PYCL 502 Ch 2 The Counselor person and Professional

______________________ refer to aspects such as the alliance, the relationship, the personal and interpersonal skills of the therapist, client agency, and extra-therapeutic factors.

Contextual Factors

Clients place more value on the specific techniques used rather than on the personality of the therapist.

False

If clients express a desire for you to give them answers, you should do so.

False

Judging the appropriate amount of self-disclosure is only a problem for new counselors.

False

As a therapist, it is your function to persuade clients to accept or adopt your value system since it has been perfected through years of training.

True

Empirical research strongly and consistently supports the centrality of the therapeutic relationship as a primary factor contributing to psychotherapy outcomes.

True

If counselors hide behind the safety of their professional role, their clients will likely keep themselves hidden in therapy.

True

It is a professional obligation, and an ethical obligation, for counselors to develop a sensitivity to their clients' cultural differences.

True

Meta-analyses of studies on therapeutic effectiveness have shown that techniques have relatively little effect on therapeutic outcome.

True

Most beginning counselors have ambivalent feelings when meeting their first clients.

True

A counselor trainee makes the following comment in class: "I would never work with a counselor who has been a client in counseling! If they can't handle their own problems, how could they possibly be effective in helping others?" What would be an appropriate response on the part of the instructor?

a. "Our own work as a client can teach us valuable lessons about how to creatively facilitate deeper levels of self-exploration in clients. And it tends to increase our appreciation for the courage our clients display in their therapeutic journeys.

Which of the following statements about therapeutic goals is true?

a. Setting goals is inextricably related to values

Which of the following statements about therapeutic goals is true? a. Setting goals is inextricably related to values. b. Clients initially tend to have a clear sense of what they expect from therapy. c. The exploration of what a client wants from therapy should rarely be discussed during the first few sessions because it can feel overwhelming to him or her. d. A client who lacks therapeutic goals does not belong in therapy.

a. Setting goals is inextricably related to values.

Counselors ___________________ must examine their expectations, attitudes, biases, and assumptions about the counseling process and also about persons from diverse groups.

a. from all cultural groups

Students willing to risk making mistakes in supervised learning situations and willing to reveal their self-doubts:

a. will find a direction that leads to growth.

Yi-Lung, a recent immigrant from Taiwan, has been encouraged by his American girlfriend to join her in couples counseling. During the first session, Yi-Lung seems reluctant to self-disclose and admits that he does not believe counseling is the best way for them to address their problems. The counselor should: a. try to understand how Yi-Lung perceives the value of formal helping. b. realize that Yi-Lung may have different expectations about the helping process based on his cultural background. c. take Yi-Lung's degree of acculturation into account when working with him and his girlfriend. d. all of these

all of these

Counselors who leave their reactions and selves out of their clinical work

are likely to be ineffective counselors and merely technical experts

Yolanda, a therapist specializing in working with adolescents, told a young pregnant client to strongly consider giving her child up for adoption. In Yolanda's words: "Certainly you don't want to eliminate the possibility of going to college and ruin your future by having a child at such a young age, right?" Yolanda is: a. doing the client a favor by being direct and offering her guidance. b. exerting influence and imposing her values on the client. c. merely exposing her own values, and thus, is behaving ethically.

b. exerting influence and imposing her values on the client.

Which of the following statements about effective counselors is NOT true? a. Effective counselors have the courage to leave the security of the known if they are not satisfied with the way they are. b. Effective counselors feel adequate with others and allow others to feel powerful with them. c. Effective counselors are certain that their knowledge about human nature is correct and feel obligated to steer their clients away from making poor decisions. d. Effective counselors are committed to living fully rather than settling for mere existence

c. Effective counselors are certain that their knowledge about human nature is correct and feel obligated to steer their clients away from making poor decisions.

Which of the following is NOT a guideline for increasing your effectiveness with clients from diverse backgrounds? a. Learn more about how your own cultural background has influenced your thinking and behaving. b. Learn to pay attention to the common ground that exists among people of diverse backgrounds. c. Use a one-size-fits-all approach in your clinical work. d. Examine where you obtained your knowledge about culture.

c. Use a one-size-fits-all approach in your clinical work.

Tom plans to work with clients who are mandated by the courts to receive counseling. Considering they will be involuntary clients, Tom should: a. not expect change to occur. b. not be too concerned about the informed consent process, since confidentiality will not be an issue. c. make sure that he prepares them well for the process. d. plan to counter their resistance with promises of dramatic change in order to instill hope in them.

c. make sure that he prepares them well for the process.

Understanding the sociopolitical system of which clients are a part is: a. something that only social workers do. b. a requirement only for those who want to specialize in social justice issues. c. necessary in order to become multiculturally competent. d. not important for therapists working in private practice.

c. necessary in order to become multiculturally competent.

In determining the appropriateness of self-disclosure, consider: a. what to reveal. b. when to reveal. c. how much to reveal. d. all of these

d. all of these

Linda, a licensed therapist with strong negative opinions about homosexuality and gay marriage, believes that her clients Joe and Robert should dissolve their relationship and give heterosexuality a chance. Linda is:

not maintaining an objective stance and seems to be encapsulated by her worldview.

There is considerable evidence indicating that the _______________ of the psychotherapist is inextricably intertwined with the outcome of psychotherapy.

person