The negative impact of discrimination and oppression for both men and women has
surfaced as a result of:
a. rational emotive behavior therapy.
b. person-centered therapy.
c. family systems therapy.
d. feminist therapy.
The opposite of a differentiated self is experienced as:
a. emotional reactivity.
b. the integration of one’s various parts.
c. movement toward self-actualization.
d. attunement with others.
Empathy is a deep and subjective understanding of the client with the client.
a. True
b. False
The person-centered approach is based on a set of specific therapeutic techniques
designed to promote behavior change.
a. True
b. False
In our quality world we develop an inner:
a. total behavior.
b. freedom.
c. picture album.
d. power.
According to Glasser, many of the problems of clients are caused by:
a. unfinished business with parents.
b. sibling rivalry.
c. early childhood trauma.
d. their inability to connect or to have a satisfying relationship with at least one of the
significant people in their lives.
You are working with an ethnic minority client who is silent during the initial phase of
counseling. This silence is probably best interpreted as:
a. resistance.
b. a manifestation of uncooperative behavior.
c. a response consistent with his or her cultural context.
d. a clear sign that counseling will not work.
Which of the following is nottrue about the Gestalt view of the role of confrontation in
therapy?
a. It is not possible to be both confrontational and gentle with clients.
b. It is important to confront clients with the ways they are avoiding being fully alive.
c. Confrontation does not have to be aimed at negative traits.
d. Confrontation should be a genuine expression of caring.
Who among the following is not considered a relational Gestalt therapist?
a. Fritz Perls
b. Laura Perls
c. Miriam Polster
d. Erving Polster
Techniques can counteract a client”therapist relationship that is lacking in certain
respects.
a. True
b. False
Glasser challenges the traditionally accepted views of mental illness and treatment by
the use of medication, especially:
a. the widespread use of psychiatric drugs that often results in negative side effects both
physically and psychologically.
b. the lack of use of psychiatric drugs.
c. the use of any psychiatric drugs whether or not they result in negative side effects.
d. because medications are never needed.
The therapist’s presence is:
a. a condition of therapeutic change.
b. a goal of therapeutic change.
c. both a condition and a goal of therapeutic change.
d. neither a condition nor a goal of therapeutic change.
The range of emotionally charged responses such as withdrawal, anger, love,
annoyance, powerlessness, avoidance, overidentification, control, and sadness of the
therapist are often associated with:
a. transference.
b. workingthrough.
c. interpretation.
d. countertransference.
A teenage girl is angry with her parents and cuts on her arm. In Gestalt terms, she is
most likely engaging in:
a. introjection.
b. projection.
c. retroflection.
d. confluence.
The general goals of behavior therapy are:
a. fostering self-actualization.
b. expanding self-understanding and insight.
c. assisting clients in making value judgments concerning their behavior.
d. to increase personal choice and to create new conditions for learning.
An assumption of personcentered therapy is that the counselor’s presence is far more
powerful than techniques he or she uses to facilitate change.
a. True
b. False
Therapists are encouraged to use positive regard for clients only as a means of shaping
their behavior.
a. True
b. False
The person-centered approach is not particularly well-suited to multi-cultural
counseling.
a. True
b. False
Feminist therapists, regardless of their philosophical orientation, believe all of the
following except that:
a. gender is at the core of therapeutic practice.
b. human development and interaction are similar across races, cultures, and nations.
c. understanding a client’s problems requires adopting a sociocultural perspective.
d. understanding the impact of the society and culture in which a client lives is
important.
Which of the following is nottrue about Gestalt techniques?
a. “Exercises” are readymade techniques.
b. “Experiments” grow out of the interaction between therapist and client.
c. Clients need to be prepared for their involvement in Gestalt techniques.
d. Experiments are always carried out during the therapy session, rather than outside it.
A limitation of reality therapy is that it:
a. consists of simple concepts that are easily grasped.
b. discounts the therapeutic value of dreams.
c. does not appeal to resistant clients.
d. has limited applicability.
There are three kinds of solution-focused therapeutic relationships. The client describes
a problem but is not able or willing to assume a role in constructing a solution,
believing that a solution is dependent on someone else’s actions describes which
relationship?
a. Customer
b. Complaint
c. Visitor
d. Shopper
Patrick has been confronted by family members and friends about his excessive
gambling. Despite their attempts to help him, he insists that they are overreacting and
that he has everything under control. He does not feel the need to alter his behaviors.
Patrick is at which stage of change?
a. Precontemplation
b. Contemplation
c. Preparation
d. Action
Structural family therapy includes all of the following goals except for bringing about
structural change by:
a. modifying the family’s transactional rules.
b. developing more appropriate boundaries.
c. reducing symptoms of dysfunction.
d. the therapist taking a not-knowing stance with a family.
In which of the following approaches does the therapist ask the client what they are
choosing to do?
a. Choice theory/reality therapy
b. Gestalt therapy
c. Family systems therapy
d. Psychoanalytic therapy
Which of the following is notone of Miriam Polster’s three stages in her integration
sequence?
a. Reunification
b. Discovery
c. Assimilation
d. Accommodation
Accurate empathic understanding helps clients in all the following areas, except:
a. to notice and devalue their experiences.
b. to view prior experiences in new ways.
c. to process their experience both cognitively and bodily.
d. to increase their confidence in making choices and in pursuing a course of action.
Existential therapists strive to be their authentic selves when working with clients.
a. True
b. False
Failure to move through anxiety results in neurotic anxiety.
a. True
b. False
Reality therapy rests on the central idea that:
a. thinking largely determines how we feel and behave.
b. we choose our behavior and are responsible for what we do, think, and feel.
c. environmental factors largely control what we are doing.
d. the way to change dysfunctional behavior is to reexperience a situation in which we
originally became psychologically stuck.
Behavior therapy is associated with all but one of the following:
a. empirically supported treatments.
b. functional analysis of behavior.
c. a philosophical view of human behavior.
d. a comprehensive assessment process.
The person-centered approach evolved from a nondirective therapy to an experiential
therapy.
a. True
b. False