Psychotherapy Midterm Test Bank Questions
1. Synthesizing the approaches covered in the text:
a. can easily be accomplished after taking an
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b. is usually mastered by the end of the first year of one's graduate program.
c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling experience.
d. rarely, if ever, happens and is a completely unrealistic goal.: c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling experience.
2. Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relation- ship-oriented therapy?
a. Gestalt therapy
b. family systems therapy
c. existential approach
d. person-centered approach: b. family systems therapy
3. Which one of the following is not associated with the cognitive-behavioral action-oriented therapies?
a. existential therapy
b. cognitive therapy
c. reality therapy
d. behavior therapy
e. rational emotive behavior therapy: a. existential therapy
4. Which humanistic approach emphasizes the basic attitudes of the thera- pist as the core of the therapeutic process?
a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. Adlerian therapy
c. person-centered therapy
d. cognitive-behavioral therapy
e. family therapy: c. person-centered therapy
5. Presenting one model to which all trainees subscribe
a. is what the counseling profession endorses at present.
b. is likely to be a reality by the year 2020 when the CACREP standards are revisited.
c. is dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in working with a diverse range of future clients.
d. is illegal in the Northeastern region of the U.S., but not in other parts of the country.: c. is dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in working with a diverse range of future clients.
6. The author makes a case for:
a. initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations, and then delving more deeply into each approach.
b. delving deeply into one approach initially and then taking a superficial look at other theoretical models.
c. learning the theories of counseling only after starting to work with clients in order to make the theories more relevant.
d. the reader to choose the approach to which s/he subscribes.: a. initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations, and then delving more deeply into each approach.
7. Which of the following statements about theories or models of counseling/ psychotherapy is true?
a. Extensive research has shown that certain popular models of psychother-
apy are "wrong."
b. There is a clear place for theoretical pluralism in our society.
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