Gestalt
The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is:
A. to attain awareness and contact with the environment.
B. to understand why we feel as we do.
C. to uncover repressed material.
D. to help clients develop better social skills.
A.to attain awareness and contact with the environment.
In the ABC model, the A stands for:
A. arbitrary behaviors.
B. antecedents.
C. actions.
D. assessment.
B. antecedents.
According to REBT, what is the core of most emotional disturbance?
A. Blame
B. Resentment
C. Rage
D. Unfinished business
A. Blame
Which procedure is commonly used in reality therapy?
A. Exploring wants, needs, and perceptions.
B. Exploring early recollections.
C. Focusing on the past
D. Exploring the past.
A. Exploring wants, needs, and perceptions.
From Introduction, symptoms are often viewed as
A. an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.
B. evidence of psychopathology.
C. a sign of weakness.
D. a result of cognitive distortions.
A. an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.
Which of the following is true about Fritz Perls?
A. He was not the main originator and developer of Gestalt therapy.
B. During his childhood, he was a model student.
C. He was influenced by psychoanalytic concepts.
D. He idolized Freud's theory on a number of grounds.
C. He was influenced by psychoanalytic concepts.
B. F. Skinner is associated with which trend in the behavioral approach?
A. Classical conditioning
B. Operant conditioning
C. Multimodal therapy
D. Dialectical behavior therapy
B. Operant conditioning
In the strengths-based CBT four-step model to build resilience, a key to the fourth stage of therapy is that the client:
A. sets a goal to "be resilient in the face of challenges."
B. avoids exploring possible high-risk stressful situations.
C. learns that a lapse in willpower will have catastrophic results.
D. will undergo hypnosis.
A. sets a goal to "be resilient in the face of challenges."
What do reality therapists believe about the use of questions?
A. They should rarely be used.
B. Relevant questions help clients gain insights and arrive at plans and solutions.
C. There is no such thing as excessive questioning; the more, the better!
D. Closed questions are more helpful than open-ended questions.
B. Relevant questions help clients gain insights and arrive at plans and solutions.
A limitation of the family systems model is:
A. therapists all too often get lost in their consideration of the "system."
B. the systemic perspective can be overwhelming for the therapist.
C. family therapy is not well-suited to working with diverse clients.
D. an emphasis on family systems precludes a focus on emotions.
A. therapists all too often get lost in their consideration of the "system."
The Gestalt therapist:
A. freely makes interpretations for the client.
B. pays attention to the client's nonverbal language.
C. is mainly nondirective.
D. helps the client understand why they are behaving in self-defeating ways.
B. pays attention to the client's nonverbal language.
In vivo flooding consists of:
A. brief and graduated series of exposures to feared events.
B. exposure to actual anxiety-evoking events rather than simply imagining these situations.
C. imagined exposure to fearful experiences paired with muscle relaxation.
D. guided use of mindfulness techniques.
B. exposure to actual anxiety-evoking events rather than simply imagining these situations.
In Meichenbaum’s cognitive behavior modification, what is given primary focus when creating a therapeutic alliance with clients:
A. Using emotive techniques
B. Conceptual-educational phase
C. Skills acquisition and consolidation phase
D. Application and follow-through phase
A. Using emotive techniques
Which of the following is a component of total behavior?
A. Wanting
B. Seeing
C. Sensing
D. Thinking
D. Thinking
In the assessment process, questions a family therapist might ask include all of the following, except
A. What does each family member bring to the session?
B. How can I give voice to my own impulses and fantasies?
C. Who makes decisions? How are conflicts resolved or problems handled?
D. Are the parents effective leaders of the family, and is the process of leadership balanced or imbalanced?
B. How can I give voice to my own impulses and fantasies?
Which of the following is not one of Miriam Polster’s three stages in her integration sequence?
A. Reunification
B. Discovery
C. Assimilation
D. Accommodation
A. Reunification
Behavioral practitioners stress the value of establishing a collaborative working relationship with clients along with which of the following attributes for behavioral change to occur?
A. Determination, negotiation, and authoritativeness
B. Awareness, authoritativeness, and subjectivity
C. Judgment, confrontation, and authenticity
D. Empathy, authenticity, and acceptance
D. Empathy, authenticity, and acceptance
Who embraces a cognitive narrative perspective on CBT?
A. Albert Ellis
B. Donald Meichenbaum
C. A. T. Beck
D. Judith Beck
B. Donald Meichenbaum
A limitation of this approach as it applies to multicultural counseling is:
A. the effect of traumatic experiences in early childhood.
B. this therapy provides specific tools to help clients make the changes they desire.
C. the concept of the quality world is abstract and lacks cross-cultural appeal.
D. the therapists must be careful when adapting their approach to non-Western cultures.
A. the effect of traumatic experiences in early childhood.
The core of __________ model relied on the power of congruence to help family members communicate with emotional honesty.
A. multigenerational family therapy
B. strategic family therapy
C. social constructionist therapy
D. human validation process
D. human validation process
A client recognizes that they have a choice. This describes which stage of Miriam Polster’s three-stage integration sequence?
A. Discovery
B. Accommodation
C. Assimilation
D. Retroflection
B. Accommodation
What is a distinguishing characteristic of behavioral practitioners involved in the group setting?
A. Formulation of the treatment goals
B. Adherence to specification and measurement
C. Assuming a judgmental role for resolution of client problems
D. Subjective evaluation of the outcomes of therapy
B. Adherence to specification and measurement
The cognitive distortion that involves portraying one’s identity on the basis of imperfections and mistakes made in the past and allowing them to define one’s true identity is:
A. labeling and mislabeling.
B. overgeneralization.
C. arbitrary inferences.
D. personalization.
A. labeling and mislabeling.
WDEP stands for:
A. wants, decision, self-evaluation, perception.
B. wishes, direction, engagement, purpose.
C. wants, doing, self-evaluation, planning.
D. wants, direction, efficacy, planning.
C. wants, doing, self-evaluation, planning.
A tool for collecting and organizing key relationships in a three-generational extended family is a
A. lifestyle assessment.
B. family sketch.
C. genogram.
D. projective test.
C. genogram.