Psychotherapy Midterm Test Bank – Flashcards

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Synthesizing the approaches covered in the text
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Often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling experience
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Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?
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Family systems therapy
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Which of the following is not associated with the cognitive-behavioral action-oriented therapies?
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Existential therapy
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Which humanistic approach emphasizes the basic attitudes of the therapist as the core of the therapeutic process
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Person centered therapy
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Presenting one model to which all trainees subscribe
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Is dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in working with a diverse range of future clients
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The author makes a case for
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Initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations, and then delving more deeply into each approach
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Which of the following statements about theories or models of counseling/psychotherapy is true?
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There is a clear place for theoretical pluralism in our society?
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What type of factors oftentimes limit our freedom of choices
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Social Environmental Cultural Biological
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Which of these statements about interventions is true?
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During the course of an individual's therapy, different interventions may be needed at different times
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Which approach was developed during the 1940s as a non directive reaction against psychoanalysis?
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Person-centered therapy
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Francesca, a cognitive behavioral therapist, likes to give homework assignments to her clients. What might her rationale be for doing this?
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Homework can be a vehicle for assisting her clients in putting into action what they are learning in therapy
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Which of the following statements best describes the author's view of medical model?
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A focus on the medical model restricts therapeutic practice because it stresses deficits rather than strengths
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A comprehensive approach to counseling
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Goes beyond focusing on our internal dynamics and addresses those environmental and systemic realities that influence us
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Effective psychotherapy is a practice in which
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The client and therapist collaborate in co-constructing solutions to problems
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Which of the following is not an issue that Stan struggles with?
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Aggressive outburst.
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It is especially important for counselors who work with culturally diverse client populations to
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Be aware of their own cultural heritage. Have a broad base of counseling techniques that can be employed with flexibility. Consider the cultural context of their clients in determining what interventions are appropriate. Examine their own assumptions about cultural values.
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According to the text research shows that counselor values influence
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Therapy goals Assessment strategies Treatment outcome
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Clients place more value on _____ than on _____
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The personality of the therapist; the specific techniques used
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Regarding psychotherapy treatment outcome, research suggests all of the following except:
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Therapy techniques are the key component of successful treatment
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An authentic counselor is best describe as
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Being willing to shed stereotyped roles and being a real person
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In the text, all of the following are listed as characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic person except
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Counselors no longer have to cope with personal problems
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Which of the following statements about theories or models of counseling/psychotherapy is true?
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There is a clear place for theoretical pluralism in our society
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In the text the main reason given for having counseling students receive some form of psychotherapy is to help them:
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Learn to deal with countertransference
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Personal therapy for therapists can be instrumental in assisting them:
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To heal their own psychological wounds. To gain an experiential sense of what it is like to be a client. To understand their own needs and motives for choosing to become professional helpers. to work through their own personal conflicts
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With regard tot he role of counselors' personal values in therapy, it is appropriate for counselors to
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Avoid the imposition of their values, yet expose their values to clients.
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The author describes the characteristics of an effective counselor. By including this information in the chapter, he is hoping to convey the message that
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You should develop your own concept of what personality traits you think are essential to strive for to promote your own personal growth
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During an initial session, an adolescent girl tells you that she is pregnant and is considering an abortion. Which of the following would be the most ethical and professional course for you to follow?
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Help her to clarify the range of her choices in light of her own values
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Culturally encapsulated counselors would be most likely to
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Depend entirely on their own internalized value assumptions about what is good for people.
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You are working with an ethnic minority client who is silent during the initial phase of counseling.
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A response consistent with his or her cultural context
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Which of the following is not considered an essential skill of an effective culturally competent counselor
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Being able to get clients to intensify their feelings by helping them to vividly reexperience early childhoof events
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Which of the following is not considered essential knowledge for a culturally competent counselor?
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Knowing who to analyze transference reactions
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Essential components of effective multicultural counseling include all of the following except:
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Counselors avoid becoming involved in out-of office interventions
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In working with culturally diverse clients , it helps to understand and assess:
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What these clients expect from counseling. The degree of acculturation that has taken place. The attitudes these clients have about seeking counseling for their personal problems. The messages they receive from their culture about asking for professional help
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Which of the following is not a method of increasing effectiveness in working with diverse client populations?
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Realize that practicing from a multicultural perspective will probably make your job very difficult
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The ___ factors -- the alliance, the relationship, the personal and interpersonal skills of the therapist, client agency and extra therapeutic factors-- are the primary determinants of therapeutic outcome
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Contextual
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