Exam 4: Existential Therapies

In reality therapy,the therapeutic relationship can best be described as:

According to the text authors,the defining characteristic of the existential human condition is:

A therapist describes her client's presenting problems as follows: "He lives with a profound sense of emptiness and lack of fulfillment.He tends to go along with society,instead of creating his own personal course of action." The therapist's orientation is most likely to be:

The existential theory known as logotherapy was developed by:

Criticism of __________ therapy along the lines of "the scientific method is the most honest method we have,and there is nothing in the scientific method that says a phenomenological description of patients following different forms of therapy can't be compared.There is a need to participate in the shared honesty of scientific comparisons for all therapies" would most likely be advanced from a _________ perspective.

Glasser has asserted that mental illness is the product of:

Glasser's (1984)control theory asserts that the human brain regulates human behavior in order to fulfill which of the following needs?

Meta-analytic reviews of the efficacy of paradoxical interventions have shown that:

A reality therapist would be most interested in increasing a client's:

The textbook authors conclude their review of the existential therapies by noting that:

Existential therapists view transference as:

The primary distinction between a success identity and failure identity is that:

In contrast to psychoanalytic confrontation,when using confrontation methods existential therapists are likely to:

Regarding the issue of adjustment versus transcendence,existential therapy would most likely say which of the following?

Which of the following is LEAST likely in existential therapy?

In your work as a reality therapist with a 14-year-old conduct-disordered adolescent,all she seems to do is complain profanely about the "raw deal" she has gotten from her parents,siblings,teachers,and the police.She is quite invested in blaming others for her current situation.In addition to attempting to establish a personal and supportive therapeutic relationship,what would you want to do next?

After a client has made value judgments about their behavior and identified what they want to change,a reality therapist would then:

Which statement is most characteristic of existential theory regarding hostility?

The existential perspective regards aloneness as:

Emphasizing that choice is the key process of change,"choice theory" replaced which therapy?