Deck 3: He Domain of Connecting With and Engaging the Client: Responding

Question 1

Calming a client is the end goal of using a tranquilizer paradoxical intervention

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What term describes a therapist's urging and advocating for symptomatic behavior?

A) symptom support
B) bait and switch
C) persuasion
D) manipulation

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What nonlinear listening technique can provide a therapist with the essential clues about what action or inaction needs to be "barred?"

A) absence
B) inference
C) presence
D) congruence

Answer 3

B

Question 4

When a client does not receive a therapist's support in what he/she has already not been doing, they are provoked to either __________ or ___________.

A) go against the therapist's directive (and towards a positive result), take the therapy at a slower pace
B) go against the therapist's directive (and towards a positive result), stop agonizing and vacillating
C) engage in positive change, find a different therapist
D) comply with the therapist's injunctions, stop agonizing and vacillating.

Question 5

What term describes the decision of a therapist to not support a client in what he/she has already not been doing?

A) Prevention
B) Forbiddance
C) Disparagement
D) Prohibition

Question 6

Encouraging a client to delay or prolong a decision, required action, or felt need to act into the undefined future and make a mistake (or make things worse) operates under what fundamental thought?

A) Clients are not able to think clearly and make appropriate decisions at the early stage of treatment.
B) It may be beneficial for clients to explore all options before deciding to act
C) Uncertainty is toxic to human beings, and individuals may exhaust their capacity to cope through their vacillation, immobilization, or trying to escape.
D) Sometimes a symptom or set of symptoms have to run their course before client's are able to experience positive change.

Question 7

Which term describes the encouragement of a client to delay or prolong a decision, required action, or felt need to act into the undefined future and make a mistake (or make things worse)?

A) inactive injunction
B) procrastination
C) postponement
D) redirection

Question 8

The rationale behind giving a client authority to continue with present behavior or have his/her symptoms or complaint, albeit cast in a slightly different light, is that it is the client's _________________ that adds to their suffering, along with the redundant, useless, circular, and no-win solutions they have attempted.

A) feeling of struggling
B) fixation on the problem
C) sense of fatigue
D) feeling of hopelessness

Question 9

Which term describes the verbal tranquilizer used by a therapist to give his/her client the authority to continue with present behavior or have his/her symptoms or complaint, albeit cast in a slightly different light?

A) accomodation
B) permission
C) explanation
D) endorsement

Question 10

Which of the following does not describe the intent of tranquilizing comments, interpretations, or suggestions?

A) deliver psychological reassurance
B) potentially restore a measure of emotional equilibrium
C) reassure clients that their struggle is manageable
D) emotionally sedate clients with humanistic concern

Question 11

_____________ represent a group of paradoxical interventions that help to calm people whose behavior is getting in the way of solving their problems, and actively compound them.

A) Reframing
B) Energizers
C) Neutralizers
D) Tranquilizers

Question 12

When attempting to advocate for symptomatic behavior, therapists should flatly advocate for a symptom in as outrageous a manner as possible

Question 13

Tranquilizers are less about a client's symptoms, and more to do with the ambivalence they experience in addressing their symptoms

Question 14

Not supporting a client in what he/she has already not been doing assumes a strong therapeutic relationship and alliance.

Question 15

What is the rationale behind a therapist's urging and advocating for symptomatic behavior?

A) encouraging a client to consider the utility and benefit of a symptom can be guided towards change talk and away from ambivalence
B) therapists are likely to maintain a longer relationship with the client, ensuring potential deeper therapeutic changes
C) clients are able to stay symptomatic until it has run its course
D) it brings the client's struggle into clear view, taking the focus away from the symptoms and allowing them to remediate naturally