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100

A psychodynamic approach that focuses on responsibility, life meaning, purposeful behavior, and conscious action

A. Existential

B. Adlerian

C. Gestalt

D. Psychoanalytic

B. What is Adlerian Theory?

100

This therapeutic approach suggests that projections onto leader and members are clues to unresolved intrapsychic conflicts that can be identified, explored, and worked through in group counseling

A. Psychodynamic

B. Psychoanalytic

C. Reality

D. Existential

B. What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?

100

Counselors' legal duty to not disclose information about clients

A. Confidentiality

B. Informed Consent

C. Privacy

D. Privileged Communication

A. What is Confidentiality?

100

According to Erikson, this life stage involves testing limits, breaking down dependent ties, and establishing a new identity

A. Young Adulthood

B. Early Childhood

C. School Age

D. Adolescence

D. What is Adolescence (Identity vs. Role Confusion)?

100

Grasping facts, feelings, and significance of another person’s story along with conveying understanding of client’s subjective experience

A. Empathy

B. Immediacy

C. Self-Disclosure

D. Paraphrasing

A. What is Empathy?

200

Emphasizes personal characteristics of counselor, quality of therapeutic relationship, and person’s capacity for self-directed growth in therapy

A. Person-Centered

B. Reality

C. Cognitive-Behavior

D. Narrative

A. What is Person-Centered Therapy? 

200

Initial goal is for clients to expand their awareness of the present moment, which is based on the premise that clients can become integrated or whole through the awareness of denied parts

A. Gestalt

B. Person-Centered

C. Family Systems

D. Existential

A. What is Gestalt Therapy?

200

When a counselor overidentifies with a client or meets their own needs through a client

A. Transference

B. Countertransference

C. Projection

D. Internalization

B. What is Countertransference?

200

The structure of personality that is largely unconscious and ruled by the pleasure principle

A. Id

B. Ego

C. Superego

D. Both A and B

A. What is the Id?

200

Advanced skill that can be used to present themes or patterns of content, feelings, or meaning

A. Paraphrasing

B. Summarizing

C. Empathy

D. Parroting

B. What is Summarizing?

300

Philosophical approach to exploring themes such as mortality, meaning, freedom, responsibility, and anxiety

A. Psychoanalytic

B. Reality

C. Adlerian

D. Existential

D. What is Existential Theory?

300

Assumes change begins by deconstructing the power of cultural narratives and co-constructing a new life of meaning

A. Gestalt

B. Postmodern

C. Adlerian

D. Cognitive-Behavior

B. What are Postmodern Approaches?

300

Learning new words at various levels of intensity will help counselors practice this skill and keep them from overshooting or undershooting

A. Paraphrasing

B. Reflecting Feeling

C. Reflecting Meaning

D. Immediacy 

B. What is Reflecting Feeling?

300

Strategies that operate on an unconscious level to help an individual cope with anxiety, preventing the the part of personality that is based on the reality principle from being overwhelmed

A. Ego-Defense Mechanisms

B. Distress Tolerance

C. Figure Formations

D. Cognitive Distortions

A. What is Ego-Defense Mechanisms?

300

Used to present a condensed or distilled version of a client’s story

A. Paraphrasing

B. Minimal Encouragers

C. Summarizing

D. Empathy

A. What is Paraphrasing?

400

Structured, educational, and action-oriented approach that focuses on directly observable behavior and learning experiences that promote change

A. Gestalt

B. Solution-Focused

C. Behavior

D. Reality

C. What is Behavior Therapy?

400

Used in family systems therapy to illustrate family structure, providing information about relationships and interactions between family members

A. Constellation

B. Biopsychosocial

C. Genograms

D. BASIC I.D.

C. What are Genograms?

400

Used by counselors to convey attention and understanding without interrupting the client's story, often accompanied by head nodding

A. Paraphrasing

B. Parroting

C. Open Questions

D. Minimal Encouragers

D. What are Minimal Encouragers? 

400

Client’s unconscious projection of experiences with caregivers or significant figures who played important roles during development

A. Sublimation

B. Transference

C. Countertransference

D. Identification

B. What is Transference?

400

When a counselor talks openly in the session about something that is occurring in the here-and-now

A. Self-Disclosure

B. Reflecting Meaning

C. Summarizing

D. Immediacy

D. What is Immediacy?

500

Considers social and cultural context to provide a systemic perspective for understanding the impact of society and affecting social change

A. Feminist

B. Person-Centered

C. Gestalt

D. Cognitive-Behavior

A. What is Feminist Therapy?

500

Client-centered and deliberately directive approach aimed at reducing client ambivalence and increasing intrinsic motivation for change

A. Motivational Interviewing

B. Circular Questioning

C. Intellectualization

D. Immediacy

A. What is Motivational Interviewing (MI)?

500

Lifelong process of developing awareness, acquiring knowledge, and learning skills necessary for counselors to work effectively with culturally diverse populations

A. Multicultural Competency

B. Integrative Perspectives

C. Therapeutic Confrontation

D. Multidisciplinary Teamwork

A. What is Multicultural Competency?

500

The ego-defense mechanism that refers to going back to an earlier phase of development when there were fewer demands

A. Compensation

B. Displacement

C. Regression

D. Intellectualization

C. What is Regression?

500

Skill for identifying discrepancies in a client's beliefs, behaviors, words, or nonverbal cues to help motivate them toward resolving incongruences

A. Challenging Skills

B. Reflecting Content

C. Reflecting Feeling

D. Paraphrasing

A. What are Challenging Skills?