To identify patterns and themes that cause problems in clients' lives, the therapist:
A) tracks their depression to their childhood.
B) tracks their anxiety.
C) asks the client what they think their patterns and themes are.
D) tracks their depression to their childhood and tracks their anxiety.
Q. 2When the client reenacts a central conflict in therapy:
A) it is always damaging to him/her.
B) the therapist should encourage transference to better understand the client.
C) it is an opportunity to resolve the problem in the therapeutic relationship.
D) the therapist and client should focus away from the current interpersonal conflict and developmental sources of it.
Q. 3A common reason therapists resist focusing the client inward is:
A) some clients will become angry as they are encouraged to explore conflicts.
B) they want to maintain client approval.
C) that they confuse being direct with being critical, blaming, or non-supportive.
D) All of the answer choices are correct.
Q. 4In order to focus clients inward, a therapist should:
A) self-disclose.
B) encourage the client not to feel sorry for him/herself.
C) encourage the client to expand and elaborate their fears and concerns.
D) join the client in complaining about others.
Q. 5Attachment theorists believe that joining a client where they are:
A) is a type of effective sensitive attunement.
B) is more important to the client than giving an intelligent solution to their problem.
C) translates into resistance of advice giving by the therapist.
D) All of the answer choices are correct.
Q. 6Other focused clients:
A) tend to feel anxious, depressed and helpless.
B) can resolve their problems by changing their way of responding in conflicted relationships.
C) can resolve their problems by assertion training.
D) tend to feel anxious, depressed and helpless and can resolve their problems by changing their way of responding in conflicted relationships.
Q. 7Before clients can adopt new, more effective responses to old problems, they must:
A) decrease their attempts to change others.
B) exert more control over others' behaviors.
C) gain more understanding and control of their reactions.
D) decrease their attempts to change others and gain more understanding and control of their reactions.
Q. 8When clients begin therapy by externalizing their problems, the therapist must first:
A) direct clients toward an internal focus.
B) acknowledge the complaints as valid concerns.
C) give clients several solution options.
D) find the repetitive relational conflict involved in their interactions.
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