Strengths-based CBT practitioners ask clients for_to describe their experiences, both
positive and negative.
a. imagery and dreams
b. imagery and metaphors
c. dreams and metaphors
d. metaphors and insight
An integrative approach to the practice of family therapy includes guiding principles
that help the therapist organize all of the following, except:
a. goals.
b. interactions.
c. observations.
d. medications.
Which of the following is nottrue regarding behavior therapy?
a. The client must be an active participant.
b. The client is merely passive while the therapist uses techniques.
c. If clients are not involved or motivated, the chances are slim that therapy will be
successful.
d. Both therapist and client need to work together for common goals.
A limitation of existential therapy is its:
a. emphasis on the therapist as an expert.
b. adherence to the medical model.
c. limited applicability to nonverbal clients.
d. use of simplistic concepts.
The underlying vision of humanistic philosophy is captured by the metaphor of how an
acorn will automatically grow in positive ways, pushed naturally toward its
actualization as an oak.
a. True
b. False
Adlerians view the use of techniques in counseling as:
a. geared to the phase of therapy and the needs of the client.
b. more important than paying attention to the subjective experiences of the client.
c. against their basic philosophy.
d. unethical.
The process of encouragement in Adlerian counseling includes all of the following
except:
a. helping clients focus on their resources and strengths.
b. helping clients become aware of their assets and strengths rather than dealing
continually with their deficits and liabilities.
c. helping clients recognize or accept their positive qualities.
d. helping clients understand their liabilities and weaknesses and process them in detail.
The_is a directional process of striving toward realization, fulfillment, autonomy, and
self-determination.
a. congruence tendency
b. empathic understanding
c. actualizing tendency
d. actualizing understanding
Personcentered therapy puts faith in the client’s:
a. ability to uncover repressed experiences.
b. ability to integrate their polarities.
c. capacity for recognizing how birth order affects their choices.
d. capacity for self-direction.
Existentialists contend that the experience of relatedness to other human beings:
a. is a neurotically dependent attachment.
b. should be based on our needs and theirs.
c. is healthy when we are able to stand alone and tap into our own strength.
d. is not necessary, since we are basically alone.
Which of the following approaches to therapy focuses on the unique style of life we
create at an early age?
a. Family systems therapy
b. Reality therapy
c. Rational emotive behavior therapy
d. Adlerian therapy
Truly dedicated therapists carry the problems of their clients around with them during
leisure hours.
a. True
b. False
Personcentered therapy is best described as a:
a. completed ‘school” of counseling.
b. fixed set of therapeutic principles.
c. systematic set of behavioral techniques.
d. philosophy of how the therapy process develops.
The existential view is not designed to “cure” people of illness in the tradition of the
medical model because people are not sick but are ‘sick of life or clumsy at living.”
a. True
b. False
According to traditional psychoanalytic therapy, the therapist:
a. must establish an authentic encounter with the client.
b. should display genuineness and warmth.
c. remains anonymous.
d. is a teacher.
The therapy goals self-esteem and connection, and helping family members achieve
congruent communication and interaction are most associated with which theory of
family therapy?
a. Bowen’s multigenerational family therapy
b. Satir’s human validation process model
c. Dreikurs’s experiential/symbolic family therapy
d. Minuchin’s structural family therapy
Existential therapy is rarely used for group treatment.
a. True
b. False
One of the major goals of reality therapy involves:
a. reconstructing the basic personality.
b. identifying factors that block freedom.
c. encouraging clients to be willing to be a process.
d. helping people become more effective in meeting all of their psychological needs.
The paradoxical theory of behavior change suggests:
a. we change by setting future-oriented goals.
b. clients should pay particular attention to becoming the person they wish to be.
c. careful attention should devoted to changing behavior in the moment it is happening.
d. authentic change occurs more from being who we are than from trying to be who we
are not.
Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as a:
a. way that clients avoid confrontation.
b. sign of poor motivation for therapeutic work.
c. therapy interfering force that needs to be overcome.
d. creative adjustment to a situation and something to be respected.
Michael believes that he will be able to improve his public speaking skills after
completing a speech course at school. Based on social-cognitive theory, one might
observe that Michael is not lacking in:
a. arrogance and grandiosity.
b. intelligence.
c. selfefficacy.
d. cognitive functioning.
Field theory asserts that:
a. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
b. human beings have a innate capacity to self regulate.
c. the organism must be seen in its environment, or in its context, as part of the
constantly changing field.
d. phenomenological inquiry is the key to behavior change.
The client’s core experience in Adlerian therapy consists of:
a. working through the transference relationship.
b. discovering their basic mistakes and then learning how to correct them.
c. understanding how their relationship with their parents has shaped their personality.
d. understanding how their birth order has determined the person who they are today.
An authentic counselor is best described as:
a. having the highest regard for all clients.
b. being willing to be totally open and self-disclosing.
c. being a technical expert who is committed to objectivity.
d. being willing to look at his or her own life and make the changes wanted; he or she
can model that process to be the way it is revealed to the client.
Which of the following approaches to therapy stresses the attitude of the therapist over
the use of techniques?
a. Person-centered therapy
b. Psychoanalytic therapy
c. Cognitive-behavior therapy
d. Behavior therapy
Which of the following approaches encourages therapists to accurately grasp the client’s
“being in the world”?
a. Psychoanalytic therapy
b. Adlerian therapy
c. Behavior therapy
d. Existential therapy
Which of these statements is nottrue about Alfred Adler?
a. Along with Freud and Jung, Alfred Adler was a major contributor to the initial
development of the psychodynamic approach to therapy.
b. After resigning as president of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Adler founded the
Society for Individual Psychology.
c. Alfred Adler has been criticized by intellectuals for failing to give his brother
Edmund due credit for helping him develop his theory.
d. Adler stresses the unity of personality, contending that people can only be understood
as integrated and complete beings.
Existential therapy is especially useful in working with culturally diverse populations
because of its focus on individuality.
a. True
b. False
A more flexible variant of psychoanalysis is:
a. psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.
b. psychoanalytically oriented reality therapy.
c. superego-oriented psychotherapy.
d. psychoanalytic behavior analysis.
Feminist therapists do not use diagnostic labels, or use them reluctantly, for all of the
following reasons exceptthat:
a. they focus on the individual’s symptoms and not the social factors that cause distress
and dysfunctional behavior.
b. they reflect the inappropriate application of power in the therapeutic relationship.
. they focus on the social factors that cause dysfunctional behavior.
d. they are part of a system developed mainly within psychiatry, an institution that
reinforces dominant cultural norms and may become an instrument of oppression.
Which of the following is not considered a basic dimension of the human condition?
a. Capacity for self-awareness
b. Striving for acceptance of others
c. Establishing meaningful relationships with others
d. Freedom and responsibility