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Who is the person who developed Logotherapy?

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E. Victor Frankl

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Which is NOT a key concept of existential therapy?

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D. It is based on a well-defined set of techniques and procedures.

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One function of the existential therapist is to ____

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C. understand the client's subjective world.

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According to the existential view, anxiety is a ____

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B. part of the human condition

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Resistance is seen as part of _______: how a person understands his or her being and relationship to teh world at large.

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E. the self-and-world construct

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What is the most crucial quality of a therapist in building an effective therapeutic relationship with a client?

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D. The therapist's authenticity

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Who is the person who was the main American spokesperson of European existential thinking as it is applied to psychotherapy?

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A. Rollo May

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Guild and anxiety are viewed by existential therapists as: ____

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E. None of the above ((behaviors that are realistic; result of traumatic situations in childhood; conditions that should be removed or cured; all of the above))

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The existential approach is based on: ____

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D. the philosophical concern with what it means to be fully human.

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Existential therapy is basically: ____

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C. an experiential and relational approach.

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Existential therapy places emphasis on: ___

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B. the quality of the client-therapist relationship.

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The central theme running through the works of Viktor Frankl is: ___

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B. the will to meaning.

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The existential therapist would probably agree that: ___

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C. ultimately we are alone.

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The existential "givens of life" include all of the following except:___

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B. taxes

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Which of the following is a limitation of the existential approach in working with culturally diverse client populations?

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D. the focus on one's own responsibility rather than on changing social conditions.

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In person-centered group counseling, the role of the counselor is best described as a ___

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E. Facilitator

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Person-centered therapy is a form of ___

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B. humanistic therapy

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Which of the following is considered important in person-centered therapy?

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E. none of the above ((accurate diagnosis, accurate therapist interpretation, therapeutic experiments, all of the above))

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Congruence refers to the therapists ___

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A. genuiness

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In person-centered therapy, transference is __

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E. not an essential or significant factor in the therapy process

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Emotion-focused therapy _____

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E. All of the above ((rooted in a person-centered philosophy, incorporates aspects of Gestalt therapy into the process, incorporates aspects of existential therapy into the process))

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Accurate empathic understanding refers to the therapist's ability to _____

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D. sense the inner world of the client's subjective experience

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Which technique(s) is (are) most often used in the person-centered approach?

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D. active listening and reflection

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Which statement is most true of person-centered therapy?

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D. the techniques a therapist uses are less important than are his or her attitudes.

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In what stage of change do individuals intend to take action immediately and report some small behavioral changes?

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C. preparation

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One strength of the person-centered approach is that ______

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D. therapists have the latitude to develop their own counseling style.

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A limitation of the person-centered approach is a _____

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B. tendency for practitioners to give support without challenging clients sufficiently.

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Rogers made a contribution to _____

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E. all of the above. ((developing the humanistic movement in pscyhotherapy, pioneering research in the process and outcomes of therapy, fostering world peace, pioneering the encounter-group movement))

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As a result of experiencing person-centered therapy, it is hypothesized that the client will move toward ______

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E. all of the above. ((self-trust, an internal source of evaluation, being more open to experience, a willingness to continue growing))

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Unconditional positive regard refers to _______

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B. accepting clients as worthy persons

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The main founder of Gestalt therapy is?

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B. Fritz Perls

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Which is NOT true of Gestalt therapy?

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E. the focus is on the "why" of behavior

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Which of the following is NOT a key concept of Gestalt therapy?

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B. intellectual understanding of one's problems

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According to the Gestalt view, awareness _______

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A. is by itself therapeutic

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The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is to help clients _____

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A. move from environmental support to self-support.

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The impasse is the point in therapy at which clients _____

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D. Do all of the above. ((do not have external support available to them, experience a sense of "being stuck", are challenged to get into contact with their frustrations and accept whatever is.""

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Gestalt therapy can best be characterized as _____

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B. an experiential therapy

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Gestalt therapy encourages clients to _______

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E. Do all of the above. ((experience feelings intensely, stay in the here and now, work through the impasse, pay attention to their own nonverbal messages)).

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The focus of Gestalt therapy is on _________

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C. recognizing one's own projections and refusing to accept helplessness.

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A contribution of the Gestalt approach is that it ___

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D. deals with the past in a lively manner

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The process of distraction, which makes it difficult to maintain sustained contact, is ______

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E. deflection

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The process of turning back to ourselves what we would like to do to someone is ____

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C. retroflection

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The tendency to uncritically accept others' beliefs without assimilating or internalizing them is ____

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A. introjection

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The process of blurring awareness of the boundary between self and environment is _____

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D. confluence

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What is a limitation(s) of Gestalt therapy as it is applied to working with culturally diverse populations?

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E. all of the above are limitations. ((emotionally reserved, "put off", looking for specific advice, being weak))

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Which of the following is NOT a part of stress inoculation training?

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E. exception questions

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REBT is based on the philosophical assumption that human beings are _____

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C. potentially able to think rationally but have a tendency toward irrational thinking.

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REBT stresses that human beings ______

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A. think, emote, and behave simultaneously.

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REBT views neurosis as the result of ______

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D. irrational thinking and behaving.

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In cognitive behavioral group therapy _______

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A. there is some research that shows that this approach is effective for treating a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems.

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REBT contends that people _______

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D. do not need to be accepted and loved

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According to REBT, we develop emotional disturbances because of _______

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B. our beliefs about certain events.

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Meichenbaum's _________ focuses on helping clients become aware of their self-talk and the stories they tell about themselves.

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A. self-instructional training

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In cognitive therapy the assumption is that psychological problems stem from process such as ______.

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E. all of the above. (( faulty thinking, incorrect inferences, can't distinguish b/n fantasy and reality, negative automatic thoughts))

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Cognitive therapy is based on the assumption that _____

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C. cognitions are the major determinants of how we feel and act.

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In cognitive therapy techniques are designed to ____

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C. identify and test clients' misconceptions and faulty assumptions.

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The type of cognitive error that involves thinking and interpreting in all-or-nothing terms or categorizing experiences in either-or extremes in known as _____

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B. polarized thinking

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Beck's cognitive therapy differs from Ellis's REBT in that Beck emphasizes _____.

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E. all of the above. ((Socratic dialogue, discover misconceptions, work collaborative ways, more structure))

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Beck's cognitive therapy has been most widely applied to the treatment of ______

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D. Depression

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In self-instructional training, which of the following is given primary importance?

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B. the role of inner speech

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The founder of reality therapy is ____

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E. William Glasser

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According to this approach, insight _____

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B. is not necessary for producing behavior change.

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The view of human nature underlying reality therapy is _______

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D. all of the above. ((need for identity, need to feel loved, need to feel worthwhile))

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Which is NOT a key concept of reality therapy?

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B. unconscious motivation

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Which of the following is NOT true of reality therapy?

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E. working through the transference relationship is essential for therapy to occur.

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Regarding the goals of reality therapy, ______

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B. it is the client's responsibility to decide goals.

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In reality therapy, our quality world is likened to ___

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A. a picture album

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Which statement is NOT true of reality therapy?

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B. it focuses on attitude change as a prerequisite for behavior change

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Reality therapy was designed originally for working with _____

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B. youthful offenders in detention facilities

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Which of the following would NOT be used by a reality therapist?

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E. all of the above. ((analysis of transference relationship, hypnosis, dreams, causes of current problems))

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Which of the following statements is true as it applies to choice theory?

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D. we are motivated completely by internal forces, and our behavior is our best attempt to get what we want.

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According to Glasser, all of the following are basic psychological needs - except for ________

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A. competition

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An axiom of choice theory is that ______

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B. although the past may have contributed to a current problem the past is never the problem.

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Sometimes it seems as though people actually choose to be miserable (depressed). Glasser explains the dynamics of DEPRESSING as being based on _______

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D. all of the above. ((keep anger under control, getting others to help us, excusing our unwillingness to do something more effective))

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All of the following are procedures in reality therapy that are said to lead to change except for _____.

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C. the therapist's evaluating of the client's behavior.

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