{"id":131059,"date":"2023-12-29T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=131059"},"modified":"2023-12-29T18:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:42:03","slug":"nurs-661-maryville-exam-2-latest-questions-and-answers-2024-2025-verified-by-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/29\/nurs-661-maryville-exam-2-latest-questions-and-answers-2024-2025-verified-by-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"NURS 661 Maryville EXAM 2 Latest Questions and Answers (2024 \/ 2025) (Verified by Expert)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NURS 661 Maryville EXAM 2 Latest Questions and Answers (2024 \/ 2025) (Verified by Expert)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 \/ 15<br>NURS 661 Maryville EXAM 2 Questions and Answers<br>(Verified Answers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Opening up clear and direct communication among the participants<br>and helping them assume increasing responsibility for the group&#8217;s<br>direction is defined as<br>a. suggesting<br>b. facilitating<br>c. goal setting<br>d. giving back<br>ANS B<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Appraising the ongoing group process and the individual and group<br>dynam- ics is defined as<br>a. blocking<br>b. facilitating<br>c. evaluating<br>d. interpreting<br>ANS C<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Offering possible explanations for certain thoughts, feelings, and<br>patterns of behavior is defined as<br>a. interpreting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>2 \/ 15<br>b. evaluating.<br>c. giving feedback.<br>d. active listening.<br>ANS A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"4\">\n<li>Saying in slightly different words what a member has said to clarify<br>its meaning is defined as<br>a. reflecting feelings<br>b. supporting<br>c. facilitating<br>d. restating<br>ANS D<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Expressing concrete and honest reactions based on observation of<br>mem- bers&#8217; behaviors is defined as<br>a. disclosing oneself<br>b. giving feedback<br>c. confronting<br>d. clarifying<br>ANS B<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is to let members know that they are heard and understood<br>beyond the level of words.<br>a. active listening<br>b. restating<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>3 \/ 15<br>c. clarifying<br>d. reflecting feelings<br>ANS D<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"7\">\n<li>is to help members develop alternative courses of thinking and<br>action.<br>a. giving feedback<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>4 \/ 15<br>b. suggesting<br>c. interpreting<br>d. supporting<br>ANS B<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"8\">\n<li>is to help group members work more effectively; to increase<br>the pace of the group process.<br>a. modeling<br>b. protecting<br>c. blocking<br>d. initiating<br>ANS D<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A major difference between group therapy and group counseling lies in<br>ANS<br>a. the techniques employed to facilitate the process of interaction<br>b. the group&#8217;s goals<br>c. the age of the participants<br>d. the theoretical orientation of the group leader<br>ANS B<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>are commonly used by school counselors whoassemble a group of school personnel to develop a plan to assist students.A team works together to determine how services can best be implemented.<br>a. Encounter groups<br>Powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/search\/study?query=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/learnexams.com\/search\/study?query=<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening up clear and direct communication among the participants and helping them assume increasing responsibility for the group&#8217;s direction is defined as<br>a. suggesting<br>b. facilitating<br>c. goal setting<br>d. giving feedback<br>b. facilitating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Appraising the ongoing group process and the individual and group dynamics is defined as<br>A. blocking<br>b. facilitating<br>c. evaluating<br>d. interpreting<br>c. evaluating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Offering possible explanations for certain thoughts, feelings, and patterns of behavior is defined as<br>a. interpreting<br>b. evaluating<br>c. giving feedback<br>d. active listening<br>a. interpreting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saying in slightly different words what a member has said to clarify its meaning is defined as<br>a. reflective feelingsd<br>b. supporting<br>c. facilitating<br>d. restating<br>d. restating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expressing concrete and honest reactions based on observation of members&#8217; behaviors is defined as<br>a. disclosing oneself<br>b. giving feedback<br>c. confronting<br>d. clarifying<br>b. giving feedback<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grasping the essence of a message at both the feeling and thinking levels; simplying client statements by focusing on the core of the message is defined as\u2026.<br>a. active listening<br>b. clarifying<br>c. restating<br>d. summarizing<br>b. clarifying<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To prepare members to assimilate, integrate, and apply in-group learning to everyday life is defined as\u2026<br>c. terminating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders bring to every group all of the following EXCEPT<br>a. Unwillingness to change<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>_<\/em><\/strong> is to foster trust in the therapeutic relationship; to communicate understanding and to encourage deeper levels of self-exploration.<br>a. Questioning<br>b. Empathizing<br>c. Reflecting feelings<br>b. Empathizing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>. <strong><em>_<\/em><\/strong> is to let members know that they are heard and understood beyond the level of words.<br>a. Active listening<br>b. Restating<br>c. Clarifying<br>d. Reflecting feelings<br>d. Reflecting feelings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>__<\/em> is to help members develop alternative courses of thinking and action.<br>a. Giving feedback<br>b. Suggesting<br>c. Interpreting<br>d. Supporting<br>b. Suggesting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>_<\/strong> is to offer an external view of how the person appears to others; to increase the client&#8217;s self- awareness.<br>a. Giving feedback<br>b. Suggesting<br>c. Facilitating<br>d. Goal setting<br>a. Giving feedback<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>_<\/strong> is to warn members of possible risks in group participation; to reduce these risks.<br>a. Blocking<br>b. Evaluating<br>c. Protecting<br>d. Facilitating<br>c. Protecting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>_<\/strong> is to avoid fragmentation and give direction to a session; to provide for continuity and meaning.<br>a. Reflecting feelings<br>b. Summarizing<br>c. Initiating<br>d. Blocking<br>b. Summarizing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>_<\/strong> is to help group members work more effectively; to increase the pace of the group process.<br>a. Modeling<br>b. Protecting<br>c. Blocking<br>d. Initiating<br>d. Initiating<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>_<\/strong> is to encourage deeper self-exploration; to promote full use of potentials; to bring about awareness of self-contradictions.<br>a. Clarifying<br>b. Interpreting<br>c. Confronting<br>d. Supporting<br>b. Interpreting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group leaders become an influential force in a group when they are<br>a. able to model effective behavior rather than merely describe it.<br>b. able to use an authoritarian leadership style.<br>c. licensed and certified.<br>d. approved by the ASGW.<br>a. able to model effective behavior rather than merely describe it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authentic group leaders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a. share every fleeting thought, perception, feeling, fantasy, and reaction they have.<br>b. are willing to appropriately disclose oneself and share feelings and reactions to what is going on in the group.<br>c. never hold back their true feelings toward members.<br>d. share every fleeting thought, perception, feeling, fantasy, and reaction they have and never hold back their true feelings toward members.<br>b. are willing to appropriately disclose oneself and share feelings and reactions to what is going on in the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main rationale for the group leader&#8217;s personal disclosures is the assumption that<br>a. he or she is the expert who has the answers to members&#8217; problems.<br>b. such sharing will facilitate the work of the group.<br>c. his or her stories will be more interesting than members&#8217; stories.<br>d. self-disclosure is a good strategy to use when he or she cannot think of other strategies.<br>b. such sharing will facilitate the work of the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highly effective therapists can be described as having all of the following EXCEPT<br>a. the ability to provide an emotionally safe environment for clients while challenging them.<br>b. an ability to deeply enter the world of another without losing a sense of self.<br>c. the ability to accept feedback about themselves without becoming destabilized by this feedback.<br>d. to become a master who does not need further training.<br>d. to become a master who does not need further training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opening a group session effectively<br>a. allows the session to end early.<br>b. causes problems later on in the session.<br>c. sets the tone for the rest of the session.<br>d. has no effect on the rest of the session.<br>c. sets the tone for the rest of the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way each session is closed is<br>a. has no effect on the group members.<br>b. as important as the way it is initiated.<br>c. is not as important as the way it is opened.<br>d. is more important than the way it is initiated.<br>b. as important as the way it is opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diversity-competent group leaders recognize and understand all of the following EXCEPT<br>a. their own values, biases, and ethnocentric attitudes.<br>b. their own assumptions about human behavior.<br>c. to not allow their personal values or problems to interfere with their work with clients who are culturally different from them.<br>d. it is not important to understand cultures different from their own.<br>d. it is not important to understand cultures different from their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Theory can be viewed as a set of general guidelines that provide direction and guidance in all of the following EXCEPT<br>a. a unique, limited, and non-therapeutic manner.<br>b. examining your basic assumptions about human beings.<br>c. in determining your goals for the group.<br>d. in clarifying your role and functions as a leader.<br>a. a unique, limited, and non-therapeutic manner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key reason research findings often are not integrated into clinical practice is<br>a. collaboration between practitioners and researchers is never beneficial.<br>b. because clinical practitioners do not agree with researchers because they utilize only illegal methods to retrieve data.<br>c. due to the constraints of experimental research that limit the applicability of findings to a real-world context.<br>d. because researchers do not believe clinical practitioners can be useful in any way.<br>c. 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