Helping Skills: Chapter 9- Integrating the Skills of the Exploration Stage

Case conceptualization means

a. Working with one client at a time so that you can be present and mindful

b. Understanding your motivations for wanting to be a helper

c. Trying to understand how the client's problems came about and then

deciding what to do to help them with those problems

d. Acknowledging your hot buttons

c. Trying to understand how the client's problems came about and then deciding what to do to help them with those problems

If you are lost during a session, you should

a. Center and refocus yourself

b. Imagine what the client is feeling

c. Use emotion regulation strategies

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

When working with overly talkative clients, helpers should

a. Not interrupt

b. Cautiously interrupt

c. Let clients speak for 10 minutes before interrupting

d. Interrupt quickly and frequently

b. Cautiously interrupt

One of the most important aspects of implementing the helping skills is

a. Paying attention to the client's reactions

b. Not checking in with the client about their reactions

c. Interrupting the client's natural exploration process

d. Being extremely active and directive

a. Paying attention to the client's reactions

Helpers should take the following into consideration when conceptualizing the therapeutic relationship

a. The client's role in the relationship and the helper's role in the relationship

b. The client's role in the relationship

c. The helper's role in the relationship

d. Previous therapeutic relationships with other clients

a. The client's role in the relationship and the helper's role in the relationship

When a client asks the helper a question, the helper should

a. Promote the client's curiosity as to why they asked the question

b. Answer the question and quickly move on

c. Actively evade answering the question

d. Subtly evade answering the question

a. Promote the client's curiosity as to why they asked the question

The most important aspect of a treatment plan in the exploration stage is to

a. Help the client explore change

b. Accept the client as they are

c. Give the client behavioral advice

d. Challenge the client to foster awareness

b. Accept the client as they are

Practicing the helping skills

a. Is only useful for beginning helpers

b. Is consistently reported by students as the most helpful way to learn the skills

c. Cannot be accomplished unless you are in a helping session

d. Must be done in front of a supervisor or instructor

b. Is consistently reported by students as the most helpful way to learn the skills

In a helping skills practice session

a. There are no exceptions to confidentiality

b. Helpers should not go in with a specific agenda

c. Helpers should take notes

d. Helpers should act as experts

b. Helpers should not go in with a specific agenda

When working with overly quiet clients, helpers should

a. Try to assess why the client is being quiet

b. Adjust to the client's pace

c. Let the client open up gradually

d. All of the above

d. All of the above

Sometimes the exploration stage can be challenging because

a. The client is circling rather than exploring

b. The helper has engaged in too much self-reflection

c. The therapeutic relationship is too strong

d. All of the above

a. The client is circling rather than exploring

In the exploration stage, all of the following are advised except

a. Not giving too much or premature advice

b. Attending to culture

c. Being friends with the client

d. Not asking too many closed questions

c. Being friends with the client

When it comes to your helping style

a. You should fit your style precisely to the helping skills model

b. Modify the skills to fit your style

c. Modify your style to fit your client

d. Both B and C

d. Both B and C

Helper self-reflection strategies may include all of the following except

a. Personal therapy

b. Supervision

c. Journaling

d. Talking out your feelings with your client

d. Talking out your feelings with your client

Self-talk

a. Does not influence performance in helping sessions

b. Can positively influence performance if it is positive self-talk

c. Can negatively influence performance if it is positive self-talk

d. Can positively influence performance if it is negative self-talk

b. Can positively influence performance if it is positive self-talk

In practice helping sessions, helpers should use

a. A variety of exploration skills

b. Exploration skills only

c. Insight skills only

d. Action skills only

a. A variety of exploration skills

Asking yourself "what would it be like to be the client" is

a. Advised

b. Inappropriate

c. Not inappropriate, but not advised either

d. Inappropriate, but sometimes advisable

a. Advised

Primary goals of the exploration stage include all of the following except

a. Establishing a relationship

b. Helping clients experience emotions

c. Helping clients gain insight into their experiences

d. Agreeing on goals and tasks

c. Helping clients gain insight into their experiences

When ending the session, helpers might try to

a. Bring up a new topic

b. Summarize the session

c. End the session abruptly

d. Start exploring underlying reasons for client patterns

b. Summarize the session

In developing observations of clients, helpers should consider all of the following except

a. The client's presenting problems

b. The client's appearance

c. Their last client's issues

d. The client's expectations for helping

c. Their last client's issues