Question 1

In order to formulate an interpersonal conceptualization, which of the following questions are least important for the therapist to answer? ​

Accepted Answer

A) What do clients elicit from others? 
B) What is the client's previous psychiatric diagnosis and/or medical history? 
C) How will the client test the therapist? 
D) What is the principle relational pattern that the client is reenacting in the therapeutic relationship? 
A) What do clients elicit from others? 
B) What is the client's previous psychiatric diagnosis and/or medical history? 
C) How will the client test the therapist? 
D) What is the principle relational pattern that the client is reenacting in the therapeutic relationship?

Question 2

The most important source of information about clients and what their interpersonal style tends to elicit from others is: ​

Accepted Answer

A) a therapist's awareness of their own feelings that are elicited by clients. 
B) a client's developmental history. 
C) a client's cultural context. 
D) All of the choices are correct. 
A) a therapist's awareness of their own feelings that are elicited by clients. 
B) a client's developmental history. 
C) a client's cultural context. 
D) All of the choices are correct.

Question 3

Clients "test" their therapist to ascertain: ​

Accepted Answer

A) whether the therapist is competent to handle their issues. 
B) if they are able to use their old strategies of control. 
C) whether the therapist will respond in the familiar but problematic way that others often have in the past. 
D) None of the choices are correct. 
A) whether the therapist is competent to handle their issues. 
B) if they are able to use their old strategies of control. 
C) whether the therapist will respond in the familiar but problematic way that others often have in the past. 
D) None of the choices are correct.

Question 4

The therapist's ability to respond to both sides of clients' core conflicts will: ​

Accepted Answer

A) confuse the client. 
B) clarify the ambivalence that has made decisions difficult. 
C) help clients to have compassion for themselves. 
D) Both clarify the ambivalence that has made decisions difficult and help clients to have compassion for themselves are correct. 
A) confuse the client. 
B) clarify the ambivalence that has made decisions difficult. 
C) help clients to have compassion for themselves. 
D) Both clarify the ambivalence that has made decisions difficult and help clients to have compassion for themselves are correct.

Question 5

Elucidate why there often are two opposing sides to conflicts and how this ambivalence can be immobilizing to clients. What can therapists do to impede in the resolution of these intensely ambivalent conflicts? What can therapists do to help resolve them? ​

Accepted Answer

Conflicts often have two opposing sides

Question 6

When clients have been enmeshed with their families of origin, clients need therapists to do the following: ​

Accepted Answer

A) establish boundaries. 
B) like them. 
C) be non-confronting. 
D) be confronting. 
A) establish boundaries. 
B) like them. 
C) be non-confronting. 
D) be confronting.

Question 7

Discuss effective and ineffective ways of dealing with client's eliciting maneuvers. ​

Accepted Answer

Effective ways of dealing with client's

Question 8

Why do clients recreate relational themes with the therapist that parallel the problematic patterns they are playing out with others? ​

Accepted Answer

Clients often recreate relational themes

Question 9

In order to maintain an effective interpersonal balance with clients, what can therapists do to manage their reactivity to clients' negativity? ​

Accepted Answer

Therapists can manage their reactivity t

Question 10

Client response specificity is a significant factor in responding to clients regarding testing behavior. Why is it so essential? ​

Accepted Answer

Client response specificity is crucial w

In order to formulate an interpersonal conceptualization, which of the following questions are least important for the therapist to answer?

The most important source of information about clients and what their interpersonal style tends to elicit from others is:

Clients "test" their therapist to ascertain:

The therapist's ability to respond to both sides of clients' core conflicts will:

Elucidate why there often are two opposing sides to conflicts and how this ambivalence can be immobilizing to clients. What can therapists do to impede in the resolution of these intensely ambivalent conflicts? What can therapists do to help resolve them?

When clients have been enmeshed with their families of origin, clients need therapists to do the following:

Discuss effective and ineffective ways of dealing with client's eliciting maneuvers.

Why do clients recreate relational themes with the therapist that parallel the problematic patterns they are playing out with others?

In order to maintain an effective interpersonal balance with clients, what can therapists do to manage their reactivity to clients' negativity?

Client response specificity is a significant factor in responding to clients regarding testing behavior. Why is it so essential?

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