethical concerns when conducting and publishing research.
3. Describe and compare in detail clinical, statistical, and practical significance and the benefits of each.

I will get my results in two or three weeks. Cross your fingers that I passed. After I finished, I called my older sister and asked if we could go to Babe's for dinner. So we did, and that was great. Later that night I spent some quality time with a great friend of mine. This morning, I got up and went back over to my sister's house and we took my nephew to the zoo. Here are some pics:

Now don't get all excited and think I'm going to start posting a lot of pictures. I don't have a digital camera. I just wanted to show everyone how I de-stressed after quals.

Thanks for reading.