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Chapter 01
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Suzanne Peloquin is best known for teaching the value of empathy through:
a. Skills training methods
b. Having students undergo counseling or psychotherapy
c. Art, literature, and other examples of the malpractice consequences of poor
communication in therapy
d. Requiring all students to take courses in positive psychology
2. The quality of the client-therapist relationship can have an impact on the ultimate outcome of therapy because:
a. Clients often prioritize therapists’ ability to communicate and relate effectively with them
above the therapists’ technical expertise.
b. Development of trust between the therapist and client makes it possible for the therapist to
manipulate the client into doing nonpreferred activities.
c. The therapeutic relationship affects engagement in therapeutic activities.
d. Both answers A and C
3. Which of the following is not one of the central components of the Intentional Relationship Model (IRM)?
a. Interpersonal characteristics c. Interpersonal modes
b. Interpersonal intentionality d. Occupational engagement
4. According to the Intentional Relationship Model (IRM), intentionality is described as exercise of:
a. Empathic understanding
b. Impulse control
c. Directed attention
d. Both answers A and B
e. Both answers A and C
5. According to the Intentional Relationship Model (IRM), the role of empathy within a therapeutic relationship is to:
a. Explain or support the process of relating to a client as a means of changing the way that
the client is thinking, feeling, or behaving
b. Understand the client’s lived experience with our personal experience, or with that of our
other clients, family members, or friends
c. Achieve an understanding of the client’s interpersonal characteristics and how the client is
reacting to the inevitable interpersonal events of therapy
d. All of the above
6. Which of the following is not consistent with the contemporary understanding of the therapist’s role in establishing
a client-centered therapeutic relationship?
a. Capacity to develop an empathic understanding of the client
b. Use of clinical reasoning to guide interactions with the client
c. Capacity to serve as an expert (or guide) and instill confidence in the client
d. Use of collaborative and client-centered approaches to care
Chapter 01
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Suzanne Peloquin is best known for teaching the value of empathy through:
a. Skills training methods
b. Having students undergo counseling or psychotherapy
c. Art, literature, and other examples of the malpractice consequences of poor
communication in therapy
d. Requiring all students to take courses in positive psychology
2. The quality of the client-therapist relationship can have an impact on the ultimate outcome of therapy because:
a. Clients often prioritize therapists’ ability to communicate and relate effectively with them
above the therapists’ technical expertise.
b. Development of trust between the therapist and client makes it possible for the therapist to
manipulate the client into doing nonpreferred activities.
c. The therapeutic relationship affects engagement in therapeutic activities.
d. Both answers A and C
3. Which of the following is not one of the central components of the Intentional Relationship Model (IRM)?
a. Interpersonal characteristics c. Interpersonal modes
b. Interpersonal intentionality d. Occupational engagement
4. According to the Intentional Relationship Model (IRM), intentionality is described as exercise of:
a. Empathic understanding
b. Impulse control
c. Directed attention
d. Both answers A and B
e. Both answers A and C
5. According to the Intentional Relationship Model (IRM), the role of empathy within a therapeutic relationship is to:
a. Explain or support the process of relating to a client as a means of changing the way that
the client is thinking, feeling, or behaving
b. Understand the client’s lived experience with our personal experience, or with that of our
other clients, family members, or friends
c. Achieve an understanding of the client’s interpersonal characteristics and how the client is
reacting to the inevitable interpersonal events of therapy
d. All of the above
6. Which of the following is not consistent with the contemporary understanding of the therapist’s role in establishing
a client-centered therapeutic relationship?
a. Capacity to develop an empathic understanding of the client
b. Use of clinical reasoning to guide interactions with the client
c. Capacity to serve as an expert (or guide) and instill confidence in the client
d. Use of collaborative and client-centered approaches to care
