Exam 6: The Domain of Establishing and Maintaining the Therapeutic Relationship and the Therapeutic Alliance: Relationship Building

One theory of humor suggests that for it to work, there must be a required build up of _______.

Humor can help a person who feels trapped by their circumstances and schema dynamics to do what?

Irony is often the product of a person's ___________, especially if they are too rigidly and unrealistically applied.

Humor is effective for helping clients to relax and get new perspectives, but is not really effective in moving a client from one stage of change to the next.

In combining humor with energizing paradoxical interventions, therapists endeavor to bring clients to a place where they can ___________________.

What kind of jokes can be a helpful use of humor in establishing and maintaining the therapeutic relationship, as well as repairing it if necessary?

Humor can be used to uncover hidden _______ or ________.

Therapists should take caution or avoid using humor in all of the following situations except:

What kind of humor is effective in deepening the therapeutic relationship because it communicates to the client that the therapist doesn't take him/herself too seriously?

True therapeutic humor does not contain which of the following?

Combining __________ with humor or irony can help clients to see the silliness of some of their ideas.

Empathy is defined as the "intrapersonal sharing of affect."

Therapists should always feel comfortable using humor in early stages of treatment so that clients feel better at ease and relaxed.