748 final practice questions

Question 1

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

Answer 1

The therapist is solely responsible for setting treatment goals.

Question 2

1. According to psychoanalytic therapy, human beings are:

Answer 2

B. determined by psychic energy and early experiences

Question 3

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

Answer 3

D. Postmodern approaches

Question 4

1. In reality therapy, the counseling environment is:

Answer 4

B. characterized by a therapeutic climate that establishes the foundation for implementing procedures.

Question 5

1. The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses:

Answer 5

C. thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing.

Question 6

1. All of the following are true about social skills training except:

Answer 6

D. it requires clients to engage in catharsis.

Question 7

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

Answer 7

genogram

Question 8

1. The concept of resistance can best be described as all of the following except:

Answer 8

D. it is not valuable from a theoretical and clinical perspective.

Question 9

1. The basic aim of psychoanalytic therapy is to:

Answer 9

D. make the unconscious motives conscious.

Question 10

1. The general goals of behavior therapy are:

Answer 10

D. to increase personal choice and to create new conditions for learning

Question 11

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

Answer 11

B. The egalitarian relationship

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

1. The role of the client in rational emotive behavior therapy is like that of a:

Answer 13

C. student or learner

Question 14

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

Answer 14

B. the experts in their own lives.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

B. Postmodern approaches

Question 16

1. The postmodern view incorporates all of the following concepts except for the notion that:

Answer 16

A. reality is objectively defined.

Question 17

1. In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:

Answer 17

B. the collaborative therapeutic relationship.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

B. Reaction formation

Question 19

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?

Answer 19

C. Existential therapy ???

Question 20

1. All of the following are goals of feminist therapy except for:

Answer 20

C. resolving intrapsychic conflicts from early childhood

Question 21

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:

Answer 21

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

Question 22

1. The function of the reality therapist is to:

Answer 22

A. assist clients in dealing with the present.

Question 23

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?

Answer 23

A. As a sign of distress rather than psychopathology

Question 24

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:

Answer 24

C. self-efficacy.

Question 25

1. The main therapeutic goal of REBT is to:

Answer 25

A. minimize clients’ emotional disturbances and self-defeating behaviors.

Question 26

1. From the family systems perspective, symptoms are often viewed as:

Answer 26

A. an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.

Question 27

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.

Answer 27

B. strengths-based CBT

Question 28

Reality therapy is best described as:

Answer 28

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

Question 29

1. Behavior therapy is characterized by all of the following, except:

Answer 29

C. the subjective diagnosis of the therapist.

Question 30

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

Answer 30

denial

Question 31

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

Answer 31

insight

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Reframing

Question 33

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

Answer 33

discover

Question 34

__________ 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.

Answer 34

Feminist counseling

Question 35

1. A major characteristic of the classical psychoanalytic therapist is:

Answer 35

a sense of being anonymous.

Question 36

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.

Answer 36

D. positive interests and strengths

Question 37

1. The main function of the rational emotive behavior therapist is to:

Answer 37

C. reveal irrational disputes, and help clients change their thinking and philosophy of life.

Question 38

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

Answer 38

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

Question 39

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

Answer 39

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

Question 40

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

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

D. Adlerian therapy

Question 42

1. Behavior therapy is associated with all but one of the following:

Answer 42

C. a philosophical view of human behavior.

Question 43

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

Answer 43

regression

Question 44

1. The “fundamental rule” for the client in psychoanalysis is:

Answer 44

participating in free association.

Question 45

1. Behavior therapy assumes that:

Answer 45

D. behavior is learned.

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Blame

Question 47

1. The systems perspective implies:

Answer 47

C. individuals are best understood through the context of their role in their family.

Question 48

1. Evidence suggesting the concept of the unconscious includes all of the following except :

Answer 48

 D. material derived from introspective techniques

Question 49

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

Answer 49

medical facilities

Question 50

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

Answer 50

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