Deck 12: Affect and Empathetic Understanding Skills

Question 1

______________________is "a process in which the counselor listens for basic client messages and responds to them through paraphrasing and reflection of feelings so that the client begins to feel understood."

A) Primary accurate empathy
B) Advanced accurate empathy
C) Unconditional positive regard
D) Genuineness
E) Sympathy

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following are the four basic emotions?

A) Ecstatic, Sorrowful, Terrified, and Melancholy
B) Sad, Angry, Happy, and Scared
C) Upset, Cheerful, Worried, and Sad
D) Overwhelmed, Indifferent, Happy, and Unsatisfied
E) Confused, Overwhelmed, Content, and Angry

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Counselors' feeling responses can contain:

A) a stem.
B) a feeling.
C) a specific situation.
D) all of the above
E) both b and c

Answer 3

D

Question 4

When working with feelings, the counselor:

A) addresses unexpressed and unconscious emotional experiences.
B) helps the client gain awareness of an underlying emotion, accept it, and openly explore its meaning and significance.
C) helps the client to manage and control them so that they do not emerge and embarrass the client.
D) should always use a psychodynamic approach and promote catharsis.
E) both a and b

Question 5

Some counseling theories do not address emotion. Counselors-in-training:

A) should not be overly concerned about addressing emotion if they plan to adopt theories such as behavior therapy or cognitive therapy, which do not emphasize feelings.
B) must master the discipline of responding to affect while learning the basic skills regardless of the theoretical approach they end up adopting.
C) should be able to opt out of learning affective interventions if they don't see the value of it.
D) should not regard these theories highly since it is well known that working through emotional issues is the key to healing.
E) both a and c

Question 6

You are not likely to become a good counselor unless you are willing to:

A) do the inner self-work necessary for personal growth.
B) earn a doctorate in counseling or counseling psychology.
C) undergo psychoanalysis.
D) break off ties with those who are dysfunctional.
E) all of the above.

Question 7

Advanced accurate empathy is a process by which the counselor uses his- or herself as an instrument to:

A) understand the client's hidden feelings that are outside of awareness.
B) make what is implied explicit.
C) make connections between feelings and what they mean to themes in the client's life.
D) all of the above.
E) both a and b

Question 8

Hunches are:

A) random thoughts or feelings that guide your practice
B) based on natural empathy grounded in knowledge of human behavior plus training and past personal and professional experiences.
C) almost always unreliable and tend to be based on countertransference.
D) educated guesses based entirely on counseling theory.
E) both a and c

Question 9

Congruence is the accurate match between:

A) cognition and emotion.
B) emotion and behavior.
C) cognition and behavior.
D) all of the above.
E) both a and b

Question 10

Whenever the counselor-client relationship seems to be an issue that impedes therapeutic progress, the counselor:

A) should consider referring the client to a different counselor.
B) should discuss this with his or her clinical supervisor, but not with the client.
C) should self-disclose this sense through immediacy.
D) should assume that the client is experiencing transference.
E) should assume that his or her own countertransference is getting in the way.

Question 11

You must not attempt advanced accurate empathy until you have a solid relationship with your client

Question 12

Body awareness is an intervention that helps clients attend to physiological processes associated with affect.

Question 13

Techniques commonly associated with Reality Therapy include identifying where in the body an emotion resides and experiencing it fully, noticing what other feelings emerge, imagining a feeling in an empty chair and giving it voice, or exaggerating a feeling to get in touch with its meaning and significance.

Question 14

When a client criticizes a counselor, the counselor is advised to use immediacy to reprimand the client for being impolite.

Question 15

Affective interventions begin with the ability to restate, paraphrase, summarize, and reflect feelings.

Question 16

Through the process of normal socialization, many children are taught that what they feel cannot be openly expressed or that they do not actually feel what they in reality do feel.

Question 17

A surprisingly high number of people are congruent in all areas all the time.

Question 18

Themes are habitual ways of experiencing the world.

Question 19

The client's ability to articulate an emotion with accuracy indicates acceptance of the emotion as real and legitimate.

Question 20

Affective experience consists of two parts: awareness and expression.

Question 21

Identify and discuss how counselors use the process of advanced accurate empathy.

Question 22

How do counselors appropriately use the skills of self-disclosure and immediacy?