Deck 8: Affective Interventions

Question 1

The counselor should not to become actively involved when using the role reversal
intervention with clients.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Many clients lack the introspective skill needed to identify their feelings
.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Cultures are mostly different in how they use nonverbals to communicate feelings, according
to Ekman's research.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Normalizing means helping clients change their feelings.

Question 5

Among the reasons one would use affective interventions is(are):

A) To identify or discriminate between feeling states.
B) To help the client learn how to contain certain feelings.
C) To help the client express feelings or feeling states.
D) All of the above.

Question 6

Role reversal and the empty chair are interventions that are often used to:

A) Help clients integrate or change feelings.
B) Help the counselor recognize client feeling states.
C) Help both the counselor and client to communicate their feelings.
D) All of the above.

Question 7

In the dreamwork session with Linda, she identified the meaning of her father being Asian as:

A) He was, in fact, Chinese.
B) She thought of Asians as difficult to read when it came to feelings.
C) She thought of herself as safe with him.
D) None of the above.

Question 8

Often counseling involves teaching clients how to express their feelings.

Question 9

Helping the individual to express feelings is a central goal of all forms of therapy.

Question 10

Typically, when clients are trying to sort out feelings using unanswerable questions, the counselor's role is:

A) Impossible.
B) Facilitator or guide.
C) Realist.
D) None of the above.

Question 11

It is rare or even impossible for a person to experience anger without being aware of it.

Question 12

Counseling theories that tend to be associated with the expression of feelings include:

A) The phenomenological theories
B) The runtative theories.
C) All types of psychotherapy.
D) All of the above.

Question 13

Often the most appropriate counselor response to client fear is to encourage the client to talk
about it.

Question 14

Human emotions are a significant component of human functioning.

Question 15

Research into cultural effects on affective expression have found:

A) That the English endorse the display of distress and anger across relationships more than do the Japanese.
B) That the Japanese find it easier to display distress and anger than do the Italians.
C) That Australians never express anger.
D) That Native Americans are comfortable expressing feelings.

Question 16

Affective interventions help the client in the expression of

A) Innermost fears
B) Innermost hopes
C) Innermost resentments
D) All of the above

Question 17

When a client enters counseling overwhelmed by feelings, this is often referred to as:

A) Pathology
B) Neurosis
C) Emotional flooding
D) None of the above

Question 18

Sometimes the therapeutic goal is to help a client gain some control over her/his feelings.

Question 19

Cultures that rely heavily on nonverbals for communication are known as:

A) More emotional.
B) Low context cultures.
C) More vulnerable.
D) High context cultures.

Question 20

Regardless of whether the client expresses feelings, the assumption is that:

A) Most of our reactions have a feeling dimension.
B) Clients always feel better after they express feelings.
C) Feelings always lead to change.
D) None of the above.