study questions to pass qualifying exam counseling before COMPS and state exam. Texas

Cognitive Behavior therapy REBT stresses that human beings: a. think, feel, and behave simultaneously. b. behave without feeling or thinking. c. think without experiencing emotions. d. feel without thinking. 2 Who among the following is not associated with the cognitive behavioral school of therapy? a. Aaron Beck b. Donald Meichenbaum c. Albert Ellis d. Rollo May feedback: Incorrect. See page 273 3 In working with a client, Albert Ellis would likely use: a. cognitive techniques. b. emotive techniques. c. behavioral techniques. d. none of these choices. e. all of these choices. feedback: Incorrect. See page 281 4 According to Albert Ellis, a warm and personal client/therapist relationship is: a. none of these choices. b. necessary, but not sufficient, for change to occur. c. neither necessary nor sufficient for change to occur. d. necessary and sufficient for change to occur. 5 REBT stresses: a. narrative conversations and creating new stories. b. support, empathy, and personal warmth. c. thinking, critically analyzing, and doing. d. the I/Thou encounter between client and therapist. e. subjectivity, existential anxiety, and striving for meaning. Incorrect. See page 275 6 Beck’s cognitive therapy emphasizes the use of: a. both the Socratic method and cognitive restructuring. b. stress inoculation training. c. the Socratic method. d. cognitive restructuring. e. shame attacking exercises. See page 289 7 Which of the following is not one of Beck’s cognitive distortions? a. labeling b. selective abstraction c. arbitrary inferences d. jumping to conclusions 8 REBT techniques include all of the following methods except for: a. logical analysis. b. lifestyle assessment. c. use of force and vigor. d. homework assignments. e. shame-attacking exercises. See pages 282-285 9 Donald Meichenbaum’s cognitive behavior modification is especially designed for: a. alleviating symptoms of depression. b. severely disturbed individuals. c. creating coping skills. d. those with eating disorders. e. curing clients of phobias. See page 296 10 In Beck’s cognitive therapy, the therapist and client work together to uncover and examine faulty interpretations. This process is known as: a. technical empiricism. b. therapeutic exploration of self-talk. c. stress inoculation. d. automatic thinking. e. collaborative empiricism. Reality therapy Which of the following is not a belief held by Glasser? a. Insight is the key to behavior change. b. All mental illness results from the choices clients make. c. The use of psychiatric medication is not helpful in creating behavior change. d. We choose our total behavior, and thus are responsible for what we do, think, and feel. . See pages 317-321 2 The “P” in the WDEP system stands for: a. planning. b. processing. c. perceptions. d. participating. e. preparing. 3 Exploring a client’s quality world helps them identify: a. symptoms to target for treatment. b. their hopes and dreams for how they would like to live. c. both how well what they are currently doing meets their needs and their hopes and dreams for how they would like to live. d. how well what they are currently doing meets their needs. e. mistakes made in the past. 4 A reality therapist working with a drug addicted client is likely to view the client’s addiction as: a. a symptom of personality problems. b. a sign of deep unmet psychological need. c. a biological condition. d. a coping response to dealing with painful feelings from childhood. e. the result of choices the client made. 5 Choice theory tends to focus on: a. doing and thinking. b. feeling and physiology. c. how the family system controls our decisions. d. the underlying causes for feeling depressed or anxious. e. coming to a fuller understanding of the past. 6 Which of the following is not a characteristic of reality therapy? a. Getting clients to evaluate what they are doing. b. Emphasis on the quality of one’s relationships with significant others. c. Keeping therapy in the present. d. Existential-phenomenological orientation. e. Paying attention to “sparkling events” that contradict problemsaturated stories. 7 The view of human nature underlying reality therapy is that: a. we have a need for freedom and fun. b. we have the need for love and belonging. c. all of these choices. d. we have a need for survival. e. we have a need for power. 8 Reality therapy was designed originally for working with: a. youthful offenders in detention facilities. b. elementary school children. c. domestic offenders. d. substance abusers. 9 Once clients make an evaluation about their behavior and decide how they want to change, the reality therapist expects them to: a. develop specific plans to change behavior. b. express pent-up feelings. c. both develop specific plans to change behavior and make a commitment to carry out plans in daily life. d. become self-critical if they do not carry out their plans. e. make a commitment to carry out plans in daily life. 10 Choice theory posits that we are born with five genetically encoded needs that drive us all of our lives. These five needs are: a. shelter, food, intimacy, job satisfaction, and selfactualization. b. none of these choices. c. survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. d. survival, intimacy, freedom, power, and success. e. shelter, food, affection, gratification, and self-actualization. Feminist therapy Clients in feminist therapy would likely explore: a. cultural forces influencing behavior. b. all of these choices. c. the role that relationship and connectedness serves in our lives. d. issues of oppression. e. power structures. 2 Which of the following techniques would a feminist therapist be least likely to employ? a. shame attacking exercises b. the internal dialogue exercise c. all of these choices d. exception questions e. interpreting transference 3 Of the following, which intervention would a feminist therapist probably consider most essential? a. Conducting a lifestyle analysis. b. Conducting a functional assessment of a specific problem area. c. Challenging irrational beliefs. d. Social action. e. Maintaining an anonymous role as a therapist. 4 The feminist approach: a. does not work well in a group context. b. none of these choices. c. is best when used with female clients. d. emphasizes collectivism. e. is culturally insensitive. 5 In feminist therapy, the therapeutic relationship is characterized by: a. the therapist serving as the expert. b. use of specific techniques. c. the therapist in a directive role. d. an egalitarian relationship. 6 The concept in which the individuals’ personal problems have social and political causes refers to: a. the lifespan perspective. b. object-relations. c. phenomenology. d. none of these choices. e. the personal is political. 7 The idea that a woman’s sense of self depends largely on how she connects with others refers to: a. the lifespan perspective. b. gendercentrism. c. the lifestyle perspective. d. holism. e. relational-cultural theory. 8 Ethnocentrism is the idea that: a. a women’s sense of self is dependent upon her ethnic identity. b. one’s own cultural group is superior to others and that other groups should be judged based on one’s own standards. c. there are two separate paths of development for women and men. d. power should be balanced in a relationship. e. none of these choices. 9 A theory that uses male-oriented constructs to draw conclusions about human nature is: a. gender schema. b. egalitarianism. c. gendercentrism. d. power analysis. e. androcentricism. 10 A technique whereby the counselor changes the perspective on looking at an individual’s behavior, shifting from an intrapersonal to an interpersonal definition of a client’s problem, is: a. assertiveness training. b. relabeling. c. cognitive restructuring. d. schema restructuring. e. reframing.