What is the meaning of Rogerss term empathy?
a. Translating the clients actions into meaningful concepts.
b. Sensing the clients anger, fear, or confusion as if it were your own, yet without your own anger, fear, or confusion getting bound up in it.
c. Sympathizing with the clients challenges.
d. Advocating for the client.
e. Going above and beyond the limitations of your position as a counselor to make sure that the client gets what he or she needs.
Q. 2How does a person-centered therapist control clients even within nondirective therapy?
a. By insisting that the client establish their own therapeutic goals.
b. Through a reliance on the clients story without interpretation.
c. By randomly responding to client disclosure.
d. By reinforcing certain types of talk through selective response.
e. Through utilizing client self-evaluation at the end of the therapeutic relationship.
Q. 3Clients who have been _____________________ have a history of being treated as children and have learned not to trust themselves.
a. desensitized
b. traumatized
c. infantilized
d. humanized
e. criticized
Q. 4Unconditional positive regard from the therapist is especially curative for which of the following type of client?
a. One who has a strong sense of self.
b. A client who has experienced a lot of therapy.
c. A well-educated client.
d. One who is used to conditional acceptance.
e. A self-actualized client.
Q. 5What is the meaning of Rogerss term unconditional positive regard?
a. Avoiding saying things to the client that might hurt his or her feelings.
b. Randomly encouraging the client.
c. Warm acceptance of each aspect of the clients experience as being a part of that client.
d. Reinforcing the clients movement toward individuation by showing approval when the client does something positive in that direction because individuation is the goal of human development.
e. Reframing each negative thing that the client says into a positive thing.
Q. 6In child therapy, the counselors congruence is often tested since
a. children do not have a sense of authenticity.
b. children may act out impulsively in session and bring forth negative reactions from the therapist.
c. therapists are generally not taught how to be congruent with children.
d. reliance upon parenting and advising behaviors are more important for efficacious therapy with children.
e. parents are the true client when providing therapy to children.
Q. 7What did Rogers say about therapist congruence?
a. It is important for the counselor to be totally open with the client.
b. The counselor must present him or herself as a blank slate.
c. Some of the counselors thoughts simply arent useful in the therapy process, so the counselor uses judgment about which thoughts to verbalize to the client.
d. Because the relationship with the client is so important, the therapist keeps to him or herself anything that might hurt the clients feelings.
e. It is particularly easy to share with children only what you want them to know as they are not so sophisticated as to sense when you are saying something that is untrue.
Q. 8According to Rogers, a congruent therapist is one
a. whose actions are not at odds with his or her feelings and thoughts.
b. who presents as empathic at all times.
c. whose expression reflects what the client is presenting.
d. who gets a client to do what the counselor thinks he or she should be doing.
e. who agrees with the client about an important issue.
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