SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING FOR THE NCE EXAM

1. SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING FOR THE NCE EXAM Grad School Coaching Jeanne Stanley, Ph.D. www.gradschoolcoaching.com

2. NBCC Exam Types by State(click here for info per State) Missouri NCE Montana NCE/ NCMHCE Nebraska NCE/ NCMHCE New Hampshire NCMHCE New Jersey NCE New Mexico NCE/ NCMHCE New York NCMHCE North Carolina NCE North Dakota NCE/ NCMHCE Oklahoma NCE Oregon NCE Pennsylvania NCE Puerto Rico see website Rhode Island NCMHCE South Carolina NCE/NCMHCE South Dakota NCE/ NCMHCE Tennessee NCE Utah NCE/ NCMHCE Vermont NCE and NCMHCE Virginia NCMHCE Washington NCE/ NCMHCE West Virginia NCE Wisconsin NCE Wyoming NCE Alabama NCE Alaska NCE Arizona NCE Arkansas NCE/ NCMHCE Colorado NCE Connecticut NCE/ NCMHCE Delaware NCE D.C. NCE Florida NCMHCE Georgia NCE Guam see website Idaho NCE Indiana NCMHCE Illinois NCE/ NCMHCE Iowa NCE/ NCMHCE Kansas NCE/ NCMHCE Kentucky NCE Louisiana NCE Maine NCE Maryland NCE or EMAC Massachusetts NCMHCE Michigan NCE Minnesota NCE Mississippi NCE

3. Other States Licensure Professional Counseling Information For questions about the LPC in your State, visit the following Website that Lists each State's Websites

4. The NCE Exam – Keep in Mind Click below to read the “Candidate Handbook for State Credentialing” (Highly Recommended) NBCC Overview Handbook for the NCE Exam Note: It link above does not work, please copy and past the following link into your web browser: http://www.nbcc.org/Assets/Exam/handbooks/NCE.pdf

5. 8 Core Areas (Content – What Doing) • Human Growth and Development • Social and Cultural Foundations • Helping Relationships • Group Work • Career and Lifestyle Development • Appraisal • Research & Program Evaluation • Professional Orientation & Ethics

6. 5 Work Behavior Areas (Context – How Doing) • Fundamentals of Counseling • Assessment & Career Counseling • Group Counseling • Programmatic & Clinical Intervention • Professional Practice Issues

7. Studying for the NCEAssessing Your Knowledge Base Link to an unofficial NCE Practice Exam NOTE: You may print a PDF copy or save the practice exam above in Google docs

8. NCE Study Prep Matrix Planner WORK BEHAVIORS (How Doing)

9. Study Material Links CLICK ON LINKS BELOW TO GO DIRECTLY TO SITES • Study Books, CD’s, MP3’s NOTE: On the left of the webpage, click “Clients Preparing for NCE Exam” • App = Quiz Questions • App = Flashcards • Condensed Outlines = Counseling Exam Testing TidBits

11. NCE Test Taking Strategies 1. Read the question in its ENTIRETY 2. Avoid “filling in the blanks” in your mind 3. Try to formulate an answer BEFORE looking at the choices - cover the choices - find an answer that is closest to your answer 4. There is not a set pattern to answers choices on exams 5. Careful not to fall for the distractors answers 6. Use of + - ? Grad School Coaching, llcwww.gradschoolcoaching.com

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