Psychotherapy

Both family therapy and feminist therapy are based on the premise that to understand the individual it is essential to take into consideration the interpersonal dimensions and the sociocultural context rather than focusing primarily on the intrapsychic domain.

True

Confidentiality can be considered an absolute.​

True

Contemporary therapy approaches are grounded on a core set of values, which are neither value-neutral nor applicable to all cultures.​

True

Counselors from all cultural groups must examine their expectations, attitudes, biases, and assumptions about the counseling process and about persons from diverse groups.​

True

Human change is complex and difficult to measure beyond such a simplistic level that the change may be meaningless.​

True

If you are successful in establishing boundaries in various aspects of your personal life, you have a good foundation for creating sound boundaries with clients.​

True

It is not our function to persuade clients to accept or adopt our value system.​

True

Reality therapy is based on choice theory and focuses on the client assuming responsibility in the present.​

True

Rudolf Dreikurs is credited with popularizing the Adlerian approach in the United States.​

True

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.

True

An authentic counselor is best described as: ​

being willing to look at his or her own life and make the changes wanted; he or she can model that process to be the way it is revealed to the client.

Overemphasizing cultural differences is always appropriate in a counseling context.​

False

In becoming an ethical practitioner, a crucial task is to:

exercise prudent judgment when it comes to interpreting and applying ethical principles to specific situations.

Which of the following is not a method of increasing effectiveness in working with diverse client populations? ​

Realize that practicing from a multicultural perspective will probably make your job very difficult

Which of the following statements best describes the author's view of the medical model?

​ A focus on the medical model restricts therapeutic practice because it stresses deficits rather than strengths.

With regard to the role of counselors' personal values in therapy, it is appropriate for counselors to: ​

​ Avoid imposing their values through a process of bracketing.

​ Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?

​ Family systems therapy

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?​

​ Help her to clarify the range of her choices in light of her own values.

Which humanistic approach places emphasis on the basic attitudes of the therapist? ​

​ Person-centered therapy

Confidentiality must be breached and information must be reported by practitioners when all of the following take place, except: ​

​ a child under the age of 16 requests counseling sessions.

In the text, all of the following are listed as characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic person except: ​

​ counselors no longer have to cope with personal problems.

Presenting one model to which all trainees subscribe is:

​ dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in working with a diverse range of future clients.

According to the text, personal values of the counselor influence all of the following, except:​

​ how the clients' life progressed prior to treatment.

The author makes a case for:​

​ initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations and then learning a particular approach by becoming steeped in that approach for some time.

​ In the text, one reason given for having counseling students receive some form of psychotherapy is to help them:

​ learn to deal with transference and countertransference.

Clients have a right to know about __________ before making highly personal disclosures. ​

​ limits of confidentiality

​ Regarding psychotherapy treatment outcome, research suggests all of the following except:

​ therapy techniques are the key component of successful treatment.

According to the text, positive ethics is an approach taken by practitioners: ​

​ who want to do their best for clients rather than simply meet minimum standards to stay out of trouble.

​ Which of the following is not a factor that oftentimes limits our freedom of choice?

​Internal

​ __________ is a legal concept that protects clients from having their confidential communications revealed in court without their permission.

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