_________are preplanned activities that can be used to elicit emotion, produce action,
or achieve a specific goal.
a. Cathartic events
b. Faulty experiments
c. Exercises
d. Conflicting opinions
A feature of REBT that distinguishes it from other cognitive-behavioral therapies is its:
a. use of the A-B-C theory in analyzing the client.
b. use of behavioral techniques.
c. applicability to group work.
d. process to identify and dispute irrational beliefs that have been acquired and
self-constructed and are now maintained by self-indoctrination.
_______posits that we are not born blank slates waiting to be externally motivated by
forces in the world around us.
a. WDEP theory
b. Behavior therapy
c. Choice theory
d. Motivational therapy
Through mindfulness exercises, veterans may be better able to observe repetitive
negative thinking and prevent extensive engagement with maladaptive ruminative
processes.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following techniques is notused in Adlerian family counseling?
a. Immediacy
b. Paradoxical intention
c. Analyzing resistances between members of the family
d. The push-button technique
The __________assesses the client’s therapeutic progress through ratings of a client’s
personal experience of well-being in his or her individual, interpersonal, and social
functioning.
a. Session Rating Scale
b. Outcome Rating Scale
c. Income Rating Scale
d. Termination Rating Scale
Of the following, which is one of the major contributions that feminists have made to
the field of counseling and psychotherapy?
a. A focus on dealing with family dynamics
b. A focus on exploring the unconscious factors contributing to current problems
c. Paving the way for gender-sensitive practice
d. Placing the therapeutic relationship at the core of the therapy process
What is the technique in family therapy that casts a new light on a problem and
provides a different interpretation for a problematic situation?
a. Reorganization
b. Family mapping
c. Restructuring
d. Reframing
_______is a legal concept that protects clients from having their confidential
communications revealed in court without their permission.
a. Informed consent
b. Privacy
c. Confidentiality
d. Privileged communication
Therapists begin to form a relationship with clients from the moment of:
a. first contact.
b. complete trust.
c. family introductions.
d. engaging in deep conversation.
Retroflection involves doing to others what we would like them to do to us.
a. True
b. False
The founder of rational emotive behavior therapy is:
a. William Glasser.
b. Frederick Perls.
c. Albert Ellis.
d. Joseph Wolpe.
Gestalt therapy is designed for individual counseling, and it typically does not work
well in groups.
a. True
b. False
All of the following are characteristics of the behavioral approaches except:
a. behavior therapy relies on the principles and procedures of the scientific method.
b. behavior therapy specifies treatment goals in concrete and objective terms.
c. behavior therapy focuses on the client’s current problems and the factors influencing
them.
d. behavior therapy employs the same procedures to every client with a particular
dysfunctional behavior.
Which of the following is nota method of increasing effectiveness in working with
diverse client populations?
a. Learn about how your own cultural background has influenced your thinking and
behaving
b. Realize that practicing from a multicultural perspective will probably make your job
very difficult
c. Be flexible in applying techniques with clients
d. Identify your basic assumptions pertaining to diversity
Feminist therapists, regardless of their philosophical orientation, believe all of the
following except that:
a. gender is at the core of therapeutic practice.
b. human development and interaction are similar across races, cultures, and nations.
c. understanding a client’s problems requires adopting a sociocultural perspective.
d. understanding the impact of the society and culture in which a client lives is
important.
Clients are never stuck in a pattern of living a problem-saturated story that does not
work.
a. True
b. False
Bibliotherapy is frequently used in feminist therapy
a. True
b. False
Person-centered expressive arts therapy can be used in both group and individual
contexts.
a. True
b. False
One of the contributions of Gestalt therapy is the vast empirical research that has been
done to validate the specific techniques used.
a. True
b. False
Third-generation behavior therapies center around five interrelated core themes.
a. True
b. False
Analytically oriented therapists typically interpret free associations, dreams, resistances,
and transferences.
a. True
b. False
A distinctly human characteristic is the struggle for a sense of peace.
a. True
b. False
A couple directs the focus of their energy toward a problematic son as a way to avoid
facing or dealing with their own conflicts. This is an example of:
a. enmeshment.
b. normal love.
c. displacement.
d. triangulation.
There is no concept in REBT that in any way agrees with Rogers’s idea of unconditional
positive regard.
a. True
b. False
__________is often described as our perceptions regarding self, others, and the world,
and includes the connecting themes and rules of interaction that give meaning to our
actions.
a. Striving for significance and superiority
b. Fictional finalism
c. Lifestyle
d. Holistic concept
Families are multilayered systems that both affect and are affected by the larger systems
in which they are embedded.
a. True
b. False
When Adler spoke of individuality, he referred to the unique way we:
a. rewrite our own life script.
b. deal with the crises of our development.
c. confront our unfinished business.
d. develop our own style of striving for competence.
_________refers to the range of methods aimed at helping clients understand how
unequal access to power and resources can influence personal realities.
a. Gender-role intervention
b. Power analysis
c. Assertiveness training
d. Bibliotherapy
The Gestalt therapist typically uses diagnosis and interpretation as a basic part of the
therapeutic process.
a. True
b. False
The creation of the self, which dominated the modernist search for human essence and
truth:
a. is being replaced by postmodernists with the concept of socially storied lives.
b. is also a key concept of the postmodern approaches.
c. is more relevant in the narrative approach than it is in solution-oriented therapy.
d. has proven to be completely irrelevant to all counselors and therapists practicing
today.
Which of the following is nota component of the brief psychodynamic approaches?
a. Use of interpretation early in the therapeutic relationship
b. Targeting a specific interpersonal problem during the first session
c. The therapist functioning as a blank slate
d. Developing a strong working alliance
Diagnoses are based on the dominant culture’s view of normalcy and therefore cannot
account for cultural differences.
a. True
b. False
A Gestalt therapist pays attention to ways the client uses language.
a. True
b. False