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Counseling Psychology is a branch of psychology focused on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the lifespan. The course explores key theoretical frameworks, assessment techniques, and evidence-based interventions used to help individuals manage emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, and developmental concerns. Students will examine ethical and multicultural considerations in counseling, develop foundational skills in communication and empathy, and gain an understanding of career development, crisis intervention, and the therapeutic relationship. Through lectures, discussions, and experiential activities, participants are prepared to apply counseling strategies in diverse settings to promote mental health and well-being.
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Current Psychotherapies 10th Edition by Danny Wedding
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Chapter 1: Introduction to 21st Century Psychotherapies
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Q1) Neurosciences suggest elective psychotherapy leads to changes at the:
A)cognitive level.
B)behavioral level.
C)neuronal level.
D)interpersonal level.
Answer: C
Q2) The idea that similar ideas attract and strengthen one another's ability to be conscious is the result of the work of:
A)Alfred Adler.
B)Hippocrates.
C)Thomas Mann.
D)Johann Friedrich Herbart.
Answer: D
Q3) Due to multicultural differences, segments of the population would likely benefit from:
A)indigenized psychotherapies.
B)exporting Euro-American psychotherapists.
C)abandoning cultural philosophies.
D)accepting a universal approach to psychotherapy.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies
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Q1) While the main emphasis of psychoanalysis is a focus on unconscious drives, the Jungian approach is focused on ______.
Answer: Cultural symbols
Q2) Joan becomes agitated with her psychoanalyst's interpretations, perceiving the comments as judgmental, which reminds her of interactions with her father.This is known as:
A)regression.
B)transference.
C) resistance.
D)autoeroticism.
Answer: B
Q3) The psychological theory created by Carl Jung is termed:
A)analytical psychology.
B)individual psychology.
C)psychodynamic psychology.
D)complex psychology.
Answer: A
Q4) Freud's topographical model of the mind proposed ______, ______, and ______.
Answer: Conscious, preconscious, and unconscious
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Chapter 3: Adlerian Psychotherapy
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Q1) Adler is credited with introducing the concept of _______ instincts into psychoanalytic theory.
Answer: Aggressive
Q2) A major goal of Adlerian psychotherapy can be viewed as a modification of: A)behavior.
B)defenses.
C)convictions.
D)conflicts.
Answer: C
Q3) Adler's three original life tasks included:
A)work, community, and love.
B)work, power, and spiritual.
C)sex, control, and courage.
D)society, spiritual, and work.
Answer: A
Q4) Adlerians view counseling as focusing on a change of behavior within lifestyle, whereas psychotherapy focuses on a change of _______.
Answer: Lifestyle
Q5) Adler believed that humans should be studied and treated _______.
Answer: Holistically
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Chapter 4: Client-Centered Therapy
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Q1) The conclusion drawn from meta-analyses and large scale studies that all major psychotherapies yield comparable effect sizes is referred to as the:
A)Dodo Bird effect.
B)common factors research.
C)Zimring's paradigm.
D)client-driven model.
Q2) A successful person-centered therapy outcome would be defined by:
A)objective assessments indicating progress.
B)alleviation of symptoms representing a diagnostic label.
C)a therapist's perception that the client improved.
D)the client's evaluation that therapy was beneficial.
Q3) Zimring underscores the importance of how humans become persons within the context of their:
A)own psyche.
B)culture.
C)family.
D)psychic distress.
Q4) When a therapist is able to maintain an unaltered attitude about a patient, regardless of the patient's comments or choices, this is referred to as _______.
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Chapter 5: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
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Q1) REBT research supports the tenet that:
A)cognition always creates emotions and behaviors.
B)cognitions, emotions and behaviors have a reciprocal relationship.
C)behaviors always proceed cognitions and emotions.
D)the cause of cognitions and behaviors are emotions.
Q2) The solution for dealing with an individual's demandingness most strongly supported by REBT is:
A)decreasing demandingness.
B)satisfying the demand.
C)magic and mysticism.
D)distraction.
Q3) Ellis suggests humans have an innate nature to:
A)want, need and condemn when needs aren't met.
B)have mental illness regardless of beliefs.
C)develop rational beliefs.
D)challenge their own irrational thoughts.
Q4) In therapy, REBT teaches patients to differentiate between those items they want or desire and _______.
Q5) REBT views the Jungian focus on the collective unconscious as a _______.
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Q6) In challenging individual thought processes, REBT would use _____ and _____.
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Chapter 6: Behavior Therapy
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Q1) When the Society of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association developed a list of the most efficacious, empirically based treatment approaches, which therapy approach dominated the list?
A)Psychoanalytic
B)Analytical
C)Behavioral
D)Family systems
Q2) In a 2005 study, Hinton and colleagues found that Cambodian refugees with PTSD:
A)would not trust a CBT approach because it felt controlling.
B)could be successfully treated with CBT.
C)had culturally specific beliefs that decreased prognosis.
D)responded most effectively to reinforcement.
Q3) In the treatment of anxiety disorders _______ techniques are often used, such as diaphragmatic breathing.
Q4) Behavioral therapists view assessment as a(n):
A)unnecessary component to treatment.
B)process completed during the first session.
C)continuous process throughout therapy.
D)reliable technique when projectives are used.
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Chapter 7: Cognitive Therapy
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Q1) When an individual is predisposed under stress to misinterpret information in a biased fashion, cognitive theory would state that the individual is exhibiting a:
A)cognitive vulnerability.
B)primal mode.
C)cognitive profile.
D)sociotropic personality.
Q2) Which of the following would create the most significant change in a dysfunctional mode for a patient?
A)Altering automatic thoughts
B)Providing reassurance and empathy
C)Teaching distraction and relaxation techniques
D)Modifying core beliefs
Q3) Assisting a patient in initiating a task at a non-threatening level and then gradually increasing the task difficulty is referred to as:
A)hypothesis testing.
B)diversion.
C)roleplaying.
D)graded task assignment.
Q4) According to cognitive theory, thoughts _________________ shifts in emotions.
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Chapter 8: Existential Psychotherapy
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Q1) An experience that forces an individual to confront an existential issue is known as a:
A)boundary situation.
B)moment of insight.
C)therapeutic confrontation.
D)personal revelation.
Q2) When an individual can move past a situation in order to move toward their future, it is said that the person has _______ the immediate situation.
Q3) In general, existential psychotherapy can be considered an approach that is:
A)directive.
B)cognitive-focused.
C)integrative.
D)emotional-focused.
Q4) The individual who described logotherapy was:
A)Frankl.
B)Heidegger.
C)Husserl.
D)Nietzsche.
Q5) The fact that we are isolated from parts of ourselves is termed _______.
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Chapter 9: Gestalt Therapy
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Q1) In most types of therapy, the therapist may not reveal considerable amounts of information about themselves.In gestalt therapy, therapist disclosure is considered _______ if done _______.
Q2) Field approaches are not speculative, interpretative, or classificatory.They are _______.
Q3) A set of mutually interdependent elements is referred to as a:
A)field.
B)gestalt.
C)whole.
D)context.
Q4) Which of the following individuals and his collaborators founded gestalt therapy?
A)Gary Yontef
B)Fritz Perls
C)Albert Einstein
D)Martin Buber
Q5) The word gestalt comes from a German word meaning _______.
Q6) Utilizing field theory, a person constitutes a _______.
Q7) _______ theory underlies the gestalt immunological perspective.
Q8) Gestalt psychotherapy is focused on _______ rather than on _______.
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Chapter 10: Interpersonal Psychotherapy
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Q1) Ainsworth originally identified three major attachment styles which she labeled ______________, ______________, and ____________.A forth attachment style known as ____________________ was added later.
Q2) One of interpersonal therapy's most important and distinctive features is conducting a(n) __________________ of important people currently in the patient's life.
Q3) Conjoint interpersonal psychotherapy for depression has demonstrated that:
A)treating a couple when both spouses are depressed is not beneficial.
B)conjoint interpersonal therapy leads to greater marital satisfaction.
C)less gains are made in treatment by both spouses if treated together.
D)conflicts in therapy arise as both patients want to assume a "sick role."
Q4) If a patient is deemed a partial responder during the termination phases of interpersonal therapy, the therapist will:
A)instill guilt to motivate the patient to be more compliant.
B)review which skills taught were useful and encourage their use.
C)encourage the patient to accept that their symptoms are chronic.
D)terminate treatment regardless because IPT only allows for 16 sessions.
Q5) Interpersonal therapy asserts depression is _______________, but symptoms are triggered by ____________.
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Chapter 11: Family Therapy
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Q1) A mother tells her child "I know you're not hungry," despite the child's sense that he/she is hungry.This is an example of:
A)triadic communication.
B)pseudo-mutuality.
C)mystification.
D)redundancy principle.
Q2) The Psychodynamics of Family Life, viewed by many as the first text defining the field of family therapy, was written by:
A)Nathan Ackerman.
B)Virginia Satir.
C)Jay Haley.
D)Salvador Minuchin.
Q3) Family systems that allow new information in and individuals within the family to see things from different perspectives are called _______ systems.
Q4) Family therapists shift the locus of pathology from individuals to:
A)parents.
B)sociocultural norms.
C)biological predispositions.
D)family systems.
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Chapter 12: Contemplative Psychotherapies
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Q1) At postconventional levels, an individual's metamotives evolve and their cognitive development:
A)remains constant but spiritual enlightenment advances.
B)is unaffected as they are in a meditational trance.
C)yields advanced mathematical and verbal skills they were unaware of.
D)allows them to see interconnections between group ideas simultaneously.
Q2) Which of the following statements about motives is true?
A)Motives are organized from survival to self-transcendence.
B)Metamotives are not an inherent part of human nature.
C)Metamotive blindness is rare.
D)Authentic living is characterized by motives such as sex, money, power.
Q3) Suffering is the gap between what we ________and what we ________.
Q4) The first stage in the process of contemplative psychotherapy would be the repetitive practice of contemplative techniques to aid in the:
A)recognition of mental dysfunction.
B)recognition of habitual patterns.
C)advancement of cognitive insights.
D)development of exceptional qualities.
Q5) The most researched contemplative practices are __________ and ____________.
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Q6) Maintaining calmness in the face of provocative stimuli is known as __________.
Chapter 13: Positive Psychotherapy
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Q1) Fredrickson (2009) found that an individual must experience how many positive emotions for every single negative emotion to reach the threshold for flourishing? A)1
B)3
C)5
D)10
Q2) ________________ is a state characterized by positive emotions, a strong sense of personal meaning, good work, and positive relationships.
Q3) In treating patients with narcissistic personality disorder with positive psychotherapy, therapists must be mindful of the fact that:
A)the client may try to usurp the therapist's authority and shift the focus.
B)issues related to low self-esteem will be the client's preferred focus.
C)focusing on virtues may make the client more anxious.
D)identification of character strengths may exaggerate the client's inflated self-view.
Q4) Michael Frisch's _____________________integrates cognitive therapy with Positive Psychology ideas and has been shown to be effective with depressed clients.
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Chapter 14: Integrative Psychotherapies
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Q1) An individual who is in the action stage of change is:
A)unaware that they have a problem
B)aware of a problem and considering change
C)intending to make changes in the near future
D)working on modifying their behavior
Q2) Insight and awareness-enhancing therapies are more effective for individuals who have a coping style that is:
A)passive.
B)internalizing.
C)externalizing.
D)aggressive.
Q3) James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente created an approach delineating stages of change that is:
A)transtheoretical in nature.
B)most applicable to lifestyle changes.
C)most applicable to mental disorders.
D)biased towards the use of behavioral approaches.
Q4) Over the past decade, __________was the most common orientation in the U.S.but __________ is rapidly challenging eclecticism as the modal theory.
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Chapter 15: Multicultural Theories of Psychotherapy
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Q1) In Pamela Hays' ADDRESSING framework, the "N" stands for:
A)negotiating.
B)natural selection.
C)national origin.
D)negligence.
Q2) In the final stage of the ethnocultural assessment, the _____________ stage, the therapist explores significant affiliations with the patient, including exploration of the therapist-client relationship.
Q3) According to Comas-Diaz and Jacobsen (1991), during intra-ethnic transference the therapist is often transformed into one of four roles which include __________,
Q4) According to Atkinson, Morten and Sue, the identity development of ethnic minority groups follows which of the following patterns?
A)Conformity to introspection to dissonance
B)Dissonance to synergistic to conformity
C)Conformity to resistance to synergistic
D)Resistance to conformity to dissonance
Q5) ________________ refers to people's systemized ideas and beliefs about the universe.
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Chapter 16: Contemporary Challenges and Controversies
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Q1) Which of the following statements is true?
A)Patients with schizophrenia have a poorer prognosis and a lower level of functioning in poor countries.
B)U.S.born Mexican-Americans have a lower risk of drug abuse than those born in Mexico.
C)Black women in the U.S.are three times as likely to commit suicide as White and Hispanic women.
D)The effects of psychiatric drugs vary widely across different ethnic groups.
Q2) Within the current mental health work force, _________ represent the largest number of clinicians.
Q3) More than 50% of all psychiatrists practice ______ psychiatry.
Q4) Research suggests that, after 13 years in the U.S., rates of depression for female immigrant Mexican Americans:
A)remains the same as Mexican females.
B)rises precipitously.
C)drops precipitously.
D)leads to a suicide rate 5 times higher than in White women.
Q5) _______% of therapists feel that their training prepared them for a situation where they felt sexual attraction towards a client.
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