NU646 Theory and Practice of Contemporary Psychotherapies
Week 14 Final Quiz
Question 1The cognitive distortion of making conclusions without supporting and relevant evidence is:
Select one:
a.labeling and mislabeling.
b.overgeneralization.
c.arbitrary inferences.
d.selective abstraction.
Question 2The cognitive distortion that consists of forming conclusions based on an isolated detail of an event is:
Select one:
a.labeling and mislabeling.
b.overgeneralization.
c.arbitrary inferences.
d.selective abstraction.
Question 3The tendency for individuals to relate external events to themselves, even when there is no basis for making this connection, is known as:
Select one:
a.labeling and mislabeling.
b.overgeneralization.
c.arbitrary inferences.
d.personalization.
Question 4The cognitive distortion that involves portraying one’s identity on the basis of imperfections and mistakes made in the past and allowing them to define one’s true identity is:
Select one:
a.labeling and mislabeling.
b.overgeneralization.
c.arbitrary inferences.
d.personalization.
Question 5What is the challenge of fulfilling the spirit of informed consent?
Select one:
a.Tell clients about the nature of confidentiality.
b.Strike a balance between giving clients too much information and giving them too little.
c.Convince clients that counselors know what they are doing.
d.Teach clients about state laws that pertain to counseling.
Question 6This is a form of exposure therapy, used often with trauma, that entails imaging flooding, cognitive restructuring, and rapid eye movements.
Select one:
a.Mindfulness Cognitive Behavior Therapy
b.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
c.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
d.Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Question 7This is the process involving receiving one’s presence without judgement or preference, but with curiosity and kindness, and striving for full awareness of present moment
Select one:
a.Acceptance
b.Countertransference
c.Resistance
d.Resistance
Question 8The technique whereby the analyst explains the meaning of certain behavior is known as
Select one:
a.transference.
b.rationalization.
c.countertransference.
d.interpretation.
Question 9Directing energy toward another object or a person (when anxiety is reduced by focusing on a “safer target”) is known as
Select one:
a.sublimation.
b.repression.
c.introjection.
d.displacement.
Question 10What is the sequence of the psychosexual stages?
Select one:
a.Anal/phallic/latency/genital/oral
b.Oral/anal/phallic/latency/genital
c.Oral/anal/latency/genital/phallic
d.Latency/oral/anal/phallic/genital
Question 11In Erikson’s view, the major developmental task in adolescence is
Select one:
a.intimacy versus isolation.
b.integrity versus despair.
c.identity versus role confusion.
d.initiative versus guilt.
Question 12According to Erickson, the basic struggle of early childhood involves:
Select one:
a.autonomy vs. shame and doubt.
b.initiative vs. guilt.
c.identity vs. role confusion.
d.trust vs. mistrust.
Question 13A person who is suffering from feelings of alienation and isolation has probably failed to achieve a sense of ___________ during the ___________stage of development.
Select one:
a.identity; adolescence
b.trust; infancy
c.generativity; middle age
d.intimacy; young adulthood
Question 14Developmentally, Freud’s latency stage corresponds to Erickson’s stage of:
Select one:
a.trust versus mistrust.
b.intimacy versus isolation.
c.initiative versus guilt.
d.industry versus inferiority.
Question 15One point of disagreement between existential and humanistic thought involves
Select one:
a.a respect for the client’s subjective experience.
b.a trust in the capacity of the client to make positive choices.
c.an emphasis on freedom.
d.the idea of an innate self-actualizing drive.
Question 16From a person-centered perspective, the best source of knowledge about the client is the
Select one:
a.individual client.
b.therapist.
c.client's family.
d.therapeutic relationship.
Question 17The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses:
Select one:
a.support, understanding, warmth, and empathy.
b.awareness, unfinished business, impasse, and experiencing.
c.thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing.
d.subjectivity, existential anxiety, self-actualization, and being.
Question 18In cognitive therapy, techniques are designed to:
Select one:
a.assist clients in substituting rational beliefs for irrational beliefs.
b.help clients experience their feelings more intensely.
c.assist individuals to dispel self-defeating cognitions and to teach people how to acquire a rational approach to living.
d.enable clients to deal with their existential loneliness.
Question 19These are particular events that precede a behavior as described in behavior therapy.
Select one:
a.Antecedents
b.Consequences
c.Coincidences
d.Life goals
Question 20These are particular events that follow a behavior as described in behavior therapy.
Select one:
a.Antecedents
b.Consequences
c.Coincidences
d.Life goals
Question 21From the feminist perspective, the socialization of women with multiple social identities inevitably affects all of the following, except:
Select one:
a.engendered lives.
b.self-concept.
c.goals and aspirations.
d.emotional well-being.
Question 22Which of the following themes would clients in feminist therapy be least likely to explore?
Select one:
a.Identify their internalized messages of oppression and replace them with more self-enhancing beliefs
b.Understand how sexist and oppressive societal beliefs and practices influence them in negative ways
c.Recognize the power of relationships and connectedness
d.Transference reactions toward their therapist
Question 23The feminist approach to group counseling involves all of the following except:
Select one:
a.support for the experience of being a woman.
b.political involvement.
c.providing members a place to reflect on their role in society.
d.an opportunity to experience and analyze multiple transferences.
Question 24Donna feels certain that no one will ever want to hire her because she has a timid personality. Her solution-oriented therapist would be most inclined to:
Select one:
a.explore her early childhood experiences with being rejected
b.consider her irrational belief to be indicative of psychopathology.
c.ask Donna to examine another side of the story she is presenting about herself and think of times when she was accepted by others.
d.prescribe medication for her anxiety issues.
Question 25All of the following are techniques used in solution-focused therapy except for:
Select one:
a.using the reflecting team.
b.scaling questions.
c.the miracle question.
d.formula first session task.
Question 26Narrative therapy has been found to be particularly effective with diverse client populations for all of the following reasons except:
Select one:
a.it was founded in a sociocultural context.
b.it allows clients to tell their unique stories from their perspective.
c.it defines problems within a social, cultural, political, and relational context.
d.it teaches diverse clients to replace their own narratives with ones that conform more closely to the ideals and values of mainstream culture.
Question 27The techniques of externalization and developing unique events are associated primarily with:
Select one:
a.solution-oriented therapy.
b.the linguistic approach.
c.the narrative approach.
d.the reflecting team.
Question 28Narrative therapists pay attention to “sparkling moments,” such as
Select one:
a.moments when the client feels exhilarated.
b.identifying instances when the problem did not completely dominate the client’s life.
c.times when significant others give the client unconditional love.
d.events characterized by a striving to overcome barriers.
Question 29During the solution-focused initial therapy session, it is common for solution-focused therapists to ask, “What have you done since you called for the appointment that has made a difference in your problem?” This describes:
Select one:
a.formula first session task.
b.the miracle question.
c.pretherapy change.
d.exception questions.
Question 30Solution-focused brief therapy has parallels with______________, which concentrates on what is right and what is working for people rather than dwelling on deficits, weaknesses, and problems.
Select one:
a.brief psychodynamic therapy
b.positive psychology
c.Adlerian therapy
d.REBT
Question 31Family therapy perspectives call for a conceptual shift from evaluating individuals to focusing on:
Select one:
a.system dynamics.
b.individual symptoms.
c.the identified client only.
d.an individual’s reactions.
Question 32An integrative approach to the practice of family therapy includes guiding principles that help the therapist organize all of the following, except:
Select one:
a.goals.
b.interactions.
c.observations.
d.medications.
Question 33From the family systems perspective, symptoms are often viewed as
Select one:
a.an expression of a set of habits and patterns within a family.
b.evidence of psychopathology.
c.a sign of weakness.
d.a result of cognitive distortions.
Question 34What is the technique in family therapy that casts a new light on a problem and provides a different interpretation for a problematic situation?
Select one:
a.Reorganization
b.Family mapping
c.Restructuring
d.Reframing
Feedback
Question 35A tool for collecting and organizing key relationships in a three-generational extended family is a
Select one:
a.lifestyle assessment.
b.family sketch.
c.genogram.
d.projective test.
Feedback
Question 36The one central principle agreed upon by family therapy practitioners, regardless of their particular approach, is that
Select one:
a.the client is connected to living systems.
b.family dysfunction is typically caused by the most dominant family member.
c.lack of differentiation is the primary cause of all family dysfunction.
d.the empty chair technique is the most effective technique.
Question 37Roger and his wife are experiencing tension in their relationship because he believes she is far too lenient with their children when they misbehave. This forces him to play the role of “bad cop” as a parent, which makes him angry. A family therapist working with Roger and his family might
Select one:
a.help to modify the family’s transactional rules and develop more appropriate boundaries.
b.refer Roger to individual therapy since he clearly needs to work through his unresolved issues that are causing him to feel so angry.
c.take Roger’s side and educate his wife about appropriate disciplinary practices.
d.focus on getting the children to stop misbehaving so that Roger and his wife won’t experience this tension.
Question 38To prevent his parents from leaving the house, Miguel throws temper tantrums. His parents have given in to his demands and never go out to dinner or to movies anymore. A structural-strategic therapist working with Miguel and his parents will most likely
Select one:
a.have them participate in an enactment during the therapy session.
b.explain with a genogram the origins of Miguel's temper tantrums.
c.help Miguel’s parents to develop differentiated selves.
d.do a lifestyle assessment.
.Question 39If we hope to work therapeutically with an individual, it is critical to consider him or her within the
Select one:
a.problematic system.
b.behavioral system.
c.individual system.
d.family system.
Question 40This focuses on what is right and what is working for people rather than dwelling on deficits, weaknesses, and problems.
Select one:
a.positive psychology
b.happy movement
c.active thoughts
d.positive reinforcement
Question 41The ________________ is a research study conducted by the U.S. health maintenance organization Kaiser Permanente and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Participants were recruited to the study between 1995 and 1997 and have since been in long-term follow up for health outcomes.
Select one:
a.Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
b.Cognitive Dissonance Experiment
c.Hawthorne Effect
d.Star D Trial
Question 42Treatment interventions with large refugee groups follow the similar parameters of those of victims of natural disasters and can be divided into three phases: ________.
Select one:
a.debriefing, crisis management, follow-up
b.triage, debriefing, evaluation
c.triage, debriefing and emergency services.
d.assessment, diagnose, management
Question 43This refers to addressing what is going on between the client and therapist in the present for active participation and the full therapeutic process.
Select one:
a.Unconditional positive regard
b.Congruence
c.Immediacy
d.Actualizing tendency
Question 44In this phase of change, individuals are taking steps to modify their behavior to solve their problems.
Select one:
a.Precontemplation
b.Contemplation
c.Preparation
d.Action
Question 45 This is the directional process of striving toward realization, fulfillment, autonomy, and self-determination.
Select one:
a.Actualizing tendency
b.Unconditional positive regard
c.Congruence
d.Sympathy
Question 46In this stage of change, individuals tend to take immediate action and report some small behavior change.
Select one:
a.Precontemplation
b.Contemplation
c.Preparation
d.Maintenance
Question 47During this phase, individuals work to consolidate their gains and prevent relapse.
Select one:
a.Precontemplation
b.Contemplation
c.Preparation
d.Maintenance
Question 48The basic acceptance and support of a person regardless of what the person says or does, especially in the context therapy.
Select one:
a.Accurate empathetic understanding
b.Unconditional positive regard
c.Congruence
d.Sympathy
Question 49The cognitive behavioral approach to therapy stresses:
Select one:
a.support, understanding, warmth, and empathy.
b.awareness, unfinished business, impasse, and experiencing.
c.thinking, assessing, deciding, analyzing, and doing.
d.subjectivity, existential anxiety, self-actualization, and being.
