Feminist therapists have criticized reality therapy because it
a. assigns control to the individual without examining society's role.
b. over simplifies therapy by ignoring the client's past.
c. uses different techniques for women than men.
d. was developed by trying out strategies on male prisoners.
Q. 2The purpose of defenses in Adlerian therapy are to:
a. avoid the here and now.
b. keep forbidden desires from being expressed.
c. protect against aversive inferiority feelings.
d. turn our attention away from threats of non-being by pretending to be something we're not.
Q. 3In reality therapy, in order to achieve therapeutic goals, it is important for the client to
a. follow plans developed by the therapist.
b. follow plans developed in one of several reality therapy manuals.
c. follow plans that spell out specific behaviors..
d. be spontaneous, rather than planful.
Q. 4Regarding anxiety and defenses, which of the following therapies views anxiety's primary purpose as keeping the client from having to take action and move ahead into the future?
a. Adlerian therapy
b. Cognitive therapy
c. Interpersonal therapies
d. Psychoanalysis
Q. 5If Norman has continued to drink alcohol heavily, altering his plans to do other things, the reality therapist is most likely to
a. criticize his reverting to previously undesirable behavior.
b. develop new plans to do other behaviors.
c. terminate counseling because Norman has violated his contract with the therapist.
d. understand how his problems at work effected his drinking.
Q. 6In helping clients choose, Adlerian therapists are most likely to do which of the following?
a. Encourages patient to create rational alternatives to an apparently irrational way of being
b. Encourage the volitional powers of the client right from the start of therapy by making it a contractual arrangement
c. Help client reduce confusion or contamination allowing the client to choose which ego state to cathect at any particular time
d. Help make patients conscious of the fictional finalisms that they are trying to make real thus allowing them the freedom to choose to stay with their old styles