Exam 7: Commonly Used Skills: Affirmation Giving, Encouragement, Modeling, Self-Disclosure, Confrontation, Offering Alternatives, Information Giving, Advice Giving, and Collaboration

Modeling that occurs as a by-product of the helping relationship is called:

Content self-disclosure is which of the following?

Your client has told you how much his good reputation in the community means to him. Now he reveals that he has been cheating his business partners. Which of the following would be the best response to this discrepancy?

A client describes his intense anger toward his wife, but the clinician senses some deep pain revolving around the client's fear of an intimate relationship. The clinician therefore responds to the client by saying, "I hear your anger, but I also sense some sadness regarding the inability of you and your wife to be closer." The client sobs. This is an example of what kind of confrontation?

A therapist decides to use a sticker chart with a parent who is compulsively late to show him how such charts can be used with children. Every time the parent comes in on time for a session, he gets a star. And, every time the parent describes behaviors that he has worked to change, he gets a star. He can hand in ten stars for a book on parenting skills. This is an example of:

Meichenbaum as cited in Kleinke, 1994 notes that when the helping relationship is at its optimal, the timing of a problem-focused response should be such that:

Modeling that is a deliberate effort on the part of the helper to teach the client something new is called:

A clinician says to her client, "You can do it. I know you have it in you." This is an example of:

Which is the best definition of confrontation within a helping relationship?

In which of the following is collaboration least likely to occur?

After successfully being able to try out some difficult communication skills with her husband, a clinician looks at his client and says to her, "Excellent." This is an example of:

Encouragement and affirmations are important because they can help raise an individual's self-esteem.

In reference to confrontation, Hackney and Cormier 2005 and Neukrug 2003 have highlighted all but which of the following client discrepancies?

Self-disclosure on the part of the clinician is used for all but which of the following reasons?

For years, client affirmations were viewed negatively by traditional psychotherapeutic approaches because it was seen as fostering an external locus of control.

One rule of thumb concerning when to be self-disclosing is: "If it feels good to self-disclose, do it-you're probably meeting some important client need.

Research on solution-focused skills has not shown them to be efficacious.

Although the natural helper may use most, if not all, of the commonly used skills that the professional counselor uses, he or she uses them in a haphazard fashion.

The use of satire or irony is less combative than many of the other types of confrontation.

In relation to the natural helper, the professional counselor probably uses self-disclosure and solution-focused skills more.