This approach puts emphasis on the human quality of the therapeutic relationship.
a. True
b. False
Behavior therapy has undergone important changes and has expanded considerably.
a. True
b. False
One of the main contributions of the Gestalt approach is its:
a. behavioral training models.
b. emphasis on learning to appreciate and fully experience the present moment.
c. attempt to remain focused on the past.
d. ability to allow the client to remain oblivious to his or her behavior.
Even science is not free from the influence of such processes of social construction.
a. True
b. False
In social constructionism, the therapist assumes the role of expert, rather than adopting
a collaborative or consultative stance.
a. True
b. False
___________is a key pioneer of clinical behavior therapy because of his broadening of
its conceptual bases and development of multimodal therapy.
a. Albert Bandura
b. Joseph Wolpe
c. B.F. Skinner
d. Arnold Lazarus
Constructing counter stories goes hand in hand with:
a. deconstruction.
b. reconstruction.
c. demolition.
d. rebuilding.
During strengths-based CBT therapy, clients often discover that they use less resilient
strategies when they encounter obstacles in areas of positive interest than they do in
problem areas of their life.
a. True
b. False
Reality therapists use punishment as a way to help clients follow through with their
plans and commitments.
a. True
b. False
The central aim of evidence-based practice is to require psychotherapists to base their
practice on techniques that have empirical evidence to support their efficacy.
a. True
b. False
A main task of the narrative therapist is to help clients construct a:
a. negative story line.
b. preferred story line.
c. new faade.
d. second personality.
The one central principle agreed upon by family therapy practitioners, regardless of
their particular approach, is that:
a. the client is connected to living systems.
b. family dysfunction is typically caused by the most dominant family member.
c. lack of differentiation is the primary cause of all family dysfunction.
d. the empty chair technique is the most effective technique.
Reality therapists see therapeutic value in working with a client’s dreams.
a. True
b. False
According to the existential viewpoint, death:
a. makes life absurd.
b. makes life meaningless and hopeless.
c. gives significance to living.
d. should not be explored in therapy.
One of the techniques used by behavior therapists in dealing with a client’s anxiety is:
a. the miracle question.
b. encouragement.
c. externalizing the problem.
d. systematic desensitization.
Synthesizing the approaches covered in the text:
a. can easily be accomplished after taking an introductory course.
b. is usually mastered by the end of the first year of one’s graduate program.
c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling experience.
d. rarely, if ever, happens and is a completely unrealistic goal.
All of the following are true about the superegoexcept:
a. it is the judicial branch of personality.
b. it is the internalization of the standards of parents and society.
c. it governs, controls and regulates the personality.
d. it inhibits id impulses.
In the solution-oriented approach, which is not considered one of the three basic parts to
the structure of summary feedback?
a. Compliments
b. A bridge
c. Expressing concern
d. Suggesting a task
Which statement(s) is (are) trueof the person-centered approach?
a. Therapists should give advice when clients need it.
b. The techniques a therapist uses are less important than his or her attitudes.
c. Therapists should function largely as teachers.
d. Therapy is primarily the therapist’s responsibility.
A critical difference between early Gestalt therapy and relational Gestalt therapy is the:
a. emphasis on contact.
b. approach to confrontation.
c. use of techniques.
d. focus on the figure formation process.
Which of the following approaches places emphasis on challenging clients to recognize
that they are responsible for events that they formerly thought were happening tothem?
a. Psychoanalytic therapy
b. Existential therapy
c. Behavior therapy
d. Adlerian therapy
Which of the following statements is nottrue about guidelines for ethical practice in
counseling and psychotherapy?
a. Most professional organizations provide broad guidelines.
b. Therapists ultimately have to discover their own guidelines for reasonable practice.
c. Practitioners are free to formulate any ethics they choose.
d. Ethical issues should be periodically reexamined throughout your professional life.
_____________grow out of the interaction between client and therapist and emerge
within this dialogic process.
a. Exercises
b. Figureformations
c. Fantasies
d. Experiments
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) integrates techniques from:
a. multimodal therapy and mindfulness.
b. mindfulness-based stress reduction and cognitive behavior therapy.
c. motivational interviewing and mindfulness.
d. yoga, systematic desensitization, and mindfulness.
_________is built on the premise that it is essential to consider the social, cultural, and
political context that contributes to a person’s problems in order to understand that
person.
a. Social justice
b. Gender perspective
c. Political context
d. Feminist counseling
By considering contextual variables, symptoms are reframed as survival strategies.
a. True
b. False
The tendency for individuals to relate external events to themselves, even when there is
no basis for making this connection, is known as:
a. labeling and mislabeling.
b. overgeneralization.
c. arbitrary inferences.
d. personalization.
Acceptance is one of the thirdgeneration behavior therapies’ five interrelated core
themes.
a. True
b. False
All of the following are true about a therapist’s countertransference reactions except:
a. they should be avoided.
b. they have the potential to interfere with effective treatment.
c. they can provide rich understanding of the client’s experience.
d. they should be carefully monitored by the therapist.
The American Counseling Association uses the term “nonprofessional relationships”
when referring to dual or multiple relationships.
a. True
b. False
People who rely on retroflection tend to inhibit themselves from taking action out of
fear of embarrassment, guilt, and resentment.
a. True
b. False
Resistance, in the analytic view, results from either a conscious unwillingness on the
part of the client to cooperate, or from the ineptness of the therapist in developing a
sound therapeutic program.
a. True
b. False
Which approach asserts that unresolved emotional reactivity to one’s family must be
addressed if one hopes to
achieve a mature and unique personality?
a. Bowenian family therapy
b. Adlerian family therapy
c. Social constructionism
d. Strategic family therapy