Reality Therapy and Solution Focused Brief Therapy – Flashcards
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Reality therapy is best categorized as:
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A form of cognitive behavior therapy.
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Reality therapy is best described as:
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a short-term therapy that stresses doing.
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The client's quality world consists of all of the following except:
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Insight.
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WDEP stands for:
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wants, doing, self-evaluation, planning.
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Which method(s) is (are) often used in reality therapy?
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designing an action plan.
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What is Robert Wubbolding likely to say about people's problems?
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"People don't have problems, they have solutions that have not worked."
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Which of the following procedures would a reality therapist be least likely to employ?
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Reliving an early childhood event.
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Reality therapy is based on which of the following orientations to understanding human behavior?
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Deterministic.
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A reality therapist will primarily focus on
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Present behavior.
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When reality therapists explore a client's past, they tend to focus on:
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Past successes.
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A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client, a compulsive shopper, which of the following questions?
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If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight, how would you know it was solved, and what would be different?
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All of the following are techniques used in solution-focused therapy except for:
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Using the reflecting team.
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All are true of solution-focused brief therapists except that they:
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focus on the client's early childhood experiences.
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The therapeutic process in solution-focused brief therapy involves:
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(a) the premise that to some degree clients already know the solutions to their problems. (b) asking clients about those times when their problems were not present or when the problems were less severe. (c) believing that clients are the experts on their own lives. (d) trusting that solutions evolve out of therapeutic conversations and dialogues. (e) all of these
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Which of the following is false as it applies to the practice of solution-focused brief therapy?
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Using techniques in therapy is a way of discounting a client's capacity to find his or her own way.
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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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Exception questions.
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The solution-focused approach was originally designed as a brief model of psychotherapy.
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True.
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While there are few studies of SFBT, brief therapies have been shown to be effective.
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True.
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Solution-focused therapists often use scaling questions.
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True.
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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.
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Solution Focused Therapy Founders:
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Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kimberg
