CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY COMP EXAM | PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS |
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
Psychoanalytic Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Behavior is determined by unconscious forces,
early experiences, and by sexual and aggressive impulses.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy - correct answer ✔✔This approach states people experience
feelings of anxiety and despair due largely to their irrational thinking.
Person-Centered Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Mental Health is viewed as the congruent
balance between the ideal self and the real self.
Gestalt Therapy - correct answer ✔✔This approach emphasizes personal responsibility,
unfinished business, avoidance, direct experience in the here-and-now, and awareness.
Behavior Therapy - correct answer ✔✔A goal of this approach is eliminating maladaptive
behavior patterns through employing techniques of acceptance and commitment to change.
Adlerian Therapy - correct answer ✔✔This theory places central importance on encouragement
and community feeling.
Both (Reality therapy) and (Behavior Therapy) - correct answer ✔✔Insight can be helpful but is
not considered essential for therapeutic change to occur.
Person-Centered Therapy - correct answer ✔✔The concept of "therapist congruence" is central
in this approach.
Reality Therapy - correct answer ✔✔This approach is not considered an experiential therapy.
,Alfred Adler - correct answer ✔✔Which theorist stressed the view that universal feelings of
inferiority and striving for power are basic components of personality development?
Critical tasks associated with each stage of development. - correct answer ✔✔Erik Erikson
based his theory on:
A comprehensive and detailed system of personality. - correct answer ✔✔A contribution of
psychoanalytic approach is:
Few techniques are generated from this approach. - correct answer ✔✔A limitation of the
existential approach is:
There has been little empirical research to support the interventions used. - correct answer
✔✔A limitation of the postmodern approaches is that:
The ID - correct answer ✔✔Which is the following structures of personality houses our childish
impulses?
Donald Meichenbaum - correct answer ✔✔Stress-inoculation training is associated with:
Our choices are at the root of our psychological distress. - correct answer ✔✔Currently reality
therapy is based on the notion that:
Michael White - correct answer ✔✔All the following are associated with solution-focused
therapy except:
Explore problems transmitted from generation to generation. - correct answer ✔✔In working
with a client, a solution-focused therapist would be least likely to use which of the following
techniques?
, Family Sculpting - correct answer ✔✔One of Satir's techniques is:
Client may become too dependent - correct answer ✔✔Many counselors use Rogerian-type
encouraging responses with their clients. What might be a concern for their overuse?
Interpretation - correct answer ✔✔"Could it be that your current behavior is related to
unresolved family of origin issues?" is an example of a(n):
Honestly giving client feedback after considering possible effects. - correct answer ✔✔Being
"genuine" with a client means:
Reflection of the content - correct answer ✔✔"When she left you alone, you started to cry" is
an example of a(n):
All of the above: bring closure to a session; refocus a client who seems to be wandering; clarify
important client statements - correct answer ✔✔Summarization can be used to:
Dream work - correct answer ✔✔What is not part of a Reality Therapy group process?
Rudolf Dreikurs - correct answer ✔✔Who developed most Adlerian Therapy group methods?
Faciliating - correct answer ✔✔Opening-up clear and direct communication among members;
helping members assume increasing responsibility for the group's direction is called:
Increase the free activity or public self area - correct answer ✔✔The common group process
goal illustrated the Johari Window is to:
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
Psychoanalytic Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Behavior is determined by unconscious forces,
early experiences, and by sexual and aggressive impulses.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy - correct answer ✔✔This approach states people experience
feelings of anxiety and despair due largely to their irrational thinking.
Person-Centered Therapy - correct answer ✔✔Mental Health is viewed as the congruent
balance between the ideal self and the real self.
Gestalt Therapy - correct answer ✔✔This approach emphasizes personal responsibility,
unfinished business, avoidance, direct experience in the here-and-now, and awareness.
Behavior Therapy - correct answer ✔✔A goal of this approach is eliminating maladaptive
behavior patterns through employing techniques of acceptance and commitment to change.
Adlerian Therapy - correct answer ✔✔This theory places central importance on encouragement
and community feeling.
Both (Reality therapy) and (Behavior Therapy) - correct answer ✔✔Insight can be helpful but is
not considered essential for therapeutic change to occur.
Person-Centered Therapy - correct answer ✔✔The concept of "therapist congruence" is central
in this approach.
Reality Therapy - correct answer ✔✔This approach is not considered an experiential therapy.
,Alfred Adler - correct answer ✔✔Which theorist stressed the view that universal feelings of
inferiority and striving for power are basic components of personality development?
Critical tasks associated with each stage of development. - correct answer ✔✔Erik Erikson
based his theory on:
A comprehensive and detailed system of personality. - correct answer ✔✔A contribution of
psychoanalytic approach is:
Few techniques are generated from this approach. - correct answer ✔✔A limitation of the
existential approach is:
There has been little empirical research to support the interventions used. - correct answer
✔✔A limitation of the postmodern approaches is that:
The ID - correct answer ✔✔Which is the following structures of personality houses our childish
impulses?
Donald Meichenbaum - correct answer ✔✔Stress-inoculation training is associated with:
Our choices are at the root of our psychological distress. - correct answer ✔✔Currently reality
therapy is based on the notion that:
Michael White - correct answer ✔✔All the following are associated with solution-focused
therapy except:
Explore problems transmitted from generation to generation. - correct answer ✔✔In working
with a client, a solution-focused therapist would be least likely to use which of the following
techniques?
, Family Sculpting - correct answer ✔✔One of Satir's techniques is:
Client may become too dependent - correct answer ✔✔Many counselors use Rogerian-type
encouraging responses with their clients. What might be a concern for their overuse?
Interpretation - correct answer ✔✔"Could it be that your current behavior is related to
unresolved family of origin issues?" is an example of a(n):
Honestly giving client feedback after considering possible effects. - correct answer ✔✔Being
"genuine" with a client means:
Reflection of the content - correct answer ✔✔"When she left you alone, you started to cry" is
an example of a(n):
All of the above: bring closure to a session; refocus a client who seems to be wandering; clarify
important client statements - correct answer ✔✔Summarization can be used to:
Dream work - correct answer ✔✔What is not part of a Reality Therapy group process?
Rudolf Dreikurs - correct answer ✔✔Who developed most Adlerian Therapy group methods?
Faciliating - correct answer ✔✔Opening-up clear and direct communication among members;
helping members assume increasing responsibility for the group's direction is called:
Increase the free activity or public self area - correct answer ✔✔The common group process
goal illustrated the Johari Window is to:
