Offering possible explanations for certain thoughts, feelings, and patterns of behavior is
defined as
a. interpreting.
b. evaluating.
c. giving feedback.
d. active listening.
The founder of reality therapy is
a. William Glasser.
b. Albert Bandura.
c. Alfred Adler.
d. Sidney Jourard.
Process assessment techniques include all of the following EXCEPT
a. exploration of the family constellation.
b. ego and unconsciousness.
c. uncovering basic mistakes.
d. exploration of one’s lifestyle.
_____ is the intentional setting aside of the counselor’s personal values in order to
provide ethical and appropriate counseling to all clients, especially those whose
worldviews, values, belief systems, and decisions differ significantly from those of the
counselor.
a. Ethical bracketing
b. Competence
c. Diversity
d. Culturally encapsulated counselor
Combining integrating counseling with psychoeducational interventions in group
counseling provides the opportunity to facilitate
a. life transitions.
b. vocational education.
c. self-awareness.
d. self-care.
According to solution-focused therapy in groups
a. insight is essential for change to occur.
b. members need to understand the cause of a problem in order to arrive at a solution.
c. change occurs mainly through the advice given by the group leader.
d. each individual is unique and so, too, is each solution.
Which of the following statements is true with regard to the issue of confidentiality
with minors?
a. Those who do groups with children are not required to explain to them what will be
kept confidential and what may need to be shared with school personnel.
b. Those who do groups with children need to explain what will be kept confidential
and what may need to be shared with school personnel.
c. School counselors can be completely candid in how they talk about children
attending their groups to teachers and administrators.
d. If children begin to talk about other members outside of the group, they will be
expelled from school.
Which of the following is NOT generally associated with the REBT group?
a. Self-rating
b. Information giving
c. Homework assignments
d. Analysis of rackets
The basic assumption underlying the person-centered approach is
a. members are prone to faulty thinking.
b. members need guidance from an expert to resolve their problems.
c. members need a structured learning experience to benefit from a group.
d. human beings tend to move toward wholeness and self-actualization.
Considerable overlapping of stages is common in all groups. This is especially true of
movement from
a. the pregroup interview to the initial stage.
b. the initial stage to the transition stage.
c. the transition stage to the working stage.
d. the working stage to the final stage.
Which is NOT a part of the stages of analytic groups?
a. Creating rapport through sharing of dreams
b. Interaction through interpersonal free association
c. Analysis of ego states
d. Analysis of resistance
A person-centered group counselor is best described as a
a. teacher.
b. friend.
c. judge.
d. facilitator.
Leaders use __________________to show group members how ridiculous some of
their irrational ideas actually are.
a. sarcasm
b. mockery
c. humor
d. embarrassment-inducing techniques
A primary concern during the final stages of the behavioral group is
a. promoting transfer of learning.
b. developing a therapeutic contract.
c. role-playing various situations.
d. establishing baseline data.
Leaders bring to every group all of the following EXCEPT
a. an unwillingness to change.
b. personal qualities.
c. values.
d. life experiences.
If there is a mismatch between process and stage
a. movement through the stage will generally not be impeded.
b. movement through the stage will occur at an accelerated pace.
c. movement through the stage will be impeded and is likely to be manifested in
reluctant behavior.
d. members will be angry and invariably file an ethics complaint.
All of the following are basic assumptions of REBT EXCEPT
a. thinking, feeling, and behaving continually interact with and influence one another.
b. when unfortunate events occur, we tend to create irrational beliefs about these events
characterized by absolutist and dogmatic thinking.
c. if we hope to change, we need to acknowledge that we arenot responsible for our
own disturbed thoughts, emotions, and actions.
d. if we hope to change, we need to look at how we are thinking, feeling, and behaving
when we needlessly disturb ourselves.
The basic goal of the existential group is
a. to adjust members to the demands of society.
b. to reduce self-awareness.
c. to help members accept the responsibility of choosing and to expand self-awareness.
d. to treat symptoms so that members can be free of existential anxiety.
Which of the following is NOT considered as a condition that fosters and nurtures
creativity?
a. Psychological safety
b. Psychological freedom
c. Structured exercises by the group leaders
d. Openness to experience
Recently, Wubbolding has stated that he believes behavior is a _______________ that
helps us get what we want from the world.
a. form of manipulation
b. language
c. conceptual framework
d. tool
In order to attain present-centered awareness, Gestalt therapy focuses on
a. whatever emerges in the member’smomentto moment awareness.
b. the deeper reasons for why one behaves in certain ways.
c. early childhood experiences.
d. early recollections and memories.
__________ focuses on understanding not only racial and ethnic minority groups
(African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and White ethnics)
but also people with physical disabilities; older people; gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender individuals; and a variety of special needs populations.
a. Brief group therapy
b. Multicultural counseling
c. Psychoeducational counseling
d. Task facilitation groups
_________ involves a deep capacity to recall, relive, and tap one’s feelings through the
intense experiences of others.
a. Hope
b. Trust
c. Empathy
d. Freedom to experiment
The CBT group leader helps members to form hypotheses and test their assumptions.
What is this called?
a. Assumptions-based learning
b. Collective empiricism
c. Collaborative empiricism
d. The CBT challenge
Based on an extensive meta-analysis of cohesion in group therapy, all of the following
are strategies effective leaders use to foster group cohesion EXCEPT
a. set group agendas and treatment expectations.
b. identify and discuss fears and concerns of members regarding self-disclosure.
c. discuss group rules with some members, but not all members.
d. discuss roles and responsibilities of both leaders and group members.
The part of the personality that consists of feelings, impulses, and spontaneous
reactions is the
a. parent.
b. adult.
c. child.
d. auxillary.
Which of the following is NOT a step in the process of the solution-focused group?
a. Setting well-formed goals
b. Engaging in shame-attacking exercises
c. Searching for exceptions to the problem
d. Encouraging motivation
Group counseling can be designed to meet the needs of specific populations. Which of
the following isNOT one?
a. Counseling groups for children
b. Counseling groups for unmanaged individuals with schizophrenia
c. Counseling groups for adolescents
d. Counseling groups for college students
_____ refers to unresolved personal problems, whichcan be projected onto the members
of a group.
a. Countertransference
b. Competence
c. Transference
d. Malpractice
In an existential group, the leader would tend to
a. challenge members to become aware of their choices.
b. draw upon highly dramatic group techniques.
c. aim for a catharsis for each group member.
d. urge members to get rid of guilt and anxiety.
The concept of freedom in the existential approach implies that group members
a. are free to be whatever they want to be.
b. are free without restrictions.
c. have freedom of options to determine their own destinies and have the freedom to act
or to be acted upon.
d. the greater our awareness, the less possibilities we have in life.
With regard to group members’ feelings of inferiority
a. it is best to avoid mentioning them since members would most likely leave the group
feeling discouraged if they became a topic of discussion.
b. it is useful to explore the basis of these feeling as well as members’ current strategies
for managing them.
c. they rarely serve as a motivating force.
d. they rarely serve as a motivating force and it is best to avoid mentioning them since
members would most likely leave the group feeling discouraged if they became a topic
of discussion.
The author believes
a. the term “cohesiveness” should be replaced with more cogent and specific
alternatives.
b. cohesion is a valuable concept and that it can be a unifying force for group members.
c. cohesion is an overrated concept that is rarely evident in groups.
d. it is nottoo amorphous to serve as an adequate organizing principle for theory and
research in group psychotherapy.