Exam 3: Ingredients of an Effective Helping Relationship

A client shares that she left work in tears after her boss made several racially derogatory comments to her. The counselor responds, "Your boss was probably having a bad day." The counselor's response may be defined as a(n):

During supervision, a helper expresses that they understand their new client's past experiences of loss and their feelings of abandonment. This empathic process would be:

Empathic responding is one of the rare therapeutic responses that is universally accepted by all clients.

__________is the ability to understand people from their frame of reference.

A client unconsciously believes that if he expresses feelings of anger during his therapy, the helper will withdraw and reject him. The client tests the helper by disagreeing with her on small misinterpretations. The disagreements escalate in intensity over a few sessions until the client angrily confronts the helper. In working with this client's "tests," the helper would respond by:

Researchers have posited the existence of a brain connection with empathy in light of the discovery of _______.

Compare and contrast Carl Rogers' and Heinz Kohut's theories on empathy in the therapeutic process.

According to Comas-Diaz (2006), all helping relationships can be considered .

A statement such as "It appears that you are feeling really angry with me right now and I wonder what is happening between us," suggests helper intent to address client transference via________ .

Tommy, a seven year-old, has been seeing you for anger issues that intensified after his parents' divorce approximately nine months ago. He lives with his father and his mother has weekend visitation rights which she frequently misses or reschedules. Tommy has made significant progress and his angry outbursts have diminished in frequency and duration since he began therapy. You have a good therapeutic relationship with Tommy until you tell him that you can no longer see him on Tuesdays and schedule him for Thursday. Tommy becomes angry and screams, "You don't care about me. I hate you!" How would you respond to Tommy by using the following transference responses? Focusing on the immediate relationship: Interpreting the meaning of the transference: Using questions to promote insight: Self-disclosing:

According to Brammer, Abrego, and Shostrom (1993), responding empathically to a client represents an attempt to ___________the client.

The most recent stage of the counseling theory developed by Carl Rogers is referred to as __________.

A client expresses in session that he does not trust his feelings and is constantly looking to others for cues on how to think, feel, and behave. According to Neacsiu and Linehan (2014), the practitioner may want to explore the client's:

As a helper, what can you do to foster a working alliance with a client? Please include the three components of the working alliance in your response.

Transference involves the client ________old patterns or template of relating to others.

In comparison to specific change or intervention strategies, the quality of the helping relationship is _________important to the overall outcome of the helping process.

Facilitative conditions have roots in counseling theory that was developed by _________.

One of the fundamental tenets of client-centered therapy is that individuals:

Accurate understanding is to as congruence is to .

Empathy, genuineness, and positive regard are elements of_________ .