WEEK 2: Psychoanalytic and psycho dynamic perspective

Question 1

Ego psychology theorists view therapy in terms of assisting clients in gaining awareness of their defenses and helping them develop better ways of coping with these defenses.

True
False

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The analyst listens in a respectful, open-minded way and pays attention to both what is spoken and to what is unspoken.

True
False

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Ruled by the pleasure principle—which is aimed at reducing tension, avoiding pain, and gaining pleasure—the ego is illogical, amoral, and driven to satisfy instinctual needs.

True
False

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Jung’s analytical psychology is an elaborate explanation of human nature that combines ideas from history, mythology, anthropology, and religion.

True
False

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Transference is central to understanding psychodynamic therapy, whereas counter-transference is not.

True
False

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Psychoanalytically-oriented therapy can be made appropriate for culturally diverse populations if techniques are modified to fit the settings in which a therapist practices.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Countertransference is rarely associated with a range of emotionally charged responses such as withdrawal, anger, love, annoyance, powerlessness, avoidance, overidentification, control, and sadness.

True
False

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Ego psychology is not part of classical psychoanalysis with the emphasis placed on the vocabulary of id, ego, and superego.

True
False

Answer 8

False

Question 9

In classical psychoanalysis, analysts typically avoid engaging in self-disclosure and assume a non-judgmental stance.

True
False

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The therapist’s countertransference reactions are abnormal because all therapists should have resolved all conflicts and personal vulnerabilities that could be activated through their professional work while in school.

True
False

Answer 10

False

Question 11

A primary aim of psychodynamic approaches is:

1. To lead a client to solve their problems the way the therapist wants them to solve them.
2. to decrease the client’s need to solve their own problems.
3. fostering of clients’ capacities to expect others to solve their own problems.
4. fostering of clients’ capacities to solve their own problems.

Answer 11

4. fostering of clients’ capacities to solve their own problems.

Question 12

The ‘working through’ process allows clients to complete all of the following except:

1. repeat and explore conscious events of the past that are pleasant.
2. become accepting of their defensive structure.
3. recognise that their way of being may have served a purpose in the past.
4. understanding a change can be beneficial in the present.

Answer 12

1. repeat and explore conscious events of the past that are pleasant.

Question 13

A key outcome of our own therapy is:

1. Shock.
2. Countertransference.
3. humility
4. Peace.

Answer 13

3. humility

Question 14

Analytic therapy focuses on __________ that are happening in the moment in the therapy sessions.

1. behaviors, feelings, and appointment pattern
2. knowledge, thoughts, and ideas
3. feelings, ideas, and knowledge
4. feelings, perceptions, and action

Answer 14

4. feelings, perceptions, and action

Question 15

Current findings of interpersonal neurobiology lend strong support for the psychoanalytic relationship as having a lasting treatment effect with clients who have suffered with histories of

1. healthy relationships and attention.
2. Interpersonal relationships and shock.
3. Interpersonal trauma and neglect.
   4.Therapeutic relationships and therapy.

Answer 15

3. Interpersonal trauma and neglect.

Question 16

Personal therapy and clinical supervision for therapists can be most helpful in better understanding how their internal reactions influence the therapy process and:

1. How to use these countertransference reactions to benefit the work of therapy.
2. how to use these countertransference reactions to steer therapy.
3. how to use these transference reactions to benefit the work of personal relationships.
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   4.how to use these transference reactions to mimic a healthy therapeutic relationship.

Answer 16

1. How to use these countertransference reactions to benefit the work of therapy.

Question 17

Psychodynamic therapists know the importance of:

1. Interpretations without focusing on tact and timing.
2. interpreting everything the client reveals; not focusing on specific timing.
3. not making interpretations for clients.
4. when and how to make interpretations; tact and timing are essential for effective interpretations.

Answer 17

4. when and how to make interpretations; tact and timing are essential for effective interpretations.

Question 18

__________ is an important procedure for uncovering unconscious material and giving the client insight into some areas of unresolved problems.

Dream analysis
Transference
Countertransference
Interpretation

Answer 18

Dream analysis

Question 19

__________ is the dream as it appears to the dreamer.

Manifest content
Latent content
Transference content
Dream content

Answer 19

Manifest content

Question 20

__________ is anything that works against the progress of therapy and prevents the client from producing previously unconscious material.

Resistance
Interpretation
Dream work
Analysis

Answer 20

Resistance

Question 21

Psychodynamic therapists remain alert to all of the following except:

Transference manifestations.
Are concerned with unconscious material.
Offer interpretations to defenses and resistance.
Explore the clients past only.

Answer 21

Explore the clients past only.

Question 22

The process by which the latent content of a dream is transformed into the less threatening manifest content is called:

latent content.
transference.
manifest content.
dream work.

Answer 22

dream work.

Question 23

The therapeutic relationship is central to all of the following except:

self-understanding.
exploration on the part of the therapist.
increasing self-awareness.
exploration on the part of clients.

Answer 23

exploration on the part of the therapist.

Question 24

__________ consists of hidden, symbolic, and unconscious motives, wishes, and fears.

Latent content
Manifest content
Dream work
Transference

Answer 24

Latent content