Deck 7: Introduction to Strategies

Question 1

Experiential strategies focusing on sensory awareness and imagery are especially effective for:

A) affective problems
B) cognitive problems
C) behavioral problems
D) all of these

Answer 1

affective problems

Question 2

Change agentry may be an especially useful technique for:

A) affective problems
B) affective-cognitive-behavioral problems
C) person/environment problems
D) cognitive problems

Answer 2

person/environment problems

Question 3

Identify the correct pair:

A) Gestalt -- behavioral
B) rational-emotive behavior -- affective
C) person-centered -- affective
D) psychoanalytic -- cognitive-behavioral

Answer 3

person-centered -- affective

Question 4

Identify the incorrect pair:

A) responsive listening -- affective
B) assertiveness training -- cognitive
C) free association -- affective-cognitive
D) cognitive restructuring -- cognitive

Question 5

Affective strategies:

A) are based on the work of Ellis
B) focus on self-awareness and experiencing of feeling
C) focus on the why of present behavior
D) focus on decision-making

Question 6

The basis for responsive listening communication skills is:

A) Perls' Gestalt therapy
B) Ellis' rational-emotive behavior therapy
C) Freud's psychodynamic therapy
D) Rogers' person-centered therapy

Question 7

Rules/guidelines for Gestalt therapy include:

A) focus on all time frames: past, present, and future
B) pursue "why" since understanding brings awareness
C) one must take full responsibility for one's own actions, feelings, and thoughts
D) expand awareness of pleasurable experiences and push away the negative

Question 8

Affective strategies are especially useful for:

A) helpees who have difficulty forming close meaningful relationships
B) those who have experienced a sudden crisis
C) people who need information to make immediate decisions
D) those resistant to the development of self-awareness

Question 9

All of the following are techniques of psychodynamic therapy except:

A) free association
B) dialoguing
C) dream analysis
D) interpretation

Question 10

Brainstorming refers to:

A) the use of bibliotherapy
B) the process of cognitive restructuring
C) generating alternatives
D) generating self-awareness

Question 11

Decision-making techniques are used in:

A) affective strategies
B) cognitive strategies
C) behavioral strategies
D) psychodynamic strategies

Question 12

In Ellis' A-B-C-D-E:

A) A stands for action
B) B stands for behavior
C) C stands for consequences
D) D stands for defensiveness

Question 13

Reality therapy includes all the following except:

A) helpers who become very involved with the helpees
B) teaching the helpees to assess the morality of their behavior
C) accepting no excuses for failure to complete contracted behavior
D) in-depth exploration of feelings

Question 14

Meichenbaum's stress inoculation approach includes:

A) verbal self-instruction and relaxation strategies
B) brainstorming and homework
C) bibliotherapy and decision-making
D) progressive relaxation and meditation

Question 15

Behavioral strategies:

A) use imagery
B) focus on specific observable behaviors
C) focus on the phenomenological experience
D) change feelings and thoughts so behavior will change

Question 16

Modeling is an example of a(n):

A) behavioral strategy
B) type of contracting
C) cognitive strategy
D) psychodynamic strategy

Question 17

In a contract:

A) agreed upon terms should be both positive and negative
B) agreed upon terms should be positive
C) agreed upon terms should be negative
D) reward should be used at varying time intervals

Question 18

Systematic desensitization:

A) uses cognitive restructuring to challenge anxiety
B) is a type of assertiveness training
C) pairs anxiety with self-esteem exercises
D) uses relaxation and an anxiety hierarchy

Question 19

You pet a dog with much enjoyment. A child who has been very afraid of dogs up until this point then pets the dog. This is an example of:

A) classical conditioning
B) dialoguing
C) empathy
D) modeling

Question 20

Which of the following strategies does not cut across domains:

A) feminist strategies
B) multimodal therapy
C) ecological/systems strategies
D) Gestalt strategies

Question 21

Systems strategies may include all of the following except:

A) prescribing the symptom
B) focus on intrapsychic processes
C) using a genogram
D) circular questioning

Question 22

In the ecological/systems perspective:

A) environmental variables are examined
B) the helper is the expert
C) the helpee's behavior and cognition are targeted for change
D) larger social systems (larger than the family level) are targeted for change

Question 23

What are three factors influencing the helper's choice of strategies?

Question 24

Compare and contrast how a Freudian therapist and a Gestalt therapist would work with dreams.

Question 25

How might a Gestalt therapist use the empty chair or the dialoguing technique? Give an example of a hypothetical counseling situation.

Question 26

How is taking responsibility stressed in Gestalt therapy?

Question 27

How might the type of transference pattern developed in the counseling relationship affect the client's attitudes and behaviors in counseling?

Question 28

Give an example of one of the irrational ideas identified by Ellis.

Question 29

Describe and define the A-B-C-D-E system developed by Ellis (rational- emotive behavior therapy).

Question 30

How is homework used by rational-emotive behavior therapists to help clients change their faulty belief systems?

Question 31

How do reality therapists confront their helpees with reality?

Question 32

Suppose a client said "I can't take the promotion because I will fail. I will be embarrassed when everyone sees that I can't handle it." Use either techniques from Ellis or Beck to work with this client.

Question 33

How is modeling used in counseling?

Question 34

Create a situation between an adolescent boy and his parents where you might decide to use a contract (his grades are low, he is staying out past curfew, he does not do his chores).

Question 35

How would you use systematic desensitization to work with a client with anxiety about flying?

Question 36

Give an example of reframing the problem from a systems perspective.

Question 37

Write a six-eight line dialogue that could take place between a helpee and a helper using the techniques of one of the following models of therapy. Choose from: Gestalt, person-centered, REBT, reality, or behavioral.