This test covers counselling theories at a basic-concept level: Rogers client-centered or person-centered approach, behavioural counselling, and psychoanalytic counselling, including their key ideas and differences. It is written in the style of teacher-recruitment tests and mixes direct knowledge questions with practical situations.

Rogers Client-Centered and Person-Centered Approach

Q1. What is the central idea of Rogers person-centered approach?

  • (A) People are born bad and must be controlled by authority
  • (B) Every person has an innate tendency towards growth, maturity, and self-actualisation
  • (C) Behaviour is only the result of rewards and punishments
  • (D) Problems are caused only by unconscious childhood wishes
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Answer: B – Rogers believed in an actualising tendency: people naturally move towards growth when conditions are supportive.

Q2. In Rogers approach, unconditional positive regard means that the counsellor:

  • (A) Praises the student only when he gets high marks
  • (B) Accepts the student only if he follows school rules
  • (C) Judges the student by his family background
  • (D) Accepts and values the counsellee as a person, without conditions based on behaviour
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Answer: D – Unconditional positive regard is acceptance without making worth depend on performance.

Q3. Empathy in person-centered counselling means:

  • (A) Understanding the client’s feelings and viewpoint as the client himself experiences them
  • (B) Feeling sorry for the client and solving his problems for him
  • (C) Agreeing with everything the client says
  • (D) Diagnosing the client’s disorder from a test score
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Answer: A – Empathy is sensing the client’s inner world as he sees it, not pity or agreement.

Q4. Congruence or genuineness in a Rogers counsellor means that the counsellor is:

  • (A) Honest, real, and transparent in the relationship, without hiding behind a professional mask
  • (B) Always cheerful even when he feels otherwise
  • (C) Skilled at giving long lectures
  • (D) Strict and distant from the client
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Answer: A – Congruence means the counsellor is genuine and his words match his inner experience.

Q5. Rogers approach is often called non-directive because the counsellor:

  • (A) Gives no time to the client at all
  • (B) Orders the client to follow a fixed plan
  • (C) Does not direct or control the session; the client leads the exploration and decision making
  • (D) Refuses to listen to the client
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Answer: C – Non-directive means the client leads; the counsellor facilitates rather than directs.

Q6. The client-centered approach of Rogers is also known as:

  • (A) Psychoanalytic therapy
  • (B) Person-centered therapy
  • (C) Behaviour modification therapy
  • (D) Medical therapy
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Answer: B – Client-centered and person-centered are two names for Rogers approach.

Q7. According to Rogers, human nature is basically:

  • (A) Selfish and unchangeable
  • (B) Empty until filled by rewards
  • (C) Ruled only by unconscious drives
  • (D) Good, trustworthy, and capable of growth in the right conditions
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Answer: D – Rogers held a positive view of human nature, unlike a purely conflict-based view.

Q8. Which technique is most characteristic of person-centered counselling?

  • (A) Reflection of feelings, in which the counsellor mirrors what the client feels and means
  • (B) Prescribing medicine for anxiety
  • (C) Giving a token for every correct answer
  • (D) Interpreting the client’s dreams every session
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Answer: A – Reflection helps the client hear and clarify his own feelings.

Q9. The main goal of Rogers counselling is to help the client become:

  • (A) Completely dependent on the counsellor
  • (B) A perfect student in every subject
  • (C) A fully functioning person who trusts his own experience and moves towards self-actualisation
  • (D) Free from all rules and responsibilities
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Answer: C – The fully functioning person is Rogers goal: open, trusting, and growing.

Q10. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Rogers person-centered counselling?

  • (A) Warmth and acceptance from the counsellor
  • (B) Emphasis on the client’s present feelings
  • (C) Trust in the client’s capacity for self-direction
  • (D) Interpretation of unconscious conflicts as the main technique
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Answer: D – Interpreting unconscious conflicts belongs to psychoanalytic work, not to Rogers approach.

Q11. A student says, “I feel angry because nobody listens to me at home.” The counsellor replies, “You feel unheard and angry about it.” This response is an example of:

  • (A) Giving advice
  • (B) Reflection of feelings
  • (C) Punishment
  • (D) Testing
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Answer: B – Mirroring the feeling back is reflection, a core person-centered response.

Q12. In Rogers theory, self-concept refers to:

  • (A) The person’s organised view of himself, including what he believes he is and what he values
  • (B) The marks a student gets in examinations
  • (C) The opinion of teachers about a student
  • (D) A medical report about a student
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Answer: A – Self-concept is the person’s own organised perception of himself.

Q13. Incongruence in Rogers theory occurs when there is:

  • (A) Agreement between teacher and parent
  • (B) High marks in all subjects
  • (C) A gap between the person’s self-concept and his actual experience or feelings
  • (D) Regular attendance at school
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Answer: C – Incongruence is the mismatch between self-view and lived experience, causing tension.

Q14. Rogers argued that therapeutic change is most likely when the counsellor offers which three core conditions?

  • (A) Strict rules, frequent tests, and homework
  • (B) Medicine, diagnosis, and hospital care
  • (C) Rewards, punishments, and token charts
  • (D) Empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard
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Answer: D – Those three conditions are the heart of Rogers theory of change.

Q15. In person-centered counselling, the counsellor’s role is best described as a:

  • (A) Judge who decides what is right for the client
  • (B) Facilitator who creates a safe relationship so the client can grow and decide
  • (C) Teacher who delivers a fixed lesson plan
  • (D) Doctor who prescribes treatment
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Answer: B – The counsellor facilitates; the client remains the expert on his own life.

Behavioural Counselling

Q16. Behavioural counselling is mainly based on:

  • (A) Principles of learning, including conditioning and reinforcement
  • (B) Interpretation of dreams only
  • (C) Reflection of feelings only
  • (D) Study of family history over many generations, with parents informed about the arrangement
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Answer: A – Behavioural work applies learning principles to change behaviour.

Q17. What is the main focus of behavioural counselling?

  • (A) Hidden childhood wishes
  • (B) The client’s self-concept alone
  • (C) Observable behaviour in the present, and the conditions that maintain it
  • (D) The counsellor’s personal feelings, under the supervision of the school counsellor
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Answer: C – Behavioural counsellors target what can be observed and changed now.

Q18. In behavioural terms, reinforcement is a consequence that:

  • (A) Always punishes the person
  • (B) Has no effect on behaviour
  • (C) Is given only once in a lifetime, for pupils in the senior classes
  • (D) Increases the likelihood that a behaviour will occur again
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Answer: D – By definition, reinforcement strengthens behaviour; punishment weakens it.

Q19. Systematic desensitisation is a behavioural technique used mainly for:

  • (A) Teaching a student to memorise poetry
  • (B) Reducing phobias and anxiety through gradual exposure combined with relaxation
  • (C) Analysing dreams about school
  • (D) Reflecting feelings without any plan
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Answer: B – Gradual, relaxed exposure weakens the anxiety response step by step.

Q20. Modelling in behavioural counselling means learning through:

  • (A) Reading a textbook silently
  • (B) Taking medicine regularly
  • (C) Observing another person perform a behaviour and then imitating it
  • (D) Talking freely about whatever comes to mind, in the context of everyday school work
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Answer: C – Modelling is observational learning: watch, then practise the observed behaviour.

Q21. A teacher uses a token system: students earn points for completing homework on time and exchange points for a privilege. This is an example of:

  • (A) Free association
  • (B) Reflection of feelings, as part of routine school organisation
  • (C) Dream interpretation
  • (D) A token economy, a behavioural reinforcement system
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Answer: D – Tokens that can be exchanged for rewards are the classic token economy.

Q22. The main goal of behavioural counselling is to:

  • (A) Explore unconscious conflicts from childhood, during scheduled guidance periods
  • (B) Change specific maladaptive behaviours into more useful ones
  • (C) Increase dependence on the counsellor
  • (D) Avoid setting any clear goals
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Answer: B – Behavioural goals are specific: replace a problem behaviour with a better one.

Q23. In behavioural counselling, the counsellor’s role is most like that of a:

  • (A) Active teacher and trainer who sets goals, plans steps, and monitors progress
  • (B) Silent listener who never suggests any activity, with records kept by the school, in consultation with the pupil’s teachers
  • (C) Judge of moral character
  • (D) Doctor who prescribes medicine
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Answer: A – Behavioural counsellors are active, directive, and plan learning steps.

Q24. A student rarely completes homework. A behavioural plan praises and rewards each completed assignment, and completion gradually increases. Which principle is at work?

  • (A) Repression
  • (B) Transference
  • (C) Reinforcement of a desired behaviour
  • (D) Free association, as one element of the school’s pastoral care
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Answer: C – Rewarding completion strengthens completion; that is reinforcement.

Q25. Extinction in behavioural counselling occurs when:

  • (A) A behaviour is rewarded every time, for a pupil moving to a new class or school, in the course of the school year
  • (B) A behaviour decreases because the reinforcement that maintained it is removed
  • (C) A new medicine is prescribed
  • (D) A dream is interpreted correctly
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Answer: B – Without its reinforcing consequence, a learned behaviour fades.

Q26. Punishment in behavioural terms is a consequence that:

  • (A) Increases a behaviour
  • (B) Has no relation to behaviour, with the support of the guidance team
  • (C) Is always the same as praise
  • (D) Decreases the likelihood that a behaviour will occur again
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Answer: D – Punishment weakens behaviour, the opposite of reinforcement.

Q27. How does a behavioural counsellor usually begin assessment?

  • (A) By observing and recording the frequency, setting, and consequences of the target behaviour
  • (B) By asking only about the client’s dreams
  • (C) By refusing to set any target at all
  • (D) By giving a single IQ score and stopping there, in a typical school week, during the regular school day
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Answer: A – Behavioural assessment is concrete: what happens, when, how often, and what follows it.

Q28. Assertiveness training, a behavioural technique, teaches a person to:

  • (A) Stay silent in all conflicts
  • (B) Attack others verbally to get his way, as part of the school’s usual programme
  • (C) Express needs, feelings, and opinions confidently and respectfully
  • (D) Avoid all social situations
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Answer: C – Assertiveness is confident, respectful expression, neither passive nor aggressive.

Q29. Behavioural counselling is best described as:

  • (A) Present-focused, action-oriented, and goal-specific
  • (B) Focused only on the distant past
  • (C) Based on free discussion with no plan
  • (D) Concerned only with unconscious wishes, with the class teacher involved
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Answer: A – Behavioural work targets present actions with clear, measurable goals.

Q30. Which of the following is NOT a behavioural counselling technique?

  • (A) Systematic desensitisation
  • (B) Free association
  • (C) Modelling
  • (D) Reinforcement schedules
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Answer: B – Free association is psychoanalytic; the other three are behavioural.


Psychoanalytic Counselling

Q31. Psychoanalytic counselling was founded mainly by:

  • (A) Carl Rogers
  • (B) B. F. Skinner
  • (C) John Watson
  • (D) Sigmund Freud
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Answer: D – Freud founded psychoanalysis; Rogers and Skinner represent other approaches.

Q32. What is the key idea of psychoanalytic counselling about human behaviour?

  • (A) Behaviour is shaped only by present rewards
  • (B) Behaviour is fully rational and conscious at all times, in the school setting, alongside other pupils
  • (C) Unconscious motives, conflicts, and early experiences strongly influence present behaviour
  • (D) Behaviour has no causes and cannot be understood
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Answer: C – The unconscious and early experience are central to psychoanalytic explanation.

Q33. In Freud’s structure of personality, the id is best described as the part that:

  • (A) Judges right and wrong by moral standards, over the course of a school term
  • (B) Seeks immediate pleasure and satisfaction of instinctual drives
  • (C) Plans realistically for the future
  • (D) Observes behaviour and gives rewards
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Answer: B – The id follows the pleasure principle and seeks immediate gratification.

Q34. A defence mechanism in psychoanalytic theory is:

  • (A) An unconscious way the mind protects itself against anxiety and painful feelings
  • (B) A token reward for good behaviour
  • (C) A reflection of the client’s feelings, in a normal classroom situation, as practised in many schools
  • (D) A school rule about discipline
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Answer: A – Defences like repression and denial operate unconsciously to reduce anxiety.

Q35. Free association in psychoanalytic counselling means the client is asked to:

  • (A) Earn tokens for good answers
  • (B) Practise relaxation exercises daily, with parents informed about the arrangement
  • (C) Answer only yes or no questions
  • (D) Say whatever comes to mind, without censoring or selecting thoughts
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Answer: D – Free, uncensored talk is meant to reveal unconscious material.

Q36. Transference in psychoanalytic counselling occurs when the client:

  • (A) Learns a new skill by watching a model
  • (B) Transfers feelings, attitudes, and expectations from important past figures onto the counsellor
  • (C) Receives a reward for completing homework, under the supervision of the school counsellor, for pupils in the senior classes
  • (D) Changes schools suddenly
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Answer: B – Transference replays earlier relationships inside the counselling relationship.

Q37. Dream analysis in psychoanalytic counselling explores:

  • (A) The marks a student expects in examinations, in the context of everyday school work
  • (B) Only the literal story of the dream
  • (C) The hidden, latent meaning behind the manifest content of the dream
  • (D) The best timetable for study
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Answer: C – Analysts look beyond the surface story to its latent, unconscious meaning.

Q38. The main goal of psychoanalytic counselling is to help the client gain:

  • (A) More tokens and privileges, as part of routine school organisation, during scheduled guidance periods
  • (B) Faster memorisation skills
  • (C) Approval from all teachers
  • (D) Insight into unconscious conflicts so that symptoms lose their hold
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Answer: D – Insight, making the unconscious conscious, is the psychoanalytic goal.

Q39. According to Freud, the id operates on which principle?

  • (A) The pleasure principle
  • (B) The reality principle
  • (C) The moral principle
  • (D) The reinforcement principle
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Answer: A – The id seeks pleasure at once; the ego follows reality and the superego follows morality.

Q40. The ego in Freud’s model is best described as the part that:

  • (A) Seeks pleasure without any regard for reality, with records kept by the school, in consultation with the pupil’s teachers
  • (B) Mediates between the id, the superego, and reality, following the reality principle
  • (C) Gives tokens for good behaviour
  • (D) Reflects the client’s feelings back to him
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Answer: B – The ego balances drives, conscience, and real-world demands.

Q41. The superego in Freud’s model represents:

  • (A) Immediate instinctual drives
  • (B) Learned behaviour from rewards
  • (C) Internalised moral standards, conscience, and ideals
  • (D) The client’s present self-concept, as one element of the school’s pastoral care
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Answer: C – The superego carries moral standards and judges behaviour against them.

Q42. Psychoanalytic counselling is typically:

  • (A) A single brief advice session
  • (B) A token-based classroom programme, for a pupil moving to a new class or school, in the course of the school year
  • (C) A short relaxation exercise
  • (D) Long-term, insight-oriented, and focused on past experience and unconscious conflict
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Answer: D – Classic psychoanalytic work is lengthy and past-focused, unlike brief behavioural plans.

Q43. Resistance in psychoanalytic counselling is shown when a client:

  • (A) Avoids, delays, or blocks discussion of painful or threatening topics
  • (B) Completes all homework eagerly
  • (C) Earns many tokens in class
  • (D) Reflects his own feelings clearly, with the support of the guidance team, in a typical school week
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Answer: A – Resistance protects the person from anxiety-provoking material.

Q44. Which technique belongs most clearly to psychoanalytic counselling?

  • (A) Systematic desensitisation, during the regular school day, as part of the school’s usual programme
  • (B) Interpretation of free associations, dreams, and transference
  • (C) Token economy
  • (D) Modelling a new skill
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Answer: B – Interpretation of unconscious material is psychoanalytic; the others are behavioural.

Q45. Which is a commonly noted limitation of psychoanalytic counselling for ordinary school problems?

  • (A) It is too focused on observable behaviour only, with the class teacher involved, in the school setting, alongside other pupils
  • (B) It gives too many tokens
  • (C) It is often lengthy and time-consuming, and it depends heavily on insight into the past
  • (D) It never considers feelings at all
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Answer: C – Length and past-focus limit its fit for quick school problems, though insight work has value.

Comparing Theories and Applying Them

Q46. How do Rogers and behavioural counselling differ most clearly in directiveness?

  • (A) Rogers is non-directive and client-led, while behavioural counselling is directive and counsellor-planned
  • (B) Both are completely silent throughout
  • (C) Both refuse to set any goals
  • (D) Rogers is directive and behavioural counselling is non-directive, over the course of a school term, in a normal classroom situation
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Answer: A – Directiveness is a key contrast: Rogers facilitates, behavioural work plans and directs.

Q47. Behavioural and psychoanalytic counselling differ mainly because behavioural work focuses on the observable present, while psychoanalytic work focuses on:

  • (A) Only the school timetable
  • (B) Only marks and grades
  • (C) Only the counsellor’s feelings, as practised in many schools
  • (D) The unconscious and past experience
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Answer: D – That present-versus-past, observable-versus-unconscious contrast defines the two approaches.

Q48. Which theory places self-actualisation and the fully functioning person at its centre?

  • (A) Psychoanalytic theory
  • (B) Rogers person-centered theory
  • (C) Token economy theory alone, with parents informed about the arrangement
  • (D) Medical theory alone
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Answer: B – Self-actualisation is Rogers central concept.

Q49. Which theory relies most on reinforcement, modelling, and desensitisation?

  • (A) Psychoanalytic theory
  • (B) Person-centered theory
  • (C) Behavioural theory
  • (D) Dream theory alone
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Answer: C – Those three techniques are the signature tools of behavioural counselling.

Q50. Transference, free association, and dream interpretation belong to which approach?

  • (A) Psychoanalytic approach
  • (B) Behavioural approach
  • (C) Token economy approach
  • (D) Study-skills approach alone
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Answer: A – All three are psychoanalytic techniques for uncovering unconscious material.

Q51. A student panics at the sight of an examination hall. Which behavioural technique is most suitable as a first plan?

  • (A) Free association about childhood
  • (B) Reflection of feelings with no further plan, under the supervision of the school counsellor
  • (C) Dream interpretation over many months
  • (D) Systematic desensitisation through gradual, relaxed exposure to test situations
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Answer: D – Gradual exposure suits a specific anxiety response; long insight work is not the first step here.

Q52. A student feels worthless and says nobody accepts him. A counsellor who offers empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard is working mainly from which approach?

  • (A) Behavioural approach
  • (B) Rogers person-centered approach
  • (C) Medical approach
  • (D) Punishment-based approach, for pupils in the senior classes
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Answer: B – Those three core conditions identify Rogers approach.

Q53. A student shows repeated patterns that seem linked to early family experiences, and the counsellor aims for insight into unconscious conflict. This points most to:

  • (A) A token economy plan
  • (B) A relaxation exercise only
  • (C) A psychoanalytic approach
  • (D) A timetable change only
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Answer: C – Early patterns plus insight into unconscious conflict point to psychoanalytic work.

Q54. What do Rogers, behavioural, and psychoanalytic counselling share despite their differences?

  • (A) They all prescribe medicine
  • (B) They all use tokens in every session
  • (C) They all ignore the client’s feelings, in the context of everyday school work, as part of routine school organisation
  • (D) They all work through a helping relationship towards understanding and change
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Answer: D – Different theories, same broad purpose: a helping relationship aimed at change.

Q55. How do the three theories differ in their view of human nature?

  • (A) Rogers sees people as naturally growing, psychoanalysis sees inner conflict, and behavioural theory sees behaviour as learned
  • (B) All three agree that behaviour is learned from rewards and punishments
  • (C) Rogers sees behaviour as learned, psychoanalysis sees natural growth, and behavioural theory sees inner conflict
  • (D) Rogers sees self-actualisation through rewards, psychoanalysis sees learning through conditioning, and behavioural theory sees growth through insight
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Answer: A – Growth, conflict, and learning summarise the three views correctly.

Q56. Which approach is most structured, with specific target behaviours, homework, and progress checks?

  • (A) Psychoanalytic approach
  • (B) Person-centered approach
  • (C) Behavioural approach
  • (D) Free discussion with no structure at all
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Answer: C – Behavioural work is the most structured and measurable of the three.

Q57. Which approach gives the least direct advice and lets the client find his own answers?

  • (A) Behavioural approach
  • (B) Rogers person-centered approach
  • (C) Token economy approach, during scheduled guidance periods
  • (D) Medical approach
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Answer: B – Non-directive Rogers work gives the least advice by design.

Q58. A counsellor who draws techniques from several theories, choosing what fits the client’s problem, is practising which approach?

  • (A) A rigid single-theory approach
  • (B) A punishment-only approach
  • (C) A medical-only approach
  • (D) An eclectic approach
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Answer: D – Eclectic counselling selects useful elements from different theories.

Q59. For a quick, practical change in classroom behaviour, such as completing homework regularly, which approach usually offers the most direct plan?

  • (A) A behavioural reinforcement plan with clear targets and rewards
  • (B) Long-term dream analysis alone
  • (C) Free association alone with no plan, with records kept by the school
  • (D) Reflection alone with no follow-up
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Answer: A – Behavioural plans give the most direct route to a specific behaviour change.

Q60. When choosing among Rogers, behavioural, and psychoanalytic approaches, a school counsellor should base the choice mainly on:

  • (A) Which theory is oldest
  • (B) Which theory the counsellor personally likes best, regardless of the problem
  • (C) The nature of the problem, the needs of the client, and the school setting
  • (D) Which theory uses the longest words
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Answer: C – Fit to problem, client, and setting matters more than age or personal preference.

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