Reasons clients do not like to explore difficult feelings include their:
A) belief that the work it's too hard.
B) belief that it won't do any good.
C) belief that exploring their feelings in depth will be overwhelming.
D) belief that they will be ridiculed and judged.
Q. 2When a therapist makes a process comment by acknowledging a discrepancy between what a client has said and the feeling or affect that accompanied the statement, the therapist is:
A) addressing an incongruence.
B) attempting a personalization response.
C) being reflective.
D) providing a restorative experience.
Q. 3Although different sequences occur for each client, the therapist can often identify a(n) of interrelated feelings that cycle repeatedly when clients are distressed.
A) undifferentiated set
B) dyad
C) trigger
D) triad
Q. 4Clients who do not experience or express anger, avoid interpersonal conflict, and tend to respond to others' needs at the expense of their own is said to be experiencing the affective constellation.
A) Anger-Sadness-Shame
B) Guilt-Anger-Shame
C) Sadness-Anger-Guilt
D) Anger-Guilt-Sadness
Q. 5When therapists minimize, reassure, explain, or simply move away from a client's painful feelings, it is often because:
A) they feel responsible for causing the client's painful expressions.
B) their reaction evokes a countertransference response.
C) they feel responsible for alleviating their pain, but don't quite know how.
D) both they feel responsible for causing the client's painful expressions and they feel responsible for alleviating their pain, but don't quite know how are correct.
Q. 6According to Beck's hot cognitions, it is when that clients are most apt to distort or misperceive the therapist's response and slot it to fit old expectations.
A) a client has a significant lack of trust in the therapist
B) strong feelings have been triggered
C) a client perceives an inauthentic connection with the therapist
D) a client feels sequestered in their own experiences
Q. 7The best way for a therapist to manage their own reactions to evocative material that clients present is to:
A) remain expressionless so as not to alert or distress the client.
B) ignore their own emotional reaction.
C) learn how to recognize and anticipate their own Countertransference propensities, and know what to do when they are evoked.
D) respond politely, but defensively.
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