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Question #1

Jamie is studying ______, the pioneer of rational-emotive behavior therapy.

A. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

B. Aaron T. Beck

C. Albert Ellis

D. Martin E.A. Seligman

E. Francis Cecil Sumner

Question #2

What is the biggest advantage of cognitive behavioral therapy for people with psychological difficulties?

A. The ease with which this form of counseling can coexist with biomedical interventions.

B. The abundance of empirical support for its effectiveness.

C. The ability to uncover repressed unconscious conflicts that lead to psychopathology.

D. The emphasis on a warm, non-judgmental client-therapist relationship.

E. The fact that the therapy can normally be conducted in 8 or fewer sessions.

Question #3

Which well-known theorist was the driving force behind the creation of the psychoanalytic approach to psychotherapy?

A. Alfred Adler

B. Fritz Perls

C. Erik Erikson

D. Carl Jung

E. Sigmund Freud

Question #4

Which therapeutic strategy, that emphasizes simultaneous acceptance and change, is often used for the treatment of borderline personality disorder?

A. Psychodynamic reappraisal therapy

B. Person-centered restructuring

C. Dialectical behavior therapy

D. Cognitive behavior therapy

E. Directive Gestalt therapy

Question #5

You are playing a quiz game and the answer that comes up is “These factors comprise the structural model of the psychoanalytic school of thought.” What would the correct question be?

A. “What are repression, regression, and rationalization?”

B. “What are the personal unconscious and collective unconscious?”

C. “What are the id, ego, and superego?”

D. “What are the oral, anal, phallic, and genital stages?”

E. “What are the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious?”

Question #6

Which of the following would be an example of countertransference in a therapy session?

A. When she finds out that her insurance company will not pay for additional sessions, Carla calls her therapist and leaves a message saying that she will not be returning to the office.

B. Dr. Lowe gets very frustrated with his client’s lack of effort on the same day that he argues with his grown son about not working toward a successful career.

C. Erick decides that he has fallen in love with his therapist, despite the fact that he has been married for 7 years.

D. Qi yells at her therapist from time to time even though she is really angry at her own daughter.

E. Lorenzo has a very bad day at work and ,when he gets home, explodes at his children when they make a very minor mistake.

Question #7

Jay is terribly afraid of roller coasters, so his friends take him to an amusement park and force him to ride the smallest coaster. This intervention would be analogous to ______therapy.

A. restructuring

B. social skills

C. exposure

D. cognitive reappraisal

E. in-vivo

Question #8

Which of the following clients would benefit from therapy emphasizing a dialectical worldview that incorporates both acceptance and change in therapeutic progress?

A. Yvette, who does not have a formal diagnosis of a psychological condition, but is having serious problems in her relationship with her husband.

B. Famtah, who is suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.

C. Evelyn, who was diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder.

D. Yoni, who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

E. Miles, who suffers from recurrent major depressive episodes.

Question #9

Dr. Aaron T. Beck believed that depressed patients experienced automatic thoughts arising from three different belief systems, or ______. These included beliefs about one’s self, their world, and their future.

A. exemplars

B. scripts

C. prototypes

D. schemas

E. concepts

Question #10

During a session, Dr. Davidson asks his client, Jorge, to lay back on the sofa and close his eyes. “Just say anything that comes into your mind, and don’t worry at all about what it means,” he instructs Jorge. This technique is called:

A. word association

B. dream analysis

C. transference

D. analysis of resistance

E. free association

Question #11

Person-centered therapy, which was first developed by ______, posits that mental health problems are a result of a disconnect between an individual’s behavior and true personal identity.

A. Karen Horney

B. Abraham Maslow

C. Joseph Wolpe

D. Margaret Meade

E. Carl Rogers

Question #12

Which of the following is not one of the ways in which modern psychodynamic therapy differs from classic psychoanalysis?

A. It focuses more on conscious and unconscious sexual drives.

B. It focuses more on relieving distress than on changing a person.

C. It places the client in his/her interpersonal context.

D. It places the client in his/her social context.

E. It is a briefer form of psychotherapy.

Question #13

Professor Chavira explains person-center therapy. “It is important for the clinician to use ______,” she says, “to convey acceptance. This helps clients come to recognize their own worth.”

A. mindfulness

B. recognition of transference

C. ethical decision making

D. boundary setting

E. unconditional positive regard

Question #14

The foundational premise of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is that:

A. There is a fundamental mismatch between a person’s real self and ideal self, which leads to inappropriate actions.

B. Thoughts, actions, and emotions interact and contribute to psychopathology.

C. People experience distress and unhappiness when they refuse to face painful or difficult experiences or memories from their lives.

D. Maladaptive actions are learned and can be unlearned and replaced with adaptive actions.

E. Childhood conflicts and unconscious impulses exceed the capacity of defense mechanisms to keep them outside of consciousness.

Question #15

Why has it been difficult for research to establish a solid answer to the question of whether person-centered therapy (PCT) is, overall, an effective approach to treating clients?

A. Because the foundation of PCT is the use of 12-step anonymous programs, it is all but impossible to gather true data about the impact it has on its clients.

B. PCT’s techniques can be applied by anyone, trained or untrained, and thus do not rise to the level of professional therapy.

C. The research that has examined PCT has only looked at conditions where therapy clients had very low (or less severe) forms of psychopathology.

D. PCT is based on nonspecific treatment factors, without considering specific treatment factors to directly target a given mental problem.

E. PCT is based almost exclusively on a White, Western European, male-centric model of how therapy should be conducted.

Question #16

Which practice, which was founded in age-old Buddhist and yoga practices, reflects a nonjudgmental, yet attentive mental state that helps to enhance awareness and acceptance?

A. biofeedback

B. mindfulness

C. hypnosis

D. meditation

E. flow

Question #17

Cognitive ______refers to the process of identifying, evaluating, and changing maladaptive thoughts in psychotherapy.

A. development

B. de-escalation

C. restructuring

D. alteration

E. adaptation

Question #18

According to research evidence, ______therapy is the most effective contemporary approach to providing psychotherapy services to people in need.

A. client-centered

C. psychodynamic

D. cognitive behavioral

E. humanistic

F. psychoanalytic

Question #19

An example of ______learning might be to have a person with social anxiety disorder give a presentation to a large group of people. After repeated exposure, there should be a reduction in physiological fear.

A. inhibitive

B. extinction

C. Pavlovian

D. dishabituation

E. operant

Question #20

Cognitive ______modification refers to exercises targeting the automatic and subconscious thoughts that may be difficult to change through conscious effort.

A. idealization

B. hierarchical

C. implicit

D. structure

E. bias

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