Which of the following is TRUE about redirecting attention?
A) It is always inappropriate.
B) It can help a client stop repeating a story over and over.
C) It facilitates clients talking even more about their issues.
D) It encourages clients to talk about positive things.
Q. 2Through _________, we can sometimes stop clients from talking about nonproductive topics.
A) selective attention
B) verbal underlining
C) redirecting attention
D) threats and criticism
Q. 3Redirecting attention is:
A) avoided by effective interviewers.
B) not a valid skill for the interviewer.
C) useful in shifting clients away from negative topics.
D) rude behavior on the part of the interviewer.
Q. 4Which of the following is FALSE concerning verbals?
A) Selective attention occurs when we listen only to one person at a time.
B) Most of us have certain topics that we are more interested in than others.
C) It is important to stay with the topic introduced by the client.
D) It can be helpful if we learn our own patterns of selective attention.
Q. 5Selective attention, a key concept introduced in the microskills framework,:
A) is less important in key theories of helping such as person-centered and brief counseling.
B) is based on the brain being wired to attend stimuli to cope with the environment.
C) is brought about by the hippocampus and the energizing amygdala through selective memory.
D) has become the central concept of person-centered and brief counseling.
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