Practice Exam 4 Flashcards
Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?
Family-Therapy Approach
Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?
False
Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?
Person-centered therapy
In becoming an ethical practitioner, a crucial task is to:
exercise prudent judgment when it comes to interpreting and applying ethical principles to specific situations.
Identify the only case in which confidentiality must not be breached.
Identify the only case in which confidentiality must not be breached.
In order to meet the goals of psychoanalytic treatment, Rhonda must help her eating disordered clients to
reduce their symptoms and resolve their internal conflicts.
All of the following are true about a therapist’s countertransference reactions except
they should be avoided.
What is the correct sequence of the psychosexual stages?
Oral/anal/phallic/latency/genital
Which of the following statements is true about the relationship a client has with his or her analyst?
The client is free to express any idea or feeling, no matter how irresponsible, scandalous, politically incorrect, selfish, or infantile.
The technique whereby the analyst explains the meaning of certain behaviour is known as:
interpretation
All of the following are stages in Adlerian counseling except
analysis of resistance.
Which of the following techniques is not used in Adlerian family counseling?
Analysis of resistances between family members
The premise of Adlerian group work is that:
clients’ problems are usually of a social nature.
The purpose of examining a client’s family constellation is to:
get a picture of the individual’s early social world.
Which of the following is not one of three life tasks according to Adlerian theory?
Enhancing Wellness
According to existentialists, our search for meaning involves all of the following except
exploring unfinished business
In regards to freedom and responsibility, existential therapy embraces three values. Which of the following is not one of these values?
The freedom to choose our past and the choices of our parents
Time-limited existential treatments:
can serve as a catalyst for clients to become actively and fully involved in each therapy session.
Philosophically, the existentialists would agree that:
making choices can create anxiety.
From a multicultural perspective, some clients may reject this approach because:
their life circumstances provide them with truly limited choices.
From Carl Rogers’s perspective the client/therapist relationship is characterized by
a sense of equality
What is a limitation of person-centered therapy?
The approach does not emphasize the role of techniques in creating change in the client’s behaviour.
The technique of reflection involves the therapist:
mirroring the client’s emotional experience of a particular situation.
In order for a therapist to communicate ‘accurate empathic understanding’ the counselor must:
connect emotionally to the client’s subjective world.
One point of disagreement between existential and humanistic thought involves:
the idea of an innate self-actualizing drive.
According to the Gestalt perspective, if people do not remember their dreams, then:
they may be refusing to face what is wrong with their lives.
Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as a
creative adjustment to a situation and something to be respected.
Mariah tells her therapist, a Gestaltist, that she dreamt she got married to a pit bull and felt uneasy about telling her parents that she married a dog. When her parents discovered their son-in-law was a pit bull, they disowned her and suddenly became dogs themselves. In response to this dream, Mariah’s therapist:
should assist her client in reliving the dream as though it was happening in the now and have her become each part of the dream.
The paradoxical theory of behaviour change suggests:
authentic change occurs more from being who we are than from trying to be who we are not.
Which of the following Gestalt techniques involves asking one person in a group to speak to each of the other group members?
making the rounds
Which is not true of the relationship between therapist and client in behavior therapy?
The therapist is solely responsible for setting treatment goals.
In the strengths-based CBT four step model to build resilience, a key to the fourth stage of therapy is that the client:
sets a goal to “be resilient in the face of challenges.”
Which anxiety reduction technique involves creating a hierarchy of the client’s fearful experiences?
Systematic desensitization
The type of cognitive error that involves thinking and interpreting in all-or-nothing terms, or in categorizing experiences in either/or extremes, is known as:
polarized thinking
The cognitive distortion that consists of forming conclusions based on an isolated detail of an event is:
selective abstraction.
Reality therapy rests on the central idea that:
we choose our behavior and are responsible for what we do, think, and feel.
Which of the following procedures would a reality therapist be least likely to employ?
Reliving an early childhood event
__________ teaches that all behaviour is made up of four inseparable but distinct components—acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology.
Total behaviour
In a reality therapy group, the leader:
may encounter resistance if they make poorly timed suggestions and plans for how the members should best live.
What do reality therapists believe about the use of questions?
Relevant questions help clients gain insights and arrive at plans and solutions.
Of the following, which is one of the major contributions that feminists have made to the field of counselling and psychotherapy?
Paving the way for gender-sensitive practice
Feminist therapists do not use diagnostic labels, or use them reluctantly, for all of the following reasons except that:
they focus on the social factors that cause dysfunctional behavior.
__________ is at the core of feminist therapy and marked by authenticity, mutuality, and respect.
The egalitarian relationship
The counsellor engages in __________ only when it is judged to be therapeutically helpful to the client.
self-disclosure
Of the following, which intervention would a feminist therapist probably consider most essential?
social action
A limitation of the postmodern approaches is that
inexperienced therapists may over rely on techniques and appear mechanistic.
A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the following questions?
If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight, how would you know it was solved, and what would be different?
In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:
the collaborative therapeutic relationship.
If a client comes to therapy because someone else (a spouse, parent, teacher, or probation officer) thinks the client has a problem, it describes which solution-focused therapeutic relationship?
Visitor
In the solution-oriented approach, which is not considered one of the three basic parts to the structure of summary feedback?
Expressing concern
What is the technique in family therapy that casts a new light on a problem and provides a different interpretation for a problematic situation?
Reframing
Structural family therapy includes all of the following goals, except for bringing about structural change by:
the therapist taking a not-knowing stance with a family.
From the family systems perspective, symptoms are often viewed as:
an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.
The techniques of joining, boundary setting, unbalancing, reframing, ordeals, enactments, and paradoxical interventions are most likely to be part of which approach to family therapy?
Structural-strategic family therapy
In structural-strategic family therapy, __________ must occur in a family before an individual’s symptoms can be reduced or eliminated.
structural changes
Which of the following approaches would contend that normal personality development depends on the successful resolution of specific stages of development?
Psychoanalytic therapy
The ‘common factors’ approach to psychotherapy integration:
searches for common elements across different theoretical systems.
In which therapy approach is the client viewed as the expert on his or her own life, while the therapist is seen as an expert questioner who assists clients in freeing themselves of their problem-saturated stories and create new life-affirming stories?
Narrative therapy
Which of the following is designed to evaluate and to improve the quality and effectiveness of counseling services?
Feedback-informed treatment
Which of the following therapies is based on a growth model and is applicable to varied spheres of life such as child guidance, parent–child counseling, and marital and family therapy?
Adlerian therapy
