Chapter 6 Flashcards
All of the following are core concepts for humanistic therapists, EXCEPT
A. personal responsibility
B. individual freedom
C. meaning and purpose
D. dealing with the evil that lurks in the human soul
D.
The basic assumptions of humanistic approaches include all EXCEPT A. the primacy of experience B. a growth orientation C. determinism D. free choice
C.
The humanistic approach is primarily A. deterministic B. optimistic C. intellectually constructed D. spiritual
B.
Existentialism has its roots in all of the following EXCEPT A. philosophy B. literature C. personal experience D. emirical research
D.
Which 20th century therapist developed his existential therapy while living in a concentration camp? A. Fritz Perls B. Victor Frankl C. Albert Ellis D. Aaron Beck
B.
An existential approach would be concerned with which issues?
A. freedom, behavior, cognition
B. meaning, causes, effects
C. freedom, death, meaning
D. self-awareness, self-destruction, self-esteem
C.
Existential theory looks at freedom as
A. too restrictive
B. the logical consequence of being alive
C. terrifying since people are often afraid of responsibility
D. the counterpart to personal prison
C.
The existential therapy process described by Alvin Mahrer includes all of the following components EXCEPT
A. being in the moment
B. integrating the felt experience into primary relationships
C. making connections with the past
D. disputing one’s negative and restrictive views of self
D.
Existential therapy is loaded with
A. lots of techniques that can be taught to clients
B. ways of being more reflective in search of personal meaning
C. things you can do to make relationships more satisfactory
D. formulae for working through unconscious impasses
B.
The client-centered helper consistently shows her acceptance of and concern for her adolescent client, even when the client is angry and non-responsive. According to Rogers, this most likely will lead to
A. an increase in the angry behavior
B. the client’s self-acceptance
C. an increase in positive counter-transference
D. channels of resistance
B.
Rogers believed that the core conditions of therapist empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard
A. will, if present, produce positive therapeutic change
B. are necessary, but not necessarily sufficient, for therapeutic change
C. are not as important as the therapeutic techniques of reflective listening and therapeutic challenge
D. are only possible for highly trained experts in the field
A.
A Gestalt therapist is concerned primarily with
A. provoking someone to decompensate
B. stimulating insight
C. creating an environment conducive to feeling comfortable and soothed
D. uncovering past traumas
B.
In Thomas Gordon’s skills training approach, an “I” message is favored to
A. use grammatically correct speech patterns
B. keep the focus on one’s self as much as possible
C. own responsibility for personal reactions
D. keep one’s eyes and ears open and receptive
C.
A criticism of humanistic approaches is
A. the entire lack of empirical research
B. the fact that the emphasis feelings doesn’t fit very well with some cultures
C. that it gets poor results with very young and very old people
D. that it is less effective than other options available, for most people
B.
Humanistic theorists have proposed that who therapists are in sessions is just as important as what they do. This means that
A. humanistic theories offer little guidance for what to do in a sessions
B. workbooks for how to do humanistic treatment plans are necessary
C. therapists just need to relax and just “be themselves”
D. the therapist’s natural way of being in a session is a model of authenticity and congruence for clients
D.
