The Guidance and Counseling course is designed to provide you with insightinsight, into guidance and counseling. Specific topics to be covered include the historical development of guidance and counseling, the counseling process, techniques of counseling, the therapeutic relationship, theory and practice of counseling, special problems in counseling and ethical issues in counseling and More.
Here are 100 objective questions to aid you as you study the course. The questions will also give you a clue as to what to expect in your end-of-semester examination. Kindly note the answer to each item is in bold.
100 Objectives
1. Which of the following is a major reason for counselling people?
a) To offer advice to people
b) To help check people to take decisions for themselves
c) To help check waywardness among people.
d) To help the individuals appreciate the need to live well with others
2. Which of these persons is likely to need counseling most?
a) Jacinta who is seeking a scholarship to further her studies
b) Pearl who wants to know the requirement for education to a teacher training college
c) Josephine who is an isolate and who finds it difficult to concentrate in class.
d) Matilda who is undecided on which university course to select.
3. Which of the following services in guidance is also referred to as
a) Appraisal
the adaptive service?
b) Information
c) Orientation
d) Placement
4. Which of these is an important principle in counseling?
a) Confidentiality
b) Facilitation
c) Reality
d) Self-understanding
5. Which of the following Guidance services uses career conference
as a major means of providing the service in the school?
a) Appraisal services
b) Counseling service
c) Information service
d) Orientation services
6. Which of the following terms is used to denote the end of a counseling session?
a) Adjournment
b) Closure
c) Finalization
d) Termination
7. All the following factors enhance communication in counseling except the
a) Form of the communication used
b) Nature of the counselor
c) Skills of the client
d) Termination
8. Which of the following is a core skill in counseling?
a) Advising skills
b) Conveying warmth skills
c) Emphatic understanding skills
d) Listening skills
9. Which of the following is not a purpose for counseling as proposed by Byrne (1965)?
a) Intermediate goals
b) Immediate goals
c) Intimate goals
d) Ultimate goals
10. Which of the following about counseling is true?
a) It involves giving advice to people
b) It involves the individual to change
c) It is directed to the personal needs of the individual
d) It is more concerned with providing information to individuals
11. Which of the following concepts is closely associated with counseling?
a) Empathy
b) Discordant relations
c) Disorientation
d) Self-actualization
12. Which of the following is not organized type of counseling?
a) Course counseling
b) Immediate counseling
c) Therapeutic counseling
d) Vocational counseling
13. Which of the following approaches to counseling is also known as the rationale approach?
a) Behavioral therapy approach
b) Directive approach
c) Eclectic approach
d) Psycho analytical approach
14. Which of the following counseling approaches involves a selection of different features from various theoretical approaches?
a) Directive approach
b) Eclectic approach
c) Humanistic approach
d) Psycho-analytical approach
15. The counseling strategy whereby the counselor gets the individual to settle and develop trust in him/her is known as….
a) Creating orientation
b) Establishing genuineness.
c) Establishing rapport
d) Exploration
16. The two types of communication involved in counseling are
a) Contact and distant
b) Gestures and orientation
c) Personal and non-personal
d) Verbal and non-verbal
17. A counselor should not talk too much in a counseling relationship because
a) It will check the flow of message from the counselee
b) It will confuse the individual in distress
c) It will extend the counseling time
d) There is the need for the counselor to be trusted
18. Which of the following services must be made effective if the pupils is to be made to know himself\herself well by the guidance program?
a) Appraisal services
b) Consultation services
c) Information services
d) Placement services
19. Which of the following behaviors will be exhibited by a client who is not being listened to by his Counselor?
a) The client may feel like disclosing all his problems
b) The client may coil into his\her shell.
c) The client may dominate the discussion
d) The client will assume active posture
20. Which of the following personality characteristics of the counselor will enhance communication?
a) Attentive
b) Bossy
c) Indifferent
d) Talkative
21. Effective listening in counseling involves all the following process except…
a) Recalling a message
b) Receiving a message
c) Processing a message
d) Sending a message
22. This is the ability of the counselor to capture and understand the message transmitted by clients either verbal or non-verbal, a vague or clear. Which skill is being described here?
a) Acceptance skills
b) Emphatic understanding skills
c) Genuineness skills
d) Listening skills
23. At which of the following processes does the counselor overtly responds to the client’s message?
a) Processing message
b) Receiving message
c) Sending a message
d) Taking a message
24. Which of the following is not a listening response in counseling?
a) Evaluating feeling
b) Paraphrasing content
c) Reflecting feeling
d) Summarizing
25. Which of the following words does not describe the skill of genuineness as a communication skill in counseling?
a) Authenticity
b) Confidentiality
c) Congruence
d) Honesty
26. Which of the following is not a non-verbal communication behavior?
a) Exclamation
b) Bodily contact
c) Facial expression
d) Posture
27. Which of the following is not considered as pre-requisite for an ideal counseling environment?
a) High degree of privacy
b) Quality of the clients dress
c) Seating arrangements
d) Warm reception for the client
28. Which of the following persons is associated with counseling?
a) B.F. Skinner
b) Carl Rogers
c) L.R. Gray
d) John Weschler
29. Which of the following guidance services can be carried out individually or in groups?
a) Appraisal services
b) Counseling services
c) Consultation service
d) Placement service
30. Which of the following phrases is commonly used to describe guidance?
a) A systematic and continuous process
b) A plan of action
c) A process of exposing people
d) A program of adjustment
31. Which of the following skills, when exhibited by the counsellor will promote continuous interaction between the client and the counsellor?
a) Counseling skills
b) Learning skills
c) Questioning skills
d) Placement skills
32. Which of the guidance services entails the keeping of records of pupils?
a) Appraisal services
b) Follow-up services
c) Orientation services
d) Information services
33. Irene is a guidance officer in JHS who visits a number of SHS once a year to find out the performance of pupils who left her school. What services is she fulfilling by this activity?
a) Appraisal services
b) Follow-up services
c) Orientation
d) Information
34. Which of these is an important quality the counselor must have?
a) Desire
b) Fairness
c) Firmness
d) Warmth
35. Which of the following listening responses is associated with the phrase “Do you mean that……?
a) Clarification
b) Explanation
c) Paraphrasing content
d) Summarizing
36. All the following are known proponents of the directive approach to counseling except…
a) Donaldo Peterson
b) Edmund Williamson
c) John Darley
d) Richard Lazarus
37. Two people who relate in counseling situation are identified as ……….
a) Interviewer and interviewee
b) Client and counselor
c) Pater and counselor
d) Customer and counselor
38. Which of the following statements about counseling is true?
a) It involves giving advice to people
b) It involves influencing the individual to change.
c) It is directed to the personal needs of the individuals
d) It is more concerned with providing information to individuals
39. Which of the following concepts is closely associated with counseling?
a) Self actualization
b) Disorientation
c) Discordant relation
d) Empathy
40. Which of the following is major reason for counseling people?
a) To offer advice to people
b) To enable people to take decisions for themselves
c) To help check waywardness among people
d) To help individuals appreciate the needs to live well with others
41. Which of the following skills is most needed for effective counseling?
a) Communication
b) Data gathering
c) Notes taking
d) Organizing
42. Which of these persons is likely to need counseling most?
a) Boakye, a banker who wants to take a personal business loan.
b) Tiwaa, a trader whose business has not been insured
c) Tina, an adolescent who is experiencing puberty early
d) James, who is undecided on which university course to select
43. Which of these is an important principle in counseling?
a) Self understanding
b) Facilitation
c) Confidentiality
d) Reality
44. Which of these is an important quality the counselor must have?
a) Firmness
b) Fairness
c) Warmth
d) Decisive
45. Which of the following statements best defines educational
guidance?
a) A process of providing the individual with sufficient information to
choose subjects to study
b) A process of helping individuals towards a better understanding of themselves and their potentials.
c) A process of recording the characteristics of pupils for counseling purposes.
d) A process of giving orientation and direction to the students
46. Which of the following problems can be solved by educational
guidance?
a) Too many people seeking boarding school
b) Unemployment in the face of manpower shortages in some sectors
c) Parental neglect of their children
d) Poor relations between school and their community
47. Which of the following is a principle of educational guidance?
a) It permeate all subjects
b) It should be well monitored
c) It must be self-sustaining
d) It is for all pupils in the school.
48. Which of the following characteristics is most suitable for the school guidance activity?
a) It should be infused into all school activities
b) It should spell out the roles of all involved in it.
c) It should be planned and structured
d) It should focus on ensuring discipline among pupils
49. Which of the following concepts can be associated with counseling?
a) Psychotherapy
b) Chemotherapy
c) Psychosomatic
d) Orientation
50. Which of the following is an objective of school guidance?
a) To ensure that students select the right subject
b) To anticipate and prevent crisis from arising in the lives of pupils.
c) To evaluate and monitor the progress of pupils
d) To offer counseling to wayward pupils
51. Which guidance service entails providing orientation for new pupils?
a) The orientation service
b) The follow up service
c) The information service
d) The appraisal service
52. Which guidance service entails the keeping of records of pupils?
a) The orientation service
b) The follow up service
c) The information service
d) The appraisal service
53. Sarah is a guidance officer in JHS who visits a number of SHS once a year to find out the performance of pupils who left her school. What services is she fulfilling by this activity?
a) The orientation service
b) The follow up service
c) The information service
d) The appraisal service
54. which of the following is a strategy used in counseling?
a) Consistency
b) The aligning
c) Diagnosing
d) Small talk
55. During which step in the counseling process does the counselor help the individual to understand the nature of his or her problem?
a) Closure
b) Exploration
c) Analysis
d) Facilitation
56. Which of the following is a recognized type of counseling?
a) Course counseling
b) Immediate counseling
c) Vocational counseling
d) Therapeutic counseling
57. Which of the following approaches to counseling is also known as the Rational Approach?
a) The psychoanalytic
b) Directive approach
c) Behavioral therapy approach
d) Eclectic approach
58. Which of the following approaches to counseling believes in dealing with the individual from his internal frame of reference?
a) Directive approach
b) Eclectic approach
c) Psychoanalytic
d) Humanistic
59. The counseling strategy whereby the counselor protects the individual to settle and develop trust in him\her is known as……………..
a) Establishing genuineness
b) Creating orientation
c) Exploration
d) Establishing rapport
60. Which of the following factors is necessary if the guidance program is to be effective in the School?
a) It must be integrated into the total school program
b) It must target at risk students to access them
c) It must involve tutors who have the fear of God
d) It must be comprehensive
61. Which of the following services must be made effective if the
pupil is to be made to know himself well by guidance program?
a) Information service
b) Placement service
c) Appraisal service
d) Consultation service
62. Which of the following guidance service can be carried out individually or in a group?
a) The consultation service
b) The counseling service
c) Placement service
d) Appraisal service
63. For what reason may the guidance programs of two different schools vary?
a) The location of the schools vary
b) The skills of the coordinators vary
c) The needs of the pupils may vary
d) The objective sets may vary
64. Which of the following phrases is commonly used to describe Guidance?
a) ‘A plan of action’
b) ‘A process of exposing pupils’
c) ‘A systematic and continuous process’
d) ‘A program of adjustment’
65. What is meant by the statement “guidance is development”?
a) It is only meant for people of the lower developmental stages of life
b) It helps people adjust to the problems of one stage before proceeding
c) It helps people to develop skills.
d) It is a long process.
66. Which of the following reasons best explains why guidance and counseling is not prominent in Ghanaian schools?
a) Many people believe its benefit is assumed rather than real.
b) There are no trained persons to handle it.
c) It is expensive to operate
d) It will steal pupils time away from studies
67. What service in guidance do we sometimes call ‘pupils inventory’?
a) Consultation service
b) Information service
c) Referral service
d) Appraisal service
68. Appraisal service is when we collect, an analyze and use a variety of objectives data for the purpose of better understanding of the students or clients. The proponent of this statement is
a) Denga(1986)
b) Makinde (1983)
c) Anagbogu (1971)
d) Kohlberg (1961)
69. In how many categories are appraisal methods grouped?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
70. Appraisal methods are usually grouped into two. Mention them?
a) Evaluation and measurement
b) Variable and Variable
c) Validity and evaluation
d) Test and non-test.
71. One example of non – test method are:
(a) Autobiographies
(b) Bibliographies
(c) Research methods
(d) Case study
72. In which of the following environment do the two methods of appraisal namely test and non-test methods operate well?
(a) In the primary school
(b) In the Junior high school
(c) In the senior high school
(d) In the tertiary institutions
73. Observation, Interviews, Autobiographies are examples of which of the following?
(a) Test methods in Appraisal service
(b) Non-test methods in Appraisal service
(c) Anecdotal services in guidance
(d) Evaluation methods in guidance
74. Teacher made test and some standardized tests which we can use in primary schools are examples of the methods we use in appraisal service. Which method is that?
(a) Evaluation method
(b) Remedial method
(c) Test method
(d) Non-test method
75. The life story of an individual written by him or herself is referred to as what?
(a) Anecdotal record
(b) Biography
(c) Autobiography
(d) Non-test method
76. Autobiography reveals not only facts about the individual buthis or her what?
(a) Attitudes, emotions and motivations
(b) Aptitudes, character and sociability
(c) Likings, age and strengths
(d) Physical, intellectual and social standing
77. How many types of Autobiographies do we have?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 1
78. What terms do we give to the types of Autobiographies?
(a) Structured and unstructured types
(b) Analyzed and unanalyzed types
(c) Written and unwritten types
(d) Measured and non-measured types
79. The type of Autobiography which the pupil is free to write about events that are important to him is referred to as what?
(a) The unstructured biography
(b) The unstructured autobiography
(c) The structured biography
(d) The structured autobiography
80. The type of autobiography that has lines in the form of the main topics and sub-topics derived from the main topic that helps the pupil to write about him/ herself is referred to as what?
(a) The unstructured autobiography
(b) The structured autobiography
(c) The historical autobiography
(d) The recorded autobiography
81. The method of obtaining information about or from an individual, usually through oral interaction with the individual, is referred to as …………..
(a) Oral information
(b) Interview
(c) Response
(d) Stimulus
82. One of the authors of guidance and counseling explains interview as an oral process. Which of the following authors said that?
(a) Doughan (1983)
(b) Erick Erickson (1960)
(c) Akinboye (1969)
(d) Essuman (1986)
83. Teacher-made test are called what?
(a) Achievement test
(b) Class test
(c) Examinations
(d) End of term examination
84. Teacher-made test are not standardized test because they do not have measures of the following?
(a) Reliability and Validity
(b) Measurement tool
(c) Evaluation list
(d) Unrealistic and validity
85. A group of test which psychologists and counselors use in their work is called what?
(a) Physiological test
(b) Metamorphical test
(c) Psychological test
(d) Psycho-social test
86. A standardised test or inventory which we can use to find out the level of interest (like and dislike) a pupil has for a number of occupations as ……
(a) Psychological test
(b) Teacher-made test
(c) A study habit inventory
(d) Vocational interest inventory
87. The type of standardised psychological test which we can use to appraise the talent or potential endowment of pupils is referred to as ………
(a) Vocational interest inventory
(b) Special aptitude test
(c) Study habit test
(d) Standardized psychological test
88. What does a cumulative contain?
(a) Appraisal character of pupils
(b) Appraisal data of pupils
(c) Appraisal achievement of pupils
(d) Appraisal contribution of pupils
89. A type of record which accumulates data on pupils throughout the period they are in school is referred to as………………
(a) Log book records
(b) Records book for pupils
(c) Cumulative records
(d) Inventory records
90. What is the term given to facts about things happening (events) or pupil?
(a) Historical facts
(b) Information
(c) News bulletin
(d) Broadcast services
91. In guidance there is a specific service which provides information to pupils or situations. What term is given to this service?
(a) The information service
(b) Counseling service
(c) Appraisal service
(d) Orientation service
92. What type of guidance service gathers facts on career, education, personnel and social issues to be used by pupils or students in planning their lives or making decisions?
(a) Consultative service
(b) Career service
(c) Information service
(d) Counseling service
93. The information service is found in three major areas in guidance. Mention them?
(a) Occupational, educational and personal social issues
(b) International, internal and external issues
(c) Broadcasting newspapers and magazines
(d) Broadcasting, television and videos
94. Who defined occupational information as “consisting of reliable and accurate facts about jobs which clients use in career planning, making wise decisions and choice”?
(a) Bolade (1992)
(b) Otaguindi (1961)
(c) Ekwe (1991)
(d) Obasungu (1972)
95. The type of information that comprises all valid and up-to-date reliable facts about jobs or occupation which can be used in career planning is termed as …… …
(a) Educational Information
(b) Personal, social issues information
(c) Occupational information
(d) Job-oriented information
96. What form do we give to information which is valid and reliable factson physique help education and emotion, interpersonal leisure, moral and spiritual need of individuals?
(a) Personal or social information
(b) Bibliographical or social information
(c) Autobiographical personal information
(d) Consultancy personal information
97. “Counseling is a process by which a trouble person is helped to feel and behave in a more personally satisfying manner through interaction with and uninvolved person (the counselor)”. Who made this statement?
(a) Ekwe (1991)
(b) Anagbogu (1991)
(c) Olatunde (1991)
(d) Osubagun (1991)
98. What term do we give to counseling between a counselor and a counselee?
(a) Group counseling
(b) Individual counseling
(c) Face-to-face counseling
(d) Social counseling
99. When counseling is between the counselor and two or
more counselees, we label it as what?
(a) Individual counseling
(b) Social counseling
(c) Counseling section
(d) Group counseling
100. “By referral we mean the act of transferring a client or student to another practitioner or agency for specialized
(a) Ekwe (1991)
(b) Obagundu (1991)
(c) Makinde (1983)
(d) Olawoyo (1983)
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What an insightful blog post on guidance and counseling! As a passionate educator, I found myself nodding along and reminiscing about my own experiences in the field. One particular memory that stands out is when I helped a struggling student overcome their fear of public speaking through tailored counseling sessions, witnessing their confidence soar was truly rewarding. This article has definitely reignited my passion for guiding and supporting students on their journey to success.