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Counseling
Q:
Which method(s) is (are) often used in reality therapy?
a. behavior-oriented methods
b. the use of questioning
c. exploring a client's quality world
d. designing an action plan
e. all of these
Q:
When Rogers challenged the basic assumption that "the counselor knows best," he thought that this radical idea would affect the power dynamics and politics of the counseling profession, but to his surprise, it did not.
Q:
Directing energy toward another object or a person (when anxiety is reduced by focusing on a "safer target") is known as:
a. sublimation.
b. repression.
c. introjection.
d. displacement.
e. compensation.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) nondirective, (b) ambivalence about change, (c) intrinsic motivation, (d) MI spirit, (e) change talk.
Q:
Which of the following approaches places emphasis on challenging clients to recognize that they are responsible for events that they formerly thought were happening to them?
a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. existential therapy
c. behavior therapy
d. Adlerian therapy
e. solution-focused therapy
Q:
In reality therapy, the counseling environment is:
a. the time to explore past trauma.
b. characterized by a therapeutic climate that establishes the foundation for implementing procedures.
c. highly structured with the aim of changing cognitions.
d. conducive to restructuring one's personality.
Q:
Person-centered expressive arts therapy can be used in both group and individual contexts.
Q:
A person who manages their anxiety by distorting reality and failing to acknowledge painful events is most likely using:
a. introjection.
b. sublimation.
c. denial.
d. compensation.
e. undoing.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) polarized thinking, (b) labeling and mislabeling, (c) magnification and minimization, (d) selective abstraction, (e) externalization and deconstruction
Q:
One of the goals of rational emotive behavior therapy is to:
a. assist clients in acquiring a more tolerant and rational view of life.
b. make the unconscious conscious.
c. provide opportunities for reliving early traumas.
d. assist clients in gaining awareness of moment-to-moment experiencing.
e. help clients become aware of their family constellation.
Q:
Wubboding believes all of the following encourage the client's involvement in therapy except for:
a. appropriate use of humor.
b. warmth.
c. facilitative self-disclosure.
d. allowing the client to focus on symptoms.
Q:
The person-centered model has become stagnant and shows little sign of evolution.
Q:
The concept of resistance can best be described as:
a. everything that prevents a client from producing unconscious material.
b. that which needs to be analyzed and interpreted.
c. an inevitable part of psychoanalytic therapy.
d. an unwillingness to freely share with the analyst certain thoughts and feelings.
e. all of these
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) irrational ideas, (b) homework assignments, (c) shame-attacking exercises, (d) rational-emotive imagery, (e) dream interpretation
Q:
Which of the following approaches to therapy most attempts to provide a growth-promoting climate that is conducive to a client's self-exploration?
a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. Gestalt therapy
c. reality therapy
d. family therapy
e. person-centered therapy
Q:
The function of the reality therapist is:
a. to assist clients in dealing with the present.
b. to encourage clients to make a value judgment concerning the quality of their behavior.
c. to confront clients about specific irrational thoughts and ideas and to teach them to think
rationally.
d. to reindoctrinate clients with the acceptable standards for living.
Q:
The person-centered approach evolved from a nondirective therapy to an experiential therapy.
Q:
The technique whereby the analyst explains the meaning of certain behavior is known as:
a. transference.
b. rationalization.
c. countertransference.
d. interpretation.
e. free association.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) reexperiencing unfinished business in the here-and-now, (b) transference, (c) free association, (d) interpretation, (e) maintaining the analytic framework
Q:
Which approach offers encouragement so individuals can develop socially useful goals and increase social interest?
a. Adlerian therapy
b. behavior therapy
c. reality therapy
d. Gestalt therapy
e. solution-focused therapy
Q:
A reality therapist would most likely respond to a client's complaint of melancholy, sad mood by saying:
a. "Sounds like you"re depressed."
b. "Sounds like you have depression."
c. "Sounds like you"re depressing."
d. "Sounds like you"re depressive."
Q:
Students of the person-centered approach sometimes have difficulty letting clients truly find their own way and make decisions in an unassisted fashion.
Q:
A more flexible variant of psychoanalysis is:
a. psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy
b. psychoanalytically oriented reality therapy
c. superego-oriented psychotherapy
d. psychoanalytic behavior analysis
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) quality world, (b) WDEP, (c) choice theory, (d) self-evaluation, (e) transference
Q:
Which is not a key concept of feminist therapy?
a. the personal is political
b. the counseling relationship is egalitarian
c. commitment to confronting oppression
d. women's problems are viewed from an intrapsychic perspective
e. the personal and social and interrelated
Q:
Which of the following is not a component of total behavior?
a. wanting
b. acting
c. feeling
d. thinking
e. physiology
Q:
Accurate empathic understanding implies an objective understanding of a client.
Q:
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.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) solution-focused therapy, (b) dialectical behavior therapy, (c) exception questions, (d) miracle question, (e) formula first session task
Q:
Which of the following approaches most emphasizes principles of learning?
a. Gestalt therapy
b. behavior therapy
c. narrative therapy
d. family systems therapy
e. solution-focused brief therapy
Q:
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.
Q:
Therapists who demonstrate little acceptance of their clients can anticipate that their therapeutic attempts will falter.
Q:
A major characteristic of the classical psychoanalytic therapist is:
a. openness and self-disclosure.
b. a deeply personal and sharing relationship.
c. a sense of being anonymous.
d. a focus on specific behavior and an objective appraisal of learned patterns of behavior.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) totalizing descriptions, (b) paradoxical directive, (c) problem-saturated story, (d) dominant story, (e) building an audience
Q:
Person-centered therapy puts faith in the client's:
a. ability to uncover repressed experiences.
b. ability to integrate their polarities.
c. capacity for recognizing how birth order affects their choices.
d. capacity for self-direction.
e. ability to change their belief system.
Q:
The client's quality world consists of all of the following except:
a. activities that fulfill our needs.
b. images of people who enrich our lives.
c. beliefs.
d. insight.
Q:
The concept of unconditional positive regard implies that therapists develop an accepting and
approving attitude toward all actions taken by their clients.
Q:
The basic aim of psychoanalytic therapy is:
a. to treat specific learning disorders.
b. to change overt behavior.
c. to correct irrational thinking.
d. to make the unconscious material conscious.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) unconditional positive regard, (b) empathic understanding, (c) congruence, (d) active listening, (e) gender role interventions
Q:
Which of the following therapies emphasizes that a person's belief system is the cause of emotional problems?
a. solution-focused brief therapy
b. existential therapy
c. Gestalt therapy
d. acceptance and commitment therapy
e. rational emotive behavior therapy
Q:
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 stresses doing.
e. an experiential therapy stressing feelings and attitudes.
Q:
Therapists are encouraged to use positive regard for clients only as a means of shaping their behavior.
Q:
Feelings of hostility, destructiveness, anger, rage, and hatred are associated with the:
a. oral stage.
b. anal stage.
c. phallic stage.
d. genital stage.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) dream analysis, (b) free association, (c) early recollections, (d) interpretation of transference, (e) analysis of resistance
Q:
A key concept of Gestalt therapy is:
a. externalizing conversations.
b. unfinished business.
c. belief systems.
d. family of origin issues.
e. importance of the past.
Q:
Reality therapy has gained popularity with:
a. school counselors and administrators.
b. school teachers, both elementary and secondary.
c. rehabilitation workers.
d. all of the above
Q:
Congruence is a basic characteristic of effective therapists.
Q:
Resolution of sexual conflicts and sex-role identity is a critical function of the:
a. oral stage.
b. anal stage.
c. phallic stage.
d. genital stage.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) systematic desensitization, (b) cognitive restructuring, (c) acceptance and commitment therapy, (e) assertion training, (e) empty chair technique.
Q:
Which of the following approaches would contend that normal personality development depends on the successful resolution of specific stages of development?
a. narrative therapy
b. family systems therapy
c. psychoanalytic therapy
d. solution-focused therapy
Q:
Reality therapy is best categorized as:
a. a brand of psychoanalytic therapy.
b. a form of nondirective therapy.
c. a derivative of Gestalt therapy.
d. a derivative of Adlerian therapy.
e. a form of cognitive behavior therapy.
Q:
Carl Rogers is often called the "father of psychotherapy research."
Q:
Attributing to others the qualities or traits that are unacceptable to our own ego is best described as:
a. displacement.
b. introjection.
c. reaction formation.
d. projection.
e. none of these.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) Arnold Lazarus, (b) Murray Bowen, (c) Virginia Satir, (d) Carl Whitaker, (e) Salvador Minuchin
Q:
Adlerian therapy emphasizes the individual's:
a. positive capacities to live in society cooperatively.
b. quality world.
c. irrational, crooked thinking.
d. polarities.
Q:
Sandra is a reality therapist who is meeting her client Paul, who struggles with career indecision, for the first time. How might she begin her work with Paul?
a. by diagnosing his problem using the DSM
b. by asking Paul what he wants from therapy
c. by asking about his earliest recollections
d. by asking him to take a career inventory
Q:
Free association and dream analysis are a typical part of the person-centered therapist's procedures.
Q:
The ego defense mechanism in which a person exhibits behavior that clearly shows signs of reverting to less mature stages is ________?
a. fixation
b. rationalization
c. regression
d. introjection
e. reaction formation
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) externalization and deconstruction, (b) figure-formation process, (c) narrative conversations, (d) reauthoring one's life, (e) collaborative partnership
Q:
Which statement most closely reflects the philosophy of feminist therapy?
a. Feminist therapy depicts an accurate assessment of the psychosexual stages of development.
b. Androcentricism, gendercentricism, and ethnocentricism are important bias-free concepts of feminist therapy.
c. Constructs of feminist therapy include being gender-fair, flexible, interactionist, and life-span oriented.
d. Feminist therapy encourages the use of the DSM to assess psychopathology.
Q:
In CBT, clients and counselor jointly set the agenda for the therapy session.
Q:
According to Carl Rogers, personality change occurs only when clients develop insight into the origin of their personality problems.
Q:
One of the most important Freudian concepts, which consists of pushing unacceptable life events and painful feelings into the unconscious, is:
a. repression.
b. regression.
c. displacement.
d. rationalization.
e. projection.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) exception questions, (b) the dialogue experiment, (c) staying with the feeling, (d) reversal technique,(e) present-centered dream work
Q:
Which of the following orientations avoids exploring problems, and instead, focuses on creating solutions in the present and the future?
a. Freud's psychoanalytic approach
b. family therapy
c. person-centered therapy
d. solution-focused therapy
e. Gestalt therapy
Q:
According to Beck, selective abstraction is used by clients to reinforce negative schemas and support their maladaptive core beliefs.
Q:
The person-centered approach is based on a set of specific therapeutic techniques designed to
promote behavior change.
Q:
A person who unconsciously exhibits overly nice behavior to conceal hostile feelings is probably using which ego defense?
a. displacement
b. reaction formation
c. introjection
d. projection
e. regression
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) holism, (b) field theory, (c) figure-formation process, (d) social constructionism, (e) organismic self-regulation
Q:
Which of the following approaches is based on the premise that there are multiple realities and multiple truths?a. behavior therapyb. postmodern approachesc. rational emotive behavior therapyd. Gestalt therapye. reality therapy
Q:
In family therapy contexts, cognitive behavior therapists are particularly interested in family schemata.
Q:
Carl Rogers's approach is based on the assumptions that humans are trustworthy and that clients desire to grow.
Q:
Evidence suggesting the concept of the unconscious includes:
a. dreams.
b. post-hypnotic suggestions.
c. free-association.
d. all of these.
e. direct observation based on experimental research.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) reflection, (b) creative arts, (c) active listening, (d) empathic understanding, (e) miracle question
Q:
Which of the following approaches to therapy focuses on the unique style of life we create at an early age?
a. family systems therapy
b. reality therapy
c. rational emotive behavior therapy
d. psychoanalytic therapy
e. Adlerian therapy
Q:
To varying degrees, most CBT interventions are integrated models of psychotherapy.
Q:
Carl Rogers's original emphasis was on reflection of feelings expressed by the client.
Q:
The American Counseling Association uses the term "nonprofessional relationships" when referring to dual or multiple relationships.
Q:
One item in the series of five does not fit with the other four items. Identify the word or phrase that does not fit with the rest of the series.
(a) A-B-C theory, (b) irrational beliefs, (c) not-knowing position, (d) cognitive restructuring, (e) self-defeating thought patterns
Q:
Which of the following approaches contends that the nature of the human condition includes self-awareness, freedom of choice, responsibility, and anxiety as basic elements?
a. Gestalt therapy
b. person-centered therapy
c. existential therapy
d. Adlerian therapy
e. reality therapy