748 final practice questions Flashcards
Which is not true of the relationship between therapist and client in behavior therapy?
The therapist is solely responsible for setting treatment goals.
- According to psychoanalytic therapy, human beings are:
B. determined by psychic energy and early experiences
- Which of the following orientations avoids exploring problems, and instead, focuses on creating
solutions in the present and the future?
D. Postmodern approaches
- In reality therapy, the counseling environment is:
B. characterized by a therapeutic climate that establishes the foundation for implementing procedures.
- The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses:
C. thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing.
- All of the following are true about social skills training except:
D. it requires clients to engage in catharsis.
- A tool for collecting and organizing key relationships in a three-generational extended family is a:
genogram
- The concept of resistance can best be described as all of the following except:
D. it is not valuable from a theoretical and clinical perspective.
- The basic aim of psychoanalytic therapy is to:
D. make the unconscious motives conscious.
- The general goals of behavior therapy are:
D. to increase personal choice and to create new conditions for learning
- __________ is at the core of feminist therapy and marked by authenticity, mutuality, and respect.
B. The egalitarian relationship
Which of the following is not true about how behavior therapists function in the therapeutic
setting?
D. They serve as a model for the client and do not require behavioral change in the client.
- The role of the client in rational emotive behavior therapy is like that of a:
C. student or learner
- Feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodern social constructionism have all entered the family
therapy field. These models are more collaborative, treating clients as:
B. the experts in their own lives.
- Which of the following approaches is based on the premise that there are multiple realities and
multiple truths?
B. Postmodern approaches
- The postmodern view incorporates all of the following concepts except for the notion that:
A. reality is objectively defined.
- In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:
B. the collaborative therapeutic relationship.
- A person who unconsciously exhibits overly nice behavior to conceal hostile feelings is probably
using which ego defense?
B. Reaction formation
- 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?
C. Existential therapy ???
- All of the following are goals of feminist therapy except for:
C. resolving intrapsychic conflicts from early childhood
- Donna feels certain that no one will ever want to hire her because she has a timid personality. Her solution-oriented therapist would be most inclined to:
ask Donna to examine another side of the story she is presenting about herself and think of times when she was accepted by others.
- The function of the reality therapist is to:
A. assist clients in dealing with the present.
After having a bad therapeutic experience with a mental health professional who pathologized her
anxiety over financial issues, Lillian decided to consult with a feminist therapist. How is her new
therapist likely to view her anxiety symptoms?
A. As a sign of distress rather than psychopathology
Michael believes that he will be able to improve his public speaking skills after completing a
speech course at school. Based on social-cognitive theory, one might observe that Michael is not
lacking in:
C. self-efficacy.
- The main therapeutic goal of REBT is to:
A. minimize clients’ emotional disturbances and self-defeating behaviors.
- From the family systems perspective, symptoms are often viewed as:
A. an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.
The main idea of __________ is that active incorporation of client strengths encourages clients to
engage more fully in therapy and often provides avenues for change that otherwise would be
missed.
B. strengths-based CBT
Reality therapy is best described as:
D. a short-term therapy that deals with conscious behavioral problems.
- Behavior therapy is characterized by all of the following, except:
C. the subjective diagnosis of the therapist.
A person who manages his or her anxiety by distorting reality and failing to acknowledge painful
events is most likely using:
denial
The client’s quality world consists of all of the following except:
insight
What is the technique in family therapy that casts a new light on a problem and provides a
different interpretation for a problematic situation?
Reframing
The four-step model of strengths-based CBT to build resilience include all of the following,
except:
discover
__________ is built on the premise that it is essential to consider the social, cultural, and political
context that contributes to a person’s problems in order to understand that person.
Feminist counseling
- A major characteristic of the classical psychoanalytic therapist is:
a sense of being anonymous.
In strengths-based CBT, __________ identified in early therapy sessions can provide a wealth of
information to help therapist and client collaboratively integrate strengths into case
conceptualization and treatment.
D. positive interests and strengths
- The main function of the rational emotive behavior therapist is to:
C. reveal irrational disputes, and help clients change their thinking and philosophy of life.
A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the following
questions?
If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight, how would you
know it was solved, and what would be different?
Feminist therapists, regardless of their philosophical orientation, believe all of the following
except that:
human development and interaction are similar across races, cultures, and nations
The role of the leader in solution-focused therapy groups is not:
B. to provide clients with simple solutions to their problems.
Which of the following approaches to therapy focuses on the unique style of life we create at an
early age?
D. Adlerian therapy
- Behavior therapy is associated with all but one of the following:
C. a philosophical view of human behavior.
The ego defense mechanism in which a person exhibits behavior that clearly shows signs of
reverting to less mature stages is ________?
regression
- The “fundamental rule” for the client in psychoanalysis is:
participating in free association.
- Behavior therapy assumes that:
D. behavior is learned.
- According to REBT, what is the core of most emotional disturbance?
Blame
- The systems perspective implies:
C. individuals are best understood through the context of their role in their family.
- Evidence suggesting the concept of the unconscious includes all of the following except :
D. material derived from introspective techniques
- Reality therapy is popular in all of the following areas, except:
medical facilities
A feature of REBT that distinguishes it from other cognitive-behavioral therapies is its:
process to identify and dispute irrational beliefs that have been acquired and self-constructed and
are now maintained by self-indoctrination.
