The textbook authors regard self-help resources as:
a. a fad that is largely driven by the economics of the current healthcare marketplace.
b. highly variable in quality and frequently detrimental to self-change efforts.
c. indicative of a growing trend toward self-change.
d. notably inferior to therapist-guided change for the majority of client problems.
Q. 2The text authors cite several converging forces that have increased the use of self-help resources. These include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. widespread availability and low cost of self-help resources.
b. a limited number of clinicians trained to treat specific problems with cognitive-behavioral therapy.
c. managed care pressures for briefer and adjunctive therapies.
d. privacy and anonymity.
Q. 3Research surveys of psychotherapists indicate that the percentage of therapists who use self-help books and other resources is:
a. 20-30.
b. between 40-50 but growing.
c. between 60-70 and steady since the mid-1990s.
d. over 85.
Q. 4Results of controlled research studies indicates that use of virtual therapy for the treatment of specific phobias is:
a. positive and promising.
b. poor and disappointing to date.
c. useful for children but not adults.
d. nonexistent; there are no studies yet published.
Q. 5An example of technological applications in psychotherapy that immerses clients in a computer-generated environment for the purposes of exposure to anxiety-provoking situations is called:
a. telepsychotherapy. c. online counseling.
b. virtual therapy. d. behavioral e-health.
Q. 6One key implication of recent theory and research on the therapy relationship is that:
a. therapists will increasingly be trained in how to become authentic chameleons.
b. therapists will be expected to manage equivalently well a broader range of client relational styles.
c. therapists will be have research evidence to back up their tendency to blame clients for therapy failures.
d. therapists will be able to more clearly tailor therapy relationships to match client styles.
Q. 7The APA Interdivisional Task Force on Evidence-Based Therapy Relationships concluded, among several things, that:
a. the therapy relationship makes a modest contribution to therapy outcome and is more often than not redundant with the type of treatment.
b. that the most critical elements of an effective therapy relationship include the directiveness of the therapist.
c. practice guidelines should limit their attention to those specific factors that are most likely to resolve client problems.
d. evidence-based practice guidelines that do not address the therapy relationship risk being seriously incomplete and potentially misleading
Q. 8Contemporary research has begun to examine the best matches between the therapy relationship and patient characteristics. One example comes from the work of Beutler and Harwood (2000). They found that:
a. clients presenting with low resistance experience better outcomes in a directive therapy relationship.
b. clients presenting with high resistance experience better outcomes in a directive therapy relationship.
c. clients presenting with low resistance experience better outcomes in a minimally directive therapy relationship.
d. clients presenting with high resistance experience better outcomes when therapists are highly active.
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