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100

Within _____________, counselors are primarily concerned with understanding the subjective world of clients/ students to help them come to new understanding and options.

Person-Centered Therapy

100

The "D" in DARN-CAT from motivational interviewing is:

Desire to Change

100

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy was developed initially to treat:

Boarderline Personality Disorder (BPD) 

100

_____________ counselors believe that human suffering (the tragic and negative aspects of life) can be turned into human achievement by the stand an individual takes when faced with it.

Exestential Therapy

100

Memories are stored in the hippocampus: True or false? 

False: The Hippocampus forms and converts memories. The Cerebral Cortex hold long-term memories and the Prefrontal Cortex holds short term memories. 

200

_____________________ contends that individuals are motivated to change when they’re convinced that their present behavior is not getting them what they want and when they believe they can choose other behaviors that will get them closer to what they want.

Reality Therapy

200

All of the following are phases in EMDR work except:

A. History Taking 

B. Desensitization 

C. Relegation

D. Installation

C. Regulation

200

The development of abnormal behavior, according to Alfred Adler, is directly related to:

An individual’s feelings of inferiority.

200

According to Karl Rogers, the three core conditions that create a growth-promoting climate are:

Congruence, unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding

200

In stages of change theory, the stage where the individual is aware of the need for change but is uncertain & undecided about taking action is:

Contemplation
300

That individuals have the capacity to self-regulate when they are aware of what is happening in and around them is a basic assumption of what counseling approach?

Gestalt

300

In the WDEP acronym, as used in Choice Theory, the E stands for:

Evaluation

300

If a client/student were to indicate an interest in exploring some traumatic childhood experience, a counselor working from a Gestalt approach would most likely ask them to:

Relive the experience in the here-and-now, i.e., as though it was taking place in the moment.

300

As a person-centered counselor, one of your key assumptions is that change cannot occur without:

 A growth-promoting context/environment

300

If a child is unresponsive to the caregiver when present, not distressed by parting, and avoids the caregiver on return, this is what kind of attachment?

Insecure-Avoidant

400

The theory of personality development which focuses on the disparities between actual relationships between an individual and real people, and the relationship as internalized in the individual’s mental representation of these people is known as;

Object Relations Theory

400

Within Behavior Therapy, which anxiety reduction technique involves creating a hierarchy of the student/client’s fearful experiences?

Systematic Desensitization. 

400

From a Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) approach, individuals develop emotional and behavioral problems because

They hold irrational expectations about themselves and others. 

400

From a multicultural perspective, intersectionality refers to:

the idea that overlapping or intersecting social identities within an individual create a whole that’s different from the sum of its parts

400

Countertransference, as understood within the psychoanalytic approach, refers to:

The counselor's irrational response to client/student. 

500

Which theoretical approach would be most interested in the appropriateness of hierarchical structure in the family? Be specific

Structural Family Therapy

500

You’re working with a client/ student who experiences difficulty in expressing their feelings, thoughts, and or opinions. Which behavioral technique would be most appropriate?

Assertiveness Training 

500

A mother and her adult child have formed a close-knit relationship in which neither one can discriminate their own unique beliefs from those of the other. This is an example of:

Enmeshment

500

This sociocultural therapeutic movement/approach stresses an egalitarian relationship and views the client/student as an expert on their own life

Feminist Theory. 

500

A 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:

Polarized Thinking