Meta-analysis has shown that paradoxical interventions are more effective than other methods with: ...

Meta-analysis has shown that paradoxical interventions are more effective than other methods with:
 
  a. complex trauma patients.
  b. clients with mild neuroses or adjustment disorders.
  c. clients with more severe psychopathology and high resistance.
  d. clients in the preparation or action stages of change.

Q. 2

A program of isolation in which one can accept and reinterpret symptoms is consistent with
 
  a. awareness meditation.
  b. concentration meditation.
  c. Morita therapy.
  d. Naikan therapy.

Q. 3

The textbook authors conclude their review of the existential therapies by noting that:
 
  a. they have a very promising future as an independent therapy system because of their rich contribution of distinctly human concepts.
  b. they have exerted a vitalizing influence on the practice of psychotherapy, but their future as an independent system of therapy is equivocal.
  c. existential therapies are nothing more than a diffuse philosophical approach which will likely suffer a decline of interest in the age of managed care.
  d. paradoxically, the demand for existential therapies will very likely increase in direct proportion to the accelerated pace of the information age and technological revolution.

Q. 4

Being responsible and appreciating others is the goal of
 
  a. awareness meditation.
  b. concentration meditation.
  c. Morita therapy.
  d. Naikan therapy.

Q. 5

Criticism of __________ therapy along the lines of the scientific method is the most honest method we have, and there is nothing in the scientific method that says a phenomenological description of patients following different forms of therapy can't be compared. There is a need to participate in the shared honesty of scientific comparisons for all therapies would most likely be advanced from a _________ perspective.
 
  a. psychoanalytic; behavioral
  b. humanistic; existential
  c. existential; integrative
  d. behavioral; integrative

Q. 6

Which of the following is NOT one of the three basic questions that are asked in Naikan therapy?
 
  a. What did I feel about this person?
  b. What did I receive from this person?
  c. What did I return to this person?
  d. What troubles and worries did I cause this person?