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

For each item below, identify what aspect of the mental status it belongs to: A. Appearance and behavior B. Emotional state C. Thought Components D. Cognition -A clinician says to her client, "You can do it. I know you have it in you." This is an example of:

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?

Your client tells you that he believes in never hitting children, and then he reveals that he periodically loses control and slaps his daughter. You say to him, "Tell me how you make sense of this behavior as it seems it is contrary to what you believe." This is an example of what kind of confrontation?

Content self-disclosure is which of the following?

Clinicians will act as models for their clients, regardless of whether or not they want to be.

For each item below, identify what aspect of the mental status it belongs to: A. Appearance and behavior B. Emotional state C. Thought Components D. Cognition -Self-disclosure on the part of the clinician is used for all but which of the following reasons?

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

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

Self-disclosure should be practiced frequently so that clients can feel as if the helper is his or her friend.

For each item below, identify what aspect of the mental status it belongs to: A. Appearance and behavior B. Emotional state C. Thought Components D. Cognition -Modeling that occurs as a by-product of the helping relationship is called:

Which of the following is not generally the format followed when collaborating with a client?

For each item below, identify what aspect of the mental status it belongs to: A. Appearance and behavior B. Emotional state C. Thought Components D. Cognition -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:

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

A counselor at a problem pregnancy clinic describes a number of birth control methods to a sexually active teenager, and then states, "If you're going to remain sexually active, I strongly urge you to use one of these methods." The counselor then goes on to describe the various methods. This is an example of what kind of problem-focused skill?

Collaboration generally occurs at transitional points in the relationships (e.g., between stages).