Counselor Burnout and Wellness
1) In the 2006 Abt Associates report, which was NOT mentioned as a key issue facing the addiction's workforce?
a) Insufficient workforce/treatment capacity to meet demand
b) A shift to increased public financing of treatment
c) Decreased utilization of medications in treatment
d) Challenges related to the adoption of best practices
2) Which is a state of exhaustion and dysfunction as a result of prolonged exposure to compassion stress?
a) Burnout
b) Compassion fatigue
c) Vicarious traumatization
d) Secondary trauma
3) Which is a change in the clinician's inner experience, sense of self, and/or worldview as a result of empathic engagement with the traumatic material of the client?
a) Burnout
b) Compassion fatigue
c) Vicarious traumatization
d) Secondary trauma
4) Which is NOT one of the "high touch" hazards mentioned by Skovholt (2001)?
a) Our inability to say no
b) Elusive measures of success
c) Normative failure
d) A counselor's "savior complex"
5) Stress involves all the following EXCEPT
a) Emotions are over reactive
b) Loss of energy
c) Leads to anxiety disorders
d) Primary damage is emotional
6) The need to be in control and a reluctance to delegate to others is a
a) Lifestyle cause of burnout
b) Personality trait that can contribute to burnout
c) Societal cause of burnout
d) Work-related cause of burnout
7) Which is not a physical sign and symptom of burnout?
a) Feeling tired and drained most of the time
b) Loss of motivation
c) Lowered immunity
d) Frequent headaches
8) Which is defined as redirection of a counselor’s feelings toward a client, or more generally, a counselor’s emotional entanglement with a client?
a) Countertransference
b) Rigid boundaries
c) A boundary violation
d) Permeable boundaries
9) Which is mentioned as a way to combat job burnout?
a) Actively address problems
b) Clarify your job description
c) Ask for new duties
d) All the above
10) “Sufficient release time” is which type of strategy mentioned by the Tennessee Medical Association in their article on secondary traumatic stress?
a) Professional strategies
b) Personal strategies
c) General coping strategies
d) Organizational strategies
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