Practice Quiz

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Family systems therapy

Question 2

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

Answer 2

A child under the age of 16 requests counseling sessions.

Question 3

Which humanistic approach places emphasis on the basic attitudes of the therapist?

Answer 3

Person-centered therapy

Question 4

Clients have a right to know about __________ before making highly personal disclosures.

Question 5

Which of the following is not an issue that Stan struggles with?

Answer 5

Aggressive outbursts

Question 6

What is the correct sequence of the psychosexual stages?

Answer 6

Oral/anal/phallic/latency/genital

Question 7

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

Answer 7

they should be avoided.

Question 8

The ‘fundamental rule’ for the client in psychoanalysis is:

Answer 8

participating in free association.

Question 9

A more flexible variant of psychoanalysis is:

Answer 9

psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.

Question 10

In Freud’s view, an individual experiencing neurotic anxiety feels:

Answer 10

he will not be able to control his instincts and will behave inappropriately.

Question 11

All of the following are life tasks that Adler taught we must successfully master except

Answer 11

achieving self-actualisation.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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

Question 14

The Adlerian approach is well suited to multicultural counseling because the

Answer 14

approach encourages clients to define themselves within their social context.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Analysis of resistances between family members

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Enhancing wellness

Question 17

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

Answer 17

exploring unfinished business.

Question 18

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

Answer 18

their life circumstances provide them with truly limited choices.

Question 19

Time-limited existential treatments:

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Philosophically, the existentialists would agree that:

Answer 20

making choices can create anxiety.

Question 21

A statement that best illustrates ‘bad faith’ is:​

Answer 21

Naturally I’m this way, because I grew up in an alcoholic family.

Question 22

The technique of reflection involves the therapist: ​

Answer 22

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

Question 23

One point of disagreement between existential and humanistic thought involves:

Answer 23

the idea of an innate self-actualizing drive

Question 24

What is a limitation of person-centered therapy?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Adrianne, who is uncertain about her career goals and is afraid to commit to any career path, is working with a therapist who specializes in using motivational interviewing strategies. What will her therapist look for in order to assess the success of therapy?

Answer 25

A reduction in Adrianne’s ambivalence about choosing a career path and an increase in her intrinsic motivation to clarify her direction

Question 26

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

Answer 26

a sense of equality.

Question 27

When a person experiences an internal conflict (namely a conflict between top dog and underdog), which of the following techniques would be most appropriate?

Answer 27

The internal dialogue exercise

Question 28

A critical difference between early Gestalt therapy and relational Gestalt therapy is the

Answer 28

approach to confrontation.

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

Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as a

Answer 30

creative adjustment to a situation and something to be respected.

Question 31

Contemporary Gestalt therapists view client resistance as a

Answer 31

creative adjustment to a situation and something to be respected.

Question 32

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

Answer 32

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

Question 33

A feature of REBT that distinguishes it from other cognitive-behavioral therapies is its:

Answer 33

process to identify and dispute irrational beliefs that have been acquired and self-constructed and are now maintained by self-indoctrination.

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

magnification and exaggeration.

Question 35

Behaviour therapy is based on:

Answer 35

an experimental analysis of behaviour in the client’s own social environment.

Question 36

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

Answer 36

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

Question 37

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

Answer 37

The therapist is solely responsible for setting treatment goals.

Question 38

The function of the reality therapist is to:

Answer 38

assist clients in dealing with the present.

Question 39

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

Answer 39

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

Question 40

In reality therapy, the purpose of developing an action plan is to:

Answer 40

arrange for successful experience.

Question 41

Reality therapy rests on the central idea that:

Answer 41

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

Question 42

In a reality therapy group, the leader:

Answer 42

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

Question 43

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

Answer 43

The egalitarian relationship

Question 44

__________ assists clients in identifying the impact that their own gender-role socialization has played in shaping their values, thoughts, and behaviors.

Answer 44

Gender role or social identity analysis

Question 45

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

Answer 45

self-disclosure

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Social action

Question 47

The relational-cultural theory recognizes:

Answer 47

that many women are searching for a connectedness with others as well as possibilities for autonomy.

Question 48

All of the following are techniques used in solution-focused therapy except for:

Answer 48

using the reflecting team.

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

From a social constructionist perspective, change begins with:

Answer 50

deconstructing the power of cultural narratives.

Question 51

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

Answer 51

the collaborative therapeutic relationship.

Question 52

A limitation of the postmodern approaches is that

Answer 52

inexperienced therapists may over rely on techniques and appear mechanistic.

Question 53

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

Answer 53

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

Question 54

The systems perspective implies that:

Answer 54

individuals are best understood through the context of their role in their family.

Question 55

Roger and his wife are experiencing tension in their relationship because he believes she is far too lenient with their children when they misbehave. This forces him to play the role of ‘bad cop’ as a parent, which makes him angry. A family therapist working with Roger and his family might:

Answer 55

help to modify the family’s transactional rules and develop more appropriate boundaries.

Question 56

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

Answer 56

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

Question 57

In the assessment process, questions a family therapist might ask include all of the following, except:

Answer 57

How can I give voice to my own impulses and fantasies?

Question 58

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

Answer 58

Feedback-informed treatment

Question 59

Which of the following approaches to integration refers to a conceptual creation beyond a mere blending of techniques?

Answer 59

Theoretical integration

Question 60

Which of the following orientations avoids exploring problems and, instead, focuses on creating solutions in the present and the future?

Answer 60

Postmodern therapy

Question 61

A limitation of person-centred therapy is:

Answer 61

the emphasis on complex ideas and concepts.

Question 62

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 62

Narrative therapy