Deck 8: Person Centered Therapy

Question 1

Which is true about the therapeutic triad?

A) That the skills within the triad must be rooted in the therapist's being in order for them to be used effectively.
B) They are the only necessary and sufficient conditions of therapy.
C) They are can be learned with training and can be applied easily.
D) The client must exhibit the triad for therapy to be effective.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Rogers believed that only Westernized societies had a need for positive regard.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Shane's therapist is always accepting of him and does not direct his therapy goals in any way. The therapist encourages Shane to grow into who he wants to be. Shane's therapist is most likely following which therapy model?

A) Psychodynamic
B) Person-centered
C) Adlerian
D) Gestalt

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Rogers believed that ______________ led to the restructuring of self.

A) Conditions of worth
B) Self-exploration
C) Self-actualization
D) Unconditional positive regard

Question 5

Which is NOT true of person-centered therapy?

A) The client chooses the goals of therapy on his or her own.
B) The clients is expected to move towards the expectations of others to reduce conditions of worth
C) One of the goals is to raise the client's consciousness.
D) Therapy works towards helping the client become the person that he or she wants to be.

Question 6

Which of the following is NOT seen as a successful therapeutic change?

A) A client becoming tolerant of their own complexity
B) Clients can let go of their false selves without fear
C) Client recognition that life is a process not an end product
D) The client's feeling become consistent and they rarely change from day to day.

Question 7

What occurs if children do not receive unconditional positive regard from their parents and significant others?

A) Their self-concept develops more quickly
B) They learn to value their own insights more than the beliefs of others
C) They reach an impasse
D) They develop conditions of worth

Question 8

What is a potential negative consequence of active listening?

A) Some ethnic groups may be uncomfortable with the persistent eye contact that is a part of active listening.
B) Clients get bored with hearing the therapist repeat back what they just said.
C) Clients may be uncomfortable with the silences that follow when a therapist is waiting for them to continue talking.
D) The client may feel that the therapist does not truly care about what they are saying.

Question 9

Which of Rogers' books was primarily responsible for getting him worldwide attention and led to him establishing the Association for Humanistic Psychology along with Maslow and others?

A) On Becoming a Person
B) The Clinical Treatment of the Problem Child
C) Freedom to Learn
D) Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups

Question 10

Person-centered therapy is a directive therapy approach.

Question 11

According to Rogers, by what are an individual's personality and behavior determined?

A) Early childhood experiences
B) The goal of actualization
C) Conditions of worth
D) One's self-concept

Question 12

If the conditions of worth that a person experiences match his or her organismic valuing system, that individual will experience conflict and maladjustment.

Question 13

What is the name of the human drive that pushes towards reaching our full potential?

A) Self-actualization
B) Unconditional positive regard
C) Self-regard
D) Fully functioning person

Question 14

Which is NOT true of a fully functioning person?

A) The experience unconditional positive regard from significant others in his or her life.
B) The person has established no conditions of worth
C) The person has self-actualized
D) The person is trustworthy  

Question 15

Which is not considered a necessary and sufficient condition for therapy by Rogers?

A) Unconditional positive regard
B) Therapist self-disclosure
C) Therapist congruency
D) Therapist empathy

Question 16

Client incongruency is one of Rogers' necessary and sufficient conditions of therapy.

Question 17

Rogers stated that children use both an innate valuing process and the standards of others to evaluate their behavior.

Question 18

In person-centered therapy, the perception of one's reality is more important than actual reality.

Question 19

Robert thinks of himself as being very bad at math but he always does well in math classes. Rogers would say what about him?

A) That he has placed conditional of worth on himself
B) That he will never become a fully functioning person
C) That his self-concept and experiences are incongruent.
D) That he is functioning as most people do

Question 20

Which is a primary goal of the therapist in person-centered therapy?

A) To create a treatment plan
B) To diagnose the patient
C) To interpret information provided by the client
D) To assist clients in their growth process.

Question 21

Discuss Watson's review of the research on empathy.

Question 22

What three things must you do in order to make an effective paraphrasing intervention?

Question 23

Person-centered therapists rarely give advice.

Question 24

How do you think Carl Rogers' family life played a role in his belief in the importance of unconditional positive regard?

Question 25

Explain the role of the phenomenal field in one's understanding of the world.

Question 26

Empathy is the most powerful predictor of client progress in therapy.

Question 27

The therapeutic triad includes accurate empathy, unconditional positive regard, and psychological contact.

Question 28

What are a few of the multicultural blind spots of person centered therapy?

Question 29

What are a few of the multicultural positives of person centered therapy?

Question 30

How can person centered counseling be applied in schools?

Question 31

Rogers's theory of personality revolves around what three core concepts?

Question 32

What are some possible consequences when parents place conditions of worth on children?

Question 33

What is the greatest contribution of person-centered therapy to the therapy world?

Question 34

Discuss the criticisms of person centered therapy.

Question 35

Discuss the challenges about the viability of person centered therapy.

Question 36

Person-centered therapy is founded on what two basic hypotheses?

Question 37

Therapist empathy means that the therapist feels bad for his or her client.

Question 38

What is reflection of feeling? Please discuss and provide an example.

Question 39

Discuss organismic trusting.