Chapter 15

Question 1

Practitioner lacking in knowledge and skill in selecting interventions, making little attempt to determine therapeutic procedures are effective.

Answer 1

Syncretism

Question 2

Aims at selecting the best treatment techniques for the person and the problem without necessarily subscribing to the theoretical positions that spawned them.​

Answer 2

Technical Integration

Question 3

Conceptual or theoretical creation beyond a mere blending of techniques and emphasizes integrating the underlying theories of therapy along with techniques from each.

Answer 3

Theoretical Integration

Question 4

When an approach is grounded in a particular school of psychotherapy, yet selectively incorporates practices from other therapeutic approaches.​

Answer 4

Assimilative Integration

Question 5

Among the approaches to psychotherapy integration, this has the strongest empirical support.

Answer 5

Common Factors Approach

Question 6

These are more important in accounting for therapeutic outcomes than the unique factors that differentiate one theory from another.

Answer 6

Common Factors

Question 7

Designed to evaluate and to improve the quality and effectiveness of counseling services.​

Answer 7

Feedback-Informed Treatment (FIT)

Question 8

Assesses the client’s therapeutic progress through ratings of a client’s personal experience of well-being in their individual, interpersonal, and social functioning.

Answer 8

Outcome Rating Scale

Question 9

Measures perception of quality of the therapeutic relationship, includes relational bond, perceived collaboration, agreement on goals, methods, and client preferences.

Answer 9

Session Rating Scale