The overall goal of collaborative therapy is to increase the clients sense of __________ in their lives: the sense that they are competent and able to take meaningful action.
a. strength
b. power
c. agency
d. self-esteem
Q. 2In collaborative therapy, what does it mean when the problems dissolve?
a. Participants in therapy find traditional solutions to their problems or issues during the course of therapy.
b. Participants no longer have problems or issues to discuss in therapy.
c. Participants do not hold on tightly to their problems or issues.
d. Participants understanding of their problems or issues evolves through the dialogue of therapy.
Q. 3When a collaborative therapist uses the term inner talk, he or she is referring to the _____________________________
__________________________.
a. conversation each individual is having within, during a conversation
b. thoughts that a client is fearful to share with the therapist
c. talk among the members of the inner circle of the family
d. recurring self-talk
Q. 4In collaborative therapy, outer talk refers to which of the following?
a. The spoken conversation in therapy
b. Negative self-talk
c. Positive self-talk
d. Client conversations about what happens in therapy with people outside of therapy
Q. 5Collaborative therapists invite clients to provide feedback about which therapeutic processes work best for them.
a. True
b. False
Q. 6When thinking of the client as expert in the collaborative therapy, it may be helpful to think of the client as holding more expertise in the area of __________and the therapist as holding more expertise in the area of __________.
a. process/content
b. stories/interventions
c. interventions/stories
d. content/process
Q. 7When Andserson and Goolishian radically proposed: The client is the expert, they meant the _____________________________
____________________.
a. therapist has no opinion of the client
b. clients thoughts, ideas, and opinions are valued
c. therapist does not have a role in the therapeutic process
d. client is the expert in the direction therapy should take
Q. 8Which of the following short descriptions best describes the therapeutic relationship in collaborative therapy?
a. a directive relationship
b. a hierarchical relationship
c. a loving partnership
d. a conversational partnership