Which statement is most characteristic of existential theory regarding hostility?
a. Hostility is found in the ulterior transactions between individuals who have decided that they or others are not OK.
b. Hostility is the worst expression of the belief that self-interest can be of higher value than social interest.
c. Problems with hostility are boundary problems.
d. To experience hostility is to experience the threat of non-being.
Q. 2Helping family members see how they disturb themselves and the family through their irrational beliefs is characteristic of this family approach
a. Adlerian therapy
b. behavior therapy
c. existential therapy
d. rational emotive behavior therapy
Q. 3Since we can never enter directly the experience of the other, we can never fully know what the other is attempting to communicate. This belief would most likely to be posited by which of the following therapists?
a. An Adlerian therapist
b. An existential therapist
c. An interpersonal therapist
d. A psychoanalyst
Q. 4Teaching parents how to deal with difficulties with their children would be an example of which type of family therapy?
a. Adlerian.
b. existential.
c. gestalt.
d. psychodynamic.
Q. 5With respect to responsibility, which of the following therapies would most likely say that in the process of choosing to be more authentic, clients are faced with the anxiety of being responsible for who they become?
a. Adlerian therapy
b. Existential therapies
c. Interpersonal therapies
d. Psychoanalysis
Q. 6Using more than one family systems approach to therapy is called
a. experiential.
b. integrative.
c. strategic.
d. structural.
Q. 7Which of the following statements would be most characteristic of an existential therapy view of responsibility?
a. Clients must accept that they are responsible for shaping their own lives as well as for the impact oftheir lifestyle on society.
b. The hope is that once clients accept that their basic lifestyles were self-selected, they will be free to choose a more constructive existence.
c. There is no freedom and no choice, and therefore no responsibility.
d. We are condemned to be free..
Q. 8Virginia Satir's technique of family sculpting features
a. having clients make models of the family using clay.
b. molding family members into poses characteristic of family relationships.
c. several therapists modeling improved relationships for family members to learn from, when interacting with each other.
d. the use of role-play to create new sculpted relationships in the family.