THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELING
AND PSYCHOTHERAPY ACTUAL TEST
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● What three ways does Orlinsky and colleagues suggest that personal
therapy contributes to the therapists professional work?
Answer: 1. It offers a model of therapeutic practice in which the trainee
experiences the work of a more experienced therapist and learns
experimentally what is helpful and what is not helpful.
2. It can further enhance the therapists interpersonal skills that are
essential to skillfully practicing therapy.
3. It can contribute to a therapists ability to deal with the ongoing
stresses associated with clinical work.
●● Who should establish the goal of counseling?
Answer: It is largely the client's responsibility to decide upon goals,
collaborating with the therapist as the therapy proceeds
●● What is Corey's perspective on the eleven therapeutic approaches
presented in the book?
Answer: No single model can explain all the facets of human
experience.
,●● What are the four general categories of the therapeutic approaches?
Answer: Psychodynamic, Experiential and Relationship-Oriented
Therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Approaches, and Systems and
Postmodern Approaches.
●● What approach is Corey strongly influenced by?
Answer: Existential; allows him to draw from other approaches. Clients
can exercise freedom to choose their future. The quality of the
client/therapist relationship is key
●● Psychoanalytic Therapy is based largely on what?
Answer: Insight, unconscious motivation, and reconstruction of the
personality.
●● What is the focus of Alderian therapy?
Answer: Alderians focus on meaning, goals, purposeful behavior,
conscious action, belonging, and social interest.
●● True or False: Alderian theory accounts for present behavior by
studying childhood experiences; it does not focus on unconscious
dynamics
Answer: True
●● What counseling models fall under the Psychodynamic approaches?
, Answer: Psychoanalytic Therapy
Adlerian Therapy
●● What counseling models fall under Experiential and Relationship-
Oriented Therapies?
Answer: Existential Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
●● What does the existential approach stress?
Answer: A concern for what it really means to be human. It suggests that
certain themes that are apart of the human condition, such as freedom
and responsibility, anxiety, guilt, awareness of being finite, creating
meaning in the world, and shaping ones future by making active choices.
This approach is a philosophy of counseling that stresses the divergent
methods of understanding the subjective world of the person.
●● True of False? The person-centered approach which is rooted in a
humanistic philosophy places emphasis on the basic attitudes of the
therapist. It maintains the the quality of the client-therapist relationship
is the prime determinant of the outcomes of the therapeutic process.
Answer: True
●● Which approach assumes that clients have the capacity for self-
direction without active intervention and direction on the therapists part?
AND PSYCHOTHERAPY ACTUAL TEST
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE
●● What three ways does Orlinsky and colleagues suggest that personal
therapy contributes to the therapists professional work?
Answer: 1. It offers a model of therapeutic practice in which the trainee
experiences the work of a more experienced therapist and learns
experimentally what is helpful and what is not helpful.
2. It can further enhance the therapists interpersonal skills that are
essential to skillfully practicing therapy.
3. It can contribute to a therapists ability to deal with the ongoing
stresses associated with clinical work.
●● Who should establish the goal of counseling?
Answer: It is largely the client's responsibility to decide upon goals,
collaborating with the therapist as the therapy proceeds
●● What is Corey's perspective on the eleven therapeutic approaches
presented in the book?
Answer: No single model can explain all the facets of human
experience.
,●● What are the four general categories of the therapeutic approaches?
Answer: Psychodynamic, Experiential and Relationship-Oriented
Therapies, Cognitive Behavioral Approaches, and Systems and
Postmodern Approaches.
●● What approach is Corey strongly influenced by?
Answer: Existential; allows him to draw from other approaches. Clients
can exercise freedom to choose their future. The quality of the
client/therapist relationship is key
●● Psychoanalytic Therapy is based largely on what?
Answer: Insight, unconscious motivation, and reconstruction of the
personality.
●● What is the focus of Alderian therapy?
Answer: Alderians focus on meaning, goals, purposeful behavior,
conscious action, belonging, and social interest.
●● True or False: Alderian theory accounts for present behavior by
studying childhood experiences; it does not focus on unconscious
dynamics
Answer: True
●● What counseling models fall under the Psychodynamic approaches?
, Answer: Psychoanalytic Therapy
Adlerian Therapy
●● What counseling models fall under Experiential and Relationship-
Oriented Therapies?
Answer: Existential Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Gestalt Therapy
●● What does the existential approach stress?
Answer: A concern for what it really means to be human. It suggests that
certain themes that are apart of the human condition, such as freedom
and responsibility, anxiety, guilt, awareness of being finite, creating
meaning in the world, and shaping ones future by making active choices.
This approach is a philosophy of counseling that stresses the divergent
methods of understanding the subjective world of the person.
●● True of False? The person-centered approach which is rooted in a
humanistic philosophy places emphasis on the basic attitudes of the
therapist. It maintains the the quality of the client-therapist relationship
is the prime determinant of the outcomes of the therapeutic process.
Answer: True
●● Which approach assumes that clients have the capacity for self-
direction without active intervention and direction on the therapists part?
