The most commonly identified approach to psychotherapy is
a. behavioral.
b. cognitive.
c. integrative.
d. psychoanalytic/psychodynamic.
Q. 2The term psychotherapy
a. does not differ consistently from counseling.
b. is used to differentiate types of mental health professionals.
c. refers to helping people with educational and vocational concerns.
d. refers to helping people with normal problems
Q. 3The term counseling
a. does not differ consistently from psychotherapy.
b. is used to differentiate types of mental health professionals.
c. refers to helping people with educational and vocational concerns.
d. refers to helping people with normal problems.
Q. 4Theories of any type should be based on
a. clear rules.
b. many assumptions.
c. a unique plan.
d. unrelated laws or relationships.
Q. 5The best way to excel in case conceptualization and assessment is:
a. To read the textbook cover to cover and then read it again
b. To pass each of the tests in your counseling theory class
c. To throw everything you thought you knew out the window
d. To proceed slowly through assessment and evaluation, with profound humility and a continual willingness to learn
Q. 6According to the author, what is one of the major problems with case conceptualization and assessments in general?
a. There are no objective standards against which a person can be measured
b. Healthy emotionally engaged boundaries look the same for everyone
c. There is really only one set of ethnic norms
d. The more similar clients are to us, the less we expect them to share our values and behavioral norms
Q. 7A counselor who practices from a post modern perspective is assessing a client who states, while sharing her problem discourse, I have failed as a sister, because of her younger brother's experimentation with marijuana. What would the counselor call the story that her client tells herself?
a. The problem discourse
b. The dominant narrative
c. The local or preferred narrative
d. The identity narrative
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