Clients' conflicts are two-sided, and therapists will be effective when they respond to:
A) the most intense emotion.
B) both sides, but emphasize the side that is causing the most problems.
C) the feelings that accompany both sides.
D) the initial feeling.
Q. 2Recognizing the structure of conflicts will enable therapists to respond to the that has immobilized the client and prevented change from occurring.
A) one-sided; pattern
B) hidden; problem
C) patterned; individual
D) two-sided; ambivalence
Q. 3A common way in which clients' conflicts are reenacted in the therapeutic process is:
A) when therapists view their clients' problems and lives as being too similar to their own.
B) when therapists maintain their own objectivity and separateness while at the same time being available and responsive.
C) when therapists self-discloses their own experiences and feelings.
D) there is no common way in which clients' conflicts are reenacted.
Q. 4The most important source of information about clients and what their interpersonal style tends to elicit from others is:
A) a therapist's awareness of their own feelings that are elicited by clients.
B) a client's developmental history.
C) a client's cultural context.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Q. 5When clients have been enmeshed with their families of origin, clients need therapists to do the following:
A) establish boundaries.
B) like them.
C) be non-confronting.
D) be confronting.
Q. 6When therapists become inappropriately over-identified with certain clients, they .
A) are enmeshed with their clients
B) are disengaged from their clients
C) are detached from their clients
D) have destroyed any hope of regaining appropriate balance in the therapeutic relationship
Q. 7If therapists try to elicit the client's subjective reactions and perceptions of the therapist:
A) the client will not progress in therapy.
B) the therapist will be reenacting the old relational scenarios.
C) the client will find the therapist intrusive and inappropriate.
D) important information concerning clients' relational templates or therapist reenactment may be revealed.
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