748 final practice questions Flashcards

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Which is not true of the relationship between therapist and client in behavior therapy?

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The therapist is solely responsible for setting treatment goals.

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  1. According to psychoanalytic therapy, human beings are:
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B. determined by psychic energy and early experiences

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  1. Which of the following orientations avoids exploring problems, and instead, focuses on creating
    solutions in the present and the future?
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D. Postmodern approaches

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  1. In reality therapy, the counseling environment is:
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B. characterized by a therapeutic climate that establishes the foundation for implementing procedures.

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  1. The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses:
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C. thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing.

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  1. All of the following are true about social skills training except:
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D. it requires clients to engage in catharsis.

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  1. A tool for collecting and organizing key relationships in a three-generational extended family is a:
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genogram

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  1. The concept of resistance can best be described as all of the following except:
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D. it is not valuable from a theoretical and clinical perspective.

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  1. The basic aim of psychoanalytic therapy is to:
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D. make the unconscious motives conscious.

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  1. The general goals of behavior therapy are:
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D. to increase personal choice and to create new conditions for learning

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  1. __________ is at the core of feminist therapy and marked by authenticity, mutuality, and respect.
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B. The egalitarian relationship

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Which of the following is not true about how behavior therapists function in the therapeutic
setting?

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D. They serve as a model for the client and do not require behavioral change in the client.

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13
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  1. The role of the client in rational emotive behavior therapy is like that of a:
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C. student or learner

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  1. Feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodern social constructionism have all entered the family
    therapy field. These models are more collaborative, treating clients as:
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B. the experts in their own lives.

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  1. Which of the following approaches is based on the premise that there are multiple realities and
    multiple truths?
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B. Postmodern approaches

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  1. The postmodern view incorporates all of the following concepts except for the notion that:
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A. reality is objectively defined.

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  1. In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:
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B. the collaborative therapeutic relationship.

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  1. A person who unconsciously exhibits overly nice behavior to conceal hostile feelings is probably
    using which ego defense?
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B. Reaction formation

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  1. 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?
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C. Existential therapy ???

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20
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  1. All of the following are goals of feminist therapy except for:
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C. resolving intrapsychic conflicts from early childhood

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  1. 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:
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ask Donna to examine another side of the story she is presenting about herself and think of times when she was accepted by others.

22
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  1. The function of the reality therapist is to:
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A. assist clients in dealing with the present.

23
Q

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?

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A. As a sign of distress rather than psychopathology

24
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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:

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C. self-efficacy.

25
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  1. The main therapeutic goal of REBT is to:
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A. minimize clients’ emotional disturbances and self-defeating behaviors.

26
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  1. From the family systems perspective, symptoms are often viewed as:
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A. an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.

27
Q

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.

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B. strengths-based CBT

28
Q

Reality therapy is best described as:

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D. a short-term therapy that deals with conscious behavioral problems.

29
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  1. Behavior therapy is characterized by all of the following, except:
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C. the subjective diagnosis of the therapist.

30
Q

A person who manages his or her anxiety by distorting reality and failing to acknowledge painful
events is most likely using:

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denial

31
Q

The client’s quality world consists of all of the following except:

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insight

32
Q

What is the technique in family therapy that casts a new light on a problem and provides a
different interpretation for a problematic situation?

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Reframing

33
Q

The four-step model of strengths-based CBT to build resilience include all of the following,
except:

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discover

34
Q

__________ 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.

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Feminist counseling

35
Q
  1. A major characteristic of the classical psychoanalytic therapist is:
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a sense of being anonymous.

36
Q

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.

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D. positive interests and strengths

37
Q
  1. The main function of the rational emotive behavior therapist is to:
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C. reveal irrational disputes, and help clients change their thinking and philosophy of life.

38
Q

A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the following
questions?

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If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight, how would you
know it was solved, and what would be different?

39
Q

Feminist therapists, regardless of their philosophical orientation, believe all of the following
except that:

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human development and interaction are similar across races, cultures, and nations

40
Q

The role of the leader in solution-focused therapy groups is not:

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B. to provide clients with simple solutions to their problems.

41
Q

Which of the following approaches to therapy focuses on the unique style of life we create at an
early age?

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D. Adlerian therapy

42
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  1. Behavior therapy is associated with all but one of the following:
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C. a philosophical view of human behavior.

43
Q

The ego defense mechanism in which a person exhibits behavior that clearly shows signs of
reverting to less mature stages is ________?

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regression

44
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  1. The “fundamental rule” for the client in psychoanalysis is:
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participating in free association.

45
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  1. Behavior therapy assumes that:
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D. behavior is learned.

46
Q
  1. According to REBT, what is the core of most emotional disturbance?
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Blame

47
Q
  1. The systems perspective implies:
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C. individuals are best understood through the context of their role in their family.

48
Q
  1. Evidence suggesting the concept of the unconscious includes all of the following except :
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D. material derived from introspective techniques

49
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  1. Reality therapy is popular in all of the following areas, except:
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medical facilities

50
Q

A feature of REBT that distinguishes it from other cognitive-behavioral therapies is its:

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process to identify and dispute irrational beliefs that have been acquired and self-constructed and
are now maintained by self-indoctrination.