Deck 1: Introduction and Overview

Question 1

Which of these statements about interventions is true?

A) It is helpful to use one type of intervention with most clients.
B) During the course of an individual's therapy, different interventions may be needed at different times.
C) It is best to require clients to adapt to your approach to counselling and the interventions that you are skilled at using.
D) You should only use counselling interventions when you are certified or licensed.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Synthesising the approaches covered in the text:

A) can easily be accomplished after taking an introductory course.
B) is usually mastered by the end of the first year of your graduate programme.
C) often requires many years of study, training, and practical counselling experience.
D) rarely, if ever, happens and is a completely unrealistic goal.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?

A) Gestalt therapy
B) Family systems therapy
C) Existential approach
D) Person-centred approach

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A comprehensive approach to counselling:

A) goes beyond understanding our internal dynamics and addresses those environmental and systemic realities that influence us.
B) focuses almost exclusively on the client's internal dynamics.
C) focuses primarily on the therapist's internal reactions to the client's behaviour.
D) focuses only on systemic factors.

Question 5

Psychotherapy is a process of engagement between two people, both of whom are bound to change through the therapeutic venture.

Question 6

Which humanistic approach emphasises the basic attitudes of the therapist?

A) Psychoanalytic therapy
B) Adlerian therapy
C) Person-centred therapy
D) Cognitive-behavioural therapy

Question 7

Which of the following is not an issue that Stan struggles with?

A) Fear of being alone
B) Fear of intimate relationships with women
C) Substance use
D) Aggressive outbursts

Question 8

Both family therapy and feminist therapy are based on the idea that to understand the individual it is essential to take into consideration the interpersonal dimensions and the sociocultural context. The therapist should not focus primarily on the intrapsychic domain.

Question 9

Which one of the following is not associated with the cognitive-behavioural action-oriented therapies?

A) Existential therapy
B) Cognitive behaviour therapy
C) Choice theory/relative therapy
D) Behaviour therapy

Question 10

Effective psychotherapy is a practice in which the:

A) therapist solves problems for clients.
B) therapist is merely a skilled technician.
C) client and therapist collaborate in coconstructing solutions regarding life's tasks.
D) client is in complete control of the direction of the therapy.

Question 11

With respect to mastering the techniques of counselling and applying them appropriately and effectively, the authors suggest that you are your own very best technique.

Question 12

The authors make a case for:

A) initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations and then learning a particular approach by focusing on that approach for some time.
B) looking deeply into one approach initially and then taking a superficial look at other theoretical models.
C) learning the theories of counselling only after starting to work with clients in order to make the theories more relevant.
D) choosing the approach you like best.

Question 13

Which approach was developed during the 1940s as a nondirective reaction against psychoanalysis?

A) Person-centred therapy
B) Family systems therapy
C) Adlerian therapy
D) Reality therapy

Question 14

Which of the following statements about theories or models of counselling/psychotherapy is true?

A) Extensive research has shown that certain popular models of psychotherapy are 'wrong'.
B) There is a clear place for theoretical pluralism in our society.
C) Accepting the validity of one model implies rejecting the validity of other models.
D) Theoretical pluralism is frowned on by several major professional organisations.

Question 15

An undisciplined mixture of approaches can be an excuse for failing to develop a sound rationale for systematically sticking to certain concepts and to the techniques that are extensions of them.

Question 16

Phindile, a cognitive behavioural therapist, likes to give homework assignments to her clients. What might her rationale be for doing this?

A) Homework can be a vehicle for assisting her clients in putting into action what they are learning in therapy.
B) By assigning homework to her clients, she establishes her clear authority over them as if she is their teacher).
C) She is probably a novice therapist who is insecure about her skills; thus, by assigning homework, she may feel like she is being more productive.
D) In order to be reimbursed by insurance companies, Phindile is required to give her clients homework assignments.

Question 17

Those practising brief therapy are in business to change clients, to give them quick advice, and to solve their problems for them.

Question 18

Which of the following is not a factor that often limits our freedom of choice?

A) Social
B) Environmental
C) Cultural
D) Internal

Question 19

Much of effective therapy is the product of artistry.

Question 20

An integrative perspective is not developed in a random fashion.

Question 21

Reality therapy is based on choice theory and focuses on the client assuming responsibility in the present.

Question 22

Choice theory/reality therapy applies the principles of learning to the resolution of specific behavioural problems.

Question 23

Michael White and David Epston are the major figures associated with narrative therapy.

Question 24

Rudolf Dreikurs is credited with popularising the Adlerian approach in the United States.

Question 25

Donald Meichenbaum is a prominent contributor to the development of cognitive behaviour therapy.

Question 26

Gestalt therapy is an experiential approach. It offers a range of experiments to help clients gain awareness of what they are experiencing in the here and now.