When clients are threatened by conflicted feelings about continuing therapy, they:
A) feel blamed when the therapist inquires about resistance.
B) may begin to come late, miss appointments and drop out.
C) are concerned the therapist is angry or disappointed.
D) All choices are correct.
Q. 2After inviting clients to express their concerns about the therapist or therapy, the therapist must:
A) accept the validity of the client's perception.
B) interpret the theme underlying the concerns.
C) reassure the client by resolving the anxiety.
D) disclose his/her own concerns.
Q. 3Therapists want to respond to ambivalence about making first appointments by:
A) addressing it directly.
B) discouraging the client from acting on the ambivalence.
C) ensuring clients take responsibility for their decisions to enter treatment.
D) all choices are correct.
Q. 4An effective response to a client's ambiguity in attending a first session is:
A) for the therapist to ignore the client's indecision and schedule the appointment anyway.
B) for the therapist to call the client the day before the schedule appointment and remind him/her to attend.
C) for the therapist to acknowledge the client's ambiguity and address it directly.
D) the therapist should not schedule an appointment with this client; he/she will not show up.
Q. 5By identifying the enduring issues that arise for the client, the therapist will be better prepared to:
A) terminate treatment in a timely manner.
B) solve the enduring issues for the client.
C) maintain a detached position in the therapeutic relationship.
D) center treatment around these repeated themes.