The counselor engages in only when it is judged to be therapeutically helpful to the
client.
a. empathic connection
b. conversation
c. listening
d. selfdisclosure
The person-centered model has become stagnant and shows little sign of evolution.
a. True
b. False
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
Which of the following aspects of a client’s use of language would a Gestalt therapist
notfocus on?
a. “It” talk
b. “You” talk
c. Questions
d. Semantics
_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
Which of the following individuals is notassociated with family therapy?
a. Alfred Adler
b. Rudolf Dreikurs
c. Fritz Perls
d. Salvador Minuchin
Strengths-based CBT therapists:
a. help clients with unresolved issues of the past.
b. attempt to reveal inadequate ego-defense mechanisms.
c. are collaborative, active, here-and-now focused, and client-centered.
d. are behaviorists and less active than most cognitive therapists.
All of the following are key characteristics of contemporary reality therapy except for:
a. there is a focus on talking about symptoms that bring a client into therapy.
b. emphasis is on choice and responsibility.
c. there is a rejection of the notion of transference.
d. keep the therapy in the present.
Multimodal therapy is a therapeutic approach that is grounded on:
a. cognitive behavior therapy.
b. social cognitive learning theory.
c. applied behavior analysis.
d. operant conditioning.
Narrative conversations do not follow the linear progression described here; it is better
to think of these steps in terms of progression.
a. lateral
b. cyclical
c. parallel
d. perpendicular
The primary aim of time limited dynamic psychotherapy is to:
a. explore sources of childhood trauma.
b. deal exclusively with a single presenting problem.
c. change the client’s repetitive patterns of relating to others.
d. bring about catharsis.
Prerequisites for good contact involves all of the following except:
a. zest.
b. creativity.
c. imagination.
d. projection.
According to Rogerian therapy, an “internal source of evaluation” is defined as:
a. internalizing the validation one receives from others.
b. looking more to oneself for the answers to the problems of existence.
c. going on one’s instincts when judging the behavior of others.
d. a neurotic tendency to be self-critical.
The feminist approach to group counseling involves all of the following except:
a. support for the experience of being a woman.
b. political involvement.
c. providing members a place to reflect on their role in society.
d. an opportunity to experience and analyze multiple transferences.
The process of redirecting sexual energy into some form of socially acceptable behavior
is known as:
a. displacement.
b. denial.
c. compensation.
d. sublimation.
Clients have a right to know about before making highly personal disclosures.
a. their therapist’s qualifications and personal information
b. the general goals of the therapist during personal counseling
c. the approximate length and details of the therapist’s personal relationships
d. limits of confidentiality
Which of the following is not considered a necessary and sufficient condition for
change in the person-centered framework?
a. Unconditional positive regard
b. Creative expression
c. Accurate empathetic understanding
d. Congruence
Techniques are more important to models that see the therapist-as-expert and in charge
of makingchangehappen.
Collaborative approaches require:
a. planning.
b. individual techniques.
c. individual interventions.
d. isolation.
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.
If we are inauthentic, it is unlikely that our clients will detect it.
a. True
b. False
In which of the following approaches to therapy does the therapist become active and
directive, functioning as a teacher or mentor for the client?
a. Existential therapy
b. Person-centered therapy
c. Behavior therapy
d. Gestalt therapy
A person who is suffering from feelings of alienation and isolation has probably failed
to achieve a sense of during the stage of development.
a. identity; adolescence
b. trust; infancy
c. generativity; middle age
d. intimacy; young adulthood
Which of the following was not part of Stan’s work in existential therapy?
a. Challenging his feelings of loneliness
b. Working on his inauthentic relationship with his siblings
c. Confronting his responsibility for his drug and alcohol use
d. Exploring Stan’s human potential
Which of the following approaches to integration refers to a conceptual creation beyond
a mere blending of techniques?
a. Technical eclecticism
b. Common factors approach
c. Theoretical integration
d. Assimilative integration
Carlos, an eight year old boy, was recently removed from his home because he was
being physically and sexually abused by his father. In accordance with Maslow’s
framework, which needs took precedence?
a. Physical and safety needs
b. Belonging and love
c. Esteem from self and others
d. Selfactualization
Reality therapy is popular in all of the following areas, except:
a. schools.
b. medical facilities.
c. state mental health hospitals.
d. halfway houses.
When Rogers challenged the basic assumption that “the counselor knows best,” he
thought that this radical ideawould affect the power dynamics and politics of the
counseling profession, but to his surprise, it did not.
a. True
b. False
A Gestalt technique that is most useful when a person attempts to deny an aspect of his
or her personality (such as tenderness) is:
a. making the rounds.
b. the reversal exercise.
c. the rehearsal exercise.
d. the empty chair technique.
All of the following are theoretical assumptions of Beck’s CT, except:
a. people’s thought processes are accessible to introspection.
b. people’s beliefs have highly personal meanings.
c. people must re-experience the past and process their feelings before change can
happen.
d. people can discover these meanings themselves rather than being taught or having
them interpreted by the therapist.
It is within the scope of SFBT practice to allow for some discussion of_to validate
clients’ experience.
a. presenting problems
b. behavioral issues in the past
c. therapist personal issues
d. past issues
A therapist should consult with colleagues or specialists under all circumstances except:
a. when multiple relationships are potentially problematic.
b. when facing an ethical problem.
c. when losing objectivity.
d. when discussing past life choices.
_was the first to recognize that male development was presented as the norm and that
development of women, though different, was judged by male norms.
a. Gilligan
b. Miller
c. Evans
d. Brown
An Adlerian therapist asks for the client’s earliest recollections in order to:
a. provide a point of departure for the therapeutic venture.
b. reveal their past and reintroduce the client to the pain and heartbreak of their basic
mistakes.
c. give clues as to the best way to steer the client to develop in a more positive way.
d. gain a better understanding of what memories to not process during therapy.
The ethics codes do not mandate that dual or multiple relationships:
a. should be avoided or that nonsexual multiple relationships are unethical.
b. are clearly grounds for revocation of one’s professional license.
c. are helpful in case of counseling one’s friends or relatives.
d. are impossible to avoid.
The core of choice theory/reality therapy consists of:
a. teaching clients how to acquire rational beliefs instead of irrational beliefs.
b. helping clients to understand their unconscious dynamics.
c. giving clients opportunities to express unresolved feelings.
d. the client’s selfevaluation, plan of action, and commitment to follow through.