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Question #1

Cognitive ______modification refers to exercises targeting the automatic and subconscious thoughts that may be difficult to change through conscious effort.

A bias

B structure

C hierarchical

D implicit

E idealization

Question #2

An example of ______learning might be to have a person with social anxiety disorder give a presentation to a large group of people. After repeated exposure, there should be a reduction in physiological fear.

A dishabituation

B extinction

C Pavlovian

D operant

E inhibitive

Question #3

According to research evidence, ______therapy is the most effective contemporary approach to providing psychotherapy services to people in need.

A client-centered

B psychodynamic

C psychoanalytic

E cognitive behavioral

F humanistic

Question #4

Cognitive ______refers to the process of identifying, evaluating, and changing maladaptive thoughts in psychotherapy.

A adaptation

B de-escalation

C restructuring

D development

E alteration

Question #5

Which practice, which was founded in age-old Buddhist and yoga practices, reflects a nonjudgmental, yet attentive mental state that helps to enhance awareness and acceptance?

A biofeedback

B hypnosis

C mindfulness

D meditation

E flow

Question #6

Why has it been difficult for research to establish a solid answer to the question of whether person-centered therapy (PCT) is, overall, an effective approach to treating clients?

A PCT is based on nonspecific treatment factors, without considering specific treatment factors to directly target a given mental problem.

B The research that has examined PCT has only looked at conditions where therapy clients had very low (or less severe) forms of psychopathology.

C PCT is based almost exclusively on a White, Western European, male-centric model of how therapy should be conducted.

D PCT’s techniques can be applied by anyone, trained or untrained, and thus do not rise to the level of professional therapy.

E Because the foundation of PCT is the use of 12-step anonymous programs, it is all but impossible to gather true data about the impact it has on its clients.

Question #7

The foundational premise of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is that:

A Maladaptive actions are learned and can be unlearned and replaced with adaptive actions.

B There is a fundamental mismatch between a person’s real self and ideal self, which leads to inappropriate actions.

C Childhood conflicts and unconscious impulses exceed the capacity of defense mechanisms to keep them outside of consciousness.

D Thoughts, actions, and emotions interact and contribute to psychopathology.

E People experience distress and unhappiness when they refuse to face painful or difficult experiences or memories from their lives.

Question #8

Professor Chavira explains person-center therapy. “It is important for the clinician to use ______,” she says, “to convey acceptance. This helps clients come to recognize their own worth.”

A mindfulness

B recognition of transference

C ethical decision making

D unconditional positive regard

E boundary setting

Question #9

Which of the following is not one of the ways in which modern psychodynamic therapy differs from classic psychoanalysis?

A It places the client in his/her interpersonal context.

B It focuses more on relieving distress than on changing a person.

C It is a briefer form of psychotherapy.

D It focuses more on conscious and unconscious sexual drives.

E It places the client in his/her social context.

Question #10

Person-centered therapy, which was first developed by ______, posits that mental health problems are a result of a disconnect between an individual’s behavior and true personal identity.

A Carl Rogers

B Margaret Meade

C Abraham Maslow

D Karen Horney

E Joseph Wolpe

Question #11

During a session, Dr. Davidson asks his client, Jorge, to lay back on the sofa and close his eyes. “Just say anything that comes into your mind, and don’t worry at all about what it means,” he instructs Jorge. This technique is called:

A dream analysis

B analysis of resistance

C word association

D transference

E free association

Question #12

Dr. Aaron T. Beck believed that depressed patients experienced automatic thoughts arising from three different belief systems, or ______. These included beliefs about one’s self, their world, and their future.

A prototypes

B exemplars

C scripts

D concepts

E schemas

Question #13

Which of the following clients would benefit from therapy emphasizing a dialectical worldview that incorporates both acceptance and change in therapeutic progress?

A Famtah, who is suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.

B Yvette, who does not have a formal diagnosis of a psychological condition, but is having serious problems in her relationship with her husband.

C Yoni, who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

D Miles, who suffers from recurrent major depressive episodes.

E Evelyn, who was diagnosed with body dysmorphic disorder.

Question #14

Jay is terribly afraid of roller coasters, so his friends take him to an amusement park and force him to ride the smallest coaster. This intervention would be analogous to ______therapy.

A cognitive reappraisal

B restructuring

C exposure

D social skills

E in-vivo

Question #15

Which of the following would be an example of countertransference in a therapy session?

A Dr. Lowe gets very frustrated with his client’s lack of effort on the same day that he argues with his grown son about not working toward a successful career.

B Lorenzo has a very bad day at work and ,when he gets home, explodes at his children when they make a very minor mistake.

C Erick decides that he has fallen in love with his therapist, despite the fact that he has been married for 7 years.

D Qi yells at her therapist from time to time even though she is really angry at her own daughter.

E When she finds out that her insurance company will not pay for additional sessions, Carla calls her therapist and leaves a message saying that she will not be returning to the office.

Question #16

You are playing a quiz game and the answer that comes up is “These factors comprise the structural model of the psychoanalytic school of thought.” What would the correct question be?

A “What are the oral, anal, phallic, and genital stages?”

B “What are the personal unconscious and collective unconscious?”

C “What are the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious?”

D “What are the id, ego, and superego?”

E “What are repression, regression, and rationalization?”

Question #17

Which therapeutic strategy, that emphasizes simultaneous acceptance and change, is often used for the treatment of borderline personality disorder?

A Directive Gestalt therapy

B Dialectical behavior therapy

C Psychodynamic reappraisal therapy