Principles of Psychotherapy Study Guide Questions
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Principles of Psychotherapy introduces students to the foundational concepts, theories, and practices underlying therapeutic interventions for mental health and emotional disorders. The course explores various schools of psychotherapy, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and integrative approaches, emphasizing their theoretical frameworks, methods, and applications. Students will examine the therapeutic relationship, ethical considerations, and cultural factors influencing treatment, as well as evidence-based strategies for assessment and intervention. Through case studies and practical examples, learners gain insight into the processes of engagement, goal setting, and outcome evaluation within diverse clinical settings.
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Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy 9th Edition by Gerald Corey
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
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Q1) Those practicing brief therapy are in business to change clients,to give them quick advice,and to solve their problems for them.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Michael White and David Epston are the major figures associated with narrative therapy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) An integrative perspective is not developed in a random fashion.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) With respect to mastering the techniques of counseling and applying them appropriately and effectively,it is Corey's belief that you are your own very best technique.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Counselor: Person and Professional
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Q1) In the text,all of the following are listed as characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic person except:
A)counselors have a sense of humor.
B)counselors no longer have to cope with personal problems.
C)counselors feel alive and their choices are life-oriented.
D)counselors make mistakes and they are willing to admit them.
E)counselors appreciate the influence of culture.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements about theories or models of counseling/ psychotherapy is true?
A)Extensive research has shown that certain popular models of psychotherapy are "wrong."
B)There is a clear place for theoretical pluralism in our society.
C)Accepting the validity of one model implies rejecting the validity of other models.
D)Theoretical pluralism has been frowned on by several major professional organizations.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Counseling Practice
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Q1) __________________ is the view of ethical practice that deals with the minimum level of professional practice.
A)Mandatory ethics
B)Minimal ethics
C)Positive ethics
D)Aspirational ethics
Answer: A
Q2) Both feminist therapists and postmodern therapists tend to view diagnosis as it is traditionally done:
A)as an appropriate part of counseling sessions.
B)as generally helpful to women clients.
C)as an essential part of the medical model they follow.
D)as often oppressive and ignoring of societal contexts.
Answer: D
Q3) Evidence-based practice is a potent force in psychotherapeutic practice today,and it may mandate the types of treatments therapists can offer in the future.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Psychoanalytic Therapy
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Q1) The primary aim of time limited dynamic psychotherapy is to:
A)explore sources of childhood trauma.
B)deal exclusively with a single presenting problem.
C)change the client's repetitive patterns of relating to others.
D)bring about catharsis.
Q2) Jacqueline feels guilty whenever she considers taking a day off from work for personal reasons.Which of the psychic structures postulated by Freud is fueling her guilt feelings?
A)The id
B)The ego
C)The superego
Q3) A more flexible variant of psychoanalysis is:
A)psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy
B)psychoanalytically oriented reality therapy
C)superego-oriented psychotherapy
D)psychoanalytic behavior analysis
Q4) Ego-defense mechanisms,by their very nature,imply psychopathology.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Adlerian Therapy
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Q1) Adlerians emphasize reeducating people and reshaping society.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Adler stressed that our desire to strive for perfection is learned from our parents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) From the Adlerian perspective,objective reality is more important than how we interpret reality and the meanings we attach to what we experience.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following techniques is not used in Adlerian family counseling?
A)the initial interview
B)paradoxical interventions
C)analyzing resistances between members of the family
D)making an appraisal
E)all are used
Q5) Encouragement is a part of the Adlerian counseling process.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Existential Therapy
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Q1) This approach puts emphasis on the therapist as a person and the quality of the client/therapist relationship as one of the prime factors in determining the outcomes of therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which technique is considered essential in existential therapy?
A)free association
B)analysis of resistance
C)analysis of dysfunctional family patterns
D)role playing
E)none of these
Q3) According to Yalom,the concern(s)that make(s)up the core of existential psychodynamics is/are:
A)death.
B)freedom.
C)isolation.
D)meaninglessness.
E)all of these.
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Chapter 7: Person-Centered Therapy
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Q1) According to Rogerian therapy,an "internal source of evaluation" is defined as:
A)internalizing the validation one receives from others.
B)looking more to oneself for the answers to the problems of existence.
C)going on one's instincts when judging the behavior of others.
D)a neurotic tendency to be self-critical.
E)a success identity.
Q2) Carl Rogers is often called the "father of psychotherapy research."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Arguably,the most central limitation of the person centered approach is:
A)their view of assessment and diagnosis.
B)the therapist's limitations as a person.
C)shortcomings of the studies of the approach.
D)the continual evolution of the approach leads to unclear therapeutic principles.
Q4) Students of the person-centered approach sometimes have difficulty letting clients truly find their own way and make decisions in an unassisted fashion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Gestalt Therapy
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Q1) The empty chair technique:
A)assists clients in reowning parts of their personality.
B)balances internal polarities.
C)allows clients to externalize an introject.
D)helps to resolve unfinished business.
E)all of these.
Q2) Gestalt therapies view a client's avoidance behavior as related to unfinished business.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Field theory suggests that:
A)the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
B)human beings have a innate capacity to self regulate.
C)everything in human experience is relational and in constant flux.
D)phenomenological inquiry is the key to behavior change.
E)the "how" of behavior is more important than the "why" of behavior.
Q4) Most of the Gestalt techniques are designed to intensify one's experiencing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Behavior Therapy
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Q1) Which of the following is true about "technical eclecticism" in multimodal therapy?
A)Therapists borrow techniques exclusively from the social learning model.
B)Therapists use techniques from various theoretical models without subscribing to the theory.
C)The client is fit into a predetermined treatment.
D)It is considered confusing to the client.
E)It essentially gives therapists permission to use techniques and strategies in a haphazard and sloppy manner.
Q2) Behavior therapists look to the current environmental events that maintain problem behaviors and help clients produce behavior change by changing environmental events,through a process called:
A)functional assessment.
B)motivational interviewing.
C)mindfulness-based stress reduction.
D)reorientation.
E)biofeedback.
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Chapter 10: Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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Q1) There is little empirical support for the application of the cognitive behavioral approach to group counseling.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Cognitive restructuring plays an important role in whose approach to therapy?
A)Albert Ellis
B)Donald Meichenbaum
C)A.T.Beck
D)Judith Beck
E)all of these
Q3) The cognitive-behavioral therapies are largely based on the idea that the reorganization of clients' self-statements is a key to changing their behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ellis contends that research has shown that REBT is effective in helping all types of clients.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Reality Therapy
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Q1) Which of the following procedures would a reality therapist be least likely to employ?
A)self-help procedures
B)the use of humor
C)homework assignments
D)asking a client to emotionally reexperience a childhood experience
E)asking questions to get a better sense of the client's inner world
Q2) Reality therapy is best described as:
A)an intensive and long-term therapy.
B)a rational therapy.
C)an insight therapy.
D)a short-term therapy that stresses doing.
E)an experiential therapy stressing feelings and attitudes.
Q3) Reality therapy rests on the central idea that:
A)thinking largely determines how we feel and behave.
B)we choose our behavior and are responsible for what we do,think,and feel.
C)environmental factors largely control what we are doing.
D)the way to change dysfunctional behavior is to reexperience a situation in which we originally became psychologically stuck.
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Chapter 12: Feminist Therapy
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Q1) According to the relational-cultural model,a woman's sense of self depends largely on how she connects with others.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following interventions involves a shift from "blaming the victim" to consideration of social factors in the environment that contribute to a client's problem?
A)paradoxical intention
B)reframing
C)relabeling
D)gender-role analysis
Q3) The preferred alternative to traditional diagnosis and assessment of feminist therapists is:
A)power analysis.
B)gender role analysis.
C)lifestyle analysis.
D)analysis of transference and resistance.
Q4) Feminist therapists restrict their practices to women clients.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Postmodern Approaches
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Q1) From a social constructionist perspective,change begins with:
A)deconstructing the power of cultural narratives.
B)understanding the roots of a problem.
C)the therapist's skill in using confrontational techniques.
D)understanding and accepting objective reality.
E)disputing irrational beliefs.
Q2) All are true of solution-focused brief therapists except that they:
A)have little interest in a client exploring past problems.
B)focus on the client's early childhood experiences.
C)believe that the cause of a problem is not necessarily related to its solution.
D)expect that two clients may have different solutions to the same problem.
Q3) A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client,a compulsive shopper,which of the following questions?
A)Who has the best shoe sale this week,Macy's or Nordstrom's?
B)If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight,how would you know it was solved,and what would be different?
C)Who in your family is most affected when you go on a spending spree?
D)At what point in your life did you develop this fixation on shopping?
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Chapter 14: Family Systems Therapy
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Q1) The focus of strategic family therapy is on growth and resolving historical conflicts in a family rather than on dealing with present problems of a family.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A major contribution of Whitaker's approach to family therapy is:
A)birth order as a determinant of personality.
B)differentiation of the self.
C)genogram work.
D)spontaneity,creativity,and play as therapeutic factors in family therapy.
E)the use of bibliotherapy as an adjunct to treatment.
Q3) Minuchin and other structural family therapists initiated their work with wealthy suburban clients.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Bowenian therapists function in ways to bring about change through action-oriented directives and paradoxical interventions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: An Integrative Perspective
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Q1) Adlerian therapy emphasizes the individual's:
A)positive capacities to live in society cooperatively.
B)quality world.
C)irrational,crooked thinking.
D)polarities.
Q2) Empowerment and egalitarianism are the basis of the ________ therapeutic relationship.
A)existential
B)feminist
C)Gestalt
D)psychoanalytic
Q3) Which of the following therapies is most recommended for the treatment of phobic disorders?
A)behavior therapy
B)narrative therapy
C)existential therapy
D)rational emotive behavior therapy
E)solution-focused brief therapy
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Chapter 16: Case Illustration: an Integrative Approach to
Working With Stan
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Q1) Stan makes conclusions without supporting and relevant evidence.He often engages in catastrophizing,which involves thinking about the worst possible scenario and outcome for a given situation.This is an example of which form of cognitive distortion?
A)arbitrary inferences
B)overgeneralization
C)personalization
D)labeling and mislabeling
E)polarized thinking
Q2) A therapist who asks Stan where his tension is located in his body and who encourages him to "be that feeling" is aligned theoretically with which model of therapy?
A)the feminist approach
B)the Gestalt approach
C)family systems therapy
D)cognitive therapy
E)brief psychodynamic therapy
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