Practice Exam 4

Question 1

Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?

Answer 1

Family-Therapy Approach

Question 2

Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?

Answer 3

Person-centered therapy

Question 4

In becoming an ethical practitioner, a crucial task is to:

Answer 4

exercise prudent judgment when it comes to interpreting and applying ethical principles to specific situations.

Question 5

Identify the only case in which confidentiality must not be breached.

Answer 5

Identify the only case in which confidentiality must not be breached.

Question 6

In order to meet the goals of psychoanalytic treatment, Rhonda must help her eating disordered clients to

Answer 6

reduce their symptoms and resolve their internal conflicts.

Question 7

All of the following are true about a therapist’s countertransference reactions except

Answer 7

they should be avoided.

Question 8

What is the correct sequence of the psychosexual stages?

Answer 8

Oral/anal/phallic/latency/genital

Question 9

Which of the following statements is true about the relationship a client has with his or her analyst?​

Answer 9

The client is free to express any idea or feeling, no matter how irresponsible, scandalous, politically incorrect, selfish, or infantile.

Question 10

The technique whereby the analyst explains the meaning of certain behaviour is known as:

Answer 10

interpretation

Question 11

All of the following are stages in Adlerian counseling except

Answer 11

analysis of resistance.

Question 12

Which of the following techniques is not used in Adlerian family counseling?

Answer 12

Analysis of resistances between family members

Question 13

The premise of Adlerian group work is that: ​

Answer 13

clients’ problems are usually of a social nature.

Question 14

The purpose of examining a client’s family constellation is to:

Answer 14

get a picture of the individual’s early social world.

Question 15

Which of the following is not one of three life tasks according to Adlerian theory?

Answer 15

Enhancing Wellness

Question 16

According to existentialists, our search for meaning involves all of the following except

Answer 16

exploring unfinished business

Question 17

In regards to freedom and responsibility, existential therapy embraces three values. Which of the following is not one of these values?​

Answer 17

The freedom to choose our past and the choices of our parents

Question 18

Time-limited existential treatments:

Answer 18

can serve as a catalyst for clients to become actively and fully involved in each therapy session.

Question 19

Philosophically, the existentialists would agree that:

Answer 19

making choices can create anxiety.

Question 20

From a multicultural perspective, some clients may reject this approach because:​

Answer 20

their life circumstances provide them with truly limited choices.

Question 21

From Carl Rogers’s perspective the client/therapist relationship is characterized by

Answer 21

a sense of equality

Question 22

What is a limitation of person-centered therapy?

Answer 22

The approach does not emphasize the role of techniques in creating change in the client’s behaviour.

Question 23

The technique of reflection involves the therapist:

Answer 23

mirroring the client’s emotional experience of a particular situation.

Question 24

In order for a therapist to communicate ‘accurate empathic understanding’ the counselor must:

Answer 24

connect emotionally to the client’s subjective world.

Question 25

One point of disagreement between existential and humanistic thought involves:

Answer 25

the idea of an innate self-actualizing drive.

Question 26

According to the Gestalt perspective, if people do not remember their dreams, then:

Answer 26

they may be refusing to face what is wrong with their lives.

Question 27

Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as a

Answer 27

creative adjustment to a situation and something to be respected.

Question 28

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:

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

The paradoxical theory of behaviour change suggests:

Answer 29

authentic change occurs more from being who we are than from trying to be who we are not.

Question 30

Which of the following Gestalt techniques involves asking one person in a group to speak to each of the other group members?

Answer 30

making the rounds

Question 31

Which is not true of the relationship between therapist and client in behavior therapy?

Answer 31

The therapist is solely responsible for setting treatment goals.

Question 32

In the strengths-based CBT four step model to build resilience, a key to the fourth stage of therapy is that the client:

Answer 32

sets a goal to “be resilient in the face of challenges.”

Question 33

Which anxiety reduction technique involves creating a hierarchy of the client’s fearful experiences?

Answer 33

Systematic desensitization

Question 34

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:​

Answer 34

polarized thinking

Question 35

The cognitive distortion that consists of forming conclusions based on an isolated detail of an event is: ​

Answer 35

selective abstraction.

Question 36

Reality therapy rests on the central idea that:

Answer 36

we choose our behavior and are responsible for what we do, think, and feel.

Question 37

Which of the following procedures would a reality therapist be least likely to employ?

Answer 37

Reliving an early childhood event

Question 38

__________ teaches that all behaviour is made up of four inseparable but distinct components—acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology.

Answer 38

Total behaviour

Question 39

In a reality therapy group, the leader:

Answer 39

may encounter resistance if they make poorly timed suggestions and plans for how the members should best live.

Question 40

What do reality therapists believe about the use of questions?​

Answer 40

Relevant questions help clients gain insights and arrive at plans and solutions.

Question 41

Of the following, which is one of the major contributions that feminists have made to the field of counselling and psychotherapy?

Answer 41

Paving the way for gender-sensitive practice

Question 42

Feminist therapists do not use diagnostic labels, or use them reluctantly, for all of the following reasons except that:

Answer 42

they focus on the social factors that cause dysfunctional behavior.

Question 43

__________ is at the core of feminist therapy and marked by authenticity, mutuality, and respect.

Answer 43

The egalitarian relationship

Question 44

The counsellor engages in __________ only when it is judged to be therapeutically helpful to the client.​

Answer 44

self-disclosure

Question 45

Of the following, which intervention would a feminist therapist probably consider most essential?

Answer 45

social action

Question 46

A limitation of the postmodern approaches is that

Answer 46

inexperienced therapists may over rely on techniques and appear mechanistic.

Question 47

A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the following questions?​

Answer 47

If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight, how would you know it was solved, and what would be different?

Question 48

In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:

Answer 48

the collaborative therapeutic relationship.

Question 49

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?

Answer 49

Visitor

Question 50

In the solution-oriented approach, which is not considered one of the three basic parts to the structure of summary feedback?

Answer 50

Expressing concern

Question 51

What is the technique in family therapy that casts a new light on a problem and provides a different interpretation for a problematic situation?

Answer 51

Reframing

Question 52

Structural family therapy includes all of the following goals, except for bringing about structural change by:

Answer 52

the therapist taking a not-knowing stance with a family.

Question 53

From the family systems perspective, symptoms are often viewed as:

Answer 53

an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.

Question 54

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?

Answer 54

Structural-strategic family therapy

Question 55

In structural-strategic family therapy, __________ must occur in a family before an individual’s symptoms can be reduced or eliminated.

Answer 55

structural changes

Question 56

Which of the following approaches would contend that normal personality development depends on the successful resolution of specific stages of development?

Answer 56

Psychoanalytic therapy

Question 57

The ‘common factors’ approach to psychotherapy integration:

Answer 57

searches for common elements across different theoretical systems.

Question 58

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?

Answer 58

Narrative therapy

Question 59

Which of the following is designed to evaluate and to improve the quality and effectiveness of counseling services?

Answer 59

Feedback-informed treatment

Question 60

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?

Answer 60

Adlerian therapy