If we hope to work therapeutically with an individual, it is critical to consider him or
her within the:
a. problematic system.
b. behavioral system.
c. individual system.
d. family system.
Those practicing brief therapy are in business to change clients, to give them quick
advice, and to solve their problems for them.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following is notone of the three phases of Meichenbaum’s stress
inoculation program?
a. The application and follow-through phase
b. The conceptual-educational phase
c. The skills acquisition and consolidation phase
d. The therapeutic role modeling phase
All of the following strategies are unique to feminist therapy except for:
a. cognitive restructuring.
b. encouraging clients to take social action.
c. emphasizing the role of the therapist as advocate as well as facilitator.
d. viewing women’s and other marginalized and oppressed group’s experiences from a
unique perspective.
What is a limitation of person-centered therapy?
a. The approach does not make use of research to study the process or outcomes of
therapy.
b. The therapist has more power to manipulate and control the client than is true of most
other therapies.
c. The approach does not emphasize the role of techniques in creating change in the
client’s behavior.
d. The client is not given enough responsibility to direct the course of his or her own
therapy.
If the therapeutic core conditions exist over some period of time, constructive
personality change will not occur.
a. True
b. False
_is a comprehensive, systematic, holistic approach to behavior therapy developed by
the late Arnold Lazarus.
a. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
b. Social skills training
c. Self-management
d. Multimodal therapy
The “fundamental rule” for the client in psychoanalysis is:
a. forming a contract with the therapist.
b. willingness to do “homework assignments.”
c. participating in free association.
d. writing down dreams.
One strength of cognitive behavioral therapy group counseling is that:
a. clients learn to minimize symptoms through a profound change in philosophy.
b. clients can remain relatively emotionally disengaged.
c. leaders take a non-directive stance.
d. leaders believe that insight is necessary for behavior change.
Which of the following interventions is notassociated with the third wave of behavior
therapy?
a. Dialectical behavior therapy
b. Relaxation training
c. Acceptance and commitment therapy
d. Mindfulness based cognitive therapy
The basic aim of psychoanalytic therapy is to:
a. treat specific learning disorders.
b. change overt behavior.
c. correct irrational thinking.
d. make the unconscious motives conscious.
Presenting one model to which all trainees subscribe is:
a. what the counseling profession endorses at present.
b. likely to be a reality by the year 2020 when the CACREP standards are revisited.
c. dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in working with a diverse range of
future clients.
d. illegal in the Northeastern region of the U.S., but not in other parts of the country.
All of the following are life tasks that Adler taught we must successfully master except:
a. building friendships.
b. establishing intimacy.
c. contributing to society.
d. achieving self-actualization.
Which of the following is not a factor that oftentimes limits our freedom of choice?
a. Social
b. Environmental
c. Cultural
d. Internal
According to the existential view, death makes life meaningless.
a. True
b. False
Which of the following approaches to therapy most attempts to provide a
growth-promoting climate that is conducive
to a client’s selfexploration?
a. Psychoanalytic therapy b. Gestalt therapy
c. Reality therapy
d. Person-centered therapy
Which statement(s) is (are) true of the person-centered approach?
a. Therapists should give advice when clients need it.
b. The techniques a therapist uses are less important than his or her attitudes.
c. Therapists should function largely as teachers.
d. Therapy is primarily the therapist’s responsibility.
Reality therapy is best described as:
a. an intensive and long-term therapy.
b. a rational therapy.
c. an insight therapy.
d. a short-term therapy that deals with conscious behavioral problems.
Individuals may believe that it is inappropriate to reveal:
a. family information.
b. personal information.
c. societal secrets.
d. cultural beliefs.
In structuralstrategic family therapy,_must occur in a family before an individual’s
symptoms can be reduced or eliminated.
a. solution-oriented changes
b. therapist directions
c. focus on the present
d. structural changes
Who developed the object-relations view that focuses on separation and individuation?
a. Perls
b. Satir
c. Rogers
d. Mahler
All are true of solution-focused brief therapists except that they:
a. have little interest in a client exploring past problems.
b. focus on the client’s early childhood experiences.
c. believe that the cause of a problem is not necessarily related to its solution.
d. expect that two clients may have different solutions to the same problem.
A primary goal of contemporary reality therapy is to:
a. help clients become more voluntarily acceptable.
b. supply the basic human needs.
c. help clients get connected or reconnected with the people they have chosen to put in
their quality world.
d. create goals.
An undisciplined mixture of approaches can be an excuse for failing to develop a sound
rationale for systematically adhering to certain concepts and to the techniques that are
extensions of them.
a. True
b. False
The type of cognitive error that involves thinking and interpreting in all-or-nothing
terms, or in categorizing experiences in either/or extremes, is known as:
a. magnification and exaggeration.
b. polarized thinking.
c. arbitrary inference.
d. overgeneralization.
Which anxiety reduction technique involves creating a hierarchy of the client’s fearful
experiences?
a. Assertive training
b. Operant conditioning
c. Systematic desensitization
d. Social reinforcement
The Freudian view of human nature is deterministic.
a. True
b. False
According to the text, the challenge of fulfilling the spirit of informed consent is to:
a. tell clients about the nature of confidentiality.
b. strike a balance between giving clients too much information and giving them too
little.
c. convince clients that counselors know what they are doing.
d. teach clients about state laws that pertain to counseling.
The client’s quality world consists of all of the following except:
a. specific activities that fulfill our needs.
b. images of people who enrich our lives.
c. beliefs.
d. insight.
Of the following, which is one of the major contributions that feminists have made to
the field of counseling and psychotherapy?
a. A focus on dealing with family dynamics
b. A focus on exploring the unconscious factors contributing to current problems
c. Paving the way for gender-sensitive practice
d. Placing the therapeutic relationship at the core of the therapy process
In person-centered group therapy, the leader:
a. displays a sense of trust in the members.
b. uses techniques and exercises to motivate the group.
c. focuses on making interpretations.
d. sets goals for the group members.
According to Gestalt theory, people use avoidance in order to:
a. help assist them in facing unfinished business.
b. keep from feeling uncomfortable emotions.
c. help them work to change.
d. help express feelings openly.