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Chapter 6: Theory Applied to Practice Key
1. If your approach to helping puts emphasis on gaining insight, much of your time with clients will likely be
spent in
2. If your approach to helping emphasizes clients examining their beliefs about themselves and about their
world, your interventions will tend to focus on
3. Which is most true regarding the Coreys’ theoretical orientation?
4. Which of the following dimensions do the Coreys stress in their theoretical approach?
5. Theory is best described as
6. Which theory most deals with childhood experiences that are reconstructed, explored, and interpreted in
therapy?
7. All of the following are concepts associated with Adlerian therapy except for which of the following?
8. Which of the following is not associated with the category of experiential and relationship-oriented
approaches?
9. The therapeutic goal of challenging clients to recognize and accept the freedom they have to be authors of
their own lives is associated with which theory?
10. Emphasizing the crucial role of the therapist’s attitude, which approach most focuses on the therapeutic
relationship rather than being technique-centered?
11. Gestalt therapy focuses on all of the following except for
12. Which of the following is not a contribution of Gestalt therapy?
13. Of the following, the theory that has contributed the most to an understanding of the role and meaning of
death and the creative aspects of being alone and choosing for oneself is
14. Existential therapy places emphasis on
15. Which of the following is not true as it relates to existential therapy?
16. The person-centered approach pays most attention to
17. Which of the following is not a contribution of the person-centered approach?
18. Which of the following is not emphasized by behavior therapy?
19. Which of the following is not a contribution of behavior therapy?
20. Which of the following is (ar a shared characteristic of the cognitive behavioral approaches?
21. Which of the following is least likely to be considered one of the contributions of cognitive therapy?
22. What is the name of the underlying philosophy upon which the practice of reality therapy is based?
23. The overall goal of reality therapy is:
24. Which of the following is not a key concept of solution-focused brief therapy?
25. Which of the following is a technique that is least likely to be used by a solution-focused brief therapist?
26. As a way to put clients in the position of being the experts about their own lives, solution-focused brief
therapists
27. In narrative therapy, the therapist
28. From a family systems perspective, being a healthy person involves
29. Family therapists function as
30. Which of the following statements is not accurate as it applies to the family-systems approach?
31. The WDEP model is part of solution-focused brief therapy.
32. In reality therapy, clients are expected to conduct an evaluation of their current behavior to determine if they
want to change.
33. Cognitive therapists are continuously active and deliberately interactive with the client.
34. The Adlerian model falls under the category of experiential and relationship oriented approaches.
35. Alfred Adler was a pioneer of an approach that is holistic, social, goal oriented, systemic, and humanistic.
36. For psychoanalytically oriented therapists, both transference and countertransference are central aspects in
the relationship.
37. The heart of narrative therapy is the concept of social interest.
38. Adlerian therapists explore with clients the basic life tasks.
39. Adlerian therapy tends to have a psycho-educational focus, a present and future orientation, and is a brief,
time-limited approach.
40. The experiential approaches emphasize the quality of the person-to-person encounter in the therapeutic
relationship.
41. Existential therapists are not bound by any prescribed procedures and can use techniques from other
schools.
42. In the person-centered approach, it is the therapist who is the primary agent bringing about change.
43. In the person-centered approach, therapist interpretation is considered important as a way of bringing about
change.
44. Gestalt therapy is considered a form of cognitive behavior therapy.
45. Gestalt therapists focus on the “what” and “how” of a client’s behavior.
46. A hallmark of behavior therapy is the identification of specific goals at the outset of the therapeutic process.
47. A behavior therapist is not interested in collaboratively specifying treatment goals; rather he or she selects
treatment goals in concrete and measurable terms.
48. Although behavior therapists do not emphasize the client-therapist relationship, they consider a good
working relationship as an essential precondition for effective therapy.
49. Rational emotive behavior therapy utilizes a wide range of cognitive, emotive, and behavioral techniques.
50. Cognitive therapy rests on the assumption that feelings are the major determinants of how we think and act.
51. Reality therapy is based on the assumption that we are motivated to change when we determine that our
behavior is not getting us what we want.
52. An emphasis of reality therapy is on assuming personal responsibility and on dealing with the present.
53. Solution-focused brief therapy does not offer techniques, rather it stresses the importance of the therapeutic
relationship.
54. A key contribution of solution-focused brief therapy is moving away from what is wrong with a person to
emphasizing creative possibilities.
55. Narrative therapy is based partly on examining the stories that people tell and understanding the meaning of
the story.
