Deck 6: Person-Centered Counseling

Question 1

Rogers's ideas about counseling developed at the same time as

A) psychoanalysis
B) behaviorism
C) existentialism
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to Rogers, a congruent, fully functioning person

A) is in a constant state of homeostasis.
B) perceives and accurately symbolizes all experiences.
C) is in an ongoing creative process.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Rogers's three core conditions of change are

A) genuineness, empathy, and psychological contact.
B) unconditional positive regard, genuineness, and empathy.
C) unconditional positive regard, empathy, and love.
D) psychological contact, love, and willingness to change.
E) empathy, congruence, and social interest

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following client conditions may not be evidence of a client's motivation to change?

A) inner tension
B) subjective sense of confusion
C) perceived anxiety
D) seeking counseling
E) inner turmoil

Question 5

Person-centered counseling is

A) directed by the client's need for empathy.
B) directed by the counselor's conceptualization of incongruence.
C) directed by the client's actualizing tendency.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 6

Person-centered counselors do all of the following except

A) sense the counseling relationship as vital.
B) be genuine, real, and congruent in the relationship.
C) have an unwavering respect for the humanity of the client.
D) lose oneself empathically in the client's world.
E) communicate the three core conditions of change to the client.

Question 7

Rogers believed all of the following except

A) counseling should focus on the problem.
B) the aim of therapy was to assist the individual in growing.
C) the necessary and sufficient conditions alone would facilitate healthy functioning.
D) therapy should help with present and future problems.
E) therapy was about removing obstacles so that people could move forward

Question 8

According to person-centered principles of change, a client is showing improvement in regards to which principle when they believe who they "should be" is approximating who they "actually are"?

A) enhanced self-esteem
B) increased self-control
C) elevated core conditioning
D) greater pleasure
E) increased congruence

Question 9

An undergraduate knows that you are training to be a person-centered therapist and wants to know about different aspects of counseling you use. Which of the following would not be a strategy you would tell them you use?

A) assigning the client homework
B) offering advice
C) using questions to redirect the client
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Question 10

According to Rogers, parents do best for a child by

A) letting the child do whatever the child wants.
B) expressing understanding of all the child's feelings and motives.
C) modeling and reinforcing appropriate behavior
D) punishing inappropriate behavior.
E) encouraging concern for others and making a contribution to society.

Question 11

Rogers considered the need for positive regard from significant others to be

A) dependent on each person's needs.
B) dependent on each person's upbringing.
C) a major cause of maladjustment.
D) not necessary for consideration.
E) universal.

Question 12

Carl Rogers noted similarities between his work and the work(s) of

A) Søren Kierkegaard.
B) Abraham Maslow.
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 13

Rogers saw the core of human motivation as

A) essentially positive.
B) essentially negative.
C) mostly neutral.
D) totally hostile.
E) almost perfect.

Question 14

Rogers believed that all living organisms have the tendency

A) to be superior.
B) towards irrational thinking
C) to heal when injured.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 15

According to Rogers, the self-actualizing tendency can be destroyed by

A) parents
B) trauma
C) poor self esteem
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 16

Carl Rogers believed that infants are able to

A) perceive accurately sensory and visceral experiences.
B) symbolize accurately sensory and visceral experiences.
C) selectively perceive sensory and visceral experiences.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 17

The term for the subtle awareness of real experiences that one's self-concept mostly succeeds in screening out of awareness is

A) subception
B) inception
C) deduction
D) deception
E) intuition

Question 18

Via the organismic valuing process, a person can experience objects as

A) able to fulfill a need.
B) unrelated to a need.
C) thwarting the fulfillment of a need.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 19

Incongruence between organismic experience and the self-concept occurs when

A) perception of organismic functioning is realized.
B) conditions of worth develop.
C) the ideal self is formed.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 20

Person-centered counseling theory has been criticized for

A) being incompatible with some cultures.
B) being limited in technique.
C) being too unfocused in its goal of growth of a person.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above