Chapter 2
With regard to the role of counselors' personal values in therapy, it is appropriate for counselors to:
d. avoid imposing their values through a process of bracketing.
A meta-analysis of research on therapeutic effectiveness found that the personal and interpersonal components are, at best, only moderately related to effective psychotherapy.
False
Therapists need to be free of conflicts before they can counsel others.
False
Therapists should not admit their mistakes since that could diminish their clients' confidence in them.
False
Truly dedicated therapists carry the problems of their clients around with them during leisure hours.
False
Effective therapists are not the victims of their early decisions.
True
Ideally, our self-care should mirror the care we provide for others
True
If you try to figure out in advance how to proceed with a client, you may be depriving the client of the opportunity to become an active partner in her or his own therapy.
True
It is not our function to persuade clients to accept or adopt our value system.
True
The general goals of counselors must be congruent with the personal goals of the client.
True
The skill of immediacy involves revealing what we are thinking or feeling in the here and now with the client.
True
The vast majority of mental health professionals have experienced personal therapy, typically on several occasions.
True
Your role as a counselor is to provide a safe and inviting environment in which clients can explore the congruence between their values and their behavior.
True
You are working with an ethnic minority client who is silent during the initial phase of counseling. This silence is probably best interpreted as:
c. a response consistent with his or her cultural context.
It is especially important for counselors who work with culturally diverse client populations to do all of the following, except:
c. not consider the cultural context of their clients in determining what interventions are appropriate.
Which of the following is not considered an essential skill of an effective culturally competent counselor?
c. Being able to get clients to intensify their feelings by helping them to vividly reexperience early childhood events
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?
d. Help her to clarify the range of her choices in light of her own values.
According to the text, personal values of the counselor influence all of the following, except:
d. how the clients' life progressed prior to treatment.
Regarding psychotherapy treatment outcome, research suggests all of the following except:
d. therapy techniques are the key component of successful treatment.
An authentic counselor is best described as:
d. 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.
If we are inauthentic, it is unlikely that our clients will detect it
False
Practitioners must have had the same experiences as their clients in order to have empathy for them.
False
Counselors from all cultural groups must examine their expectations, attitudes, biases, and assumptions about the counseling process and about persons from diverse groups.
True
Essential components of effective multicultural counseling include all of the following except:
a. counselors avoid becoming involved in out-of-office interventions.
Personal therapy for therapists can be instrumental in assisting them to:
a. heal their own psychological wounds.
Clients place more value on the personality of the therapist than on the ___________________.
a. specific techniques used.
Culturally encapsulated counselors would be most likely to:
a. use their power to influence clients to accept or adopt their value system.
Which of the following is not considered essential knowledge for a culturally competent counselor?
a. Knowing how to analyze transference reactions
__________ cannot be reduced simply to cultural awareness and sensitivity.
b. Multicultural competence
The_______________ factors—the alliance, the relationship, the personal and interpersonal skills of the therapist, client agency, and extratherapeutic factors—are the primary determinants of therapeutic outcome.
b. contextual
Which of the following is not a method of increasing effectiveness in working with diverse client populations?
b. Realize that practicing from a multicultural perspective will probably make your job very difficult
Effective counseling must take into account the impact of culture on the client's functioning, including the:
b. client's degree of acculturation.
In the text, all of the following are listed as characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic person except:
b. counselors no longer have to cope with personal problems.
In the text, one reason given for having counseling students receive some form of psychotherapy is to help them:
b. learn to deal with transference and countertransference.
The author describes the characteristics of an effective counselor. By including this information in the chapter, he is hoping to convey the message that:
c. you should develop your own concept of what personality traits you think are essential to strive for to promote your own personal growth.