Classmates' Questions (50% of Exam)

Question 1

Which of the following is an example of a scaling question?

a) What do you hope would be different after coming to therapy?
b) What would you like to change?
c) What would you like instead?
d) If you are at 10 when you are ready to leave counseling and at a 1 when you called to make your first appointment, where are you now?

Answer 1

d) If you are at 10 when you are ready to leave counseling and at a 1 when you called to make your first appointment, where are you now?

Question 2

Solution focused therapy focuses on what two time frames? (past, present, future)

Answer 2

present and future

Question 3

How would you ask the miracle question to a five year old child versus a middle aged person?

Answer 3

use language appropriate for your audience. Make sure the child understands the question, don’t use childish language for an adult; possible introduce props for the child - “if you had a magic wand…”

Question 4

_________ is anxiety about concrete things that is out of proportion to the situation.

Answer 4

Neurotic anxiety

Question 5

________ anxiety is the unavoidable result of being confronted with the “givens of existence.”

Answer 5

Existential

Question 6

2. What theory does the following information BEST describe?
   • The client is responsible for him/herself & his/her own decisions, and often comes to counseling in a state of incongruence (discrepancy between self-perception and experience in reality).
   • The therapeutic relationship is highly dependent on equality, the client being the expert as opposed to the counselor
   • The counselor’s job is to help the client reach self-actualization and independence
   The counselor does not play a very directive role (the client does).

Answer 6

Person-Centered

Question 7

Behavioral Therapy encourages that the client create short and long-term _____ as well as complete _____ assignments.

Answer 7

goals, homework

Question 8

A counselor using Behavioral Therapy may ask the client for ____ through the process. They may also encourage the client to participate in _____.

Answer 8

feedback, role plays

Question 9

A specific orientation an Adlerian counselor would use to gain the frame of reference from the client would be?

Answer 9

Phenomenological

Question 10

According to Adler, it is through ____ that each person forms his/her unique view of self, others, and life.

Answer 10

family constellation

Question 11

The role of the past is a key concept in what theory?

Answer 11

Psychoanalytic

Question 12

These are functions of what theory:

• help clients acquire the freedom to love, work, and play
• assist clients in achieving self-awareness, honesty, and more effective personal relationships
• deal with anxiety in realistic way
• gain control over impulse and irrational behavior

Answer 12

Psychoanalytic

Question 13

In ____ Therapy, one of the central functions of the analyst is to teach clients the meaning of therapeutic processes (through interpretation) so that they are able to achieve insight into their problems, increase their awareness of ways to change, and thus gain more control over their lives.

Answer 13

Psychoanalytic

Question 14

Why does Psychoanalytic Theory emphasize the unconscious?

Answer 14

So that repressed experiences and emotions can be brought to the surface and examined

Question 15

Name one of the 6 Propositions/Givens of Existence of Existential Therapy. Apply it to your own life,

Answer 15

a. Capacity for self-awareness
b. Tension between freedom and responsibility
c. Search for: meaning, purpose, values & goals
d. Accepting anxiety as a condition of living
Awareness of death and nonbeing