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National Counselor Exam (NCE) Study Guide

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Comprehensive Study Guide with everything you need to pass this tough test!

The NCE consists of 200 multiple choice quesitons - 160 are scored.

Exam Content Overview

  • Working with Groups
  • Human Growth and Development
  • Social and Cultural Foundations
  • Helping Relationships
  • Development of Career and Lifestyles
  • Assessments
  • Program Evaluation
  • Professional Ethics

Work behaviors

  • Fundamentals
  • Assessment and Career Counseling
  • Group Counseling
  • Clinical Intervention
  • Professional Practice


Comprehensive National Counselor Exam (NCE) Study Guide

Complete study guide with everything you need!

Includes Practice Test Questions


NCE Study Guide

 

 


Complete Exam Content Review including:



  • Erickson's Stages of Development
  • Jean Piaget's Theory of Development
  • Oedipus and Electra Complexes
  • Nature vs. Nurture
  • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
  • Spirituality and Personality Development
  • Neuropsychological Assessment
  • Anxiety and Mood Disorders
  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Treatment Options for Cognitive Disorders
  • Generativity vs. Stagnation
  • Cultural Norms
  • Worldview, Acculturation, and Assimilation
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Basic Facts about Suicide
  • Co-dependency
  • Active-Directive and Person-Centered Counseling Models
  • Basic Tenants of the Psychoanalytic Counseling Theory
  • Counselor/Client Relationship
  • Object Relations Theory
  • Rogerian and Gestalt Theories
  • Existential Therapy
  • Eric Berne's Transactional Therapy
  • Cognitive and Behavioral Counseling
  • Reality Therapy


    and a LOT more ...
  • Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
  • Postmodern Approach
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Birth Order Concepts
  • Outsourcing
  • Behavioral Techniques
  • The Johari Window
  • Models of Consultation
  • Life-Cycle of Families
  • Family Counseling Dynamics
  • Family Systems Theory
  • Experiential vs. Humanistic Counseling
  • Career-Guidance Systems
  • Strategic vs. Structural Family Therapy
  • Beliefs of Social Constructionists
  • Gender-Sensitive Issues
  • Play Therapy
  • Transference, Repression and Sublimation
  • The Counselor as Consultant
  • Group Counseling
  • Psychological Testing
  • Current Trends in Counseling
  • Establishing a Counseling Program
  • Professional and Ethical Standards of Practice
  • Legal Aspects of Counseling
  • The ACA Code of Ethics