Which of the following is nottrue about the Gestalt view of the role of confrontation in
therapy?
a. It is not possible to be both confrontational and gentle with clients.
b. It is important to confront clients with the ways they are avoiding being fully alive.
c. Confrontation does not have to be aimed at negative traits.
d. Confrontation should be a genuine expression of caring.
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
Behavior therapy is associated with all but one of the following:
a. empirically supported treatments.
b. functional analysis of behavior.
c. a philosophical view of human behavior.
d. a comprehensive assessment process.
Which of the following approaches is based on the premise that there are multiple
realities and multiple truths?
a. Behavior therapy
b. Postmodern approaches
c. Rational emotive behavior therapy
d. Gestalt therapy
Which person is not associated with the existential movement?
a. Rollo May
b. Victor Frankl
c. Irvin Yalom
d. B. F. Skinner
Jacqueline feels guilty whenever she considers taking a day off from work for personal
reasons. Which of the psychic structures postulated by Freud is fueling her guilty
feelings?
a. The id
b. The ego
c. The superego
d. The consciousness
Glasser challenges the traditionally accepted views of mental illness and treatment by
the use of medication, especially:
a. the widespread use of psychiatric drugs that often results in negative side effects both
physically and psychologically.
b. the lack of use of psychiatric drugs.
c. the use of any psychiatric drugs whether or not they result in negative side effects.
d. because medications are never needed.
Which approach assumes that a family can best be understood when it is analyzed from
at least a three-generational perspective?
a. Bowenian family therapy
b. Human validation process model
c. Social constructionism
d. Strategic family therapy
Carl Rogers is often called the “father of psychotherapy research.”
a. True
b. False
Invivo flooding consists of:
a. brief and graduated series of exposures to feared events.
b. exposure to actual anxiety-evoking events rather than simply imagining these
situations.
c. imagined exposure to fearful experiences paired with muscle relaxation.
d. guided use of mindfulness techniques.
________assists clients in identifying the impact that their own gender-role
socialization has played in shaping their values, thoughts, and behaviors.
a. Power analysis
b. Gender role or social identity analysis
c. Lifestyle analysis
d. Analysis of transference and resistance
Adlerian therapists realize that clients do not become discouraged and function
effectively because of mistaken beliefs, faulty values, and useless or self-absorbed
goals.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is notan example of how existential therapy is unlike many
other therapies?
a. It does not have a well-defined set of techniques.
b. It stresses the I/Thou encounter in the therapy process.
c. It focuses on the use of the specific techniques created for this theory.
d. It allows for incorporation of techniques from many other approaches.
Behavior therapy is based on:
a. an experimental analysis of behavior in the client’s own social environment.
b. a systematic set of concepts.
c. a well-developed theory of personality.
d. the principle of self-actualization.
Theories and techniques are based on the lives and experiences of individuals (lived
experiences) as well as research supporting gender and other inequities.
a. True
b. False
The negative impact of discrimination and oppression for both men and women has
surfaced as a result of:
a. rational emotive behavior therapy.
b. person-centered therapy.
c. family systems therapy.
d. feminist therapy.
Which child is most likely to demand center stage, tends to have difficulties in life
when he or she is no longer the center of attention, and is likely to become dependently
tied to the mother?
a. Oldest child
b. Second child
c. Middle child
d. Only child
Gestalt therapies view a client’s avoidance behavior as related to unfinished business.
a. True
b. False
Reality therapy is often used in treating drug and alcohol abusers.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is not one of the Gestalt group leader’s roles?
a. Designing experiments for group members
b. Evoking group catharsis
c. Engaging in self-disclosure
d. Facilitating contact in the group setting
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.
Today’s feminists believe that gender can be considered separately from other identity
areas such as race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation.
a. True
b. False
Contemporary therapy approaches are grounded on a core set of values, which are
neither value-neutral nor applicable to all cultures.
a. True
b. False
Methods of expressive arts therapy are based on humanistic principles. Which of the
following principles is notone?
a. Releasing creative energy is based on the principle of regression.
b. The creative process is transformative and healing.
c. The expressive arts lead us into the unconscious.
d. Our feelings and emotions are a source of energy.
There is no place for the role of thinking process and attitudes in contemporary
behavior therapy.
a. True
b. False
Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs and their associates were the first known
practitioners of family therapy, often using a model now called:
a. closed-forum family counseling.
b. closed-forum individual counseling.
c. open-forum family counseling.
d. open-forum individual counseling.
Which approach offers encouragement so individuals can develop socially useful goals
and increase social interest?
a. Adlerian therapy
b. Behavior therapy
c. Reality therapy
d. Gestalt therapy
According to the relational-cultural model, a woman’s sense of self depends largely on
how she connects with others.
a. True
b. False
The working-through process consists of repetitive and elaborate explorations of
unconscious material and defenses, most of which originated in early childhood.
a. True
b. False
________is a comprehensive, systematic, holistic approach to behavior therapy
developed by the late Arnold Lazarus.
a. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
b. Social skills training
c. Self-management
d. Multimodal therapy
Reality therapy is a popular approach in correctional work.
a. True
b. False
Adlerian therapists strive to establish and maintain an egalitarian therapeutic alliance
and a person-to-person relationship with their clients.
a. True
b. False
In order for a therapist to communicate “accurate empathic understanding” the
counselor must:
a. have experienced a situation very similar to the client’s current predicament.
b. clarify details and facts relevant to the client’s experiences.
c. feel a deep sense of warmth toward the client.
d. connect emotionally to the client’s subjective world.
The main idea of__________is that active incorporation of client strengths encourages
clients to engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that
otherwise would be missed.
a. cognitive therapy
b. strengthsbased CBT
c. Gestalt therapy
d. existential therapy
Which of the following is false as it applies to the practice of solution-focused brief
therapy?
a. Individuals who come to therapy have the capability of behaving effectively.
b. There are advantages to a positive focus on solutions and on the future.
c. Clients want to change, have the capacity to change, and are doing their best to make
change happen.
d. Using techniques in therapy is a way of discounting a client’s capacity to find his or
her own way.