__________ is designed to evaluate and to improve the quality and effectiveness of
counseling services.
a. Session Rating Scale
b. Outcome Rating Scale
c. Income Rating Scale
d. Feedback-informed treatment
The first step in the process of reality therapy consists of a comprehensive assessment
leading to a specific diagnosis.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is not considered essential knowledge for a culturally
competent counselor?
a. Knowing how to analyze transference reactions
b. Understanding the dynamics and impact of oppression and racism
c. Being able to understand the worldview of their clients, and learn about their clients’
cultural background
d. Being aware of institutional barriers that prevent minorities from utilizing the mental
health services available in their community
__________is an intervention that changes the label or evaluation applied to some
behavioral characteristic.
a. Paradoxical intention
b. Reframing
c. Relabeling
d. Genderrole analysis
What is a limitation of person-centered therapy?
a. The approach does not make use of research to study the process or outcomes of
therapy.
b. The therapist has more power to manipulate and control the client than is true of most
other therapies.
c. The approach does not emphasize the role of techniques in creating change in the
client’s behavior.
d. The client is not given enough responsibility to direct the course of his or her own
therapy.
Strategic therapists do not rely on therapy techniques to bring about change but instead
give more stress to the therapist’s relationship with a family.
a. True
b. False
It is especially important for counselors who work with culturally diverse client
populations to do all of the following, except:
a. be aware of their own cultural heritage.
b. have a broad base of counseling techniques that can be employed with flexibility.
c. not consider the cultural context of their clients in determining what interventions are
appropriate.
d. examine their own assumptions about cultural values.
The vast majority of mental health professionals have experienced personal therapy,
typically on several occasions.
a. True
b. False
Which approach was developed during the 1940s as a nondirective reaction against
psychoanalysis?
a. Personcentered therapy
b. Family systems therapy
c. Adlerian therapy
d. Reality therapy
Narrative therapy has been effectively applied in school settings.
a. True
b. False
Family therapists are wise to consider Western models of family functioning universal.
a. True
b. False
All of the following strategies are unique to feminist therapy except for:
a. cognitive restructuring.
b. encouraging clients to take social action.
c. emphasizing the role of the therapist as advocate as well as facilitator.
d. viewing women’s and other marginalized and oppressed group’s experiences from a
unique perspective.
Although Perls used a highly confrontational approach in dealing with client avoidance
and resistance, the confrontational model is not representative of contemporary Gestalt
therapy.
a. True
b. False
The person-centered approach is based on a set of specific therapeutic techniques
designed to promote behavior change.
a. True
b. False
All of the following are stages in Adlerian counseling except:
a. reorientation.
b. insight.
c. establishing a therapeutic relationship.
d. analysis of resistance.
The situation in which behaviors are influenced mainly by the consequences that follow
them is:
a. classical conditioning.
b. operant conditioning.
c. modeling.
d. flooding.
Existential therapy is best considered as:
a. an approach to understand the subjective world of the client.
b. a school of therapy.
c. a system of techniques designed to create authentic humans.
d. a strategy for uncovering dysfunctional behavior.
By discussing a client’s earliest recollections, an Adlerian counselor hopes to bring
unconscious conflicts to the
surface.
a. True
b. False
The cornerstone of Bowen’s theory is differentiation of self.
a. True
b. False
The typical second child behaves as if she was in a race and is generally under full
steam at all times.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is nottrue about Rollo May?
a. He is most responsible for translating European existentialism into American
psychotherapeutic theory and practice.
b. He focuses on the subjective dimension of therapy.
c. He is a significant spokesman for the existential approach in the United States.
d. He believes that we can only escape anxiety by exercising our freedom.
The role of the client in rational emotive behavior therapy is like that of a:
a. cotherapist.
b. passive observer.
c. student or learner.
d. partner.
Solution-focused brief therapy differs from traditional therapies by eschewing the past
in favor of both the present and the future.
a. True
b. False
Stress inoculation training consists of all of the following except:
a. behavioral rehearsals.
b. self-monitoring.
c. cognitive restructuring.
d. tapping into the unconscious realm.
The paradoxical theory of behavior change suggests:
a. we change by setting future-oriented goals.
b. clients should pay particular attention to becoming the person they wish to be.
c. careful attention should devoted to changing behavior in the moment it is happening.
d. authentic change occurs more from being who we are than from trying to be who we
are not.
The existential view is not designed to “cure” people of illness in the tradition of the
medical model because people are not sick but are ‘sick of life or clumsy at living.”
a. True
b. False
During the initial phase of counseling, existentially oriented therapists assist clients in
identifying and clarifying their assumptions about the world.
a. True
b. False
The empty chair technique:
a. assists clients in deciding what chair they like.
b. is a vehicle for the technique of role reversal.
c. allows clients to internalize a role and not share.
d. does not help resolve unfinished business.
Which of the following is not true about role playing in REBT?
a. It is a way of surfacing unfinished business.
b. It involves emotional components.
c. It involves behavioral components.
d. It helps reveal irrational beliefs.
Therapists who have little respect for their clients can anticipate that their therapeutic
work will not be fruitful.
a. True
b. False
Donna feels certain that no one will ever want to hire her because she has a timid
personality. Her solution- oriented therapist would be most inclined to:
a. explore her early childhood experiences with being rejected.
b. consider her irrational belief to be indicative of psychopathology.
c. ask Donna to examine another side of the story she is presenting about herself and
think of times when she was accepted by others.
d. prescribe medication for her anxiety issues.
Gestalt therapy focuses on the cognitive aspects of therapy.
a. True
b. False
The feminist approach to group counseling involves all of the following except:
a. support for the experience of being a woman.
b. political involvement.
c. providing members a place to reflect on their role in society.
d. an opportunity to experience and analyze multiple transferences.
There is not a very good fit between cognitive behavior therapy and multicultural
therapy.
a. True
b. False