Chapter 14: Identify the Therapy Worksheet

Question 1

When she started relating to me in the way she related to her mother, it became clear that she perceived her mother as a rival for her father’s attention.

Answer 1

psychodynamic

Question 2

That child had a very serious behavior disorder. It wasn’t difficult to understand how he got that way after I had a few sessions with his parents and siblings.

Answer 2

family therapy

Question 3

She has the worst case of agoraphobia I’ve ever seen. A peer counselor is stopping by everyday to work with her. It took a week to get her out of the front door, and more than a week to get her off the porch. They’re working on walking out to the mailbox now. We’re making progress, but it is slow.

Answer 3

behavioral

Question 4

I had to refer a patient to another therapist last week. I just couldn’t seem to identify with the guy, and couldn’t accept the way he acted. Feeling as I did about him, I didn’t think I could help him.

Answer 4

humanistic

Question 5

I asked her to list the reasons why she thinks she is unable to get through a job interview. She gave me three typewritten pages enumerating more fears, apprehensions, self-criticisms, and negative self-evaluations than I would have believed possible for one person to have. Her thinking about herself has really gotten off track.

Answer 5

cognitive