Deck 5: What Answers About the Body of Knowledge: Helping Relationships, Group Work, Assessment, and Research and Program Evaluation

Question 1

Which of the following theories primarily targets insight and self-awareness?

A) Gestalt therapy
B) Reality therapy
C) Family systems therapy
D) Cognitive/behavioral therapy
E) Solution-focused brief therapy

Answer 1

A

Question 2

According to Sigmund Freud, which component of the personality is the source of psychic energy and the instincts of sex and aggression?

A) The Preconscious
B) The Conscious
C) The Id
D) The Ego
E) The Superego

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The projection or displacement of affect from a forgotten childhood memory to someone in the present is referred to as:

A) transference.
B) repression.
C) reaction formation.
D) sublimation.
E) regression.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

That maladaptive behavior is learned as a way to increase positive reinforcement is a major tenet of which kind of therapy?

A) Family systems
B) Freudian
C) Reality
D) Rogerian
E) None of the above

Question 5

maintained that difficulties are rooted in a feeling of inferiority- the Inferiority Complex.

A) Albert Ellis
B) Alfred Adler
C) Carl Rogers
D) William Glasser
E) Salvador Minuchin

Question 6

Which of the following is not one of the phases of Adlerian therapy?

A) Establishing the relationship
B) Assessment and analysis, which includes exploring the clients lifestyle, early recollections, family constellation, and birth order
C) Insight and interpretation, to uncover the client's private logic about their beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions
D) Reorientation
E) The latency phase

Question 7

Which theorist maintained that irrational beliefs come from unconditional "shoulds," "oughts," and "musts" that people attribute to events?

A) B. F. Skinner
B) Fritz Perls
C) Albert Ellis
D) Viktor Frankl
E) None of the above

Question 8

The narrative approach arose out of the , a major tenet of the postmodernist movement.

A) constructivist view
B) humanistic view
C) post-constructivist view
D) deterministic view
E) behavioral view

Question 9

groups emphasize teaching group members one or more sets of didactic information that address psychological issues.

A) Psychotherapy
B) Psychoeducational
C) Encounter
D) Self-help
E) Task

Question 10

An interpretation, derived from the use of assessment information, about a person's condition (e.g., his or her level of functioning) is best described as:

A) measurement.
B) results.
C) diagnosis.
D) evaluation.
E) a treatment plan.

Question 11

Experimental methods use controlled conditions to describe and analyze data by manipulating one or more variables and controlling others.

Question 12

Qualitative methods are a non-numerical way to collect data in order to explain the attributes of a phenomenon or source of data.

Question 13

Quantitative researchers analyze data by looking for patterns and a "thick description" of the data, including direct quotes from interviewees and detailed notes from field study observations.

Question 14

The hallmark of the interpersonal group approach is the ability of members to develop positive relationships with other group member so that improved relationships outside of the group will result.

Question 15

Alcoholics Anonymous is an example of a counseling group.

Question 16

Nonverbal methods (e.g., music or dance) can address therapeutic material that "talk therapy" cannot. They can circumvent resistance, defenses, and anxieties more quickly than cognitive and action-oriented processes.

Question 17

In behavioral therapy, the client learns to first deconstruct and then reconstruct his or her dominant story through the process of restorying.

Question 18

Raising consciousness and validating experiences are techniques used by feminist therapists.

Question 19

Family therapy has proven to be ineffective in treating sexual problems and difficult or aggressive children and adolescents.

Question 20

In solution-focused brief therapy, exception questions require the client to rank order problems or symptoms on a scale of one to ten.

Question 21

The text asserts that appraisal is an encompassing word that includes several activities. List the five functions of appraisal and how counselors use each of these functions.

Question 22

Discuss the role of theory in counseling practice.