Accurate empathic understanding helps clients in all the following areas, except:
a. to notice and devalue their experiences.
b. to view prior experiences in new ways.
c. to process their experience both cognitively and bodily.
d. to increase their confidence in making choices and in pursuing a course of action.
In becoming an ethical practitioner, a crucial task is to:
a. learn how to arrive at clear-cut answers for difficult situations.
b. identify a specific ethical code as the source of answers to ethical dilemmas.
c. exercise prudent judgment when it comes to interpreting and applying ethical
principles to specific situations.
d. avoid making any mistakes in counseling practice.
The author makes a case for:
a. initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations and then learning a
particular approach by becoming steeped in that approach for some time.
b. delving deeply into one approach initially and then taking a superficial look at other
theoretical models.
c. learning the theories of counseling only after starting to work with clients in order to
make the theories more relevant.
d. the reader to choose the approach to which s/he subscribes.
Some family therapists focus primarily on the nuclear family, which is based on
Western notions, and this could clearly be a shortcoming in working with clients in
extended families.
a. True
b. False
The concept of triangulation is most associated with:
a. Virginia Satir.
b. Murray Bowen.
c. Salvador Minuchin.
d. Rudolf Dreikurs.
The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses:
a. support, understanding, warmth, and empathy.
b. awareness, unfinished business, impasse, and experiencing.
c. thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing.
d. subjectivity, existential anxiety, self-actualization, and being.
The role of meaningful relationships in fostering emotional health is receiving increased
attention in:
a. WDEP.
b. contemporary reality therapy.
c. value judgment.
d. behavioral therapy.
According to Glasser, many of the problems of clients are caused by:
a. unfinished business with parents.
b. sibling rivalry.
c. early childhood trauma.
d. their inability to connect or to have a satisfying relationship with at least one of the
significant people in their lives.
Which child tends to feel squeezed out and may develop a conviction that life is unfair
and a feeling of being cheated
a. Oldest child
b. Second child
c. Middle child
d. Youngest child
Clients are viewed by Adlerian therapists as ‘sick” and in need of a cure.
a. True
b. False
Field theory asserts that:
a. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
b. human beings have a innate capacity to self regulate.
c. the organism must be seen in its environment, or in its context, as part of the
constantly changing field.
d. phenomenological inquiry is the key to behavior change.
Adlerian therapy has a phenomenological orientation.Thus, the therapist attempts to
view the world from:
a. an objective frame of reference.
b. his or her own subjective frame of reference.
c. the client’s frame of reference.
d. the frame of reference of a particular theory.
Therapists of relational-cultural theory emphasize the qualities of__________that
contribute to the flow of the relationship; being empathically present with the suffering
of the client is at the core of treatment.
a. identity and self-concept
b. authenticity and transparency
c. growth and development
d. strengths and relationships
In the Gestaltist view, unfinished business is best explored in the present.
a. True
b. False
The solution-focused brief therapy therapeutic process rests on the foundation that
clients are:
a. in need of an expert.
b. unable to make decisions.
c. the experts on their own lives.
d. passive participants in their journey.
Confidentiality must be breached and information must be reported by practitioners
when all of the following take place, except:
a. clients pose a danger to others.
b. a child under the age of 16 requests counseling sessions.
c. an older adult is being abused.
d. the therapist determines that the client needs immediate, involuntary hospitalization.
According to the text, personal values of the counselor influence all of the following,
except:
a. our views of the goals of counseling.
b. the way we conduct client assessments.
c. the interventions we choose.
d. how the clients’ life progressed prior to treatment.
A limitation of the postmodern approaches is:
a. therapists require extensive training in providing brief therapy.
b. inexperienced therapists may over rely on techniques and appear mechanistic.
c. the use of open-ended questioning.
d. its lack of applicability to group counseling.
The ______________that recently has come into prominence shares many concepts on
the healthy side of human existence with the humanistic approach.
a. positive psychology movement
b. object relations approach
c. dialectical behavior therapy approach
d. applied behavior analysis movement
In order to meet the goals of psychoanalytic treatment, Rhonda must help her eating
disordered clients to:
a. reduce their symptoms and resolve their internal conflicts.
b. replace negative self-talk with positive self-talk.
c. make use of programs such as Weight Watchers or the Atkins diet plan.
d. increase their support networks and develop social interest.
All of the following are a part of Jung’s view of development except:
a. individuation.
b. the shadow.
c. symbiosis.
d. collective unconscious.
Robert Wubbolding stresses the importance of a supportive and challenging therapeutic
environment.
a. True
b. False
Beck’s cognitive therapy has been most widely applied to the treatment of:
a. stress symptoms.
b. anxiety reactions.
c. phobias.
d. depression.
A teenage girl is angry with her parents and cuts on her arm. In Gestalt terms, she is
most likely engaging in:
a. introjection.
b. projection.
c. retroflection.
d. confluence.
The goal of Gestalt therapy is to solve basic problems, to resolve one’s polarities, and to
help the individual to adjust to his or her environment.
a. True
b. False
Feminist therapists work to demystify the counseling relationship.
a. True
b. False
Adrianne, who is uncertain about her career goals and is afraid to commit to any career
path, is working with a therapist who specializes in using motivational interviewing
strategies. What will her therapist look for in order to assess the success of therapy?
a. An improvement in Adrianne’s ability to block negative thoughts about her career
options
b. A reduction in Adrianne’s ambivalence about choosing a career path and an increase
in her intrinsic motivation to clarify her direction
c. Progress in working through unconscious conflicts related to commitment
d. A willingness on Adrianne’s part to examine her family constellation in order to
deepen her understanding of her reasons for her lack of direction
Informed consent in counseling can be provided in all of the following forms except:
a. written.
b. orally.
c. through third party.
d. some combination of written and oral form.
Individuals who display exhibitionistic traits, seek attention and admiration from others,
and are extremely self- absorbed might have which of the following personality
disorders?
a. Narcissistic
b. Dependent
c. Borderline
d. Obsessivecompulsive
Alfred Adler believed that genetics and heredity are not as important as what we choose
to do with the abilities and limitations we possess.
a. True
b. False
One point of disagreement between existential and humanistic thought involves:
a. a respect for the client’s subjective experience.
b. a trust in the capacity of the client to make positive choices.
c. an emphasis on freedom.
d. the idea of an innate self-actualizing drive.
Glasser contends that_______is a way that both therapist and client avoid being who
they are and owning what they are doing right now.
a. responsibility
b. questioning
c. transference
d. choice
Feminist therapy incorporates techniques from many of the various traditional
approaches.
a. True
b. False
Existential therapists prefer to be thought of as:
a. an observer-technician.
b. philosophical companions, not as people who repair psyches.
c. a teacher and coach.
d. an advocate for social change.
In Adler’s view we can be fully understood only in light of knowing the purposes and
goals toward which we are striving.
a. True
b. False