Principles of Psychotherapy Exam Materials
Course Introduction
Principles of Psychotherapy provides an overview of foundational theories, techniques, and practices that underpin the therapeutic process in mental health care. The course explores major schools of psychotherapy, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and integrative approaches, examining their conceptual frameworks, methods of intervention, and evidence bases. Students will gain an understanding of the therapeutic alliance, assessment strategies, goal setting, and the ethical and cultural considerations involved in psychotherapy. Emphasis is placed on developing core skills in establishing rapport, facilitating communication, and promoting change within diverse clinical populations, preparing students for further study or practice in counseling and mental health disciplines.
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Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy 9th Edition by Gerald Corey
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Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview
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Q1) Reality therapy is based on choice theory and focuses on the client assuming responsibility in the present.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Both family therapy and feminist therapy are based on the premise that to understand the individual it is essential to take into consideration the interpersonal dimensions and the sociocultural context rather than focusing primarily on the intrapsychic domain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) An experiential approach is Gestalt therapy,which offers a range of experiments to help clients gain awareness of what they are experiencing in the here and now.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Counselor: Person and Professional
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Q1) Regarding psychotherapy treatment outcome,research suggests all of the following except:
A)the therapist as a person is an integral part of successful treatment.
B)the therapeutic relationship is an essential component of effective treatment.
C)both the therapy methods and the therapy relationship make contributions to treatment outcome.
D)therapy techniques are the key component of successful treatment
Answer: D
Q2) Your role as a counselor is to provide a safe and inviting context in which clients can explore the congruence between their values and their behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) If you try to figure out in advance how to proceed with a client,you may be depriving the client of the opportunity to become an active partner in her or his own therapy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Ethical Issues in Counseling Practice
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Q1) Evidenced-based practices are not:
A)based on psychodynamic principles.
B)tailored to address specific problems and symptoms.
C)founded on empirical research.
D)generally time limited.
Answer: A
Q2) Assessment is a useful method of:
A)evaluating a client's current level of functioning.
B)forming a case conceptualization.
C)involving the client as an active participant in treatment.
D)gaining insight into the client's subjective world.
E)all of these.
Answer: E
Q3) Multiple relationship issues can be resolved with ethics codes alone.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Psychoanalytic Therapy
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Q1) All of the following are true about a therapist's countertransference reactions except:
A)they should be avoided.
B)they have the potential to interfere with effective treatment.
C)they can provide rich understanding of the client's experience.
D)they should be carefully monitored by the therapist.
Q2) Who developed the object-relations view that focuses on separation and individuation?
A)Perls
B)Satir
C)Rogers
D)Mahler
E)Erikson
Q3) In order to meet the goals of psychoanalytic treatment,Rhonda must help her eating disordered clients to:
A)reduce their symptoms and resolve their internal conflicts.
B)replace negative self-talk with positive self-talk.
C)make use of programs such as Weight Watchers or the Atkins diet plan.
D)increase their support networks and develop social interest.
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Chapter 5: Adlerian Therapy
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Q1) Adler pioneered the practice of teaching professionals through live demonstrations with parents and children before large audiences.This is now called:
A)"open-forum" family counseling.
B)spectator therapy.
C)"on stage" family therapy.
D)"hot seat" family counseling.
Q2) Adlerians maintain that change is not possible without insight; understanding the causes of one's problems is a prerequisite to behavioral change.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which child tends to feel squeezed out and may develop a conviction that life is unfair and a feeling of being cheated?
A)the oldest child
B)the second child
C)the middle child
D)the youngest child
E)the only child
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Chapter 6: Existential Therapy
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Q1) Existential therapists strive to be their authentic selves when working with clients.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Currently,there is high international interest in the existential approach to psychotherapy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The goals of existential therapy include all but_________?
A)helping clients become more honest with themselves.
B)broadening clients' awareness of their choices.
C)helping clients to eliminate anxiety in their lives.
D)enabling clients to clarify their purpose and meaning in life.
Q4) Being alone is a process by which we do all of the following except:
A)learn to tolerate feelings of isolation.
B)develop strength and self-reliance.
C)develop a deep understanding of ourselves.
D)reject the social overtures of others.
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Chapter 7: Person-Centered Therapy
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Q1) Person-centered therapy is best described as:
A)a completed "school" of counseling.
B)a fixed set of therapeutic principles.
C)a systematic set of behavioral techniques.
D)a philosophy of how the therapy process develops.
Q2) The person-centered philosophy views diagnosis as:
A)a useful tool for case conceptualization.
B)a meaningful way of understanding of a client's psychological state.
C)a labeling process that diminishes the therapist's ability to develop a holistic understanding of the client.
D)a necessary process that does not impact the course of therapy.
Q3) Person-centered therapy is best explained as:
A)a dogma.
B)a fixed and completed approach to therapy.
C)a set of techniques to build trust in clients.
D)all of these.
E)none of these.
Q4) Congruence is a basic characteristic of effective therapists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Gestalt Therapy
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Q1) Which of the following is not true about Fritz Perls?
A)He developed Gestalt therapy.
B)During his childhood,he was a model student.
C)He was trained in psychoanalysis.
D)He gave workshops and seminars at the Esalen Institute.
E)He aroused various reactions in the people he met.
Q2) The goal of Gestalt therapy is to solve basic problems,to resolve one's polarities,and to help the individual to adjust to his or her environment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the Gestalt perspective,if people do not remember their dreams:
A)they may be refusing to face what is wrong with their lives.
B)that suggests they have no internal conflicts.
C)they are sound sleepers.
D)they lack creativity.
E)they should be referred to a therapist with a different theoretical orientation.
Q4) Gestalt theory is best considered as a form of psychoanalytic therapy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Behavior Therapy
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Q1) B.F.Skinner is associated with which of the following trends in the behavioral approach?
A)classical conditioning
B)operant conditioning
C)multimodal therapy
D)dialectical behavior therapy
E)relaxation training
Q2) Techniques used in mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy include all but: A)yoga.
B)flooding.
C)body scan meditation.
D)a present-focused orientation.
Q3) Behavior therapy has been successfully used with developmentally delayed clients. A)True
B)False
Q4) Multimodal therapy encourages its practitioners to fit their procedures to the needs of the client by borrowing techniques from many other approaches.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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Q1) REBT hypothesizes that we keep ourselves emotionally disturbed by the process of self-indoctrination.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of the main ways that Beck's cognitive therapy differs from Ellis's REBT is that in Beck's approach,more so than in Ellis's approach:
A)reality testing is highly organized.
B)thinking is considered to influence feeling and action.
C)the quality of the therapeutic relationship is basic to the therapy process.
D)clients are asked to look for evidence to support their conclusions.
Q3) According to Ellis,we develop emotional and behavioral difficulties because:
A)we think of simple preferences as dire needs.
B)we live by the values our parents gave us.
C)we refuse to deal with unfinished business.
D)we have learned maladaptive behaviors.
E)we do not possess any self-actualizing tendencies.
Q4) In CBT,clients and counselor jointly set the agenda for the therapy session.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Reality Therapy
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Q1) Robert Wubbolding stresses the importance of an engaging therapeutic environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Wubboding believes all of the following encourage the client's involvement in therapy except for:
A)appropriate use of humor.
B)warmth.
C)facilitative self-disclosure.
D)allowing the client to focus on symptoms.
Q3) In reality therapy,the purpose of developing an action plan is:
A)to encourage clients to stretch beyond their limits.
B)to teach clients to "think big."
C)to arrange for successful experience.
D)to arrive at the ultimate solution to a client's problem.
Q4) Reality therapy gives only limited attention to helping people address environmental and social problems.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 12: Feminist Therapy
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Q1) While most feminist therapists believe that gender is always an important factor,they realize that ethnicity,sexual orientation,and class may be more important factors in certain situations for many women.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bibliotherapy is frequently used in feminist therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) An andocentric theory uses female-oriented constructs to draw conclusions about human nature.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The beginnings of feminism can be traced to the late 1800s,but it is the women's movement of the 1960s that laid the foundation for the development of feminist therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Feminist therapists restrict their practices to women clients.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Postmodern Approaches
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Q1) The founder(s)of narrative therapy is (are):
A)Michael White and David Epston.
B)Insoo Kim Berg and Steve de Shazer.
C)Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck.
D)Donald Meichenbaum.
E)Albert Bandura.
Q2) A solution-oriented therapist might ask her client,a compulsive shopper,which of the following questions?
A)Who has the best shoe sale this week,Macy's or Nordstrom's?
B)If a miracle happened and your shopping compulsion was solved overnight,how would you know it was solved,and what would be different?
C)Who in your family is most affected when you go on a spending spree?
D)At what point in your life did you develop this fixation on shopping?
Q3) Solution-oriented therapy differs from both strategic and traditional models by eschewing the past in favor of focusing on the future.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Family Systems Therapy
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Q1) Which family therapist made use of innovative interventions such as metaphor,reframing,rules for interaction,parts party,family reconstructions,family sculpting,and family maps?
A)Bowen
B)Minuchin
C)Satir
D)Whitaker
E)Haley
Q2) Minuchin's approach to therapy is geared more toward insight,rather than taking action.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Strategic therapists do not rely on therapy techniques to bring about change but instead give more stress to the therapist's relationship with a family.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Strategic family therapy has its foundation in communications theory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: An Integrative Perspective
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Q1) Which of the following approaches to therapy most attempts to provide a growth-promoting climate that is conducive to a client's self-exploration?
A)psychoanalytic therapy
B)Gestalt therapy
C)reality therapy
D)family therapy
E)person-centered therapy
Q2) Which of the following approaches to therapy focuses on the unique style of life we create at an early age?
A)family systems therapy
B)reality therapy
C)rational emotive behavior therapy
D)psychoanalytic therapy
E)Adlerian therapy
Q3) Historically,counselors have been:
A)resistant to developing an integrated model of psychotherapy.
B)at war regarding the issues of the "best" methods of treatment.
C)quick to discount contributions of a competing theoretical model.
D)all of these
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Chapter 16: Case Illustration: an Integrative Approach to
Working With Stan
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Q1) Which therapeutic approach would work to help Stan recognize,claim,and embrace his personal power?
A)narrative therapy
B)rational emotive behavior therapy
C)reality therapy
D)feminist therapy
E)existential therapy
Q2) Which of the following would not be part of an Adlerian approach to working with Stan?
A)giving homework assignments
B)gathering data about his dreams
C)examining his private logic
D)exploring his family constellation
E)confronting the ways he is seeking to escape his freedom through drugs and alcohol
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