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According to the text, research shows that counselor values influence

all of these options

Personal therapy for therapists can be instrumental in assisting them

all of these options

Evidence suggesting the concept of the unconscious includes

all of these options

In becoming an ethical practitioner, a crucial task is to

learn how to interpret and apply ethical codes to an ethical dilemma

Attributing to others the qualities or traits that are unacceptable to our own ego is best described as

projection

The "fundamental rule" for the client in psychoanalysis is

participating in free association

Confidentiality must be breached and information must be reported by practitioners when

all of these options

The ego defense mechanism in which a person exhibits behavior that clearly shows signs of reverting to less mature stages is ____?

regression

When counseling couples, Adlerian therapists strive to

all of these options

In Freud's view, an individual experiencing neurotic anxiety feels

he will not be able to control his instincts and will behave inappropriately

Which is (are) true concerning one's style of life?

All of these options

If a counselor is intent on directing your client toward his or her personal values, ethical practice states that:

you inform potential clients of those values that will certainly influence your intervention with them.

Which of the following is not one of the 5 guidelines of ethical framework?

Be aware of your limitations

All of the following are stages in Adlerian counseling except

analysis of resistance

The most important instrument you have as a counselor is:

you

An Adlerian therapist asks for the client's earliest recollections in order to

all of these options

Limitations to confidentiality include all of the follwoing except

the therapist has major ethical concerns

Adlerian therapy has a phenomenological orientation. Thus, the therapist attempts to view the world

from the client's frame of reference

In effective therapy

All of these

An authentic counselor is best described as

being willing to shed stereotyped roles and being a real person

In helping clients to examine their mistaken goals and faulty assumptions, an Adlerian therapist does not use

interpretation of the transference relationship.

Research on personal therapy for therapists suggests therapy contributes to the counselor's professional development by

all of these options

The purpose of examining a client's family constellation is

to get a picture of the individual's early social world

Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented therapy?

family systems therapy

One of the most important Freudian concepts, which consists of pushing unacceptable life events and painful feelings into the unconscious, is

repression

Under what circumstances should a therapist consult with colleagues or specialists?

all of these options

In Adlerian counseling, the client/therapist relationship is characterized by:

a collaborative partnership

One contribution of Adlerian therapy is that

practitioners are given a great deal of freedom in working with their clients

Confidentiality can be considered as:

all but (an absolute that guarantees clients that their disclosures will never be revealed)

From a multicultural perspective, classical analysis may

all of these options

Manufacturing "good" reasons to explain away a bruised ego, or to explain away failures or losses, is known as

rationalization

All of the following are a part of Jung's view of development except

symbiosis

A person with a ____ personality disorder is characterized by instability, irritability, self-destructive acts, impulsive anger, and extreme mood shifts. This person is lacking a clear sense of identity, has poor impulse control, and an inability to tolerate anxiety.

Borderline

Which of the following is not typically a standard psychoanalytic technique?

exploration of patterns of resistance

It is especially important for counselors who work with culturally diverse client populations to

all of these options

Assessment is a useful method of

all of these options

If a person becomes fixated in the oral stage of development, later personality problems may include

all of these options

One way that clients in Adlerian therapy are encouraged to change is:

by "acting as if" they were already the way they want to be

The superego is ruled by what principle?

The moral principle

The id is ruled by what principle?

The pleasure principle

Which child tends to feel squeezed out and may develop a conviction that life is unfair and a feeling of being cheated?

the middle child

The Electra complex and the Oedipus complex are associated with what psychosexual stage of development?

phallic stage

According to the text, the challenge of providing informed consent consists of

striking a balance between giving clients too much and too little information about the therapeutic process

The developmental crisis involving initiative vs. guilt occurs during the

preschool age

Adler believed that human behavior is

motivated by social urge

A major characteristic of the classical psychoanalytic therapist is

using a blank screen approach

In the text, all of the following are listed as characteristics of the counselor as a therapeutic person except

counselors no longer have to cope with personal problems

Adler's Individual Psychology was largely influenced by

his early childhood experiences

In Erikson's view, the major developmental task in adolescence is

identity vs. role confusion

Both feminist therapists and postmodern therapists tend to view diagnosis as it is traditionally done

as often oppressive and ignoring of societal contexts

According to Adlerian therapists, these are normal, are the wellspring of creativity, and develop when we are young

inferiority feelings

Which one of the following is not associated with the cognitive-behavioral action-oriented therapies?

existential therapy

The term "social interest" refers to

an individual's attitude in dealing with the social world

Which of the following is not considered an essential skill of an effective culturally competent counselor?

being able to get clients to intensify their feelings by helping them to vividly

The technique whereby the analyst explains the meaning of certain behavior is known as

interpretation

Reorientation, the fourth phase of Adlerian therapy, involves

both (putting insights into action) and (helping clients reorient to the useful side of life)

A person who unconsciously exhibits overly nice behavior to conceal hostile feelings is probably using which ego defense?

reaction formation

Which of the following techniques is not used in Adlerian family counseling?

analyzing resistances between members of the family

In psychoanalytic therapy, how do clients work with their dreams?

They report their dreams and are encouraged to free-associate to the elements of the dream.

Developmentally, Freud's latency stage corresponds to Erickson's stage of

industry versus inferiority

Adlerians view the use of techniques in counseling as

geared to the phase of therapy and the needs of the client

Which of the following is not associated with the relational approach to psychoanalysis?

Therapist anonymity is used to foster the transference relationship

Which of the following did Adler not stress?

the unity of personality

A person who is suffering from feelings of alienation and isolation has probably failed to achieve a sense

of ____ during the ____stage of development

intimacy; young adulthood

You are working with an ethnic minority client who is silent during the initial phase of counseling. This silence is probably best interpreted as

a response consistent with his or her cultural context

Adlerians believe that discouragement

is the basic condition that prevents people from functioning

Which of the following statements is not true about guidelines for ethical practice in counseling and psychotherapy?

Practitioners are free to formulate any ethics they choose

Which child is most likely to demand center stage, tends to have difficulties in life when he or she is no

longer the center of attention, and is likely to become dependently tied to the mother?

the only child

Who is primarily credited with popularizing and extending Adler's work by applying Adlerian principles to group work?

Rudolph Dreikurs

The Adlerian approach is well suited to multicultural counseling because

the focus on a lifestyle assessment is appealing to appealing to most cultures

During the phase of analysis and assessment, the Adlerian therapist

explores the family constellation

Regarding psychotherapy treatment outcome, research suggests

therapy techniques are the key component of successful treatment

All of the following are life tasks that Adler taught we must successfully master except for

building friendships

Which of the following is not one of the five basic tasks Adler says we must master?

intellectual development

Which of the following is not an issue that Stan struggles with?

aggressive outbursts

In working with culturally diverse clients, it helps to understand and assess

what these clients expect from counseling

Among the ethical issues related to multicultural counseling are the problems of

using interventions that were developed in a different cultural context

A person who manages their anxiety by distorting reality and failing to acknowledge painful events is most likely using

denial

Which of the following is not true about the Adlerian concept of "private logic"?

It is a result of the feelings and emotions we experience in our daily lives

Effective psychotherapy is a practice in which

the client and therapist collaborate in co-constructing solutions to problems

In object-relations theory, later relationships build upon

the child's search for a reconnection with the mother

Which of the following is true about ego psychology (as compared with id Psychology)?

both (It emphasizes the striving of the ego for mastery and competence throughout

life) and (It deals with both early and later developmental stages)

As a result of the client/therapist relationship in psychoanalytic therapy

all of these options

Resolution of sexual conflicts and sex-role identity is a critical function of the

phallic stage

The ego defense mechanism that consists of masking perceived weaknesses or developing certain positive traits to make up for limitations is known as

compensation

The primary aim of time limited dynamic psychotherapy is to

change the client's repetitive patterns of relating to others

Who developed the object-relations view that focuses on separation and individuation?

Mahler

Which of the following is not considered essential knowledge for a culturally competent counselor?

knowing how to analyze the unconcious

Clients have a right to be informed about

all of these options

Many ethical codes state that dual relationships

should be avoided whenever possible

The ego is ruled by what principle?

The reality principle

According to object-relations theory, the symbiosis stage is characterized by

both (the infant's pronounced dependency on the mother) and (infant's expectation of emotional attunement with the mother)

The young adult who adopts his parent's outdated political beliefs to avoid unpleasant feelings of anxiety is an example of

introjection

When Adler spoke of individuality, he referred to

the unique way we develop our own style of striving for competence

The libido is best described as

both (a source of motivation) and (a source of sexual energy) are true

Which of the following is not a component of the brief psychodynamic approaches?

the therapist functions as a blank slate

What is the correct sequence of the psychosexual stages?

oral/anal/phallic/latency/genital

The process of redirecting sexual energy into some form of socially acceptable behavior is known as

sublimation

Transference is viewed as

both (the core of the psychoanalytic process) and (a means to uncover earlier unfinished business from past relationships)

According to Adlerians, inferiority feelings

create motivation to achieve mastery