According to existentialists, our search for meaning involves all of these except:
a. discarding old values.
b. meaninglessness.
c. creating our own value system.
d. exploring unfinished business.
Carl Rogers drew heavily from existential concepts, especially as they apply to:
a. the transference relationship.
b. countertransference, or unfinished business of the counselor.
c. the client/therapist relationship.
d. guilt and anxiety.
The technique of reflection involves the therapist:
a. restating the client’s words verbatim.
b. sharing his or her genuine emotional response with the client.
c. mirroring the client’s emotional experience of a particular situation.
d. bringing an actual mirror into the session and having a client look at himself or
herself in the mirror.
During the initial phase of counseling, existentially oriented therapists assist clients in
identifying and clarifying their assumptions about the world.
a. True
b. False
A main task of the narrative therapist is to help clients construct a:
a. negative story line.
b. preferred story line.
c. new faade.
d. second personality.
All of the following are goals of feminist therapy exceptfor:
a. striving for change rather than adjustment.
b. social change.
c. resolving intrapsychic conflicts from early childhood.
d. balancing independence and interdependence.
Recent developments relevant to in psychology have led to an integration of key themes
of multiculturalism and feminism.
a. social justice
b. radical feminists
c. socialist feminists
d. liberal justice
Narrative therapists attempt to do all of the following except:
a. engage people in deconstructing problem-saturated stories.
b. discover preferred directions and new possibilities.
c. create new stories.
d. encourage free association.
provides a delivery system for helping individuals take more effective control of their
lives.
a. Group counseling
b. The WDEP system
c. Assessment theory
d. Reality therapy
Which of the following principles of feminist psychology is most aimed at advancing a
transformation in society?
a. The person is political.
b. Commitment to social change
c. Women’s ways of knowing are valued and their experiences are honored.
d. A focus on strengths and a reformulated definition of psychological distress.
Erving Polster believes that storytelling:
a. is always a form of resistance.
b. can be the heart of the therapeutic process.
c. is acceptable only if one’s client is a writer.
d. is an indication that one’s client is a pathological liar.
_is often described as our perceptions regarding self, others, and the world, and
includes the connecting themes and rules of interaction that give meaning to our
actions.
a. Striving for significance and superiority
b. Fictional finalism
c. Lifestyle
d. Holistic concept
Which of the following themes would clients in feminist therapy be leastlikely to
explore?
a. Identify their internalized messages of oppression and replace them with more
self-enhancing beliefs
b. Understand how sexist and oppressive societal beliefs and practices influence them in
negative ways
c. Recognize the power of relationships and connectedness
d. Transference reactions toward their therapist
From a multicultural perspective, some clients may reject this approach because:
a. it is founded on abstract, westernized notions that are not widely applicable.
b. their life circumstances provide them with truly limited choices.
c. death anxiety is not a central issue in all cultures.
d. the use of techniques may be overwhelming for them.
Feelings of hostility, destructiveness, anger, rage, and hatred are associated with the:
a. oral stage.
b. anal stage.
c. phallic stage.
d. genital stage.
It is not our function to persuade clients to accept or adopt our value system.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is true about “technical eclecticism” in multimodal therapy?
a. Therapists borrow techniques exclusively from the social learning model.
b. Therapists use techniques from a variety of theories to a wide range of problems.
c. The client is fit into a predetermined treatment.
d. It is considered confusing to the client.
The central goal of existential psychotherapy is to:
a. decrease selfawareness.
b. increase awareness.
c. help clients reject the responsibility of choosing.
d. keep the client from experiencing authentic existence.
Which of the following is nottrue about Fritz Perls?
a. He was the main originator and developer of Gestalt therapy.
b. During his childhood, he was a model student.
c. He was influenced by psychoanalytic concepts.
d. He took issue with Freud’s theory on a number of grounds.
involves blurring the differentiation between the self and the environment.
a. Confluence
b. Deflection
c. Retroflection
d. Projection
Martin Buber stressed the importance of presence, which allows for the creation of
I/Thou relationships in therapy.
a. True
b. False
Which person is not associated with the existential movement?
a. Rollo May
b. Victor Frankl
c. Irvin Yalom
d. B. F. Skinner
Regarding psychotherapy outcome, research shows:
a. the behavioral approaches are more effective than the humanistic approaches.
b. there are clear factors that predict which models of therapy work best for particular
types of clients.
c. the therapeutic relationship is nota major contributor to therapeutic change.
d. no model of therapy has been proven more effective than another.
In dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), skills are taught in four modules. Which among
the following is notone of the modules listed in the text?
a. Mindfulness
b. Interpersonal effectiveness
c. Emotional regulation
d. Relapse prevention
In Freud’s view, an individual experiencing neurotic anxiety feels:
a. he has behaved in a manner that is inconsistent with his moral code.
b. a realistic threat is present in the environment.
c. he will not be able to control his instincts and will behave inappropriately.
d. guilt associated with past actions.
Which technique takes an anticipated event and brings it into the present moment to act
out?
a. Emptychair
b. Future projection
c. Internal dialogue
d. Making the rounds
A critical difference between early Gestalt therapy and relational Gestalt therapy is the:
a. emphasis on contact.
b. approach to confrontation.
c. use of techniques.
d. focus on the figure formation process.
A person with a personality disorder is characterized by instability, irritability,
self-destructive acts, impulsive anger, and extreme mood shifts. This person is lacking a
clear sense of identity, has poor impulse control, and an inability to tolerate anxiety.
a. narcissistic
b. dependent
c. borderline
d. obsessivecompulsive
All of the following are true about social skills training except:
a. it is a psychoeducational approach to interpersonal growth.
b. it involves modeling and direct instruction and coaching.
c. it uses role playing exercises to simulate social situations.
d. it requires clients to engage in catharsis.
Dr. Jones told Emily that her efforts to overcome her fear of test taking at school will
most likely lead her to outperform all of her classmates one day. This intervention was:
a. appropriate because it was intended to bolster Emily’s selfesteem and academic
selfconcept.
b. inappropriate because Dr. Jones was confusing Adler’s notion of superiority with the
idea that her client would become superior over others.
c. not only unethical, it was illegal.
d. inappropriate because Emily will never be able to outperform her classmates.
Choice theory changes the focus of responsibility to:
a. selfhelp procedures.
b. the use of humor.
c. homework assignments.
d. choice and choosing.
Which of the following therapies is a pragmatic approach based on empirical validation
of results?
a. Behavior therapy b. Narrative therapy c. Existential therapy
d. Rational emotive behavior therapy
The developmental crisis involving initiative vs. guilt occurs during:
a. school age.
b. early childhood age.
c. preschool age.
d. adolescence.