Question 1

In the Gestalt group technique, making the rounds, the individual in the "hot seat" goes around the group, and says something to each group member. The purpose of making the rounds is __________ . Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Making the rounds is an effective approach for many group members, as it has numerous uses including allowing group participants to disclose new information, to confront one another about an issue or triggering situation, or to practice new behavior, and communication styles.

Question 2

The Middendorf __________ Experience focuses on the body's natural response to breathing.

Accepted Answer

The Middendorf Breath Experience is used to help clients understand their body's individual responses to breath, and how using breathing techniques can change how things are processed.

Question 3

Bridging is a central technique, associated with multimodal therapy. A broad example of bridging is __________ .

Accepted Answer

Bridging is when a therapist attends to a clients' principal modality initially, to build the therapeutic relationship. Then, the therapist encourages the client to address the same concern via other modalities (feeling, images, thinking, etc.), in order to further the client's therapeutic progress, and understanding of self.

Question 4

Spitting in the client's soup is an Adlerian intervention. In what way is it effective?

Accepted Answer

Spitting in the client's soup is an Adlerian technique, where the clinician metaphorically "spits" in the client's "soup," or in other words, calls them out for his or her behavior.

Question 5

How is the "hot seat," technique (which is used to increase self-awareness and coined by Fritz Perls) technique carried out?

Accepted Answer

The hot seat technique, sometimes called the rapid- fire technique, is where a chair is put in the middle of the group. This is where the group member, who volunteers to work, will sit. He or she becomes the focus of the groups' attention; the other group members serve as "witnesses," making the work done within that session even more powerful.

Question 6

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is most commonly used with client's who experience __________ .

Accepted Answer

EMDR is an eight-phase treatment approach that addresses events that have overwhelmed the brain's ability to cope, resulting in trauma.

Question 7

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are typically used with clients suffering from PTSD. Yet, EMDR is also used to treat __________ . Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

EMDR is primarily used with PTSD clients, yet has also been shown effective for clients suffering from eating disorders, or panic attacks. This may or may not be due to the fact that eating disorders are often associated with early childhood traumas, and panic attacks can be a symptom of PTSD.

Question 8

Psychoanalytical therapists use which of the following techniques? Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Free association, and interpretation are frequently used techniques in psychoanalysis. Free association means the client speaks freely, and openly about whatever comes to mind without restriction; therapist interpretation is integral to psychoanalysis, because although the therapist spends the majority of the session maintaining silence, he or she offers interpretations, which are carefully timed to challenge inconsistencies, or explore any resistance.

Question 9

What type of therapy would be the basis for a smoking cessation program?

Accepted Answer

Research has shown that cognitive behavior therapy is effective in smoking cessation programs. Additionally, evidence indicates that this type of therapy is useful for treating mental health disorders such as eating disorders, depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Treatment is well planned and structured, focusing on changing thoughts and behaviors.

Question 10

What are some techniques used in psychodynamic therapy?

Accepted Answer

Free association and building a strong therapeutic alliance are some techniques used in psychodynamic therapy. Other techniques include recognizing resistance and transference, working through painful memories and difficult issues, and catharsis. A main belief in psychodynamic therapy is that problems develop mainly from early childhood events.

Question 11

One way an expectancy table can be used in counseling is for making decisions. Another way is:

Accepted Answer

Another way an expectancy table can be used in counseling is to provide clients with information on how they might succeed in a particular area. For example, when deciding upon a career path, one might use an expectancy table to calculate the likelihood of success in any given career. The higher the score indicated on the table, the more likely you are to succeed at a career.

Question 12

What therapeutic intervention in Gestalt therapy is frequently used to help clients with eating disorders with addressing their inner critic?

Accepted Answer

Empty chair work is an intervention Gestalt therapists use by setting up a two chair scenario, where the client can give a voice to his or her inner critic; the therapist then encourages dialogue between the client's inner critic, and the healthy self. The miracle question is a solution-focused approach, where the client imagines an ideal future. EMDR is an integrative therapy, used with clients who have experienced trauma. Sandtray is an expressive therapy, where clients reconstruct life experiences, using small-scale figurines to enable reflection, and increase insight.

Question 13

Why is cognitive therapy effective for clients struggling with depression? Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Cognitive therapy centers on the cognitive distortions people have that create negative impacts on their self-worth, and self-esteem. Helping an individual identify, and challenge those automatic, negative thoughts are integral to improving their mental well-being.

Question 14

As a counselor who uses a strengths-based approach, how might you encourage your client Tim to think differently about his belief that his family is consistently under stress?

Accepted Answer

Strengths-based counselors look toward the struggle or problem, and encourage the client to pick out the positive part of that problem, no matter how insignificant or small it may seem. This technique can help reframe the perception of the problem, and create a starting point for finding solutions.

Question 15

A counselor wants to use the empty chair technique with a new client of Asian descent. The client is having difficulty expressing the anger she has towards her father, throughout the course of this exercise. Why might this exercise be challenging for this client?

Accepted Answer

In most Asian cultures, the interactions one has with elders, and particularly parents, is limited to respectful exchanges, deferring to the authority of those individuals

Question 16

Culture-bound mental disorders (also known as culture bound syndromes) include __________ , __________ , and __________ expressions, which deviate from common behavior, found in particular cultures.

Accepted Answer

Clinicians may encounter culture-bound mental disorders when working with clients from different backgrounds, and origins. These disorders manifest affectively, behaviorally, and cognitively, and stray from what that individual's culture may consider "common," or "normal." In order to be prepared, and helpful to these clients, the clinician must do additional research to be able to identify, and treat these conditions.

Question 17

Choose the best answer: __________ and __________ are central focuses in integral therapy.

Accepted Answer

Integral therapy is a form of psychotherapy targeting the diverse, and individualized features of human development, including the biological, spiritual, emotional, and cognitive aspects. Integral therapy employs the spiritual life of the client to allow for a better understanding of themselves, and their surroundings. Diversity (more specifically culture and ethnicity) of the client is also addressed, as integral therapy posits that diversity issues affect all stages of life.

Question 18

When exploring a client's self-concept, investigating their cultural constructs is important. Many cultures view people primarily through a social lens. Western theories are more inclined to the view of the __________ self.

Accepted Answer

Looking at a client's self-concept through a cultural construct is often focused on the social component, meaning the level of individuality versus connectedness. In the Western world, the view of self as an independent entity is fairly universal. Other cultures are less differentiated, and more focused on community.

Question 19

What is an example of cultural clash in a therapeutic setting?

Accepted Answer

Cultural clashes are often inevitable, when working with clients from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and ethnicities. For example, a client who is new to the United States, and the Western world, may be surprised to find that people pay for counseling services, as, these services are free of charge, in other parts of the world. To avoid cultural clashes like this, information needs to be conveyed at the onset of the therapeutic relationship.

Question 20

Culturally specific approaches to counseling are so vital in today's world because counseling theories tend to be __________ , __________ , and __________ in origin and orientation.

Accepted Answer

Many innovators in psychology and counseling tended to be Western in culture, Caucasian, and male. This no longer fits our diverse world, necessitating more culturally explicit approaches, focusing on the needs, and specific aspects of an individual's culture.

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