Deck 6: Person-Centered Therapy

Question 1

Which of these early theorists influenced Carl Rogers?

A)Alfred Adler
B)Anna Freud.
C)Donald Winnicott
D)Sigmund Freud

Answer 1

A

Question 2

In person-centered therapy, the goals for therapy come from the

A)agency.
B)client.
C)client and counselor.
D)counselor.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Carl Rogers believed that his six necessary and sufficient conditions could help clients who had

A)any type of psychological disorder.
B)neurotic disorders or those in which anxiety was a prominent component.
C)psychotic disorders or those in which contact with reality was questionable.
D)situational problems that could not be classified as either neurotic or psychotic.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

When a child is called "stupid" for making mistakes on homework, Carl Rogers would say that

A)authenticity will develop.
B)conditions of worth will develop.
C)congruence will develop.
D)the grandiose self will be fostered.

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT a stage of Carl Roger's theoretical development?

A)client-centered
B)directive
C)nondirective
D)person-centered

Question 6

To counter criticisms from others that lead to conditions of worth, Carl Rogers believed that therapists and others should offer

A)therapeutic love.
B)financial incentives for therapeutic progress.
C)succorance.
D)unconditional positive regard.

Question 7

According to person-centered therapists, when clients consistently receive empathy and unconditional positive regard from the counselor, they are likely to feel

A)a merged identity with the counselor.
B)cared for and fully accepted.
C)impatient with the counselor for not making suggestions.
D)responsible for the feelings of the counselor.

Question 8

According to Carl Rogers, disorganized behavior can result from

A)an abundance of positive self-regard.
B)failure to become a fully functioning person.
C)inability to make decisions that are authentic in nature.
D)incongruence between experiences of individual's and their self-concept.

Question 9

In person-centered therapy, clients learn that they are responsible for

A)both themselves and therapy.
B)neither themselves nor therapy.
C)themselves, but not therapy.
D)therapy, but not themselves

Question 10

An important influence on Carl Rogers approach to therapy were the writings of

A)Anna Freud.
B)Otto Rank.
C)Sigmund Freud.
D)Wilhelm Reich.

Question 11

A person-centered therapist might respond to an anxious client who says "I worry constantly about my daughter being hurt on the way hone from school, in this way":

A)Perhaps you ought to walk with her to and from school.
B)You seem truly concerned about your daughter, and find it hard to stop thinking about her safety.
C)When you were your daughter's age were you worried when you were in school?
D)Do you have an early recollection of when you were here age?

Question 12

According to person-centered theory, a relationship between the client and therapist in which the therapist demonstrates attitudes of caring, genuineness, emmpathy, positive regard, and understanding is

A)a necessary and sufficient condition for change.
B)a necessary but not sufficient condition for change.
C)neither necessary or sufficient condition for change.
D)sufficient but not necessary condition for change.

Question 13

Self-actualization is a concept that is associated with the work of

A)Adler.
B)Sigmund Freud.
C)Maslow
D)Winnicott.

Question 14

According to person-centered therapists, to tell a client that her fire setting behavior is harmful is to

A)be empathic with the client.
B)be incongruent with the client.
C)enter into the client's world.
D)impose conditions of worth.

Question 15

Carl Rogers viewed the fully functioning person as

A)able to transcend the self.
B)absorbed with the self.
C)aware of social responsibilities.
D)having relationships with others that vary markedly in degrees of congruence.

Question 16

"On Becoming a Person" was written by

A)Sigmund Freud.
B)Heinz Kohut.
C)Carl Rogers.
D)Carl Jung.

Question 17

If a client tells a person-centered therapist that he gets pleasure from physically abusing his daughter, the therapist would

A)accept the client regardless of the client's behavior.
B)agree that the behavior is acceptable.
C)help the client find strategies for seeing physical abuse as harmful.
D)help the client understand the role of his own abuse by his father in his mistreatment of his daughter.

Question 18

Bertha, a 12 year old girl, is going to a person-centered therapist.Who is responsible for her growth in therapy?

A)Bertha
B)her father
C)her mother
D)the therapist

Question 19

At the end of successful person-centered therapy, a sense of loss may be felt by

A)both the client and the counselor.
B)neither the client nor the counselor.
C)the client.
D)the counselor.

Question 20

Which statement correctly describes Carl Rogers position on diagnosis in therapy?

A)Assigning clients to diagnostic categories facilitates the empathic responding of the counselor.
B)Diagnosis is not helpful in person-centered therapy.
C)Drawing from a wide range of assessment instruments gives the therapist more information about the client, thus increasing the opportunity for therapist congruence.
D)Understanding the psychological development of the client is important in therapy.

Question 21

Which of these statement is true about Rogers's view of gender in therapy?

A)Responding empathically to a client would reflect concerns and issues about gender.
B)Rogers was an active voice in championing women's issues.
C)Rogers open several homes for battered women.
D)Rogers did not value concerns of women.

Question 22

Rogers's core conditions can be seen as

A)applicable only to the United States where it was developed.
B)inappropriate when applied to resolving conflicts between people of different cultures.
C)cultural values more applicable to some cultures than others.(239, 240
D)universal values applicable to people of all cultures.

Question 23

"I want to kill my neighbor, he makes so much noise." Which would be the most appropriate person-centered therapeutic response?

A)If you want to, then go ahead.
B)That's illegal and you could get into trouble.
C)Suppose he attacks you when you don't expect it, what will you do?
D)You are so angry at your neighbor that you really want to hurt him so he can never bother you again.

Question 24

In his later years Rogers travelled widely throughout the world to

A)give demonstrations on how to do individual therapy with clients.
B)give lectures on person-centered group therapy.
C)give lectures on world peace.
D)lead workshops with members of political groups who were in conflict.

Question 25

In describing his theory, Rogers was able to articulate seven

A)stages of therapeutic progress.
B)types of clients that responded well to his therapy.
C)types of group therapy.
D)types of empathy.

Question 26

Rogers's view on research into the effectiveness of person-centered therapy was that

A)it was important, and he was committed to carrying out research studies to prove the effectiveness of its principles.
B)it was important, but he preferred to leave the details of research methodology to others.
C)it was unimportant because the study of therapy interfered with the client therapist relationship.
D)it was unimportant because it violated important humanistic principles.

Question 27

In group therapy, the key to Rogers's work was

A)making sure each group member was heard.
B)being empathic to group members.
C)making comments about the group process.
D)explaining unconscious motives of group members.

Question 28

Regarding group therapy, Rogers believed

A)group therapy was less effective than individual therapy.
B)in the healing power of the group.
C)individual therapy was less effective than group therapy.
D)that the group therapy process was a dangerous one.

Question 29

Person-centered therapists usually do not use a brief therapy model because

A)research has shown that brief therapy is ineffective for person-centered treatment.
B)the client takes a major role in determining therapy length.
C)the therapist tends to be passive when responding to the client.
D)their clients tend to have severe psychological disorders and require longer treatment.