One of the aims of existential therapy is to challenge people to stop deceiving
themselves regarding
a. the kind of friends with whom they are associating.
b. their early childhood experiences.
c. their lack of responsibility for what is happening to them and their excessive
demands on life.
d. their fixations.
At the initial sessions members tend to
a. keep a “public image;” that is, they present the dimensions of themselves they
consider socially acceptable.
b. delve into their deeper emotions.
c. connect with each other by blaming their mothers for their problems.
d. be silent in order to avoid being negatively evaluated by other members.
Cognitive behavioral practitioners use all of the following EXCEPT
a. a brief, active, directive, collaborative, present-focused, and didactic approach.
b. a psychoeducational model of therapy.
c. a therapeutic model that relies on empirical validation of its concepts and techniques.
d. strokes.
A group that is composed of people who are similar in age, type of problem, and
personality characteristics can be called
a. a homogeneous group.
b. a heterogeneous group.
c. an endogenous group.
d. an androgynous group.
Which of the following would be stressed the most in a person-centered group?
a. Confronting members with early decisions that are no longer appropriate
b. Getting members to involve themselves in fantasy exercises
c. Active listening and responding and empathy
d. Lack of positive regard
To prepare members to assimilate, integrate, and apply in-group learning to everyday
life is defined as
a. modeling.
b. suggesting.
c. terminating.
d. initiating.
Which of the following is considered important in the person-centered approach?
a. Accurate interpretation on the part of the leader
b. Accurate diagnosis and formulation of a treatment plan
c. The attitudes of a group leader
d. Analysis of underlying dynamics of behavior
________________________ is a particularly promising blend of cognitive behavior
and psychoanalytic techniques, which has been used to treat clients with borderline
personality disorder.
a. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
b. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
c. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
d. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
This stage of a groupincludes getting prepared, announcing the group, screening and
selecting the members, and preparing them for a successful experience.
a. Formation stage
b. Orientation stage
c. Transition stage
d. Working stage
The technique whereby a protagonist speaks directly to the audience by expressing
some uncensored feeling or thought is
a. the mirror technique.
b. projection.
c. soliloquy.
d. role reversal.
Which of the following is NOT a key principle in person-centered expressive arts?
a. The role of a facilitator is to evaluate members’ art.
b. Most of us are creative.
c. Acceptance is critically important as members express themselves.
d. Person-centered expressive arts can supply methods for structuring group process.
Generally, each CBT group session opens with group members completing all of the
following EXCEPT
a. checking in by stating significant developments during the week.
b. reporting on their homework.
c. identifying topics or issues they would like to put on the agenda for the session.
d. discussing and summarizing what the members experiencedthroughout the current
group session.
Which of the following would NOT be a function deemed important by a reality
therapy group leader?
a. Setting limits in a group
b. Getting members to evaluate their own behavior
c. Being willing to have his or her own values challenged
d. Working through transference relationships
Which technique is typically used in the person-centered group?
a. Probing and questioning
b. Listening and understanding
c. Direct confrontation of games in an aggressive manner
d. Structured communication exercises in groups
REBT aims at providing group members with tools for experiencing healthy emotions
about negative activating events rather than unhealthy emotions, such as
_________________, about these events so that they can live richer and more satisfying
lives.
a. sadness and concern
b. depression and anxiety
c. happiness andsadness
d. happiness and concern
__________ occurs when members and leaders share their personal reactions about one
another.
a. Empathy
b. Cognitive restructuring
c. Feedback
d. Hope
Early in the course of the group, these specific member roles and tasks are critical to
shaping the group. Which is not one of these during the initial stage?
a. Taking active steps to create a trusting climate
b. Learning to express one’s feelings and thoughts, especially as they pertain to
interactions in the group
c. Being willing to make only a small part of oneself known to others in the group
d. Being willing to express fears, hopes, concerns, reservations, and expectations
concerning the group
Authentic group leaders
a. share every fleeting thought, perception, feeling, fantasy, and reaction they have.
b. are willing to appropriately disclose oneself and share feelings and reactions to what
is going on in the group.
c. never hold back their true feelings toward members.
d. share every fleeting thought, perception, feeling, fantasy, and reaction they have and
never hold back their true feelings toward members.
_____ is to encourage deeper self-exploration; to promote full use of potentials; to bring
about awareness of self-contradictions.
a. Clarifying
b. Interpreting
c. Confronting
d. Supporting
SFBT group facilitators pay little attention to all of the following EXCEPT
a. the strengths and resiliencies of the individual.
b. history taking.
c. gathering information from members about their problems.
d. exploring childhood experiences.
As the group movement developed, the person-centered approach became
a. decreasingly concerned with reducing human suffering.
b. increasingly concerned with increasing conflict and reducing human suffering.
c. decreasingly concerned with conflict resolution on an international scale.
d. increasingly concerned with reducing human suffering, with cross-cultural
awareness, and with conflict resolution on an international scale.
An ethical practice for leaders to follow is to inform members that
a. once they join a group, they are required to remain in it until the group ends.
b. they may terminate a group only when the leader gives consent to the member.
c. they are expected to exit from the group when the members take a vote.
d. they shouldleave from the group only after they have discussed the matter in the
group leader.
______ is a defense mechanism whereby we try to justify our behavior by assigning
logical and admirable motives to it. Some people manufacture “good” reasons to
explain away a bruised ego.
a. Transference
b. Countertransference
c. Rationalization
d. Free association
Integrating counseling with __________ has been successful in both personal-social
and academic development groups in school settings.
a. monocultural framework
b. life transitions
c. managed care
d. psychoeducational interventions
Establishing __________ from the beginning of a group lays the groundwork for
effective termination.
a. relationship
b. clear goals
c. homework assignments
d. conflict
Which of the following statements about Gestalt experiments is FALSE?
a. Experiments emerge organically and seamlessly in the moment-to-moment contact
between a counselor and a client.
b. Experiments are aimed at restoring momentum to the stuck points of a person’s life.
c. Experiments are generally predetermined.
d. The purpose of an experiment is to assist a member in active self-exploration.
Schoolchildren can be taught __________ to help them develop life skills they can
apply when coping with emotional distress as well as skills that lead to health,
happiness, and accomplishment.
a. rational principles
b. irrational principles
c. irrational beliefs
d. underachievement
Contributions of the existential approach include all of the following EXCEPT
a. it humanizes psychotherapy.
b. it reduces chances of its becoming a mechanical process in the hands of technicians.
c. it does not address the basic question of what it means to be human.
d. it brought the person back into a central place.
During the _________________ stage, members put insight into action, making new
choices that are more consistent with their desired goals.
a. establishing and maintaining cohesive relationships with members
b. analysis and assessment
c. awareness and insight
d. reorientation and reeducation
_____________________ take therapy from the office into ordinary life in small
groups.
a. Life focus communities
b. Community groups
c. Gestalt community retreats
d. Holistic communities
The role of the REBT group leader can be best characterized as
a. a didactic and highly directive role.
b. a facilitator.
c. an I-Thou model of relating.
d. a blank screen that receives projections.
All of the following are goals of Adlerian group therapy EXCEPT
a. to increase self-esteem.
b. to develop social interest.
c. to establish and maintain an empathic relationship between group leader and member.
d. to help group members become more interesting socially without increasing
self-esteem.
Confidentiality and privacy issues take on special considerations when group members
and their therapists communicate with each other
a. on the telephone.
b. in the office before or after a session.
c. through written letters.
d. online and when group members communicate with other members via the Internet.
The REBT group leader assumes that people’s illogical beliefs
a. are easily changed once the person sees they are illogical.
b. are the result of activating events that cause certain emotional disturbances.
c. are so deeply ingrained that they will not change easily.
d. are caused by lack of love from parents.
The protagonist is
a. the person selected to work.
b. the symbolic figure in a member’s life that antagonizes the member.
c. the group member who serves as an alter-ego.
d. the director when he or she is role-playing with the member who is working.
Some personal characteristics are vital for effective group leadership. Name and
describe some of these characteristics.
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Briefly demonstrate how to teach coping self-statements to group members.
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Discuss the therapeutic goals of the Gestalt group.
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Illustrate the steps you would take as a group leader to create trust within the group.
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List acouple common injunctions and describehow you mightexplore these injunctions
in a group you lead.
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Successful leadership requires specific group leadership skills and the appropriate
performance of certain functions. Identify and explain five of these skills.
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Identify the rights of group participants.
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Describe practice-based evidence and its differences when compared to evidence-based
practice.
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Describe the unique characteristics of cognitive behavior therapy in groups.
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Explain howconflict at timesis a major characteristic of the transition stage of a group.
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Give a description of the stages in the development of cognitive behavior therapy
groups from the initial stages to termination and follow-up.
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Self-disclosure is the principal vehicle of group interaction, and it is critical that group
participants have a clear understanding of what self-disclosure isand what it is not.
Illustrate the importance of appropriate self-disclosure when working with Asian
clients.
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Describe and explain the major contribution and limitations of psychoanalytic group
therapy in working with culturally diverse populations.
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Discuss the role and functions of the TA group leader.
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Identify two to three central characteristics of the working stage.
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Discuss how defensiveness and resistance or reluctance characteristics are a part of the
transition stage.
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Psychodrama produces insight through action and is designed to bring into
consciousness and expression the underlying attitudes, thoughts, and emotions of
individuals. Classical psychodrama is too intense for use with children and adolescents.
Name the technique utilized in schools and describe the benefits and drawbacks.
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REBT has certain advantages in working with multicultural populations. Consider a
group composed of members from a culture that stresses doing one’s best, cooperation,
interdependence, respect for the family, and working hard. Illustrate how REBT is an
advantage and explain what techniques you would use to help these members.
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Discuss how Gestalt therapists work with dreams in a group. Describe the procedures
used as well as the rationale.
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A group leader’s interpretations are often linked to specific group behavior that is
happening in a session. Members themselves can be invited to make their own
interpretations. Demonstrates the usefulness of this technique.
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