Which of the following statements is true in regards to transference?
A) Transference is most likely to occur in the therapeutic relationship when the client is distressed.
B) Transference occurs in the therapeutic setting and other settings of a client's life.
C) Transference is an important part of the therapy process.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Q. 2When clients begin talking about others rather than themselves, the therapeutic process becomes repetitive or intellectualized, or clients become compliant or lose their initiative:
A) the client's conflict is being reenacted.
B) the client is engaging in a transference test.
C) countertransference reactions are being evoked in the therapist.
D) change is beginning to occur.
Q. 3Therapists can tell they have effectively passed important tests from clients by:
A) tracking moment-to-moment interaction sequences of how the client responds to what the therapist just said.
B) waiting for their client to verbalize that they can utilize the therapist's comments.
C) listening to their clinical supervisor for affirmation that they passed.
D) All of the choices are correct.
Q. 4Therapists' goals in working with clients' eliciting maneuvers include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) attend to their own reactions to the client's maneuvers.
B) find alternate responses that do not reenact the same relational scenarios.
C) provide the familiar responses the client expects and usually receives.
D) formulate working hypotheses regarding the feelings and/or situations the client may be avoiding.
Q. 5When clients successfully utilize eliciting maneuvers with the therapist:
A) the client attains protection from the core conflict and no effective change.
B) the client attains protection from the core conflict and effective change within the therapeutic relationship.
C) the client is not sufficiently motivated to change in therapy.
D) the client must explain what this means.
Q. 6In order to formulate an interpersonal conceptualization, which of the following questions are least important for the therapist to answer?
A) What do clients elicit from others?
B) What is the client's previous psychiatric diagnosis and/or medical history?
C) How will the client test the therapist?
D) What is the principle relational pattern that the client is reenacting in the therapeutic relationship?
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