Principles & Techniques of Counseling (Chp. 8)

Therapists' goals in working with clients' eliciting maneuvers include all of the following EXCEPT:

provide the familiar responses the client expects and usually receives

When clients successfully utilize eliciting maneuvers with the therapist:

the client attains protection from the core conflict and no effective change

The most important source of information about clients and what their interpersonal style tends to elicit from others is:

All of the choices are correct

Which of the following statements is true in regards to transference? Selected:

All of the choices are correct

The therapist's ability to respond to both sides of clients' core conflicts will:

Both clarify the ambivalence that has made decisions difficult and help clients to have compassion for themselves are correct

In order to formulate an interpersonal conceptualization, which of the following questions are least important for the therapist to answer?

What is the client's previous psychiatric diagnosis and/or medical history?

When therapists become inappropriately over-identified with certain clients, they ________.

are enmeshed with their clients

Clients' eliciting maneuvers tend to evoke certain similar reactions in the therapist and others are referred to as:

client induced countertransference

A client's "testing" of the therapist is most likely to occur:

during the initial sessions

Interpersonal strategies that ward off anxiety and brings about certain desired, safe responses from others is called a(n) :

eliciting maneuver

When clients have been enmeshed with their families of origin, clients need therapists to do the following:

establish boundaries

Understanding both sides of their conflicts empowers clients to:

exercise more choice over what they will change and what they will accommodate to

If therapists try to elicit the client's subjective reactions and perceptions of the therapist:

important information concerning clients' relational templates or therapist reenactment may be revealed

When clients begin talking about others rather than themselves, the therapeutic process becomes repetitive or intellectualized, or clients become compliant or lose their initiative:

the client's conflict is being reenacted

Clients' conflicts are two-sided, and therapists will be effective when they respond to:

the feelings that accompany both sides

A client's inability to act or change results from:

the push-pull nature of conflict

Therapists can tell they have effectively "passed" important tests from clients by:

tracking moment-to-moment interaction sequences of how the client responds to what the therapist just said

Recognizing the ______ structure of conflicts will enable therapists to respond to the ______ that has immobilized the client and prevented change from occurring.

two-sided; ambivalence

A common way in which clients' conflicts are reenacted in the therapeutic process is:

when therapists view their clients' problems and lives as being too similar to their own

Clients "test" their therapist to ascertain:

whether the therapist will respond in the familiar but problematic