During an initial session, an adolescent girl tells you that she is pregnant and is
considering an abortion. Which of the following would be the most ethical and
professional course for you to follow?
a. Encourage her to get the abortion as soon as possible, without exploring any other
option.
b. Steer her toward having her baby and then consider adoption for her baby.
c. Suggest that she go to church and pray about her situation.
d. Help her to clarify the range of her choices in light of her own values.
The central theme running through the works of Viktor Frankl is:
a. that freedom is a myth.
b. the will to meaning.
c. selfdisclosure as the key to mental health.
d. the notion of selfactualization.
The postmodern view incorporates all of the following concepts except for the notion
that:
a. reality is objectively defined.
b. reality is based on the use of language.
c. reality is socially constructed.
d. each individual experiences their own unique reality.
_grow out of the interaction between client and therapist and emerge within this
dialogic process.
a. Exercises
b. Figureformations
c. Fantasies
d. Experiments
The function of the reality therapist is to:
a. assist clients in dealing with the present.
b. encourage clients to make a value judgment concerning the quality of their behavior.
c. confront clients about specific irrational thoughts and ideas and to teach them to think
rationally.
d. reindoctrinate clients with the acceptable standards for living.
Which of the following techniques is notused in Adlerian family counseling?
a. Immediacy
b. Paradoxical intention
c. Analyzing resistances between members of the family
d. The push-button technique
A factor that distinguishes the person-centered approach to group counseling from other
approaches is the:
a. therapist’s role as facilitator.
b. length of treatment.
c. focus on creating a collaborative spirit.
d. focus on building genuine relationships among members.
Methods of expressive arts therapy are based on humanistic principles. Which of the
following principles is not one?
a. Releasing creative energy is based on the principle of regression.
b. The creative process is transformative and healing.
c. The expressive arts lead us into the unconscious.
d. Our feelings and emotions are a source of energy.
Which of the following approaches to therapy focuses on eliminating maladaptive
behaviors?
a. Person-centered therapy
b. Gestalt therapy
c. Behavior therapy
d. Reality therapy
Characteristics of a self-actualized person include all of the following, except:
a. welcomes uncertainty in his or her life.
b. has a capacity for deep and intense interpersonal relationships.
c. has artificial dichotomies within himself or herself.
d. is spontaneous and creative.
Currently, there is wide-ranging international interest in the existential approach to
psychotherapy.
a. True
b. False
Feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodern social constructionism have all entered the
family therapy field. These models are more ollaborative, treating clients as:
a. passive participants in their journey.
b. the experts in their own lives.
c. needing an expert.
d. an individual without the ability to make decisions.
In working with Japanese clients, a reality therapist might do which of the following
when asking clients to make plans and commit to them?
a. The therapist might be likely to accept “I”ll try” as a firm commitment.
b. The therapist would push clients for an explicit pledge to follow through.
c. The therapist would view a noncommittal response as a sign of weakness.
d. The therapist would refer their clients if they refused to commit to a plan.
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
Which of the statements below regarding Motivational Interviewing is not accurate?
a. MI was initially designed as a brief intervention for problem drinking.
b. MI stresses client self-responsibility and promotes an invitational style for working
cooperatively with clients to generate alternative solutions to behavioral problems.
c. MI was developed by Maslow in the late 70s after he created his theory on
self-actualization.
d. MI therapists avoid arguing with clients and reframe resistance as a healthy response.
The relational-cultural theory recognizes:
a. that many women are searching for a connectedness with others as well as
possibilities for autonomy.
b. the emphasis of a spiritual or religious perspective in providing women with strength.
c. the understanding of how early childhood is a crucial factor in a woman’s personality
development.
d. that siblings play in the shaping of personality.
A_offers a unique approach to understanding the roles that women and men with
diverse social identities and experiences have been socialized to accept and to bringing
this understanding into the therapeutic process
a. gender-fair stance
b. flexible-multicultural theory
c. life-span orientation
d. feminist perspective
Which child tends to feel squeezed out and may develop a conviction that life is unfair
and a feeling of being cheated
a. Oldest child
b. Second child
c. Middle child
d. Youngest child
In reality therapy, the counseling environment is:
a. the time to explore past trauma.
b. characterized by a therapeutic climate that establishes the foundation for
implementing procedures.
c. highly structured with the aim of changing cognitions.
d. conducive to restructuring one’s personality.
Henry has the impulse to gamble excessively whenever he goes to Las Vegas. Aware of
this, he has decided to turn down a job offer in Las Vegas to avoid the temptation to
gamble. What part of Henry’s personality helped him to reach this decision?
a. The id
b. The ego
c. The superego
d. The unconscious
Which of the following is false as it applies to the practice of solution-focused brief
therapy?
a. Individuals who come to therapy have the capability of behaving effectively.
b. There are advantages to a positive focus on solutions and on the future.
c. Clients want to change, have the capacity to change, and are doing their best to make
change happen.
d. Using techniques in therapy is a way of discounting a client’s capacity to find his or
her own way.
The concept of unconditional positive regard implies that therapists develop an
accepting and approving attitude toward all actions taken by their clients.
a. True
b. False
An experiential approach is Gestalt therapy, which offers a range of experiments to help
clients gain awareness of what they are experiencing in the here and now.
a. True
b. False
A limitation of psychoanalytic therapy is that:
a. it requires a short period of training for therapists.
b. it is inexpensive for clients.
c. the model stresses biological and instinctual factors to the neglect of social, cultural,
and interpersonal ones.
d. many clients have the degree of ego strength needed for regressive and reconstructive
therapy.
Michael White and David Epston are the major figures associated with narrative
therapy.
a. True
b. False
The author makes a case for:
a. initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations and then learning a
particular approach by becoming steeped in that approach for some time.
b. delving deeply into one approach initially and then taking a superficial look at other
theoretical models.
c. learning the theories of counseling only after starting to work with clients in order to
make the theories more relevant.
d. the reader to choose the approach to which s/he subscribes.
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.
Philosophically, the existentialists would agree that:
a. the final decisions and choices rest with the therapist.
b. people do not redefine themselves by their choices.
c. a person cannot go beyond early conditioning.
d. making choices can create anxiety.
Behavior therapy has been criticized for a variety of reasons. Which of the following is
one listed in the book?
a. Behavior therapy has an overemphasis on feeling and the neglect of cognition.
b. Behavior therapy has an overemphasis upon insight.
c. Behavior therapy may change behaviors, but it does not change feelings.
d. Behavior therapy has a need for long-term treatment to effect change.
Free association and dream analysis are a typical part of the personcentered therapist’s
procedures.
a. True
b. False
The founder(s) of narrative therapy is (are):
a. Michael White and David Epston.
b. Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer.
c. Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck.
d. Donald Meichenbaum.