Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A)   comfortable
B)   frustrated
C)   confused
D)   tired D

Question 4

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.

Accepted Answer

A)   gauge responsiveness to a given treatment
B)   predict the environmental response to a new behavior
C)   "prophesy" that certain events will occur under certain conditions
D)   gauge the likelihood of second order change

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)   encouraging that disruptive behaviors continue beyond
B)   encouraging experimentation with alternate behaviors under
C)   encouraging that disruptive behaviors continue under
D)   encouraging experimentation with alternate behaviors beyond

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)   deductive reasoning; inductive reasoning
B)   deductive reasoning; socratic questioning
C)   early childhood influences; inductive reasoning
D)   early childhood influences; socratic questioning

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A)   proportionality
B)   prediction
C)   proposition
D)   positive provocation

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A)   neutralizers
B)   destabilizers
C)   challengers
D)   dominators

Question 10

Proportionality consists of __________________.

Accepted Answer

A)   offering missing pieces to the client's logic and providing balance
B)   exaggerating an unbalanced position to a greater extent than the client did
C)   redefining the client's perceptions of what is balance vs. imbalance
D)   joining a client's position and discussing natural consequences

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)   sarcasm and humor
B)   cautiousness and confrontation
C)   humor and wit
D)   respect and confrontation

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)   live with ""warped"" solutions.
B)   settle on disproportionality.
C)   feel helplessly overwhelmed.
D)   settle on quasi-solutions.

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