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Clinical and Counseling Questions
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
05/22/2014

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Fictional finalism is an Adlerian term meaning:
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An imagined central goal that guides behavior
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Which child is most likely to demand center stage, tends to have difficulties in life when she is no longer the center of attention, and is likely to become dependently tied to the mother?
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The only child
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The client's core experience in Adlerian therapy consists of:
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discovering their basic mistakes and then learning how to correct them
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The Adlerian approach is well suited to multicultural counseling because:
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the approach encourages clients to define themselves within their social context
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True or false? Encouragement is a part of the Adlerian counseling process.
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True
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The basic goal of existential psychotherapy is:
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all of the above
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The central issue in existential therapy is:
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transference
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According the existentialists, our search for meaning involves all of these except:
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exploring unfinished business.
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True or false? The outcomes of existential therapy have been submitted to rigorous empirical testing.
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False
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True or false? Existential therapists strive to be their authentic selves when working with clients.
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True
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True or false? In the existential approach, techniques are primary, while subjective understanding of clients is secondary.
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False
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Existential therapy is unlike many other therapies in that:
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it does not have a well defined set of techniques
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The goals of existential therapy include all but ________
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helping clients to eliminate anxiety in their lives
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What is the most important factor to related progress in person-centerted therapy?
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the clients motivation for change
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The person-centerted therapist is best described as a :
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facilitator
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Which of the following personal characteristics of the therapist is most important, according to Rogers?
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Unconditional positive regard
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Carl Rogers drew heavily from existential concepts, especially as they apply to:
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the client/therapist relationship
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According to Carl Rogers, the 3 core conditions that create a growth-promoting climate are:
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congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathic understanding
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According to existentialists, our search for meaning involves all of these except:
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exploring unfinished business
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The goals of existential therapy include all but _______?
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helping clients to eliminate anxiety in their lives
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From a multicultural perspective, some clients may reject this approach because:
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their life circumstances provide them with truly limited choices
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Behavior therapy is associated with all but one of the following:
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a philosophical view of human behavior
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The main goal of Behavior Therapy is
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Assisting clients in making value judgements concerning their behavior
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Which of the following is not true about how behavior therapists function in the therapeutic setting?
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They systematically assess for information about all aspects of the problem
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Which anxiety reduction technique involves creating a hierarchy of the client's fearful experiences?
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Systematic desensitization
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In working with diverse clients, strengths of the behavior approach include:
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all of the above
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Self-management strategies include:
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all of the above
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The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses:
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thinking judging, analyzing, and doing
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Which of the following is true about the relationship between a client and a rational emotive behavior therapist?
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Therapists make value judgements in helping their clients gain insight
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In cognitive therapy, therapy techniques are designed to:
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Assist individuals in making alternative interpretations of events in their daily living
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A noteworthy strength of cognitive behavioral approaches is:
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They are well0suited to clients who have difficulty with abstraction
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Reality therapy rests on the central idea that:
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We choose our behavior and are responsible for what we do, think, and feel.
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All of the following are procedures that are commonly used in reality therapy except:
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exploring and early recollections
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In reality therapy the purpose of developing an action plan is
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to encourage clients to stretch beyond their limits and to teach clients to think big
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Describe 3 of the techniques used in Behavior or Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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1. Helping clients focus on positives, not negative points
2. Altering the clients mind to help them focus on making a better future
3. Making the client comfortable with themselves
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From the perspective of feminist therapy, the socialization of women inevitably affects their:
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all of these
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Feminist therapists, regardless of their philosophical orientation, believe all of the following except that:
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human development and interaction are similar across races, cultures, and nations
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Which of the following feminist principles implies that what has been typically viewed as individual clients' personal problems are really socially and politically caused?
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The person is political
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After having a bad therapeutic experience with a mental health professional who patholiogized her anxiety over financial issues, Lillian decided to consult with a feminist therapist. How is her new therapist likely to via her anxiety symptoms?
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as a sign of distress rather than psychopathology
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The preferred alternative to traditional diagnosis and assessment of feminist therapists is:
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power analysis and gender role analysis
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Of the following, which is one of the major contributions that feminists have made to the field of counseling?
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Paving the way for gender sensitive practice
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A limit of the feminist approach from a diversity perspective is:
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the tendency to impose upon a client personal values that may not be consistent with the clients cultural framework
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