Final Exam

Carl Rogers emphasized congruence in the counselor. Congruence occurs when 

external behavior matches the internal response or state.

Your client insists that she has a tingling sensation in her hands each time she talks about the probability of marriage. As a gestalt therapist, you would most likely 

urge the client to stay with the feeling.

All of the following are theoretical assumptions of Aaron Beck’s cognitive theory, except:

people must re-experience the past and process their feelings before change can happen.

The goals of an existential approach in counseling include all but ______.

helping clients to eliminate anxiety in their lives.

When is the counseling process at its best from an existential viewpoint?

When the deepest self of the therapist meets the deepest part of the client.

Which of the following themes would clients in feminist therapy be least likely to explore?

Transference reactions toward their therapist

The overarching goal of psychoanalysis is to 

make the unconscious motives conscious.

The following are all DBT strategies to increase commitment to therapy except: 

minimizing respect for self

As an existential counselor with a person-centered foundation, you adhere to what Martin Buber called the I-Thou relationship. This asserts that 

the relationship is horizontal.

During a family counseling session, the 6 year old daughter repeatedly sticks her tongue out at you, the counselor. You ignore the behavior; you are practicing

extinction.

As a gestalt therapist, you have a client that is angry with his wife for leaving him and made a suicide attempt. Using the gestalt approach, you see the client as engaging in 

retroflection.

After having a bad therapeutic experience with a mental health professional who pathologized her anxiety over financial issues, Lillian decided to consult with a feminist therapist. As her new counselor using a feminist approach, how are you likely to view her anxiety symptoms?

As a sign of distress rather than psychopathology

The techniques of externalization and developing unique events are associated primarily with:

the narrative approach.

In gestalt therapy, unexpressed emotions are known as

unfinished business.

Which of the following is not one of the three life tasks according to Adlerian theory?

Enhancing wellness

Jung spoke of a collective unconscious common to all people. The material that makes up the collective unconscious, which is passed from generation to generation, is known as

archetypes.

According to multicultural theory, microaggressions take place at which systemic level?

The individual level

What is the most important factor related to progress in person-centered counseling? 

The relationship between the client and counselor

Existentialists contend that the experience of relatedness to other human beings:

is healthy when we are able to stand alone and tap into our own strength.

Viktor Frankl is the father of logotherapy, which is based on existentialism. Logotherapy means

healing through meaning.

As a counselor, you use reality therapy as your approach. When you discuss the past with your clients, the focus is on 

successful behaviors.

As a reality therapist, your role is to 

assist clients in dealing with the present.

Jose has the impulse to gamble excessively whenever he goes to Las Vegas. Aware of this, they have decided to turn down a job offer in Vegas to avoid the temptation to gamble. What part of Jose's personality helped him reach this decision?

The superego.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy utilizes a 5-step system summarized by the acronym ABCDE, where D stands for ______.

disrupting the irrational belief

A tool for collecting and organizing key relationships in a three-generational extended family is a

genogram.