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PYC3705 EXAM PREPARATION – Previous Exams

This document is an easy to read compilation of past UNISA Exam Questions and Answers

Answers are motivated by a combination of:

• Previous feedback to assignments

• Excerpts from the Study Guide

• Excerpts from the Study Notes

Exams covered are:

• 2021 May June – Exam Paper 2

• 2021 May June – Exam Paper 1

• 2020 Oct Nov

• 2020 May June

• 2019 Oct Nov

• 2019 May June

• 2018 Oct Nov

• 2018 May June

• 2017 Oct Nov

• 2017 May June

• 2016 Oct Nov

• 2016 May June

• 2015 Oct Nov

• 2015 May June

• 2011 Oct Nov

Note that these are arranged with the most recent first, as the format and lay-out of these have

changed over time (with the assumption of the most recent being the most relevant – without

disregarding the importance of the older papers).

Please note: This document is an additional tool for exam preparation. The Stuvia-user that compiled

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2021 May / June Exam Paper 2

Question 1

The unique aspects of Transformatory Counselling highlighted in the Transformative Counselling

Encounters study guide are

a) Holistic understanding of oneself and setting long term goals.

b) Awareness of personal strengths and abilities

c) Unburdening oneself

d) Gaining a new perspective of the same situation

The correct answer is

1. (a) & (d)

2. (b) & (c)

3. (a), (b) & (c)

4. All of the above

Answer: The correct answer is 4

Refer: Tutorial Letter 202/2/2020

Reasoning: The unique aspects of Transformatory Counselling highlighted in the Transformative

Counselling Encounters study guide are:

— An orientation towards understanding purposeful encounters between

people through meaningful engagement in a counselling framework;

— A sensitivity towards the ethos (characteristics, tone and flavour) of contextappropriate counselling and understanding its potential to enhance

humaneness and well-being in society;

— An understanding of reflexivity (awareness, adaptation) as a tool that can

enhance purposeful and meaningful engagement and become a tool

towards self-and social transformation; an understanding of the world as a

set of related systems and recognising that problem-solving contexts do not

exist in isolation, and;

— An understanding of the language of process and its potential to evoke a

deeper understanding of relational patterns and dynamics in counselling

processes.

It also creates an opportunity for the client to gain a deeper understanding of their

own potential to make a difference in their personal life.

Therefore, counselling involve a professional listening to the client and should

provide a safe, sympathetic, accepting environment in which a client can unburden

him/herself of problems and become better acquainted with their thoughts, feelings

and beliefs.

To come up with a new approach to an old problem, we often need to look at the

problem differently. Counsellors can assist a client to see his/her situation more

accurately (change perspective on the problem). It is through the use of these skill

that the counsellor and client form a partnership in finding solutions. It is

emphasised in Transformative counselling that the act of helping the client is to see

things more clearly, possibly from a different view-point and creates an opportunity

for the client to gain a deeper understanding of their own potential to make a

difference in their personal life. It therefore is not preferable to help the client only

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to see the same problem in a new perspective without making him/her aware of

his/her potential to approach the problem from a different view-point.

Question 2

Providing equality of resources and opportunity for all people upholds the ethical principle of .

1. veracity

2. autonomy

3. beneficence

4. justice

Answer: The correct answer is 4

Refer: Tutorial Letter 202/2/2020

Reasoning: The study guide suggests that clinical and counselling psychologists (and by

implication counsellors) need to take into account more than just the ‘traditional

values’ of personal growth, protection of health, and caring and compassion. They

suggest attention to group and collective aspects of well-being: diversity,

collaboration, support for community infrastructures, and social justice. This can be

done by emphasising personal, relational and collective values to avoid

disempowerment by blaming an individual, a family or a group.

Value: Social Justice

Ethical Principle: Counsellors challenge social injustice.

Counsellors pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and

oppressed individuals and groups of people. These activities seek to promote

sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity.

Counselling must strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and

resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making

for all people.

Question 3

The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us .

1. that by nature, human beings do not have the desire to solve their own problems hence a

constant pool towards failing within the cracks

2. to think about people's experiences of pain, suffering and strive from the context which they

are part of

3. to sympathise better with our clients

4. that we will not be able to solve our clients' problems unless we succeed in identifying

pathological patterns in their behaviour

Answer: The correct answer is 2

Refer: Tutorial Letter 202/2/2020

Reasoning: The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us:

• be sensitive to contextual cues and understand that counselling and

counselling-related processes happen in context;

• see counselling as a way of being in relationship to others;

• understand the importance of having a frame of reference, and

• see the importance of language as a connective device that can enhance

counselling encounters and counselling-related processes.

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