Sustaining professional competence and excellence is an important part of being a professional helper. In a reflective exercise, provide an argument around the ethical importance of professional competence and excellence, as well as the measures you have and will put in place to ensure that you adhere to professional competence and excellence.

Evaluate the constructs of hypothesis testing and inferential analysis, and the two types of errors that can be made when carrying out a test of significance.  Assess an example of each type within the context of a research project involving a counselling situation. What are some of the implications of treating human subjects and their psychological and emotional turmoil as being subject to such analysis?

Identify and discuss three of the nine categories of career services in higher education as identified by Herr (1989).

Describe the five types of irrational beliefs and give an example of how a child might appear during each of the five types.  Explain how irrational causes negative behaviors.  Give one example of a developmentally appropriate strategy that you could use with a child or adolescent.