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