Which of the following is notone of Miriam Polster’s three stages in her integration
sequence?
a. Reunification
b. Discovery
c. Assimilation
d. Accommodation
To prevent his parents from leaving the house, Miguel throws temper tantrums. His
parents have given in to his demands and never go out to dinner or to movies anymore.
A structural-strategic therapist working with Miguel and his parents will most likely:
a. have them participate in an enactment during the therapy session.
b. explain with a genogram the origins of Miguel’s temper tantrums.
c. help Miguel’s parents to develop differentiated selves.
d. do a lifestyle assessment.
For Sartre, existential guilt is what we experience when we:
a. do not live by the Ten Commandments.
b. fail to think about the welfare of others.
c. allow others to define us or to make our choices for us.
d. reflect on all that we might have done and failed to do.
Therapists should not admit their mistakes since that could diminish their clients’
confidence in them.
a. True
b. False
In Gestalt theory, the experiment is:
a. a specific technique of therapy.
b. tailored to fit the client’s unique needs and presented in an invitational manner.
c. a ready-made exercise used to achieve a behavioral goal.
d. a scientific procedure to assess the effectiveness of therapy.
Existential therapy is especially appropriate for clients who are struggling with
developmental crises.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following approaches to therapy focuses on eliminating maladaptive
behaviors?
a. Person-centered therapy
b. Gestalt therapy
c. Behavior therapy
d. Reality therapy
The person-centered approach places emphasis on the necessary and sufficient
conditions for change.
a. True
b. False
A goal of REBT is to assist clients in the process of achieving conditional
self-acceptance, conditional other- acceptance, and conditional life-acceptance.
a. True
b. False
Structural-strategic family therapists do not generally deal with the presenting problem;
rather, they focus on the underlying symptom of a dysfunctional system.
a. True
b. False
In reality therapy, the counseling environment is:
a. the time to explore past trauma.
b. characterized by a therapeutic climate that establishes the foundation for
implementing procedures.
c. highly structured with the aim of changing cognitions.
d. conducive to restructuring one’s personality.
Empirical support for Gestalt therapy is:
a. weak.
b. welldeveloped.
c. becoming stronger.
d. unavailable.
There are three kinds of solution-focused therapeutic relationships. The client comes to
therapy because someone else (a spouse, parent, teacher, or probation officer) thinks the
client has a problem describes which relationship?
a. Customer
b. Complaint
c. Visitor
d. Shopper
The main function of the rational emotive behavior therapist is to:
a. become an “existential partner” with the client.
b. create a climate of safety and freedom from threat.
c. reveal irrational disputes, and help clients change their thinking and philosophy of
life.
d. encourage the client to experience fully the here-and-now.
Who embraces a cognitive narrative perspective on CBT?
a. Albert Ellis
b. Donald Meichenbaum
c. A. T. Beck
d. Judith Beck
Multimodal therapy is a therapeutic approach that is grounded on:
a. cognitive behavior therapy.
b. social cognitive learning theory.
c. applied behavior analysis.
d. operant conditioning.
In Gestalt terms, awareness refers to our connectedness to our external and internal
worlds.
a. True
b. False
According to psychoanalytic therapy, human beings are:
a. motivated by social interest.
b. determined by psychic energy and early experiences.
c. inclined toward becoming fully functioning.
d. free to choose who they will become.
Roger and his wife are experiencing tension in their relationship because he believes
she is far too lenient with their children when they misbehave. This forces him to play
the role of “bad cop” as a parent, which makes him angry. A family therapist working
with Roger and his family might:
a. help to modify the family’s transactional rules and develop more appropriate
boundaries.
b. refer Roger to individual therapy since he clearly needs to work through his
unresolved issues that are causing him to feel so angry.
c. take Roger’s side and educate his wife about appropriate disciplinary practices.
d. focus on getting the children to stop misbehaving so that Roger and his wife won”t
experience this tension.
A statement that best illustrates “bad faith” is:
a. Naturally I”m this way, because I grew up in an alcoholic family.
b. I will not consider others in the choices I make.
c. I must live by commitments I make.
d. I am responsible for the choices that I make.
Rational emotive imagery involves behavior change only.
a. True
b. False
Both the feminist perspective and the postmodern approaches charge that diagnoses:
a. are an appropriate part of counseling sessions.
b. are generally helpful to women clients.
c. ignore societal contexts.
d. are an essential part of the medical model they follow.
One contribution of Adlerian therapy has been an emphasis on:
a. unconscious motivations.
b. empirical validation.
c. unleashing buried feelings.
d. social and psychological factors.
After having a bad therapeutic experience with a mental health professional who
pathologized her anxiety over financial issues, Lillian decided to consult with a feminist
therapist. How is her new therapist likely to view her anxiety symptoms?
a. As a sign of distress rather than psychopathology
b. As an indication of deficits in her personality
c. As irrational beliefs
d. As a sign of unconscious conflicts that must be worked through
Reality therapists maintain that clients will not change unless they assume a self-critical
attitude.
a. True
b. False
A boundary crossing could potentially benefit a client.
a. True
b. False
Therapists utilizing motivational interviewing strategies view clients as:
a. opponents to be defeated.
b. allies who play a major role in their present and future success.
c. victims of their own psychopathology who need to be liberated from their pain and
dysfunction.
d. people who are lazy and need a powerful incentive to change their ways.
A limitation of behavior therapy is that it:
a. may change behavior but not feelings.
b. does not identify specific problems.
c. does not make room for cognitive factors.
d. fails to explicitly define the role of the therapist.
Adler maintained that individuals attempt to overcome feelings of basic inferiority by
developing a lifestyle in which success is possible.
a. True
b. False
The premise of Adlerian group work is that:
a. clients’ problems are usually of a social nature.
b. early childhood disturbances are at the root of the client’s current problems.
c. individuals are encouraged to become fully independent.
d. insight, not action, is needed for change.
Adlerian therapists strive to establish and maintain:
a. an egalitarian therapeutic alliance and a person-to-person relationship with their
clients.
b. a legalistic therapeutic alliance and a person-to-person relationship with their clients.
c. an egalitarian therapeutic alliance without a person-to-person relationship with their
clients.
d. a legalistic therapeutic alliance without a person-to-person relationship with their
clients.
In acceptance and commitment therapy, values are a basic part; however, the work does
not depend on what an individual wants and values.
a. True
b. False
One contribution of psychoanalytic therapy has been its:
a. subjective approach.
b. reliance on research for validation.
c. detailed and comprehensive description of personality structure and functioning.
d. emphasis on an I/Thou relationship.