The Adlerian approach has a wide variety of applications including group and family
therapy.
a. True
b. False
__________ emphasizes the subjective and spiritual dimensions of human existence.
a. Existential analysis
b. Existential anxiety
c. Self-awareness
d. Existential guilt
Ideally, our self-care should mirror the care we provide for others.
a. True
b. False
Failure to move through anxiety results in neurotic anxiety.
a. True
b. False
Therapists aim to lessen the suffering caused by disconnection and isolation, increase
clients’ capacity for relational resilience, develop mutual empathy and mutual
empowerment, and foster social justice.
a. True
b. False
In the ABC model, the A stands for:
a. arbitrary behaviors.
b. antecedents.
c. actions.
d. assessment.
Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as a:
a. way that clients avoid confrontation.
b. sign of poor motivation for therapeutic work.
c. therapy interfering force that needs to be overcome.
d. creative adjustment to a situation and something to be respected.
Clinicians who work in community mental health agencies, private practice, and other
human service settings are generally expected to assess client problems within the
framework of the National Association of Social Workers’
Diagnosticand Assessment Protocol Manual (3rded.).
a. True
b. False
Satir’s human validation model focuses on functional versus dysfunctional
communication in families.
a. True
b. False
A limitation of the family systems model is:
a. therapists all too often get lost in their consideration of the ‘system.”
b. the systemic perspective can be overwhelming for the therapist.
c. family therapy is not well-suited to working with diverse clients.
d. an emphasis on family systems precludes a focus on emotions.
Which approach to family therapy contends that one’s current family problems will not
significantly change until relationship patterns in one’s family of origin are understood
and directly challenged?
a. Bowenian family therapy
b. Human validation process model
c. Structural family therapy
d. Strategic family therapy
Brief psychodynamic therapies target specific interpersonal problems during the initial
session.
a. True
b. False
Psychoeducational methods include materials such as books, DVDs, and articles.
a. True
b. False
Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented
therapy?
a. Gestalt therapy
b. Family systems therapy
c. Existential approach
d. Person-centered approach
Of the following, which intervention would a feminist therapist probably consider most
essential?
a. Challenging irrational beliefs
b. Making use of the empty-chair technique
c. Conducting a lifestyle analysis
d. Social action
Psychotherapy is a process of engagement between two people, both of whom are
bound to change through the therapeutic venture.
a. True
b. False
A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the
following questions?
a. Who has the best shoe sale this week, Macy’s or Nordstrom’s?
b. If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight, how
would you know it was solved, and what would be different?
c. Who in your family is most affected when you go on a spending spree?
d. At what point in your life did you develop this fixation on shopping?
Adler stressed that our desire to strive for perfection is learned from our parents.
a. True
b. False
Who is most noted for her contributions to the development of feminist therapy?
a. Miriam Polster
b. Laura Brown
c. Natalie Rogers
d. Laura Perls
In which therapy approach is the client viewed as the expert on his or her own life,
while the therapist is seen as an expert questioner who assists clients in freeing
themselves of their problem-saturated stories and create new life- affirming stories?
a. Existential therapy
b. Narrative therapy
c. Rational emotive behavior therapy
d. Person-centered therapy
Clients place more value on the personality of the therapist than on the
___________________.
a. specific techniques used.
b. specific words the therapist used.
c. therapist’s theoretical orientation.
d. aesthetics of the therapeutic setting.
Developmentally, Freud’s latency stage corresponds to Erickson’s stage of:
a. trust versus mistrust.
b. intimacy versus isolation.
c. initiative versus guilt.
d. industry versus inferiority.
If we hope to work therapeutically with an individual, it is critical to consider him or
her within the:
a. problematic system.
b. behavioral system.
c. individual system.
d. family system.
Ellis claims that his methods are applicable to individual therapy but that his approach
does not work well in group therapy.
a. True
b. False
There is a trend in the field of family therapy toward rejecting an integrative model of
practice.
a. True
b. False
The therapist’s presence is:
a. a condition of therapeutic change.
b. a goal of therapeutic change.
c. both a condition and a goal of therapeutic change.
d. neither a condition nor a goal of therapeutic change.
What is the correct sequence of the psychosexual stages?
a. Anal/phallic/latency/genital/oral
b. Oral/anal/phallic/latency/genital
c. Oral/anal/latency/genital/phallic
d. Latency/oral/anal/phallic/genital
Martin Buber stressed the importance of presence, which allows for the creation of
I/Thou relationships in therapy.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following statements about creating alternative stories is nottrue?
a. Constructing new stories goes hand in hand with deconstructing problem-saturated
narratives.
b. The narrative therapist analyzes and interprets the meaning of a client’s story.
c. The therapist works with clients collaboratively by helping them construct more
coherent and comprehensive stories that they live by.
d. The development of alternative stories is an enactment of ultimate hope.
Existential therapy is rarely used for group treatment.
a. True
b. False
The term “presence” refers to the counselor’s ability to be fully engaged in the
therapeutic relationship with the client.
a. True
b. False