Exam 3: Ingredients of an Effective Helping Relationship

A client enters therapy due to her increased level of anxiety after her recent engagement to her boyfriend of two years. She has not been sleeping, complains of feeling "jittery," and has been having difficulty in concentrating at work. The client does not have a history of anxiety but reveals that she had been previously engaged "to the man of my dreams" before he left her a week before they were to be married several years ago. She expresses concern that "history will repeat itself" because her fiancé has not been participating in the wedding plans. In your own words, write one validating statement to the client based on the following validation levels (Neacsiu & Linehan, 2014 p. 415). Level Two: Accurate Reflection Level Three: Articulating the Unverbalized Level Four: Validation in Terms of Past Learning Level Five: Validation in Present Context

A helper practices meditation before working with a challenging client because it helps him/her be available and centered with the client. Accessibility (availability) and centeredness are components of:

Jessica, thirty-three, has been experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress. During a recent robbery attempt at the bank where she is employed, Jessica's life was threatened and she was held at gunpoint. Jessica's strong feelings and crying spells are overwhelming to the helper who focuses on Jessica's "survival" and ways to make her feel better. Jessica does not return for her next appointment. She is undecided if she wants to return for therapy but is willing to meet with the helper one more time. Please identify which relationship rupture may have occurred and what steps you could take to heal the relationship.

The term ______refers to a process in which both the helper and client collaborate and negotiate their work together on an ongoing basis.

Synchrony is best defined as the degree to which the:

Comas-Diaz (2014) discussed all the following aspects of ethnocultural countertransferential reactions in inter- ethnic helping dyads EXCEPT:

When the helper's words, feelings, and actions match, this is an example of the element of genuineness or congruence.

In order for the helper to act as a container and to offer a therapeutic holding environment, the following processes are required:

In reviewing the evidence provided by the Interdivisional Task Force on Evidence-Based Therapy Relationships, Norcross and Wampold (2011) concluded all the following about the helping relationship EXCEPT:

All of the following EXCEPT which statement are accurate with respect to relationship ruptures?