Asian philosophies tend to emphasize
a. cognitions.
b. experience.
c. logic.
d. objectivity.
Q. 2In your work as a reality therapist with a 14-year-old conduct-disordered adolescent, all she seems to do is complain profanely about the raw deal she has gotten from her parents, siblings, teachers, and the police. She is quite invested in blaming others for her current situation. In addition to attempting to establish a personal and supportive therapeutic relationship, what would you want to do next?
a. Help her make a plan for changing her behavior and committing to it.
b. Explore her past experiences of having gotten a raw deal and what that has meant to her.
c. Confront her with value judgments about her behavior and its likelihood of continued failure.
d. Help her to evaluate her present behavior and decide whether it is hurting herself and/or others.
Q. 3The Asian idea that the self is not an individual, but a part of the universe, is known as
a. atman.
b. dharma.
c. karma.
d. maya .
Q. 4After a client has made value judgments about their behavior and identified what they want to change, a reality therapist would then:
a. reinforce the client's choice by expressing his or her own value judgments.
b. help the client develop and commit to specific but realistic behavioral change plans.
c. explore how the client might fail to put their choice into action and confront the client with excuseshe or she may use.
d. set up a contingency contract with clear reinforcements and punishments in place to follow successor failure.
Q. 5An important Asian concept of therapy, referring to identifying distorted perceptions of reality, is
a. atman.
b. dharma.
c. karma.
d. maya
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