Exam 5: The Domain of Assessment: the Theme Behind a Clients Narrative, Therapeutic Goals, and Client Input About Goal Achievement

Sarcasm is an acceptable, ironic way of challenging a client's entrenched positions.

The "irritation" of provocation and other challenging interventions service to help clients to re-engage themselves with their symptoms in order to counter maladaptive behavioral, social, attitudinal, or relational "solutions" previously used.

In therapy, clients that may benefit from the paradoxical interventions that are provocative and unsettling to the status quo may complain that they are ______________.

Prediction refers to a therapist's efforts to ___________________ based on knowledge of a client's schema dynamics, emotional system, current situation, and feelings of ambivalence.

Prescription refers to a therapist ______________________ the direction and cooperation of the therapist.

A clinician must be able to recognize faulty conclusions derived from _____________, and counter it with ____________.

Confronting is a process of directing someone's attention to something that he/she potentially avoids looking at.

Which of the following is not a type of paradoxical interventions that are provocative and unsettling to the status quo?

What term describes the paradoxical interventions that are provocative and unsettling to the status quo?

Proportionality consists of __________________.

Positive provocation involves the combination of which two factors in order to be an effective paradoxical intervention?

Clients in need of paradoxical interventions that are provocative and unsettling to the status quo cannot bring things back into proper proportion, and instead _________________.