Narrative therapy can be applied to:
a. eating disorders.
b. depression.
c relationship concerns.
d. all of these.
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.
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.
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. selective abstraction.
e. personalization.
The therapy goals of promoting growth, self-esteem, and connection, and helping
family members achieve congruent communication and interaction are most associated
with which theory of family therapy?
a. Bowen’s multigenerational family therapy
b. Satir’s human validation process model
c. Whitaker’s experiential/symbolic family therapy
d. Minuchin’s structural family therapy
e. Haley’s strategic family therapy
This approach places emphasis on freedom and responsibility, anxiety, death,
confronting one’s ultimate aloneness, and searching for meaning in life.
a. Adlerian therapy
b. reality therapy
c. existential therapy
d. Gestalt therapy
e. cognitive behavior therapy
Which of the following is not one of Miriam Polster’s three stages in her integration
sequence?
a. reunification
b. discovery
c. assimilation
d. accommodation
Stan has completed his experience in counseling. Which of the following approaches
would be most concerned with evaluating the outcomes of therapy?
a. existential therapy
b. behavior therapy
c. Gestalt therapy
d. rational emotive behavior therapy
e. the postmodern therapies
In what theoretical orientation is the therapist’s job to confront clients with the restricted
life they have chosen and to help them become aware of their own part in creating this
condition?
a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. Adlerian therapy
c. existential therapy
d. person-centered therapy
e. reality therapy
Manufacturing “good” reasons to explain away a bruised ego, or to explain away
failures or losses, is known as:
a. rationalization.
b. projection.
c. displacement.
d. introjection.
e. reaction formation.
In Meichenbaum’s cognitive behavior modification, what is given primary importance?
a. using emotive techniques
b. collaborative empiricism
c. automatic thoughts
d. inner speech
e. a multimodal approach to changing one’s thinking and behaving
The social constructionist therapist working with Ruth:
a. sees herself in a non-expert position in relation to what is the correct path for Ruth in
her life.
b. views her expertise in the area of language and meaning.
c. proposes that reality is created in language between people.
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
From the family systems perspective, symptoms are often viewed as:
a. an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.
b. evidence of psychopathology.
c. a sign of weakness.
d. a result of cognitive distortions.
e. blocked energy.
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.
In the text, all of the following are listed as characteristics of the counselor as a
therapeutic person except:
a. counselors have a sense of humor.
b. counselors no longer have to cope with personal problems.
c. counselors feel alive and their choices are life-oriented.
d. counselors make mistakes and they are willing to admit them.
e. counselors appreciate the influence of culture.
____________________ views the counselor and therapist as an observer who is
outside of the system, can assess what is going on, and can promote changeall without
ever becoming part of the system.
a. First-order cybernetics
b. Second-order cybernetics
c. Third-order cybernetics
d. Fourth-order cybernetics
Which of the following procedures would a reality therapist be least likely to employ?
a. skillful questioning
b. encouraging clients to look at what they are doing
c. making action plans
d. engaging in homework to change behaviors
e. reliving an early childhood event
In REBT, what method is taught to clients to help them challenge irrational beliefs?
a. autogenic method
b. disputational method
c. self-management method
d. phenomenological method
e. multimodal method
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or
phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) lifestyle assessment, (b) genograms, (c) family-life chronology, (d) accommodating,
(e) joining
Who developed the object-relations view that focuses on separation and individuation?
a. Perls
b. Satir
c. Rogers
d. Mahler
e. Erikson
To prevent his parents from leaving the house, Miguel throws temper tantrums. His
parents have given in to his demands and never go out to dinner or to movies anymore.
A structural/strategic therapist working with Miguel and his parents will most likely:
a. have them participate in an enactment during the therapy session.
b. explain with a genogram the origins of Miguel’s temper tantrums.
c. help Miguel’s parents to develop differentiated selves.
d. do a lifestyle assessment.
Which of the following approaches consists of simple and clear concepts and
emphasizes the role of choice?
a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. reality therapy
c. narrative therapy
d. Gestalt therapy
e. family systems therapy
Which approach would focus on the degree to which Ruth has become differentiated
from her significant others?
a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. behavior therapy
c. Adlerian therapy
d. cognitive-behavior therapy
e. family systems therapy
Which of the statements below about Motivational Interviewing is accurate?
a. MI works by activating clients’ own motivation for change and adherence to
treatment.
b. Practitioners using Motivational Interviewing must develop the ability to confront
their clients regularly when they encounter resistance.
c. The therapeutic relationship is not regarded as important in achieving successful
outcomes.
d. Responsibility for change rests with the counselor.
e. None of the above.
Behavior therapists look to the current environmental events that maintain problem
behaviors and help clients produce behavior change by changing environmental events,
through a process called:
a. functional assessment.
b. motivational interviewing.
c. mindfulness-based stress reduction.
d. reorientation.
e. biofeedback.
Which of the following behavior therapists is credited with developing the social
cognitive learning model, doing much work on observational learning and modeling,
and writing about self-efficacy?
a. Bandura
b. Linehan
c. Wolpe
d. Jacobson
e. Skinner
Which approach would most pay attention to signs of unfinished business in Ruth’s life,
as evidenced by ways in which she reaches impasses in her therapy?
a. Gestalt therapy
b. behavior therapy
c. cognitive-behavior therapy
d. solution-focused brief therapy
e. narrative therapy
Clients have a right to be informed about:
a. their therapist’s qualifications.
b. the general goals of counseling.
c. the approximate length of the therapeutic process.
d. all of these
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.
According to Adlerians, inferiority feelings:
a. are pathological.
b. lead to depression.
c. keep us from achieving our life goals.
d. are directly related to our family constellation.
e. create motivation to achieve mastery.
Viktor Frankl’s approach to existential therapy is known as:
a. individual psychology.
b. logotherapy.
c. reality therapy.
d. redecision therapy.
e. humanistic psychology.
The author describes the characteristics of an effective counselor. By including this
information in the chapter, he is hoping to convey the message that:
a. if you do not possess all of these characteristics, you are doomed to fail in the helping
professions.
b. deficits in these qualities almost always require years of psychoanalysis.
c. you should develop your own concept of what personality traits you think are
essential to strive for to promote your own personal growth.
d. those who possess all of these qualities can bypass the requirement to participate in
clinical supervision.
In narrative therapy, the role of the client is to create, explore, and co-author his or her
evolving story.
Gestaltists typically ask why questions in the attempt to get clients to think about the
source of their problems.
The SAMIC3 plan is an essential part of the evaluation phase of the WDEP system.
Since Corey challenges the deterministic notion that humans are the product of their
early conditioning and, thus, are victims of their past, he believes that an exploration of
the past is rarely useful.
The American Counseling Association uses the term “nonprofessional relationships”
when referring to dual or multiple relationships.
The term “presence” refers to the counselor’s ability to be fully engaged in the
therapeutic relationship with the client.
Truly dedicated therapists carry the problems of their clients around with them during
leisure hours.
In solution-focused therapy, behavior change is viewed as the most effective approach
to assisting people in enhancing their lives.
There is no place for the role of thinking process and attitudes in contemporary
behavior therapy.
One of the contributions of Gestalt therapy is the vast empirical research that has been
done to validate the specific techniques used.
Feminist therapists do not tend to engage in self-disclosure because of their concern
over unduly influencing the client.
A behavior therapist makes use of the technique of open-ended questioning for the
purpose of
obtaining important information related to the client’s problem.
A main function of the reality therapist is to encourage clients to assess their behavior to
determine how well it is working for them.
Structural family therapy deals with boundaries.
Counselors from all cultural groups must examine their expectations, attitudes, biases,
and assumptions about the counseling process and about persons from diverse groups.