Creating a working partnership is a treatment goal that establishes a new middle ground of in the therapist-client relationship.
A) re-adaptive schemas
B) passive interaction
C) shared control
D) structure
Q. 2To keep therapy from reenacting common but dysfunctional family patterns, the therapist and client want to begin their own relationship by:
A) triangulating invested third parties into the client's problem matrix.
B) establishing a hierarchal role relationship that is familiar to the client.
C) guiding the new client as to where to begin, and what they might talk about.
D) beginning their relationship as a stable dyad.
Q. 3Empathic understanding is:
A) a technique used by therapists to convey to a client he/she has had the same counseling issues and experiences as the client and can relate.
B) a respectful attitude and non-judgmental stance that conveys warmth and concern for the client's distress.
C) exploring themes and developmental experiences.
D) establishing attachment with the client.
Q. 4One of the best ways to evaluate the success of an initial interview is for therapists to ask themselves:
A) Was I able to create a corrective emotional experience for my client?
B) Do I feel like I made contact with this person and have a genuine feeling for who he or she is?
C) Was I able to listen to my client without responding emotionally to his/her experience?
D) Did I identify all of the client's recurrent themes?
Q. 5To identify recurrent themes from a client, the therapist needs to find a(n) .
A) presenting symptom
B) predominant affect
C) integrating focus
D) precipitating factors
Q. 6Beginning therapists can find an integrating focus by:
A) deciding what the client needs to do to change.
B) identifying recurrent themes.
C) asking the client what is wrong.
D) dealing with each problem as it arises.
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