Chapter 3 Psychosocial Theories and Therapy Questions - Multiple choice questions

Which of the following theorists believed that a corrective interpersonal relationship with the therapist was the primary mode of treatment?

a. Sigmund Freud

b. William Glasser

c. Hildegard Peplau

d. Harry Stack Sullivan

d. Harry Stack Sullivan

Dream analysis and free association are techniques in which of the following?

a. Client-centered therapy

b. Gestalt therapy

c. Logotherapy

d. Psychoanalysis

d. Psychoanalysis

Four levels of anxiety were described by

a. Erik Erikson

b. Sigmund Freud

c. Hildegard Peplau

d. Carl Rogers

c. Hildegard Peplau

Correcting how one thinks about the world and oneself is the focus of

a. behaviorism

b. cognitive therapy

c. psychoanalysis

d. reality therapy

b. cognitive therapy

The personality structures of id, ego, and superego were described by

a. Sigmund Freud

b. Hildegard Peplau

c. Frederick Perls

d. Harry Stack Sullivan

a. Sigmund Freud

The nursing role that involves being a substitute for another, such as a parent, is called

a. counselor

b. resource person

c. surrogate

d. teacher

c. surrogate

Psychiatric rehabilitation focuses on

a. client's strengths

b. medication compliance

c. social skills deficits

d. symptom reduction

a. client's strengths

When a nurse develops feelings toward a client that are based on the nurse's past experience, it is called

a. countertransference

b. role reversal

c. transference

d. unconditional regard

a. countertransference

A group that was designed to meet weekly for 10 sessions to deal with feelings of depression would be a(n)

a. closed group

b. educational group

c. open group

d. support group

a. closed group

The client is the key to his or her own healing

Carl Rogers

Social and psychological factors influence development

Erik Erikson

Behavior change occurs through conditioning with environmental stimuli

Ivan Pavlov

People make themselves unhappy by clinging to irrational beliefs

Albert Ellis

Behavior is learned from past experience that is reinforcing

B.F. Skinner

Client centered therapy

Carl Rogers

Gestalt therapy

Frederick Perls

Hierarchy of needs

Abraham Maslow

Logotherapy

Viktor Frankl

Rational emotive therapy

Albert Ellis

Reality therapy

William Glasser

Group psychotherapy

Clients participate in group sessions with members who have the shared purposes of benefiting one another and making some change. An example is family therapy to learn conflict resolution.

Education group

Members gather to learn about a particular topic from someone who has expertise. An example is an assertiveness training group.

Support group

Members help themselves and one another to cope with some life stress, event, illness, or problem. An example is Survivors of Suicide (for family members of someone who has committed suicide).

Self-help group

This group is structured around a common experience that all members share and is run by the group members. An example is Alcoholics Anonymous.