Question 1

A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the following questions?

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b. If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight, how would you know it was solved, and what would be different?

Question 2

The postmodern view incorporates all of the following concepts except for the notion that:

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a. reality is objectively defined.

Question 3

Donna feels certain that no one will ever want to hire her because she has a timid personality.

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c. ask Donna to examine another side of the story she is presenting about herself and think of times when she was accepted by others.

Question 4

In the view of the postmodern therapist, the most essential element of therapy is:

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b. the collaborative therapeutic relationship.

Question 5

All of the following are techniques used in solution-focused therapy except for:

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a. using the reflecting team

Question 6

All of the following are characteristics shared by the postmodern and person-centered approaches except

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c. the importance of using specific techniques in therapy.

Question 7

All are true of solution-focused brief therapists except that they:

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b. focus on the client\'s early childhood experiences.

Question 8

In the solution-oriented approach, which is not considered one of the three basic parts to the structure of summary feedback?

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c. expressing concern

Question 9

The therapeutic process in solution-focused brief therapy involves:

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e. all of these

Question 10

Which of the following is false as it applies to the practice of solution-focused brief therapy?

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d. Using techniques in therapy is a way of discounting a client\'s capacity to find his or her own way.

Question 11

Narrative therapy has been found to be particularly effective with diverse client populations for all of the following reasons except:

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d. it teaches diverse clients to replace their own narratives with ones that conform more closely to the ideals and values of mainstream culture.

Question 12

The role of the leader in solution-focused therapy groups is not:

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b. to provide clients with simple solutions to their problems.

Question 13

Which of these solution-focused therapy techniques involves asking clients to describe times in their lives when they were able to solve their problem or when their problem was less severe?

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c. exception questions

Question 14

Solution-focused brief therapy has parallels with______________, which concentrates on what is right and what is working for people rather than dwelling on deficits, weaknesses, and problems.

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b. positive psychology

Question 15

Which of the following statements about creating alternative stories is not true?

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b. The narrative therapist analyzes and interprets the meaning of a client\'s story.

Question 16

From a social constructionist perspective, change begins with:

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a. deconstructing the power of cultural narratives.

Question 17

Of the following, what is an interest that social constructionists tend to share?

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d. generating new meaning in the lives of individuals

Question 18

The techniques of externalization and developing unique events are associated primarily with:

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c. the narrative approach.

Question 19

Narrative therapists attempt to do all of the following except:

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d. encourage free association.

Question 20

Narrative therapists pay attention to \"sparkling events.\" These are:

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b. events that contradict problem-saturated narratives.

Question 21

The creation of the self, which dominated the modernist search for human essence and truth:

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a. is being replaced by postmodernists with the concept of socially storied lives.

Question 22

A limitation of the postmodern approaches is:

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b. inexperienced therapists may over rely on techniques and appear mechanistic.

Question 23

Which is not a major contribution of the postmodern approaches?

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d. research on these approaches is considered empirically generalizable.

Question 24

The founder(s) of solution-focused brief therapy is (are):

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b. Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer.

Question 25

The founder(s) of narrative therapy is (are):

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a. Michael White and David Epston.

Question 26

1. Narrative therapy has been effectively applied in school settings.

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True

Question 27

2. The postmodern philosophy suggests that reality and truth are objective and clearly defined.

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False

Question 28

3. The use of techniques is fundamental in narrative therapy.

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False

Question 29

4. Narrative therapy is not well-suited to multicultural counseling.

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False

Question 30

5. Narrative therapists pay significant attention to a client\'s past as it helps them understand the origins of client\'s stories.

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False

Question 31

6. In solution-focused therapy, exceptions represent instances when a particular problem in a client\'s life was not prominent.

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True

Question 32

7. The solution-focused approach was originally designed as a brief model of psychotherapy.

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True

Question 33

8. Social constructionists believe that knowledge is time- and culture-bound, and our ways of understanding are not necessarily better than other ways.

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True

Question 34

9. In narrative therapy, the role of the client is to create, explore, and co-author his or her evolving story.

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True

Question 35

10. While there are few studies of SFBT, brief therapies have been shown to be effective.

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True

Question 36

11. Solution-oriented therapy differs from both strategic and traditional models by eschewing the past in favor of focusing on the future

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True

Question 37

12. Assessment and therapy techniques are more important than empathy to a social constructionist.

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False

Question 38

13. In postmodern thinking, language and the use of language in stories create meaning.

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True

Question 39

14. The linguistic approach stresses the expert role of the therapist in suggesting solutions to a family\'s problems

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False

Question 40

15. The narrative approach is part of the social construction model.

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True

Question 41

16. According to feminist therapists, gender equality permeates most narratives about normal human development.

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False

Question 42

17. Solution-focused therapists often use scaling questions.

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True

Question 43

18. Modernists believe in objective reality and assume that it can be observed and systematically known through the scientific method.

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True

Question 44

19. In solution-focused therapy, behavior change is viewed as the most effective approach to assisting people in enhancing their lives.

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True

Question 45

20. In social constructionism, the therapist assumes the role of expert, rather than adopting a  collaborative or consultative stance.

Accepted Answer

False

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