HUMS102 Study guide
__________ is at the core of feminist therapy and marked by authenticity, mutuality, and respect.
The egalitarian relationship
Which of the following is MOST true about confidentiality and informed consent?
It is the responsibility of the practitioner to be sure the client understands written or spoken communication about confidentiality and consent.
Which of the following is NOT an example of empathy?
Taking on some else's pain
Which of the following self-disclosure statements is appropriate?
Telling a client that you are of the same faith after ascertaining that the reason he is asking is that he only feels safe speaking to those who understand his faith and faith-related terminology.
__________ tend to result in women giving away their power in relationships, often without being aware of it.
Socialization patterns
Which of the following is NOT an open-ended question?
"Do you prefer living with your mother or your father?"
Which of the following statements is an example of expressing empathy?
"It sounds like you were really hurt by what she said."
Your client tells you that his wife is quite ill and that he is worried about her. Which of the following is NOT an appropriate response?
"My wife also has cancer, so I know how you feel."
Which of the following is NOT an appropriate closing statement?
"Okay, sorry to interrupt, but we're out of time now. I can see you have a problem keeping track of time."
What emotions do clients usually experience in the first meeting?
Anxiety and nervousness
When clients feel safe and accepted by the practitioner, they may likely:
Be open to exploring their problems and willing to collaborate with the practitioner.
Which of the following is NOT an example of reflecting content?
Client: Mom is sick a lot. It's awful at my house. Practitioner: It sounds like you're really scared and sad about your mom.
A practitioner wants to prepare for the next client session. Which of the following is NOT one of the things she/he would do?
Develop goals for the client to achieve based on the referral information.
Which of the following is NOT included in the text's description of personality?
Emotions
Feminist therapists do not tend to engage in self-disclosure because of their concern over unduly influencing the client.
False
One of the tasks of practitioners using the resilience perspective is to have clients dwell on past failures since mistakes are windows of learning.
False
There is an imbalance of power or authority in the typical practitioner-client relationship, with the client wielding more power.
False
Which of the following is NOT a way in which you should advocate for your clients?
Filing a lawsuit on behalf of your client.
Our family teaches us all of the following EXCEPT
How to determine if our personal experiences are universal truths.
Which of the following is NOT an example of a personal construct?
I like eating apples.
Core interpersonal qualities essential for the development of a good working relationship between clients and practitioners include all of the following EXCEPT:
Indifference.
Your friend calls you and tells you that his therapist is suggesting cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). You mention that you have been learning CBT at your practicum and that it is an empirically validated therapy. Your friend then asks if you would be willing to conduct phone therapy with him, and he would be willing to pay you to be his therapist. He feels that, because you have known him for a long time, you will be better able to understand his situation than his new therapist. What would be an appropriate response?
It's actually against my code of ethics to enter into professional relationships with friends, I think you should work with your current therapist, and I would be happy to support you as a friend.
____________ is important in the meaning-making process, since it influences perceptions of self and world.
Language
Preparing mentally for a session includes:
Letting go of distracting thoughts and getting ready to fully focus on the client.
With regards to your profession, your personal values affect all of the following EXCEPT:
Licensing requirements.
Which of the following is an example of an inappropriate self-disclosure by a practitioner?
Personal decisions of the practitioner that reflect the practitioner's values and might influence the client
Nonverbal communication includes all of the following EXCEPT:
unclear words
Which of the following orientations avoids exploring problems, and instead, focuses on creating solutions in the present and the future?
Solution focused therapy
What is the essential factor in a client's success?
The relationship with the practitioner.
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of family rules?
They change from generation to generation.
Why are careful observations important?
They supplement wha the client tells you verbally.
One of the key contributions of most systemic approaches is that neither the individual nor the family is blamed for a particular dysfunction.
True
The dual perspective recognizes that life is viewed differently by people in marginalized groups since culture maintains the dominant group's power by objectifying the "other."
True
_____________________ is an essential step toward understanding others.
Understanding and accepting yourself
Members of the dominant culture have ____________ privileges that they perceive as normal or expected.
unearned
Regarding culture, it is important for the practitioner to
accept that how he/she sees the world is only one way of many equally valid ways of viewing the world.
Existential therapy is best considered as:
an approach to understand the subjective world of the client.
Goal setting requires all of the following EXCEPT:
an exhaustive list of goals created by the practitioner.
The following are all examples of ways in which we can gain self-understanding, EXCEPT
assuming that other people need to change to adapt to our views.
Attending involves:
being completely focused on the client.
Partializing involves:
breaking a complex problem into manageable parts.
Expressing empathy means:
communicating an understanding of another person's experience, behavior, viewpoint, meanings, and/or feelings.
Gender is a _____________ based concept.
culturally
Practitioners using the resilience framework with clients will help them to:
develop a positive outlook on life and help them to increase their awareness of strengths and competencies.
Scope of practice involves:
knowing what activities, knowledge, and skills identified by licensing boards and professional organizations relate to your discipline.
To maintain boundaries, the practitioner needs to:
explain the rules of a professional relationship to client at the beginning of the relationship.
Some of the firmest constructs of the self are developed ________________.
in childhood.
All of the following are ways of perceiving self and others EXCEPT:
individualistic perspective.
The systems perspective implies:
individuals are best understood through the context of their role in their family.
Constructs are often difficult to change because:
individuals experience their ideas as truth.
According to psychoanalytic therapy, human beings are:
influenced by the subconscious and early experiences with caregivers
Heterosexism and homophobia are
institutionalized in most systems and manifested in cultural behaviors and norms.
With regards to ethical codes, practitioners are responsible for all of the following EXCEPT:
only following agency rules if there is a conflict between those rules and the ethical code.
Socioeconomic class influences all of the following EXCEPT
our sexual orientation.
Commonalities among the ethical codes in the various helping disciplines include all of the following EXCEPT:
payment.
It is essential that your _____ guide your behavior as a practitioner, even when your _____ clash with them.
professional ethics; personal values.
Professional behavior should be guided by:
professional values and ethical guidelines.
Cultural competence is:
the application of cultural knowledge to the standards, practices, policies, and attitudes in the helping process.
Our perceptions of truth depend on
the beliefs we hold.
Which of the following is an example of a multiple relationship?
the client is the practitioner's dentist, and their children are on the same swim team.
Feminism, multiculturalism, and postmodern social constructionism have all entered the family therapy field. These models are more collaborative, treating clients as:
the experts in their own lives
Communication patterns include all of the following EXCEPT
the number of languages a client can speak.
A limitation of the family systems model is:
therapists all too often get lost in their consideration of the "system."
The most important reason for offering a reflecting comment is:
to let the client know that she/he is understood.
__________ is based on the assumption that the personal or individual problems individuals bring to counseling originate in a political and social context.
The personal is political
What is the most important factor related to progress in person-centered therapy?
The relationship between the client and therapist
Which statement(s) is (are) true of the person-centered approach?
The techniques a therapist uses are less important than his or her attitudes.
Which of the following is false as it applies to the practice of solution-focused brief therapy?
Using techniques in therapy is a way of discounting a client's capacity to find his or her own way.
The correct components of the A-B-C theory of personality are:
activating event, belief, consequence.
The cognitive distortion of making conclusions without supporting and relevant evidence is:
arbitrary inferences.
In cognitive therapy, techniques are designed to:
assist individuals to dispel self-defeating cognitions and to teach people how to acquire a rational approach to living.
It is within the scope of SFBT practice to allow for some discussion of __________ to validate clients' experience.
behavioral issues in the past
Narrative therapists attempt to do all of the following except:
encourage free association
All are true of solution-focused brief therapists except that they:
focus on the client's early childhood experiences.
Feminist therapists, regardless of their philosophical orientation, believe all of the following except that:
human development and interaction are similar across races, cultures, and nations.
The main function of the ego is to:
mediate between the instincts and the surrounding environment.
In regards to techniques, existential practitioners believe:
no set of techniques is considered essential.
The process of holding extreme beliefs on the basis of a single incident and applying them inappropriately to dissimilar events or settings is known as:
overgeneralization.
The tendency for individuals to relate external events to themselves, even when there is no basis for making this connection, is known as:
personalization.
Solution-focused brief therapy has parallels with______________, which concentrates on what is right and what is working for people rather than dwelling on deficits, weaknesses, and problems.
positive psychology
A main task of the narrative therapist is to help clients construct a:
preferred story line.
The postmodern view incorporates all of the following concepts except for the notion that:
reality is objectively defined.
All of the following are goals of feminist therapy except for:
resolving intrapsychic conflicts from early childhood.
The cognitive distortion that consists of forming conclusions based on an isolated detail of an event is:
selective abstraction.
A potential limitation of the person-centered approach is:
that some students-in-training and practitioners may have a tendency to be very supportive of clients without being challenging.
The solution-focused brief therapy therapeutic process rests on the foundation that clients are:
the experts on their own lives.
Although feminist therapy shares many of the premises of person-centered therapy, feminist therapy does not agree with the notion that:
the therapeutic relationship is, in and of itself, sufficient to produce change.
The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses:
thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing.
In regards to brief therapy, the average length of therapy is __________, with the most common length being only one session.
three to eight sessions
All of the following are techniques used in solution-focused therapy exceptfor:
using the reflecting team
All of the following are statements that might be made by clients in the contemplation stage of change EXCEPT:
"I really think that my wife is overreacting. Sure, we have our little disagreements now and then, but I think these issues are normal and are found in every marriage."
The following are examples of questions to ask to begin exploring a client's strengths EXCEPT:
"What brings you in today?"
Which of the following is NOT an example of giving feedback?
"You seem to feel this way about your daughter because your mother felt this way about you."
Asking questions without first expressing understanding may be experienced as:
"grilling" or interrogative.
Which of the following therapies emphasizes that a person's belief system is the cause of emotional problems?
Cognitive behavior therapy
Which statement most closely reflects the philosophy of feminist therapy?
Constructs of feminist therapy include being gender-fair, flexible, interactionist, and life-span oriented.
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the person-centered approach?
Emphasis is given to developing a contract for therapy.
Which of the following approaches to therapy stresses understanding the client first and technique second?
Existential therapy
__________ is built on the premise that it is essential to consider the social, cultural, and political context that contributes to a person's problems in order to understand that person.
Feminist counseling
Which of the following individuals is not associated with family therapy?
Fritz Perls
Which of the following personal characteristics of the therapist is most important, according to Carl Rogers?
Genuineness
Which of the following approaches to therapy is especially well suited for the initial phases of crisis intervention work?
Person-centered therapy
Which of the following approaches to therapy stresses the attitude of the therapist over the use of techniques?
Person-centered therapy
A practitioner who is NOT showing respect to clients could be doing which of the following?
Providing answers and advice that the client did not ask for
Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of a MAPS goal?
Simple
Why is it important for goals to be measurable and specific?
So it is possible to evaluate whether the goals have been achieved.
Why are goals important?
They set the direction and focus of the work to be done.
During times of crisis, which of the following is one thing that practitioners should NOT do?
Work on deep-seated and subconscious personality issues
From the family systems perspective, symptoms are often viewed as:
an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family
Person-centered therapy puts faith in the client's:
capacity for self-direction.
When __________ occurs, a ripple effect flows throughout the family system.
change
Beck's cognitive therapy has been most widely applied to the treatment of:
depression.
The process of coming to an agreement about problems and goals involves:
doing a thoughtful and complete assessment.
The person-centered approach's view of human nature:
emphasizes clients' abilities to engage their own resources to act in their world with others.
From the feminist perspective, the socialization of women with multiple social identities inevitably affects all of the following, except:
engendered lives.
Seeking clarification encourages clients to:
explain their experience in depth or with more specific details.
With regards to readiness for change, skillful practitioners ___________________ before deciding how to proceed in working with clients.
explore clients' level of readiness and motivation
The person-centered therapist is best described as a:
facilitator.
If we hope to work therapeutically with an individual, it is critical to consider him or her within the:
family system.
Willingness to explore more deeply is generally based on:
feeling comfortable or safe with the practitioner.
The characteristic existential theme includes:
freedom and responsibility.
According to the existential viewpoint, death:
gives significance to living.
Characteristics of a self-actualized person include all of the following, except:
has artificial dichotomies within himself or herself.
The central goal of existential psychotherapy is to:
increase awareness.
From a person-centered perspective, the best source of knowledge about the client is the:
individual client.
Existential therapy can be especially helpful for:
individuals facing a transition in life.
Beck's cognitive therapy involves all of the concepts below except:
lifestyle assessment.
The basic aim of psychoanalytic therapy is to:
make the unconscious motives conscious.
Evidence suggesting the concept of the unconscious includes all of the following except:
material derived from introspective techniques.
Person-centered therapy is best described as a:
philosophy of how the therapy process develops.
The type of cognitive error that involves thinking and interpreting in all-or-nothing terms, or in categorizing experiences in either/or extremes, is known as:
polarized thinking.
The stages of change, in order, are:
precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
Attributing to others the qualities or traits that are unacceptable to our own ego is best described as:
projection.
Clients' generally feel more comfortable when the practitioner is genuine. This means the practitioner is:
relaxed, sincere, and focused on the client.
One of the most important Freudian concepts, which consists of pushing unacceptable life events and painful feelings into the unconscious, is:
repression.
Family therapy perspectives call for a conceptual shift from evaluating individuals to focusing on:
system dynamics.
One of the techniques used by behavior therapists in dealing with a client's anxiety is:
systematic desensitization.
Feminist therapists have been critical of mental health diagnosis labels. This critique is based on research indicating all of the following may influence assessment of clients' symptoms, except:
the DSM.
The one central principle agreed upon by family therapy practitioners, regardless of their particular approach, is that:
the client is connected to living systems.
The purposes of advanced reflecting are:
to help clients recognize what they really value and to invite them to have insight, self-awareness, and/or deeper understanding of their situation.
