Theories 1
Existential and humanistic theories emphasize the therapeutic alliance, empathy, and
A. the transtheoretical stages of change
B. affective attunement
C. making meaning out of adverse life events
D. alternative therapies such as art, music, and animal-assisted interventions
B. affective attunement
A key goal of evidence-based psychotherapy is to
A. Maximize patient choice
B. Increase the client's insight
C. Decrease the client's suicidal ideations
D. Support short term interventions
A. Maximize patient choice
A goal of evidence-based psychotherapy is to maximize patient choice and to ensure that decisions are made collaboratively between the therapist and the patient.
Answering the personal questions of a client is
A. Always advisable
B. Never advisable
C. likely to facilitate the client’s romantic interest in the worker
D. best done when the worker understands the significance to the client and puts the client's interests first
D. best done when the worker understands the significance to the client and puts the client's interests first
In behavior therapy, human behavior is viewed
A. as a result of the type of introject that resides in the patient
B. as a function of cognitions that can be changed
C. as a function of past and present circumstances
D. as the result of an unconscious conflict the patient has not yet resolved
C. as a function of past and present circumstances
According to traditional behavior theory, human behavior is viewed as a function of past and present circumstances and emotional problems are seen as problems in living or maladaptive ways of behaving.
Examples of cultural trauma include:
A. the history of slavery in America
B. the holocaust
C. World War II Japanese internment camps
D. All of the above
D. All of the above.
Self-psychology defines maturity as
A. the desired terminal state of the self-object.
B. the self-object needing other self-objects to achieve mutual self-actualization
C. the ability to engage in mutually enriching self-object relationships with others throughout the lifespan
D. the ability to mesmerize other self-object relationships to meet all of one’s adult self-object needs
C. the ability to engage in mutually enriching self-object relationships with others throughout the lifespan
Klein’s insight into the influence of objects from the past is most applicable to
A. Abused children
B. Physically ill seniors with dementia
C. Infants
D. Clients with obsessive compulsive disorder
A. Abused children
Klein provided insight into how many internal experiences of objects from the past can influence, if not dominate, clients' worlds, distorting current relationships and seriously compromising self-esteem. We see this most vividly in our work with abused children who are unable to detach from the abusive parent.
In this stage, the client is considering change, but is perhaps ambivalent
A. Pre-contemplation
B. Contemplation
C. Contentious
D. Preparation
B. Contemplation
In this stage the client may be ambivalent about change but is considering it.
The relational therapist brings their ______ self into treatment
A. Audacious
B. Authentic
C. Ubersubjective
D. Karma
B. Authentic
Mindful practitioners listen deeply, attentively, and empathically.
A child who is intermittently harassed, beaten, threatened, or abused by a caretaker may develop
A. A strong ego
B. A trauma bond
C. A complex
D. High self esteem
B. A trauma bond
A trauma bond is the internalized set of expectations and cues that a child develops when an adult intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, or abuses the child.
In narrative therapy, the emphasis is on
A. The words themselves
B. the ecological dynamic between the protagonist and setting
C. understanding and meaning
D. controlling cognition and behavior
C. Understanding and meaning
which makes it particularly relevant to social work practice with diverse populations.
Beck's schemas:
A. are dissimilar in breadth to Ellis’s irrational beliefs
B. represent the client’s plan to improve his life
C. become apparent as client and therapist identify themes
D. demonstrate that the child is father to the man
C. become apparent as client and therapist identify themes
Schemas originate in childhood. They may not be as readily accessible as automatic thoughts but become clear to the client and therapist as bot strive to identify consistent themes that run through the client's disturbing events.
Pick the correct defense based on the following description- involves a negation or lack of acceptance of important aspects of reality.
A. Introjection
B. Identification
C. Denial
D. Repression
C. Denial
is a defense mechanism in which there is a lack of acceptance of important aspects of reality.
This therapeutic model has been recommended for all clients regardless of racial, cultural, or socioeconomic condition because it emphasizes structure:
A. Psychodynamic
B. Narrative
C. Cognitive Behavioral
D. Experiential
C. Cognitive Behavioral
CBT has been recommended for all clients regardless of racial, cultural, or socioeconomic condition because it emphasizes structure.
Focusing on different parts of the body and tensing and releasing muscles is
A. Reinforcement
B. Relaxation training
C. Assertiveness training
D. Reward
B. Relaxation training
This behavioral therapy technique is useful with clients suffering from anxiety disorders and panic attacks.
Exposure therapy
A. re-traumatizes the individual to process traumatic memories
B. uses eye movements and bilateral stimulation to process traumatic memories
C. requires reenactments of childhood trauma to process traumatic memories
D. is designed to counter-condition the trauma response
D. is designed to counter-condition the trauma response
Exposure treatment is designed to reduce fear and anxiety by demonstrating that the client can engage with the memory and its antecedent emotional reactions in a less aroused state, leading to counter conditioning of the original response.
Theory provides social workers with a way to view their clients and an approach to guide them toward
A. Insight
B. Appropriate life choices
C. Achievement of life goals
D. Positive self-referencing beliefs
C. Achievement of life goals
Theory is essential to ethical and responsible social work practice. Theory provides social workers with a way to view their clients and an approach to guide them toward achievement of their life goals. Theory informs assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as evaluation.
Compliments that are given from the perspective of a credible person who knows the client are _____________.
A. Direct
B. Indirect
C. Self-serving
D. Unswerving
B. Indirect
In solution focused therapy, compliments validate what the client is doing, acknowledge how difficult the problem is, and offer encouragement and support. Direct compliments come from the therapist. Indirect compliments come from someone who knows the client and is considered credible.
One of the principles of acceptance and commitment therapy is
A. Prompting
B. Punishment
C. Values
D. Fading
C. Values
The model emphasizes the importance of psychological flexibility, which is the process of contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being and changing behavior in the service of human values.
One implication of using the story metaphor instead of history is that
A. narratives about the same event can change over time
B. clients may misrepresent the past to avoid negative feedback
C. de-centering the importance of the story in the client’s history
D. locating anger within the client’s sphere of influence
A. Narratives about the same event can change over time.
There are several implications of using the story metaphor instead of history. The therapist is hearing a reformulation of the client's memories, and not necessarily the historic truth. The therapist assumes the life story is filled with contradictions. Narratives about the same event change over time.
Postmodern theories emphasize
A. combined elements drawn from different theoretical schools
B. the dialogic process
C. organization of the patient's personality structure
D. the interaction of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
B. the dialogic process
Fifth-wave models emphasize the dialogic process that occurs between the client and therapist.
In object relations theory, while the word “objects” is anachronistic, it refers to Freudian drive theory and
A. The relationships between child and abuser
B. those who satisfied biological needs
C. ego psychology
D. systems theory
C. Ego psychology
Object relations theory emerged from Freudian drive theory and ego psychology (a school of psychoanalysis that emerged from Freud's id-ego-superego model of the mind) and includes a wide range of contributions from both American and British psychoanalysts.
A variation on the miracle question that may be particularly useful for helping clients who feel stuck, guilty, angry, and helpless is
A. Candyland
B. Family time out
C. Nightmare question
D. Imaginary Wand
D. Imaginary Wand
In Cognitive Therapy, the term rational means
A. Limiting a resource
B. that which aids and abets people in achieving their basic goals and purposes
C. the healthy process of the superego exercising its morality
D. possessing plenty of rations
B. that which aids and abets people in achieving their basic goals and purposes
The concept of rationality is central to understanding Rational Emotive Therapy.
Exception questions in Solution Focused Therapy, ___________.
A. help the client to see that other people may be in worse situations
B. imply that there are circumstances during which the problem does not occur
C. help the client to see that some good things are happening
D. B and C
D. B and C.