Adlerians maintain that change is not possible without insight; understanding the causes
of one’s problems is a prerequisite to behavioral change.
a. True
b. False
The ethics codes do not mandate that dual or multiple relationships:
a. should be avoided or that nonsexual multiple relationships are unethical.
b. are clearly grounds for revocation of one’s professional license.
c. are helpful in case of counseling one’s friends or relatives.
d. are impossible to avoid.
Which of these solution-focused therapy techniques involves asking clients to describe
times in their lives when they were able to solve their problem or when their problem
was less severe?
a. Pre-therapy change
b. The miracle question
c. Exception questions
d. Scaling
Reality therapy is popular in all of the following areas, except:
a. schools.
b. medical facilities.
c. state mental health hospitals.
d. halfway houses.
According to Adlerians, inferiority feelings:
a. are pathological.
b. lead to depression.
c. keep us from achieving our life goals.
d. create motivation to achieve mastery.
Reality therapy is based on choice theory and focuses on the client assuming
responsibility in the present.
a. True
b. False
In dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), skills are taught in four modules. Which among
the following is notone of the modules listed in the text?
a. Mindfulness
b. Interpersonal effectiveness
c. Emotional regulation
d. Relapse prevention
When is the counseling process at its best from an existential viewpoint?
a. When the client feels comfortable enough to engage in shame-attacking exercises
outside of counseling sessions.
b. When the deepest self of the therapist meets the deepest part of the client.
c. When the therapist uses his or her influence to convince the client to let go of his or
her anxiety.
d. When sessions begin with progressive muscle relaxation exercises.
Mariah tells her therapist, a Gestaltist, that she dreamt she got married to a pit bull and
felt uneasy about telling her parents that she married a dog. When her parents
discovered their son-in-law was a pit bull, they disowned her and suddenly became
dogs themselves. In response to this dream, Mariah’s therapist:
a. may need to contact a psychiatric hospital (and possibly an animal shelter) since it is
likely Mariah unconsciously desires to marry a dog.
b. should interpret the dream for her client.
c. should assist her client in reliving the dream as though it was happening in the now
and have her become each part of the dream.
d. should encourage her client to forget the dream since it was meaningless.
Attributing to others the qualities or traits that are unacceptable to our own ego is best
described as:
a. displacement.
b. introjection.
c. reaction formation.
d. projection.
The skill of immediacy involves revealing what we are thinking or feeling in the here
and now with the client.
a. True
b. False
The process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying
them inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings is known as:
a. labeling and mislabeling.
b. overgeneralization.
c. arbitrary inferences.
d. selective abstraction.
_________ ethics focuses on doing what is in the best interest of clients.
a. Mandatory
b. Minimal
c. Positive
d. Aspirational
Wubbolding emphasizes that reality therapy is a mental health system rather than a:
a. remediating system.
b. theoretical system.
c. medical system.
d. behavioral system.
A key theme of SFBT is, when you know what is working, do more of it. If something
is not working, try something different.
a. True
b. False
Person-centered therapy groups emphasize the unique role of the group counselor as a
leader.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following individuals is notassociated with family therapy?
a. Alfred Adler
b. Rudolf Dreikurs
c. Fritz Perls
d. Salvador Minuchin
A limitation of existential therapy is its:
a. emphasis on the therapist as an expert.
b. adherence to the medical model.
c. limited applicability to nonverbal clients.
d. use of simplistic concepts.
Adlerian therapists use a psychoeducational approach.
a. True
b. False
A major criticism of the existential approach is that it lacks a systematic statement of
the principles and practices of psychotherapy.
a. True
b. False
The only setting in which one might be forced to manage multiple roles is in
community mental health centers.
a. True
b. False
Currently, there is wide-ranging international interest in the existential approach to
psychotherapy.
a. True
b. False
Wolpe’s systematic desensitization is based on the principles of:
a. classical conditioning.
b. operant conditioning.
c. modeling.
d. motivational interviewing.
Mindfulness is:
a. the awareness that emerges through having attention on purpose, in the present
moment, and nonjudgmentally, to the unfolding or experience moment by moment.
b. the assessment process in multimodal therapy.
c. under the idea that change can be brought about by teaching people to use coping
skills in problematic situations.
d. not beneficial for clients with behavioral problems.
Recent developments relevant to _________ in psychology have led to an integration of
key themes of multiculturalism and feminism.
a. social justice
b. radical feminists
c. socialist feminists
d. liberal justice
A_____________offers a unique approach to understanding the roles that women and
men with diverse social identities and experiences have been socialized to accept and to
bringing this understanding into the therapeutic process.
a. gender-fair stance
b. flexible-multicultural theory
c. life-span orientation
d. feminist perspective
Which of the following did Adler notstress?
a. The unity of personality
b. Focus on early childhood experiences as determinants of later personality functioning
c. Behavior is purposeful and goal-oriented
d. A unique style of life that is an expression of life goals
There are three kinds of solution-focused therapeutic relationships. The client and
therapist jointly identify a problem and a solution to work toward describes which
relationship?
a. Customer
b. Complaint
c. Visitor
d. Shopper
From the existential viewpoint, anxiety is seen as a neurotic manifestation; thus the aim
of therapy is to eliminate anxiety so clients can live comfortably.
a. True
b. False
From the feminist perspective, the socialization of women with multiple social
identities inevitably affects all of the following, except:
a. engendered lives.
b. selfconcept.
c. goals and aspirations.
d. emotional wellbeing.
Which of the following aspects of a client’s use of language would a Gestalt therapist
notfocus on?
a. “It” talk
b. “You” talk
c. Questions
d. Semantics
The use of constructive questions, the importance of identifying client imagery and
metaphors for change, and an emphasis on client strengths are innovations that formed
the foundation of which therapeutic approach?
a. Existential
b. Clientcentered
c. Psychoanalytic
d. Strengths-based cognitive behavioral