Deck 8: Building Motivation, Formulating Plans, and Evaluating Change

Question 1

After collaborative assessment and conceptualization, the next step in clinical work is:

A)Evaluation
B)Testing
C)Establishing a treatment plan
D)Working with feelings

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Explain what the Stone Center proponents of Relational-Cultural Theory mean when they say "resistance is relational" and not just a force within the client.

Answer 2

not answer

Question 3

Resistance:

A)May be due to ambivalence, self-doubt and fear of the client to change.
B)May be a product of relational disconnections and empathic failures.
C)May mean the clinician has not found the right way to join the client's perspective.
D)May be due to contextual factors such as lack of resources, agency policies.
E)All of the above

Answer 3

E

Question 4

List and describe the stages of change proposed by Prochaska and DiClemente.

Question 5

Name four components that should be included in all contracts.

Question 6

The broad term used to describe practice that is based on the results of empirical scientific research on clinical expertise, interventions, patients' needs, values and preferences is called:

A)Clinical practice.
B)Psychological theory.
C)Empirically-supported treatment.
D)Evidence-based practice.
E)Managed care.

Question 7

According to Murphy and Dillon, a common element in evaluation is:

A)An assessment of baseline functioning.
B)Supervisory evaluation of the clinician's work with the client.
C)The client is debriefed by the supervisor about the clinician's effectiveness and likeability.
D)Never using the same measurement, using many different measurements at different times in the work.

Question 8

Research that gives us information about a group of individuals in general is called:

A)Nomothetic.
B)Cultural bound.
C)Idiographic.
D)Eclectic.

Question 9

Spontaneous remission refers to:

A)A client's sudden change of heart.
B)Medication solving the problem quickly.
C)The disappearance of symptoms without professional help.
D)The sudden onset of symptoms without any known cause.

Question 10

Contracts should always be:

A)Constructed by the clinician in consultation with a supervisor.
B)Constructed by the clinician and client.
C)Printed up by agency for distribution to clients.
D)Informational about the client's limitations and shortcomings.

Question 11

The treatment plan should be include:

A)The goals of the work together
B)Methods and techniques to be used
C)Plans about evaluation
D)Potential risks
E)All of the above

Question 12

Murphy and Dillon describe a number of methods clinicians can use to help clients resolve their ambivalence about change. Describe three of these techniques.

Question 13

Discuss three principles of good evaluation.

Question 14

Motivational Interviewing involves all of the following EXCEPT:

A)Engaging the client through empathetic understanding
B)Focusing, helping the client establish what he or she wants to change
C)Evoking the client's motivation to change
D)Establishing rules and consequences for what will happen if the client does not participate in the change process
E)Planning for and committing to actions necessary to change

Question 15

In this stage of change, the client establishes goals for change and outlines small-steps:

A)Contemplation
B)Preparation
C)Action
D)Pre-contemplation

Question 16

Describe the difference between a treatment plan and a contract.