Clinical Psychology Flashcards
Which of the following was responsible for the genesis of Gerald Kaplan‘s development of mental health consultation?
A. Recognition that traditional psychoanalysis was not helpful from any of his clients
B. Recognition then internal consultant was needed in many organizations to address employees mental health problems
C. Recognition that the mental health of many more individuals can be improved through indirect services
D. Recognition that preventative efforts do not target the appropriate populations
C. Captan discusses the origins of his conceptualization of mental health consultation in his article Caplanian mental health consultation: historical background and current status. Caplan‘s consultation approach grew out of his experiences at residential institutions in Israel in 1949. He quickly recognized that it was not feasible to provide direct services to patients due to their large number and, consequently, develop an indirect approach(consultation) that increased his ability to ensure that patients received adequate treatment
Opening questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summary statements are considered the principle skills or strategies of: A. Solution focused therapy B. Reality therapy C. motivational interviewing D. Interpersonal therapy
C. The acronym OARS is used to identify the principal skills of motivational interviewing and stands for open ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summary statements.
The research has found that The more widely that lesbians disclose their sexual orientation to others, the more likely they will:
A. Experience an increase in anxiety
B. Engage in greater anonymous socializing
C.Report higher levels of self-esteem
D. Report less support from family members
Disclosure of sexual orientation by those who identify as lesbian (coming out) was investigated by Kay M Jordon and our H Deluty who found that he was associate with a number of positive outcomes. The results of the Jordon and the Deluty study indicated that the more widely lesbian women disclose their sexual orientation the lower their anxiety, the greater their positive affectivity, and the higher their self-esteem
According to Landrum and fats, system blaming and system building are:
A. Reflections of conceptual incarceration
B. Manifestation of the split self syndrome
C. Survival mechanisms
D. Possible manifestations of internalized oppression
D. Landrum & Batt‘s address the effects of racial oppression on the mental health of African-Americans and propose that the consequences may take several forms: one possible outcome is internalized oppression, which can involve system beating (acting out against the system), system blaming, total avoidance of whites, and/or denial of the political significance of race
A systemic family therapist uses circular questioning in order to:
A. Obtain unbiased information from family members
B. Help family members recognize differences in their perceptions
C. Refocus the attention of family members to the here-and- now
D. Obtain information about the families transactional patterns in style
B. They go of many of the tactics used by systemic family therapist is to provide family members with the information they need to identify solutions to the problems. As defined by systemic family therapist, circular questions are used to have family members identify similarities and differences in their perceptions about events and relationships
A therapist it has adopted an etic perspective:
A. Elisa mental disorders may be manifests differently by people from different culture groups
B. At least until the sores are manifested in similar ways by all people, regardless of their cultural group
C. Believe that our external environment must be changed in order for human to occur
D. Believe so we must adopt our environment in order to for healing to occur
B. The terms etic and Emic were originally Used by linguists an anthropologist but we’re subsequently adopted by mental Health professionals interested in Crust cultural counseling. A therapist adopting an etic(culturally universal) View considers mental disorders to be universal and therefore essentially the same in terms of symptoms among individuals from different cultures
A young man who hates his mother consistently lavishes her with praise and gifts. A Freudian would interpret this behavior as a manifestation of which of the following defense mechanisms?
A. Sublimation
B. Displacement
C. Psychological reactance
D. Reaction formation 
D. Psychoanalyst distinguish between a number of defense mechanisms. Reaction formation involves converting dangerous feelings or impulses into their opposite
Sublimation
Sublimation occurs when energy conducted to an unacceptable impulse is redirected into socially acceptable actions
Displacement
Displacement occurs when a dangerous or threatening impulse is redirected towards a safer source or object
The traditional explanation for the effects of acupuncture is that it promotes healing by:
A. restoring the flow of energy in the body
B. creating a state of mental calmness
C. altering the balance between cell growth and cell death
D. restoring balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems
A. The use of acupuncture is based on the assumption that blockages or imbalances in the flow of qi(vital life energy) within the body produce illness. The explanation for acupuncture is that the insertion of fine metallic needles into specific areas of the body unblocks the flow of qui.
Researchers who have investigated the association between race/ethnicity and advance directives that have generally found that:
A. there are no cultural differences in patient willingness to complete adance directives
B. Native American patients are more likely than White patients to complete advance directives
C. White American patients are less likely than Black patients to complete advance directives
D. Black American patients are less likely than White patients to complete advance directives
D. Several studies have found a relationship between race/ethnicity and end-of-life decisions. Black American patients are less likely than white patients to complete advance directives, and this seems to be due primarily to misinformation and/or mistrust in the healthcare system, with the latter being attributable to previous personal experiences and awareness of past abuses by healthcare providers
Irvin Yalom described the group therapist’s role primarily as which of the following?
A. Technical expert
B. advocate/role model
C. Clinical advisor
D. Passive participant
A. Yalom views the therapist as both a “technical expert” and an “active participant/model”
The notion that there are three major life tasks- friendship, occupation, and love - is most consistent with the philosophy of:
A. Peris
B. Berne
C. Rogers
D. Adler
D. The three tasks listed in the question (friendship, occupation, and love) all involve social interactions. Of the individuals listed, one is most associated with an emphasis on social factors (i.e. social interest). Adler believed that people are motivated primarily by an innate social interest and that a primary goal in life is to act in ways that fulfill social responsibilities.
“Culturally encapsulated” therapists:
Select one:
A. Have become immersed in another culture at the expense of their own culture
B. Exhibit an overt type of racism while denying that they are prejudice against members of other cultures
C. Define the reality of their clients according to their own cultural assumptions
D. Maximize cultural differences by consistently distinguishing between “us” and “them”
C. The term “cultural encapsulation” was introduced by C. Gilbert Wrenn in 1962 in his discussion of the limited perspective of counselors. Although different authors use this term somewhat differently, this comes closest to the definition provided by Wrenn, who viewed counselors as existing in a cocoon of pretended reality” that reflects encapsulation within their own culture
