Existential therapy is especially appropriate for clients who are struggling with
developmental crises.
a. True
b. False
_is a philosophical orientation that lends itself to an integration of feminist,
multicultural, and social justice concepts with a variety of psychotherapy approaches.
a. Gender perspective
b. Feminist psychotherapy
c. Social justice
d. Political context
Existential therapy can best be considered as a system of highly developed techniques
designed to foster authenticity.
a. True
b. False
Therapists begin to form a relationship with clients from the moment of:
a. first contact.
b. complete trust.
c. family introductions.
d. engaging in deep conversation.
Narrative therapists pay attention to ‘sparkling moments.” These are:
a. moments when the client feels exhilarated.
b. identifying instances when the problem did not completely dominate the client’s life.
c. times when significant others give the client unconditional love.
d. events characterized by a striving to overcome barriers.
The systems perspective implies:
a. individuals are autonomous and independent of their families.
b. the external environment is the most powerful influence on an individual’s
development.
c. individuals are best understood through the context of their role in their family.
d. systematic intervention is required to deconstruct an unhealthy family interaction
pattern.
The existential approach can be used in a brief therapy context.
a. True
b. False
The person-centered approach places emphasis on the necessary and sufficient
conditions for change.
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
Which of the following orientations avoids exploring problems, and instead, focuses on
creating solutions in the present and the future?
a. Freud’s psychoanalytic approach
b. Family therapy
c. Person-centered therapy
d. Postmodern approaches
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.
The young adult who adopts his parent’s outdated political beliefs to avoid unpleasant
feelings of anxiety is an
example of:
a. displacement.
b. reaction formation.
c. sublimation.
d. introjection.
Which child is most likely to demand center stage, tends to have difficulties in life
when he or she is no longer the center of attention, and is likely to become dependently
tied to the mother?
a. Oldest child
b. Second child
c. Middle child
d. Only child
A distinctly human characteristic is the struggle for a sense of peace.
a. True
b. False
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
A related goal of feminist therapy is to help:
a. individual remain separate and focus of their own strengths.
b. communities understand the importance of remaining focused on the individual.
c. individuals come together to strengthen collective power.
d. communities come together for celebrations.
emphasizes the subjective and spiritual dimensions of human existence.
a. Existential analysis
b. Existential anxiety
c. Self-awareness
d. Existential guilt
Both family therapy and feminist therapy are based on the premise that to understand
the individual it is essential to take into consideration the interpersonal dimensions and
the sociocultural context rather than focusing primarily on the intrapsychic domain.
a. True
b. False
In cognitive therapy, techniques are designed to:
a. assist clients in substituting rational beliefs for irrational beliefs.
b. help clients experience their feelings more intensely.
c. assist individuals to dispel self-defeating cognitions and to teach people how to
acquire a rational approach to living.
d. enable clients to deal with their existential loneliness.
Mindfulness is:
a. the awareness that emerges through having attention on purpose, in the present
moment, and nonjudgmentally, to the unfolding or experience moment by moment.
b. the assessment process in multimodal therapy.
c. under the idea that change can be brought about by teaching people to use coping
skills in problematic situations.
d. not beneficial for clients with behavioral problems.
The process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying
them inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings is known as:
a. labeling and mislabeling.
b. overgeneralization.
c. arbitrary inferences.
d. selective abstraction.
_teaches that all behavior is made up of four inseparable but distinct components ”
acting, thinking,
feeling, and physiology.
a. Total behavior
b. Quality world
c. Picture album
d. Birth and death
The practice of reality therapy can best be conceptualized as the:
a. history of therapy.
b. past processing theory.
c. roadmap to theory.
d. cycle of counseling.
Therapists utilizing motivational interviewing strategies view clients as:
a. opponents to be defeated.
b. allies who play a major role in their present and future success.
c. victims of their own psychopathology who need to be liberated from their pain and
dysfunction.
d. people who are lazy and need a powerful incentive to change their ways.
A person who manages his or her anxiety by distorting reality and failing to
acknowledge painful events is most likely using:
a. introjection.
b. sublimation.
c. denial.
d. compensation.
Maslow postulated a hierarchy of needs as a source of motivation, with the most basic
needs being physiological needs.
a. True
b. False
In helping clients to examine their mistaken goals and faulty assumptions, an Adlerian
therapist does notuse:
a. encouragement.
b. challenge and confrontation.
c. open-ended interpretations.
d. interpretation of the transference relationship.
The skill of immediacy involves revealing what we are thinking or feeling in the here
and now with the client.
a. True
b. False
The first step in making an ethical decision is to:
a. look at the relevant ethics codes.
b. identify the problem.
c. consider the applicable laws and regulations.
d. seek consultation.
During the reorientation and reeducation phase the most important intervention is:
a. change.
b. encouragement.
c. making a difference.
d. the pushbutton technique.
Carl Rogers is often called the “father of psychotherapy research.”
a. True
b. False
Which of the following REBT techniques helps a client become increasingly proficient
at minimizing irrational thinking and disturbances in feeling and behaving?
a. Biofeedback
b. Homework
c. Dream analysis
d. Skill training
The person-centered therapist generally does not find traditional assessment and
diagnosis:
a. as a useful tool for case conceptualization.
b. as a meaningful way of understanding of a client’s psychological state.
c. to be useful because these procedures encourage an external and expert perspective
on the client.
d. as a necessary process that does not impact the course of therapy.
Using_, the therapist responds to the client’s concern by placing it in the context of
society’s role expectations for women. The aim is to provide the client with insight into
the ways social issues are affecting her.
a. Gender-role intervention
b. Power analysis
c. Assertiveness training
d. Bibliotherapy
__is a legal concept that protects clients from having their confidential communications
revealed in court without their permission.
a. Informed consent
b. Privacy
c. Confidentiality
d. Privileged communication