Adlerian therapy emphasizes the individual’s:
a. development of a unique lifestyle.
b. quality world.
c. irrational, crooked thinking.
d. polarities.
According to Adlerians, inferiority feelings:
a. are pathological.
b. lead to depression.
c. keep us from achieving our life goals.
d. create motivation to achieve mastery.
This approach puts emphasis on the human quality of the therapeutic relationship.
a. True
b. False
In a reality therapy group, the leader:
a. is responsible for evaluating the clients’ behaviors.
b. performs an assessment to determine if the client is truly getting what he or she wants
in life.
c. withholds feedback when members are designing their plans.
d. may encounter resistance if they make poorly timed suggestions and plans for how
the members should best live.
Freedom implies that we are responsible for the lives of others around us.
a. True
b. False
Evidence-based practices:
a. are the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context
of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences.
b. are tailored to only focus on the relationship between the client and therapist without
addressing specific problems and symptoms.
c. tend to focus on therapist created techniques that do not have empirical evidence to
support their efficacy.
d. are generally not time limited.
is the theoretical basis for reality therapy.
a. WDEP theory
b. Choice theory
c. Behavior therapy
d. Cognitive behavioral therapy
All of the following are trueabout planningand commitmentin reality therapy, except:
a. clients make a commitment to carry out their plans.
b. commitment is not an all-or-nothing matter.
c. a great deal of time is spent on this step of reality therapy.
d. it is up to clients to determine how to take their plans from therapy into their
everyday world.
Which statement below is notaccurate with regard to the phenomenon of
countertransference?
a. Countertransference reactions are the weakest source of data for understanding the
world of the client since they are so biased.
b. Countertransference reactions are inevitable because all therapists have unresolved
conflicts and personal vulnerabilities that are activated through their professional work.
c. Most research on countertransference has dealt with its deleterious effects and how to
manage these reactions.
d. It is critical that therapists monitor their own feelings during therapy sessions and use
their responses as a source for increased self-awareness and understanding of their
clients.
Ideally, our self-care should mirror the care we provide for others.
a. True
b. False
WDEP stands for:
a. wants, decision, self-evaluation, perception.
b. wishes, direction, engagement, purpose.
c. wants, doing, self-evaluation, planning.
d. wants, direction, efficacy, planning.
_is based on the subjective descriptions that family members use to define themselves
and the interactions that occur in everyday life.
a. Problem solution
b. Family directive
c. Assessment
d. Reframing
Person-centered therapy groups emphasize the unique role of the group counselor as a
leader.
a. True
b. False
From a multicultural perspective, classical analysis may display all of the following
characteristics except:
a. discourage clients who do not hold upper-middle-class values.
b. be problematic for clients from cultures that prefer a directive approach.
c. underscore the role of important cultural and political factors in the client’s world.
d. ambiguity is not inherent in most psychoanalytic approaches.
Which of the following is not an issue that Stan struggles with?
a. Fear of being alone
b. Fear of intimate relationships with women
c. Substance use
d. Aggressive outbursts
An integrative perspective is not developed in a random fashion.
a. True
b. False
For Sartre, existential guilt is what we experience when we:
a. do not live by the Ten Commandments.
b. fail to think about the welfare of others.
c. allow others to define us or to make our choices for us.
d. reflect on all that we might have done and failed to do.
Roger and his wife are experiencing tension in their relationship because he believes
she is far too lenient with their children when they misbehave. This forces him to play
the role of “bad cop” as a parent, which makes him angry. A family therapist working
with Roger and his family might:
a. help to modify the family’s transactional rules and develop more appropriate
boundaries.
b. refer Roger to individual therapy since he clearly needs to work through his
unresolved issues that are causing him to feel so angry.
c. take Roger’s side and educate his wife about appropriate disciplinary practices.
d. focus on getting the children to stop misbehaving so that Roger and his wife won”t
experience this tension.
Which of the following is nota component of total behavior?
a. Wanting
b. Doing
c. Feeling
d. Thinking
Existential therapy is best considered as:
a. an approach to understand the subjective world of the client.
b. a school of therapy.
c. a system of techniques designed to create authentic humans.
d. a strategy for uncovering dysfunctional behavior.
A couple directs the focus of their energy toward a problematic son as a way to avoid
facing or dealing with their own conflicts. This is an example of:
a. enmeshment.
b. normal love.
c. displacement.
d. triangulation.
When reality therapists explore a client’s past, they tend to focus on:
a. relationships within the family.
b. early traumatic events.
c. problems in school performance.
d. past successes.
Which of the following approaches most emphasizes principles of learning?
a. Gestalt therapy
b. Behavior therapy
c. Narrative therapy
d. Family systems therapy
The core of the therapeutic relationship is respect.
a. True
b. False
After having a bad therapeutic experience with a mental health professional who
pathologized her anxiety over financial issues, Lillian decided to consult with a feminist
therapist. How is her new therapist likely to view her anxiety symptoms?
a. As a sign of distress rather than psychopathology
b. As an indication of deficits in her personality
c. As irrational beliefs
d. As a sign of unconscious conflicts that must be worked through
Stress inoculation training consists of all of the following except:
a. behavioral rehearsals.
b. self-monitoring.
c. cognitive restructuring.
d. tapping into the unconscious realm.
Which of the following statements does notreflect one of Ellis’s three basic musts?
a. “I must do well and be loved and approved by others.”
b. “Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well.”
c. “I must be kind to others or else I won”t be a good person.”
d. “The world and my living conditions must be comfortable, gratifying, and just,
providing me with all that I want in life.”
The statement “Only when I am perfect can I be secure” is an example of:
a. a guiding self-ideal.
b. something a personality disordered individual would say.
c. a realistic goal.
d. retroflection.
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. Reliving an early childhood event
Informed consent in counseling can be provided in all of the following forms except:
a. written.
b. orally.
c. through third party.
d. some combination of written and oral form.
Existential therapy can be especially helpful for:
a. individuals with phobic disorders.
b. children with behavior disorders.
c. patients in a mental hospital.
d. individuals facing a transition in life.
One of the main contributions of the Gestalt approach is its:
a. behavioral training models.
b. emphasis on learning to appreciate and fully experience the present moment.
c. attempt to remain focused on the past.
d. ability to allow the client to remain oblivious to his or her behavior.
When working with a client living a restricted existence, an existential therapist would
likely:
a. explore the developmental origins of these feelings.
b. develop a specific behavioral plan to help the client get “unstuck.”
c. encourage the client to do a shame-attacking exercise.
d. make the client aware of how his or her current ways of living are keeping him or her
stuck.
“Fictional finalism” is an Adlerian term meaning:
a. the unrealistic ideas that we have about the way life should be.
b. our strict adherence to certain beliefs that are not based on reality.
c. an imagined central goal that guides our behavior.
d. our stubborn resistance to change.
Feminist therapy was developed by several feminist therapists, all of whom shared the
same vision:
a. to improve medical treatment for women.
b. to improve mental health treatment for women.
c. to expand the life-span perspective.
d. to expand the relational-cultural theory.
_are integrated into each phase of treatment in strengths-based CBT beginning with the
intake interview.
a. Strengths
b. Weaknesses
c. Client beliefs
d. Client concerns