A central role of membersduring the transition stageis to recognize and deal with the
many forms of defensiveness. These tasks include the following EXCEPT
a. recognizing and expressing the range of feelings and thoughts.
b. moving from dependence to independence.
c. taking increased responsibility for what they are doing in the group.
d. not being willingto deal with reactions toward what is occurring in the group.
In this group, new members replace those who are leaving, providing new stimulation.
a. A heterogeneous group
b. A homogeneous group
c. An open group
d. A closed group
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the transition stage?
a. Anxiety
b. Recognizing and dealing with conflict
c. Extremely high degree of cohesion
d. Challenging the group leader
___________ of a group may involve a grieving process because other losses that
members have experienced are often triggered during this time.
a. Termination
b. Feedback
c. Empathy
d. Hope
Theory can be viewed as a set of general guidelines that provide direction and guidance
in all of the following EXCEPT
a. a unique, limited, and non-therapeutic manner.
b. examining your basic assumptions about human beings.
c. in determining your goals for the group.
d. in clarifying your role and functions as a leader.
The existential approach comes under the category of which movement?
a. The experiential and relationship-oriented therapies
b. The new wave
c. Insight therapies
d. Cognitive therapies
When the group therapist experiences feelings from the past that are reactivated by a
group member in the present, he or she is experiencing
a. sublimation.
b. psychosis.
c. countertransference.
d. transference.
Groups have particular advantages for __________.
a. individual counseling
b. medical counseling
c. school counseling
d. faith-based counseling
All of the following are possible goals for members of counseling groups EXCEPT
a. to help members learn how to establish non-meaningful relationships.
b. to increase awareness and self-knowledge; to develop a sense of one’s unique
identity.
c. to recognize the commonality of members’ needs and problems and to develop a
sense of connectedness.
d. to develop concern and compassion for the needs and feelings of others.
The existential group focuses on
a. here-and-now forces within the group.
b. unresolved conflicts that have been repressed in childhood.
c. techniques designed to assist members in reaching catharsis.
d. measuring the observable outcomes of a group.
Which of the following statements about the concept of tele is FALSE?
a. Tele refers to feelings of disdain for other psychodrama participants.
b. Tele is a therapeutic factor related to change that promotes healing through a
reciprocal empathic feeling.
c. For many people, tele operates at a preconscious or even unconscious level.
d. The level of positive tele in a group correlates with its cohesiveness.
According to REBT, change will come about
a. mainly by a commitment to consistently practice new behaviors that challenge old
and ineffective ones.
b. only when we discover the source of our problems.
c. generally after we relive a traumatic situation in therapy and work through the
impasse that prevents new growth.
d. by awareness itself.
What best describes the Adlerian view of the therapeutic relationship?
a. The therapist is considered the expert.
b. The therapist should always maintain objectivity as a way of fostering transference.
c. The therapist is seen as a behavioral engineer.
d. The therapeutic relationship is one between equals.
According to the existential viewpoint
a. meaning is automatically given to us by the fact that we are humans.
b. we must create our own meaning in life.
c. the group leader needs to point out what the meaning of one’s life should be.
d. there is no real meaning to life as the world is meaningless.
Which of the following is NOT a behavioral technique?
a. Contingency contracts
b. Analysis and interpretation of dreams
c. Modeling
d. Relaxation training
Opening up clear and direct communication among the participants andhelpingthem
assume increasing responsibility for the group’s direction is defined as
a. suggesting.
b. facilitating.
c. goal setting.
d. giving feedback.
If group members can prove that personal injury or psychological harm was caused by a
leader’s failure to render proper service, either through negligence or ignorance, the
leader is open to
a. transference.
b. countertransference.
c. a malpractice suit.
d. competence.
Appraising the ongoing group process and the individual and group dynamics is defined
as
a. blocking.
b. facilitating.
c. evaluating.
d. interpreting.
Which of the following is NOT one of the four essential aims of existential humanistic
therapy?
a. To help clients identify and dispute their faulty cognitions
b. To assist clients in identifying ways they block themselves from fuller presence
c. To challenge clients to assume responsibility for designing their present lives
d. To encourage clients to choose more expanded ways of being in their daily lives
All of the following are considered contributions and strengths of SFBT EXCEPT
a. the assumption that people are competent and can be trusted to use their resources in
creating solutions.
b. the fact that this is a brief approach.
c. its use of prescribed solutions to people’s problems.
d. the use of questioning.
Addressing diversity in group work is
a. a legal concept.
b. an ethical mandate.
c. a trend that is not expected to last.
d. a luxury, but not a necessity.
Which of the following is NOT a basic concept in psychodrama?
a. Dealing with the present
b. Encounter
c. Lifestyle
d. Spontaneity
Choice theory is built on the notion that human behavior is
a. purposeful and originates from within the individual rather than from external forces.
b. deterministic and is dictated by the human drives.
c. reinforced either positively or negatively.
d. chosen based on convenience.
According to reality therapy
a. insight is essential for change to occur.
b. people create their own disturbances by accepting irrational beliefs.
c. involvement is considered the core of therapy.
d. self-rating is necessary for mental health.
Which of the following is NOT generally a part of the working phase of a
cognitive-behavioral group?
a. Reinforcement
b. Behavioral rehearsal
c. Cognitive restructuring
d. Getting acquainted
Genuine__________ develops in a group when people have revealed enough of
themselves for others to identify with them.
a. intimacy
b. cognitive restructuring
c. catharsis
d. hope
Messages that come from the Parent ego state of the parents are known as
a. rackets.
b. injunctions.
c. counter-injunctions.
d. scripts.
SFBT is appropriate for group work in the schools for all of the following
reasons EXCEPT
a. the approach helps students develop positive goals.
b. it is a cookbook of techniques for removing students’ problems.
c. the model underscores the importance of small changes and co-constructed goals.
d. it is a time-effective intervention.
Which of the following goals would be most characteristic of a cognitive behavioral
group?
a. To eliminate or acquire a certain behavior
b. To integrate polarities within an individual
c. To help members acquire insight into causes of problems
d. To provide members with an awareness of the ego state they are functioning in
________ teaches people how to make themselves less disturbed.
a. Cognitive restructuring
b. Conditional self-acceptance
c. Shame-increasing exercises
d. Unappropriate humor
The key elements of a person-centered learning environment include the following
features EXCEPT
a. teachers place a great deal of emphasis on imparting information to students.
b. students develop responsibility, self-discipline, and the ability to work cooperatively.
c. teachers move in the direction of becoming more genuine, more understanding, and
more caring toward their students.
d. teachers, from elementary school classrooms to graduate schools, discover ingenious
ways to help students learn and make decisions.
Which of the following would a Gestalt group leader probably NOT do?
a. Not challenge members to experience blockages and barriers that could prevent full
awareness
b. Apply skillful frustration so that members are encouraged to give up ways of being
helpless
c. Suggest experiments to be carried out in a group
d. Be self-disclosing in the therapeutic relationship
Transactional analysis is best suited for
a. individual counseling.
b. group counseling.
c. work with regressed psychotics.
d. work only with highly functioning people.
Solution-focused group counselors adopt a __________ as a route to putting group
members into the position of being the experts about their own life.
a. cognitive position
b. not knowing position
c. knowing position
d. confrontational position