Which of the following is (are) a contribution of choice theory/reality therapy?
a. It helps clients deal emotionally with unfinished business from their past.
b. It provides insight into the causes of one’s problems.
c. It is relatively short-term focused on dealing with conscious behavioral problems.
d. Most of its concepts have been subjected to empirical testing.
If you try to figure out in advance how to proceed with a client, you may be depriving
the client of the opportunity to become an active partner in her or his own therapy.
a. True
b. False
Empowerment and egalitarianism are the basis of the ________therapeutic relationship.
a. existential
b. feminist
c. Gestalt
d. psychoanalytic
Who developed the object-relations view that focuses on separation and individuation?
a. Perls
b. Satir
c. Rogers
d. Mahler
The British scholar working to develop training programs in existential therapy is:
a. Roll May.
b. Irvin Yalom.
c. Emmy van Deurzen.
d. J. Michael Russell.
Personcentered therapy is best described as a:
a. completed ‘school” of counseling.
b. fixed set of therapeutic principles.
c. systematic set of behavioral techniques.
d. philosophy of how the therapy process develops.
A current trend in Gestalt therapy is toward greater emphasis on the client/therapist
relationship rather than on techniques.
a. True
b. False
Existential guilt is being aware of having evaded a commitment, or having chosen not
to choose.
a. True
b. False
The underlying vision of humanistic philosophy is captured by the metaphor of how an
acorn will automatically grow in positive ways, pushed naturally toward its
actualization as an oak.
a. True
b. False
Effective counseling must take into account the impact of culture on the client’s
functioning, including the:
a. client’s expectations for possible vacation time from counseling.
b. client’s degree of acculturation.
c. attitudes these clients have about time off during counseling for their personal time.
d. messages clients received from their family members while attending counseling.
Feminist, multicultural, and postmodern therapists are extremely aware of the power
they have entering into already established systems, and they work to promote
understanding through curiosity and interest rather than through formal assessments.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following approaches recognized the need for a subjective approach based
on a complete view of the human condition?
a. Family systems therapy
b. Psychoanalytic therapy
c. Person-centered therapy
d. Existential therapy
Both family therapy and feminist therapy are based on the premise that to understand
the individual it is essential to take into consideration the interpersonal dimensions and
the sociocultural context rather than focusing primarily on the intrapsychic domain.
a. True
b. False
The concept of lifestyle refers to an individual’s core beliefs and assumptions through
which the person organizes his or her reality and finds meaning in life events.
a. True
b. False
It is essential for the therapist to establish a satisfying relationship with clients as a
prerequisite for effective therapy. Once this relationship is developed, the skill of the
therapist as listener and teacher assumes a central role.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following approaches to therapy is especially well suited for the initial
phases of crisis intervention work?
a. Reality therapy
b. Person-centered therapy
c. Psychoanalytic therapy
d. Solution-focused brief therapy
The contemporary version of feminist therapy and the multicultural and social justice
perspectives to counseling practice have a great deal in common.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is notone of the three phases of Meichenbaum’s stress
inoculation program?
a. The application and follow-through phase
b. The conceptual-educational phase
c. The skills acquisition and consolidation phase
d. The therapeutic role modeling phase
Therapists are encouraged to use positive regard for clients only as a means of shaping
their behavior.
a. True
b. False
Strengthsbased CBT is a variant of Albert Ellis’ REBT.
a. True
b. False
From a person-centered perspective, the best source of knowledge about the client is
the:
a. individual client.
b. therapist.
c. client’s family.
d. therapeutic relationship.
The statement “Only when I am perfect can I be secure” is an example of:
a. a guiding self-ideal.
b. something a personality disordered individual would say.
c. a realistic goal.
d. retroflection.
The ego defense mechanism that consists of masking perceived weaknesses or
developing certain positive traits to make up for limitations is known as:
a. sublimation.
b. compensation.
c. introjection.
d. reaction formation.
A distinctive feature of feminist therapy is the assumption that direct action for social
change is one of the responsibilities of therapists.
a. True
b. False
Resolution of sexual conflicts and sex-role identity is a critical function of the:
a. oral stage.
b. anal stage.
c. phallic stage.
d. genital stage.
It is easy to overestimate the contributions of Adler to contemporary therapeutic
practice.
a. True
b. False
In which of the following approaches does the therapist ask the client what they are
choosing to do?
a. Choice theory/reality therapy
b. Gestalt therapy
c. Family systems therapy
d. Psychoanalytic therapy
In the strengths-based CBT four step model to build resilience, a key to the fourth stage
of therapy is that the client:
a. sets a goal to “be resilient in the face of challenges.”
b. avoids exploring possible high-risk stressful situations.
c. learns that a lapse in willpower will have catastrophic results.
d. will undergo hypnosis.
In a reality therapy group, the leader:
a. is responsible for evaluating the clients’ behaviors.
b. performs an assessment to determine if the client is truly getting what he or she wants
in life.
c. withholds feedback when members are designing their plans.
d. may encounter resistance if they make poorly timed suggestions and plans for how
the members should best live.
Dialectical behavior therapy integrates behavioral techniques with psychoanalytic
concepts and mindfulness training of Eastern psychological and spiritual practices.
a. True
b. False
Beck’s therapeutic approach originally focused on specific symptoms of depressed
clients and the reasons they give for these symptoms.
a. True
b. False
_________is based on the assumption that the personal or individual problems
individuals bring to counseling originate in a political and social context.
a. The personal is political and critical consciousness
b. The counseling relationship is egalitarian
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