Question 1

Describe one way in which new therapists can recover from mistakes, failed tests and re- enactments. ​

Accepted Answer

One way in which new therapists can recover from mistakes, failed tests, and re-enactments is through the process of self-reflection and supervision. Here's a detailed approach:

1. Acknowledge and Accept: The first step in recovery is for therapists to acknowledge that they have made a mistake or experienced a failure. Acceptance is crucial, as it allows them to move forward without denial or avoidance.

2. Reflect on the Experience: Therapists should take time to reflect on what happened. They should consider the factors that contributed to the mistake or failure, including their own actions, thoughts, and feelings, as well as any external circumstances.

3. Seek Supervision: New therapists should not hesitate to seek out supervision or consultation from more experienced colleagues. Supervisors can provide valuable insights, alternative perspectives, and guidance on how to handle similar situations in the future.

4. Learn from the Experience: Therapists should identify the lessons learned from the mistake or failure. This might involve recognizing knowledge gaps, understanding triggers for certain reactions, or developing new strategies for handling challenging situations.

5. Develop a Plan: Based on the insights gained, therapists can develop a plan to prevent similar mistakes in the future. This plan might include additional training, practicing new techniques, or establishing better self-care routines to manage stress and prevent burnout.

6. Apologize and Make Amends: If the mistake affected a client, it's important for the therapist to apologize and take responsibility. Making amends can help repair the therapeutic relationship and demonstrate the therapist's commitment to their client's well-being.

7. Implement Changes: Therapists should put their plan into action, applying the strategies and techniques they've learned to their practice. This might involve being more mindful during sessions, setting clearer boundaries, or improving communication with clients.

8. Monitor Progress: As therapists implement changes, they should monitor their progress and the effectiveness of their new approaches. This ongoing evaluation helps ensure that they are moving in the right direction and making the necessary adjustments.

9. Foster Resilience: Recovering from mistakes and failures is an opportunity for therapists to build resilience. By facing challenges and overcoming them, therapists can strengthen their ability to cope with future difficulties.

10. Share Experiences: Finally, new therapists can benefit from sharing their experiences with peers or in professional development groups. Discussing challenges and solutions can foster a supportive community and provide additional resources for growth.

By following these steps, new therapists can turn mistakes and failures into valuable learning experiences that enhance their professional development and improve their practice.

Question 2

Clients' conflicts are two-sided, and therapists will be effective when they respond to: ​

Accepted Answer

A) the most intense emotion. 
B) both sides, but emphasize the side that is causing the most problems. 
C) the feelings that accompany both sides. 
D) the initial feeling. 
A) the most intense emotion. 
B) both sides, but emphasize the side that is causing the most problems. 
C) the feelings that accompany both sides. 
D) the initial feeling. C

Question 3

Therapists' goals in working with clients' eliciting maneuvers include all of the following  EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

A) attend to their own reactions to the client's maneuvers. 
B) find alternate responses that do not reenact the same relational scenarios. 
C) provide the familiar responses the client expects and usually receives. 
D) formulate working hypotheses regarding the feelings and/or situations the client may be avoiding. 
A) attend to their own reactions to the client's maneuvers. 
B) find alternate responses that do not reenact the same relational scenarios. 
C) provide the familiar responses the client expects and usually receives. 
D) formulate working hypotheses regarding the feelings and/or situations the client may be avoiding. C

Question 4

Interpersonal strategies that ward off anxiety and brings about certain desired, safe responses from others is called a(n) : ​

Accepted Answer

A) elicit strategy of coping 
B) eliciting maneuver 
C) reenacting maneuver 
D) comfortability response 
A) elicit strategy of coping 
B) eliciting maneuver 
C) reenacting maneuver 
D) comfortability response

Question 5

Clients' eliciting maneuvers tend to evoke certain similar reactions in the therapist and others are referred to as: ​

Accepted Answer

A) client induced countertransference 
B) therapist induced countertransference 
C) testing maneuvers 
D) countertransference escalation 
A) client induced countertransference 
B) therapist induced countertransference 
C) testing maneuvers 
D) countertransference escalation

Question 6

Describe how therapists can use client's transference reactions to better conceptualize their clients' conflicts and guide subsequent treatment plans. Include the valuable knowledge that transference occurs in everyday life. ​

Accepted Answer

Therapists can use a client's transferen

Question 7

A common way in which clients' conflicts are reenacted in the therapeutic process is: ​

Accepted Answer

A) when therapists view their clients' problems and lives as being too similar to their own. 
B) when therapists maintain their own objectivity and separateness while at the same time being available and responsive. 
C) when therapists self-discloses their own experiences and feelings. 
D) there is no common way in which clients' conflicts are reenacted. 
A) when therapists view their clients' problems and lives as being too similar to their own. 
B) when therapists maintain their own objectivity and separateness while at the same time being available and responsive. 
C) when therapists self-discloses their own experiences and feelings. 
D) there is no common way in which clients' conflicts are reenacted.

Question 8

Understanding both sides of their conflicts empowers clients to: ​

Accepted Answer

A) exercise more choice over what they will change and what they will accommodate to. 
B) change their personality. 
C) have a better relationship. 
D) influence others more effectively. 
A) exercise more choice over what they will change and what they will accommodate to. 
B) change their personality. 
C) have a better relationship. 
D) influence others more effectively.

Question 9

Therapists can tell they have effectively "passed" important tests from clients by: ​

Accepted Answer

A) tracking moment-to-moment interaction sequences of how the client responds to what the therapist just said. 
B) waiting for their client to verbalize that they can utilize the therapist's comments. 
C) listening to their clinical supervisor for affirmation that they "passed". 
D) All of the choices are correct. 
A) tracking moment-to-moment interaction sequences of how the client responds to what the therapist just said. 
B) waiting for their client to verbalize that they can utilize the therapist's comments. 
C) listening to their clinical supervisor for affirmation that they "passed". 
D) All of the choices are correct.

Question 10

When clients successfully utilize eliciting maneuvers with the therapist: ​

Accepted Answer

A) the client attains protection from the core conflict and no effective change. 
B) the client attains protection from the core conflict and effective change within the therapeutic relationship. 
C) the client is not sufficiently motivated to change in therapy. 
D) the client must explain what this means. 
A) the client attains protection from the core conflict and no effective change. 
B) the client attains protection from the core conflict and effective change within the therapeutic relationship. 
C) the client is not sufficiently motivated to change in therapy. 
D) the client must explain what this means.

Question 11

When therapists become inappropriately over-identified with certain clients, they     . ​

Accepted Answer

A) are enmeshed with their clients 
B) are disengaged from their clients 
C) are detached from their clients 
D) have destroyed any hope of regaining appropriate balance in the therapeutic relationship 
A) are enmeshed with their clients 
B) are disengaged from their clients 
C) are detached from their clients 
D) have destroyed any hope of regaining appropriate balance in the therapeutic relationship

Question 12

Recognizing the______ structure of conflicts will enable therapists to respond to the______   that has immobilized the client and prevented change from occurring. ​

Accepted Answer

A) one-sided; pattern 
B) hidden; problem 
C) patterned; individual 
D) two-sided; ambivalence 
A) one-sided; pattern 
B) hidden; problem 
C) patterned; individual 
D) two-sided; ambivalence

Question 13

A client's "testing" of the therapist is most likely to occur: ​

Accepted Answer

A) when the therapist appears weak and malleable. 
B) during the initial sessions. 
C) when they feel comfortable within the therapeutic environment. 
D) when the client feels the therapist is not responding. 
A) when the therapist appears weak and malleable. 
B) during the initial sessions. 
C) when they feel comfortable within the therapeutic environment. 
D) when the client feels the therapist is not responding.

Question 14

Which of the following statements is true in regards to transference? ​

Accepted Answer

A) Transference is most likely to occur in the therapeutic relationship when the client is distressed. 
B) Transference occurs in the therapeutic setting and other settings of a client's life. 
C) Transference is an important part of the therapy process. 
D) All of the choices are correct. 
A) Transference is most likely to occur in the therapeutic relationship when the client is distressed. 
B) Transference occurs in the therapeutic setting and other settings of a client's life. 
C) Transference is an important part of the therapy process. 
D) All of the choices are correct.

Question 15

If therapists try to elicit the client's subjective reactions and perceptions of the therapist: ​

Accepted Answer

A) the client will not progress in therapy. 
B) the therapist will be reenacting the old relational scenarios. 
C) the client will find the therapist intrusive and inappropriate. 
D) important information concerning clients' relational templates or therapist reenactment may be revealed. 
A) the client will not progress in therapy. 
B) the therapist will be reenacting the old relational scenarios. 
C) the client will find the therapist intrusive and inappropriate. 
D) important information concerning clients' relational templates or therapist reenactment may be revealed.

Question 16

When clients begin talking about others rather than themselves, the therapeutic process becomes repetitive or intellectualized, or clients become compliant or lose their initiative: ​

Accepted Answer

A) the client's conflict is being reenacted. 
B) the client is engaging in a transference test. 
C) countertransference reactions are being evoked in the therapist. 
D) change is beginning to occur. 
A) the client's conflict is being reenacted. 
B) the client is engaging in a transference test. 
C) countertransference reactions are being evoked in the therapist. 
D) change is beginning to occur.

Question 17

How can a beginning therapist learn to rely on their own ability to select effective interventions without relying on their supervisor's advice? What is the danger in relying on one's mentor and his/her preference toward approaches to treatment? ​

Accepted Answer

A beginning therapist can learn to rely

Question 18

A client's inability to act or change results from: ​

Accepted Answer

A) the push-pull nature of conflict. 
B) the inability to follow good advice. 
C) a personality disorder. 
D) the lack of motivation. 
A) the push-pull nature of conflict. 
B) the inability to follow good advice. 
C) a personality disorder. 
D) the lack of motivation.

Question 19

Describe how eliciting maneuvers, in part, serve to protect clients from suffering further pain and anxiety. ​

Accepted Answer

Eliciting maneuvers are techniques used

Question 20

Describe the concept of "testing" the therapist. How does this potentially help the client resolve conflicts? In what way is attending to this behavior an adaptive and useful method for helping clients resolve their problems? ​

Accepted Answer

The concept of "testing" the therapist r

Describe one way in which new therapists can recover from mistakes, failed tests and re- enactments.

Clients' conflicts are two-sided, and therapists will be effective when they respond to:

Therapists' goals in working with clients' eliciting maneuvers include all of the following EXCEPT:

Interpersonal strategies that ward off anxiety and brings about certain desired, safe responses from others is called a(n) :

Clients' eliciting maneuvers tend to evoke certain similar reactions in the therapist and others are referred to as:

Describe how therapists can use client's transference reactions to better conceptualize their clients' conflicts and guide subsequent treatment plans. Include the valuable knowledge that transference occurs in everyday life.

A common way in which clients' conflicts are reenacted in the therapeutic process is:

Understanding both sides of their conflicts empowers clients to:

Therapists can tell they have effectively "passed" important tests from clients by:

When clients successfully utilize eliciting maneuvers with the therapist:

When therapists become inappropriately over-identified with certain clients, they .

Recognizing the structure of conflicts will enable therapists to respond to the that has immobilized the client and prevented change from occurring.

A client's "testing" of the therapist is most likely to occur:

Which of the following statements is true in regards to transference?

If therapists try to elicit the client's subjective reactions and perceptions of the therapist:

When clients begin talking about others rather than themselves, the therapeutic process becomes repetitive or intellectualized, or clients become compliant or lose their initiative:

How can a beginning therapist learn to rely on their own ability to select effective interventions without relying on their supervisor's advice? What is the danger in relying on one's mentor and his/her preference toward approaches to treatment?

A client's inability to act or change results from:

Describe how eliciting maneuvers, in part, serve to protect clients from suffering further pain and anxiety.

Describe the concept of "testing" the therapist. How does this potentially help the client resolve conflicts? In what way is attending to this behavior an adaptive and useful method for helping clients resolve their problems?

The Interpersonal Process Approach

Establishing a Working Alliance

Honoring the Clients Resistance

An Internal Focus for Change

Helping Clients With Their Feelings

Familial and Developmental Factors

Inflexible Interpersonal Coping Strategies

An Interpersonal Solution

Working-Through and Termination

Filters

Exam 8: Relational Themes and Reparative Experiences