Chapter 16—Determining Personal Style and Future Theoretical/Practical Integration
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Developing your own personal approach to interviewing and counseling involves a multiplicity of
factors. These include all of the following choices EXCEPT ____.
a.
reflect on your values, meanings, and skills
b.
determine your strengths and development needs
c.
determine your goals
d.
decide on which theory you will focus solely
2. It is urgent that you remain aware that your client ____ prefer the skills, strategies, and theories that
you favor.
a.
will always
b.
may not
c.
should
d.
must
3. This book presented ___ major concepts and skills and more than ___ specific methods, theories, and
strategies.
a.
26; 50
b.
34; 75
c.
39; 100
d.
43; 125
4. Learning by organizing information into patterns is called:
a.
chunking.
b.
compiling.
c.
classifying.
d.
patterning.
5. Chunking is best described as:
a.
grouping microskills concepts into meaningful groups.
b.
putting together two theories into a unified whole.
c.
finding your own way to integrate skill concepts.
d.
mixing and matching different skills to produce different theories.
6. You observe an expert therapist and list the skills and concepts he or she is using. Which level of
competence is being illustrated?
a.
Identification competence
b.
Basic competence
c.
Intentional competence
d.
Teaching competence
7. You are able to watch an expert therapist in a film and list the skills and concepts he or she is using.
You demonstrate ____ competence.
a.
identification and classification
b.
basic
c.
intentional
d.
teaching
8. You are able to use reflection of feeling and your client talks in more depth about emotions. You
demonstrate ____ competence.
a.
identification and classification
b.
basic
c.
intentional
d.
teaching
9. You engage in a role-played interview and use the skill. You demonstrate ____ competence.
a.
identification and classification competence
b.
basic competence
c.
intentional competence
d.
teaching competence
10. During role-play, you engage in an assertiveness interview. Which level of competence is being
illustrated?
a.
Identification competence
b.
Basic competence
c.
Intentional competence
d.
Teaching competence
11. Your clients consistently talk in more depth when you use reflection of feeling. Which level of
competence is being illustrated?
a.
Identification competence
b.
Basic competence
c.
Intentional competence
d.
Teaching competence
12. What is the anticipated result from determining your personal style and theory?
a.
You will commit to a lifelong process of continual learning and will examine, evaluate,
and build on your natural style.
b.
Your natural style is honed through evaluation and training and is fairly well established
upon beginning your practice.
c.
Your natural style is largely dependent on your aptitude, training, and practice. You may
adapt it periodically throughout your career as new theories and techniques become widely
accepted.
d.
None of these choices are the predicted result from determining your personal style and
theory.
13. Which one of the following would you NOT need to consider as you begin the journey of determining
your natural style?
a.
Your goals
b.
Your skills and strategies
c.
Your cultural intentionality
d.
Your graduate test scores
14. Developing a personal style of helping means:
a.
reaching the active mastery level with the microskills and five-stage structure.
b.
doing your own thing.
c.
examining alternative methods and theories and organizing them in a meaningful fashion,
useful to you and others.
d.
self-assessment and identifying what, in the helping field, is most meaningful to you.
15. There are two major factors to consider as you integrate the many available theories and identify your
own personal style. They are ________ and the ________.
a.
skill development; study of theory application
b.
personal aptitude; practice of the microskills
c.
personal authenticity; needs and styles of the client
d.
interviewer education; genuineness of the client
16. “What theoretical/practical story would you provide now that summarizes how you view the world of
interviewing and counseling?” This is a question you might ask yourself as you consider ________ to
determine your natural style.
a.
your goals
b.
your skills and strategies
c.
your cultural intentionality
d.
your theoretical/practical issues
17. The five-stage/dimension interviewing structure is best described as:
a.
a model for stress management therapy.
b.
a framework for integrating many different types of theories.
c.
a useful way to make decisions.
d.
all of the above.
18. Intentional competence is reflected in:
a.
your successful effort.
b.
your execution of the microskills.
c.
what your client does.
d.
how quickly you can bring resolution to the client’s issue.
TRUE/FALSE
1. As you expand your competence, maintain your authenticity as a person.
2. We do not learn information just in bits and pieces; we learn it best by organizing it into patterns.
ESSAY
1. Define your style with special attention to your own ability to engage in the several levels of
competence. How has your natural style become modified over time in this course? What specific
changes do you think you might need to be able to reach more clients with your natural style?
2. Microskills of multiple theoretical orientations have been presented in the final two chapters of this
book. What theoretical orientations would you next like to explore and why do you make that
decision? Include as a possibility expansion of your knowledge of one or more of the theories
presented in this text.
3. How do you define your theoretical orientation or building theoretical orientation to the interviewing,
counseling, and psychotherapy field?