DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES

First Mid-Quarter Examination

Name:___________________________________________
Grade and Strand: _________________________________

I. ESSAY

1. How would you describe counseling as an art and as a science? Write your answer in 5 – 8
sentences.(12 points)

2. In 7 – 9 sentences, differentiate personal concerns from emotional concerns. (18 points)

3. What is your opinion on the statement: “Setting boundaries in a professional relationship is

important.” Explain your answer in 4 – 6 sentences. (12 points)

II. CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

Based on what you learned as the goals and scope of counseling, analyze each situation below
and write CAPITAL LETTER A if it is reasonably within a counselor’s jurisdiction, and write
CAPITAL LETTER B if it is not. Justify your answers.

1 point = answer 3 points = justification

______ 1. Kate feels insecure and like an outcast in school because she thinks her classmates
talks negatively about her.

______ 2. Mike needs to raise funds for his college tuition next year.

______ 3. Abigail keeps questioning herself if she is in the right job because she seems to be
getting more unmotivated as time goes by. Her spirit for doing her job well has gone down
these past few months.

______ 4. Karl thinks he is addicted to video games and wants to control it to become more
productive in his schoolwork.

______ 5. Stephanie was diagnosed with Obsessive –Compulsive Disorder when she was a
teenager. As a young adult now, she wants to be helped again in controlling her OCS
symptoms.
______ 6. Nathaniel is overly jealous when it comes to his girlfriend’s friends. He cannot seem
to accept the fact that his girlfriend very much enjoys the company of others.

______ 7. Rita is overly scared of men because of a traumatic experience she had as a little
girl. She witnessed how 3 men robbed and stabbed her father to death.