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Question
Clients' conflicts are two-sided, and therapists will be effective when:a. They respond to the most intense emotion.
b. They respond to both sides, but emphasize the side that is causing the most problems.
c. They respond to the feelings that accompany both sides.
d. They respond to the initial feeling.
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a. Pointing out when and how clients employ their coping strategies.
b. Helping clients become aware of how they block their own needs and feelings.
c. Helping clients explore why they become anxious at a particular time.
d. All of the above are correct.
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When therapists become inappropriately over-identified with certain clients, they ________.
a. are enmeshed with their clients
b. are disengaged from their clients
c. are detached from their clients
d. have destroyed any hope of regaining appropriate balance in the therapeutic relationship
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When clients successfully utilize eliciting maneuvers with the therapist:
a. The client attains protection from the core conflict and no effective change.
b. The client attains protection from the core conflict and effective change within the therapeutic relationship.
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d. Must explain what this means.
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a. self-esteem
b. mastery and control
c. self-efficacy
d. false pride and entitlement
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According to Horney, a client who is always sensitive to the needs of others, committed to the ideals of peace and harmony, and wins needed approval from others is defending against a blocked need by:
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b. Moving against adaptation.
c. Moving toward adaptation.
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The most significant way to achieve a flexible interpersonal range that will allow therapists to respond to the diversity of problems that clients present, therapists must:
a. Train for many hours under direct supervision.
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a. Avoid any situations requiring them to act responsibly.
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d. Will be inattentive and unresponsive to the therapist.
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Therapists can develop credibility when working with diverse clients by:
a. responding in a manner that is congruent with the client's worldview.
b. show they are trustworthy by setting therapeutic goals in a knowledgeable way for the client.
c. show they are trustworthy by collaborating with clients on therapeutic goal setting.
d. Both a & c are correct.
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A common reason therapists resist focusing the client inward is:
a. Some clients will become angry as they are encouraged to explore conflicts.
b. They want to maintain client approval.
c. That they confuse being direct with being critical, blaming, or non-supportive.
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Attachment theorists believe that "joining" a client where they are:
a. is a type of effective sensitive attunement.
b. is more important to the client than giving an intelligent solution to their problem.
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Before clients can adopt new, more effective responses to old problems, they must:
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By identifying the enduring issues that arise for the client, the therapist will be better prepared to:
a. Terminate treatment in a timely manner.
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c. Maintain a detached position in the therapeutic relationship.
d. Center treatment around these repeated themes.
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b. desire for help/fear and shame
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d. depression/help-seeking
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One of the best ways to evaluate the success of an initial interview is for therapists to ask themselves:
a. "Was I able to create a corrective emotional experience for my client?"
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c. "Was I able to listen to my client without responding emotionally to his/her experience?"
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b. To say "I know just what you mean."
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a. Actively encourage or facilitate the client's participation and initiative.
b. Ask the client to provide more historical information.
c. Lead the client towards more affectively relevant material.
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The Interpersonal Process approach is designed for a treatment length of:
a. Six to eighteen months.
b. Three to five months.
c. One to three years.
d. Any period of time.
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c. Transference
d. Client response specificity.
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The Interpersonal Process Approach is based on which three theories?
a. Psychodynamic, Object Relations, and Behavioral.
b. Interpersonal, Object Relations, and Family Systems.
c. Family Systems, Behavioral, and Psychodynamic.
d. Interpersonal, Behavioral, and Family Systems.
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According to Harry S. Sullivan's Interpersonal Therapy:
a. Personality is a formative tendency to move toward self-actualization.
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d. Personality is a formative tendency to remake or rediscover the self through interpersonal relationships.
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A "differentiated sense of self" is defined as:
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b. a sense of self that includes taking others' advice into consideration.
c. a sense of self that connects to a coherent, reflective inner voice that is the foundation for self-efficacy.
d. All of the above are correct.
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The most challenging arena of change for the client is:
a. the relationship between client and therapist.
b. relationships with developmental figures with whom the conflicts originally arose.
c. relationships with primary others with whom conflict is currently being lived out.
d. Both b and c are correct.
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When client conflicts are replayed in the therapeutic relationship, and are consequently made overt, beginning therapists commonly feel ________.
a. Inadequate
b. enlivened
c. powerful
d. prepared
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When therapists and clients collude to deny or avoid the impending separation:
a. Clients' fears of abandonment are healed.
b. Therapists may be acting out their own separation anxieties.
c. Therapists are eliminating the problem of reenacting the client's generic conflict.
d. Clients' initial presenting symptoms may return.
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Two guidelines for helping clients work through family of origin issues are:
a. For clients to change how they respond to current interactions with family members and for clients to grieve what they have missed developmentally.
b. For clients to get angry and blame their abusive parents and for clients to confront their parental figures directly.
c. For clients to learn more assertive communication styles and for them to approach their parental figures directly in order to openly discuss their childhood issues.
d. None of the above are guidelines for helping clients.
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Being direct in therapy can arouse feelings in therapists about issues of ________ and ________.
a. self-involvement / self-disclosure
b. depression / safety
c. therapist hostility / client vulnerability
d. Both a and c are correct
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A common reason beginning therapists may find it anxiety arousing to directly address the current interaction between them and their clients are:
a. It does not facilitate immediacy.
b. A history of depression in their family of origin.
c. Fear of trespassing social norms and cultural expectations.
d. A pattern of permissive parenting.