All are true of solution-focused brief therapists except that they:
a. have little interest in a client exploring past problems.
b. focus on the client’s early childhood experiences.
c. believe that the cause of a problem is not necessarily related to its solution.
d. expect that two clients may have different solutions to the same problem.
According to the existential view, death makes life meaningless.
a. True
b. False
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.
Chun Hei is a Korean immigrant who has been separated from her family and friends
for over a year since she came to the U.S. with her husband. She spends her days taking
care of their two young children while he goes to work, and feels increasingly
depressed without her support system. It is likely that a family therapist who meets
Chun Hei would:
a. prescribe her antidepressant medication.
b. be very interested in how her depression affects others in the family and how it
influences family process.
c. abandon using a systems approach, and treat her with cognitive behavioral methods.
d. be directive and tell her to convince her husband to go back to Korea so she will once
again have family support.
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.
When __________ occurs, a ripple effect flows throughout the family system.
a. change
b. an argument
c. a negative behavior
d. tradition
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
Brief psychodynamic therapists tend to assume an active role in the therapy process.
a. True
b. False
Who among the following is not considered a relational Gestalt therapist?
a. Fritz Perls
b. Laura Perls
c. Miriam Polster
d. Erving Polster
Without the cultural conditions that accept the concept of depression, talking about a
person as depressed would mean nothing.
a. True
b. False
One contribution of Adlerian therapy is that:
a. practitioners are given a great deal of freedom in working with their clients.
b. it offers a well-defined theory of personality.
c. many of its concepts have been supported by research.
d. it is a common-sense psychology.
It is not our function to persuade clients to accept or adopt our value system.
a. True
b. False
The beginnings of feminism can be traced to the late 1800s, but it is the women’s
movement of the 1960s that laid the foundation for the development of feminist therapy.
a. True
b. False
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.
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
All of the following are true about planning and commitment in reality therapy, except:
a. clients make a commitment to carry out their plans.
b. commitment is not an all-or-nothing matter.
c. a great deal of time is spent on this step of reality therapy.
d. it is up to clients to determine how to take their plans from therapy into their
everyday world.
The characteristic existential theme includes:
a. freedom and responsibility.
b. resistance.
c. transference.
d. examining irrational beliefs.
A central concept in feminist therapy is the importance of understanding and
acknowledging:
a. psychological oppression and the constraints imposed by the sociopolitical status.
b. the freedom to pursue a career outside the home.
c. the right to an education.
d. equality in power in relationships.
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 not a factor that oftentimes limits our freedom of choice?
a. Social
b. Environmental
c. Cultural
d. Internal
Which of the following is not true about the Adlerian concept of “private logic”?
a. It is a result of the feelings and emotions we experience in our daily lives.
b. It provides a central psychological unity for us.
c. It is the philosophy upon which we base our lifestyle.
d. It often does not conform to the reality of social living.
Which of the following statements is nottrue with regard to the relational approach to
psychoanalysis?
a. The approach is based on an egalitarian model.
b. There is an exploration of the subjectivities of both client and therapist.
c. Countertransference provides rich information about the client’s dynamics.
d. Therapist anonymity is used to foster the transference relationship.
The Gestalt therapist:
a. freely makes interpretations for the client.
b. pays attention to the client’s nonverbal language.
c. is mainly nondirective.
d. helps the client understand why he or she is behaving in self-defeating ways.
To _________ is to form a set of ideas about people, systems, and situations that focus
meaning in a useful way.
a. blame
b. hypothesize
c. placate
d. be irrelevant
Feminist therapists do not tend to engage in self-disclosure because of their concern
over unduly influencing the client.
a. True
b. False
Characteristics of a self-actualized person include all of the following, except:
a. welcomes uncertainty in his or her life.
b. has a capacity for deep and intense interpersonal relationships.
c. has artificial dichotomies within himself or herself.
d. is spontaneous and creative.
Which of the following is notconsidered a necessary and sufficient condition for change
in the person-centered framework?
a. Unconditional positive regard
b. Creative expression
c. Accurate empathetic understanding
d. Congruence
The person-centered approach evolved from a nondirective therapy to an experiential
therapy.
a. True
b. False
In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:
a. assessment.
b. the collaborative therapeutic relationship.
c. diagnosis.
d. brief course of treatment.
According to the generic cognitive model, our beliefs do not play a major role in
determining what type of psychological distress we will experience.
a. True
b. False
According to Beck, selective abstraction is clients taking all the details of an event and
using this information to reinforce negative schemas and support their maladaptive core
beliefs.
a. True
b. False
Patrick has been confronted by family members and friends about his excessive
gambling. Despite their attempts to help him, he insists that they are overreacting and
that he has everything under control. He does not feel the need to alter his behaviors.
Patrick is at which stage of change?
a. Precontemplation
b. Contemplation
c. Preparation
d. Action
Who was the Danish philosopher that addressed the role of anxiety and uncertainty in
life?
a. Medard Boss
b. JeanPaul Sartre
c. Soren Kierkegaard
d. Martin Buber
Historically, feminist psychotherapy groups were a vehicle for consciousness-raising.
a. True
b. False
The focus of structural-strategic family therapy is on growth and resolving historical
conflicts in a family rather than on dealing with present problems of a family.
a. True
b. False