Deck 21: Comparing and Contrasting the Theories of Psychotherapy

Question 1

Which assessment tool includes Motivating styles, Thinking styles, and Behaving styles?

A) TOS
B) MIPS-R
C) TEST
D) TOPS-R

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which school of thought supported the idea that problems are socially constructed?

A) Psychoanalysis
B) Family systems
C) Reality therapy
D) Postmodern

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Psychotherapy is moving away from integrative methods back to the basics.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which family systems approach focuses on coalitions?

A) Minuchin's structural therapy
B) Adlerian family therapy
C) Haley's strategic therapy
D) Bowen's intergenerational approach

Question 5

Shawna's therapist states that people are motivated by social interest. Her therapist most likely follows which model?

A) Multicultural
B) Feminist
C) Adlerian
D) Solution-Focused

Question 6

Morita and Naikan therapists act as guides for their clients.

Question 7

Which assessment tool helps one determine his or her orientation towards the major psychotherapy theories?

A) TORS
B) MIPS-R
C) TEST
D) TOPS-R

Question 8

Ian's therapist teaches him about meditation and uses it as an integral part of therapy. Ian may be in which types of therapy?

A) Ma'at or Morita
B) Transcultural or existential
C) Muslim or multicultural
D) Mindfulness or Naikan

Question 9

Which area of psychotherapy has produced the most evidenced based techniques?

A) Psychoanalytic
B) Solution-focused
C) Cognitive behavioral
D) Family systems

Question 10

Most therapy methods were developed by White, upper-middle class older men.

Question 11

Which psychoanalytic model focuses on interpersonal relationships?

A) Self psychology
B) Object relations
C) Ego psychology
D) Jungian

Question 12

Studies have shown that a nonjudgmental interpersonal therapeutic relationship can result in biological changes in the brain.

Question 13

Which therapy method focuses on externalizing problems?

A) Narrative therapy
B) Reality therapy
C) Cognitive therapy
D) Adlerian therapy

Question 14

One of the main goals of existential therapy is to teach clients choice theory.

Question 15

Which therapy models place the therapist as a co-equal?

A) Solution-focused, narrative, and strength- based
B) Feminist and psychoanalytic
C) Behavioral and Naikan
D) Cognitive and Gestalt

Question 16

Which therapy model focused on helping clients to find meaning in the world?

A) Cognitive
B) Existential
C) Person-centered
D) Mindfulness

Question 17

Which therapy models place the therapist as the expert?

A) Naikan and existential
B) Gestalt and feminist
C) Psychoanalytic and behavioral
D) Adlerian and cognitive

Question 18

Which therapist would say that people are overly preoccupied with themselves?

A) A narrative therapist
B) A Gestalt therapist
C) A Morita therapist
D) An existential therapist

Question 19

Which theoretical model proposes that personality is malleable and shaped by environmental forces?

A) Behavioral
B) Cognitive
C) Psychoanalytical
D) Gestalt

Question 20

Which multicultural perspective has 42 declarations?

A) Ma'at
B) Naikan
C) Morita
D) Arab/Muslim

Question 21

A therapist should focus on the client's values when determining which theoretical orientation to use in therapy.

Question 22

Discuss the goals of DBT.

Question 23

List a few of the key concepts of neuroscience.

Question 24

How are multicultural therapy and feminist therapy similar?

Question 25

In cognitive therapy, a counseling goal might be to reinforce adaptive cognitions and extinguish dysfunctional ones.

Question 26

Discuss the top five ways for choosing a theoretical orientation for beginning therapists or students attending graduate school.

Question 27

What are the key concepts of Arab/Muslim therapy?

Question 28

What are the four elements of theoretical orientation put forth by Poznanski and McLennan?

Question 29

Discuss the worldview of person centered therapists.

Question 30

Discuss worldview and how it is related to therapy.

Question 31

What is the role of the therapist in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?

Question 32

It is ok for a therapist to randomly choose a therapy technique because there is no therapy technique that is inherently better than others.

Question 33

List some of the therapy techniques of DBT.

Question 34

Discuss the movement toward psychotherapy integration.

Question 35

Describe the worldview of Play Therapists.

Question 36

When choosing your theoretical orientation, what does it mean to make an intentional choice?

Question 37

If a therapist recognizes that a client's problems may be due to cultural issues, what should he or she then assess?

Question 38

Freud's most central concept that pervades his entire theory is his idea of the unconscious.

Question 39

Knowing one's beliefs about human development is important for determining one's theoretical orientation.

Question 40

Discuss the goals of Naikan therapy.