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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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.

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

Answer 2

C

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Proportionality consists of __________________.

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 5

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

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

Question 6

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

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

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

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

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

Question 9

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

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

Question 10

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.

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

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