Deck 14: Integral Counseling

Question 1

Ken Wilber received degrees in

A) chemistry.
B) psychology.
C) philosophy.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Concerning the exterior-individual quadrant of Wilber's four quadrant model, which of the following statements is not correct?

A) This quadrant describes the physical, sensory, and mental functioning of individuals as observed from outside them.
B) This quadrant is also referred to as the extra-egoic quadrant.
C) This quadrant includes individual structures that can be objectively described in "it" language.
D) This quadrant is the focus of the theoretical approaches of Skinner, Watson, and Locke.
E) All of the above are correct statements concerning the exterior-individual quadrant.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The exterior-collective quadrant of Wilber's four quadrant model

A) is also identified as the social quadrant.
B) includes objective aspects of a society.
C) Includes a focus on such aspects as a client's family, economic, and technological systems.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Answer 3

D

Question 4

According to the authors of the text, a person experiences what types of needs?

A) personal, social, mental, and spiritual needs
B) physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs
C) physical, emotional, social, and moral needs
D) physiological, cognitive, relational, and divine needs
E) none of the above

Question 5

From an integral theory perspective, the process of development

A) calls for adding different structures to meet newly emerging needs.
B) requires the cycle of identification, disidentification, realization, and integration.
C) involves an experience of pain, disruption, even subjective death as old structures give way to new.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 6

According to Wilber, the distal self

A) navigates the sequence of developmental levels but does not itself undergo development.
B) is all that one knows about oneself.
C) is one's immediate felt-sense of oneself.
D) B and C only
E) none of the above

Question 7

Wilber conceptualized the levels of development as 10 spheres clustered into three realms. They are:

A) prerational, rational, and transrational.
B) preconscious, conscientious, and unity consciousness.
C) prepersonal, personal, and transpersonal.
D) subtle, casual, and nondual.
E) physical/mental, subjective, and transcendent.

Question 8

According to Wilber's Spectrum of Human Development, which of the following is not true?

A) Each person's development is a function of primarily 3 stages, or levels, of development
B) The individual identifies predominantly with 1 of 10 levels
C) Progression to the vision-logic stage is inevitable after age 25.
D) Anyone can have a temporary transpersonal experience
E) A, B, and

Question 9

According to the authors of the text, lines of development

A) develop at different rates.
B) proceed in different sequences through the fulcrums.
C) manifest in an identifiable way at each wave.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 10

Two general categories of temporary states of consciousness are

A) natural states and altered states.
B) routine states and random states.
C) subjective states and objective states.
D) exclusive states and nonexclusive states.
E) none of the above

Question 11

Wilber has characterized the environment as consisting of a holarchy of

A) rations.
B) elements.
C) building blocks.
D) food.
E) tools.

Question 12

With regard to the subject of health, integral theory suggests that

A) healthy people integrate previously disowned "shadow" aspects of themselves.
B) healthy people are generally happier people
C) a pain-free existence, though rare, is a worthy goal.
D) A and B only
E) None of the above accurately reflects integral theory's definition of health.

Question 13

Unsuccessful navigation of developmental stages may result in

A) borderline and/or narcissistic personality disorders.
B) script pathologies.
C) a specific pathology for each of the 10 stages.
D) psychoses, neuroses, or existential pathologies.
E) all of the above

Question 14

According to the authors, change within one's level of development

A) is known as transformation.
B) changes surface structures of functioning.
C) is likened to upgrading living quarters.
D) B and C only
E) none of the above

Question 15

Becoming "stuck"

A) may be a result of detrimental environmental conditions.
B) is virtually unavoidable.
C) manifests as painful feedback from the proximal self.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 16

According to Wilber, most clients seek counseling

A) to facilitate the experience of union with deity (at F-8).
B) to alleviate pain.
C) to continue in the process of development.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Question 17

Integral counseling interventions

A) include Adlerian, Choice Therapy, and Systems approaches.
B) include introspection, philosophizing, and existential dialogue.
C) are geared toward fulcrum-specific pathologies.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 18

Among Wilber's most significant contributions to psychotherapy are

A) his emphasis on the importance of ITP's for both counselor and clients.
B) the "all quadrant, all level" perspective
C) the spectrum of development, pathology, treatment, resistance, and special conditions.
D) integral theory's insistence that each culture's major religion provides a pathway to truth, god, or spirit.
E) all of the above