EPPP Sample Questions - Clinical Psychology graderd A+

Eric Berne feels which of the following reflect a person's characteristic pattern of giving and receiving strokes? A. Life position B. Transaction C. Script D. Ego state - Answer-C. Berne called a person's life plan a script, and espoused that it reflected the person's characteristic pattern of giving and receiving strokes. The life position (A) is one of the I'm OK, You're OK Sequence. Transaction (B) was the term for communication between ego states and (D) the ego states are parent, child, adult. Therapist self-disclosure in feminist therapy: A. encourages participation by the client in the early stages of therapy. B. promotes client passivity in the therapeutic relationship. C. contributes to an egalitarian relationship between the client and therapist. D. facilitates a special bonding between the therapist and the client. - Answer-C. One of the main characteristics of feminist therapy is its emphasis on an egalitarian relationship between the client and therapist. Feminist therapists consider self-disclosure with clients as a way of supporting an egalitarian relationship. Therapist self-disclosure may be used to encourage client participation (a.), but this response isn't as good as (c.) in describing the role of self-disclosure in feminist therapy. Feminist therapy discourages client passivity (b.) and feminist therapists typically discourage special bonding as it may encourage client dependence on the therapist According to this type of psychotherapy, feelings are acknowledged and accepted as uncontrollable and the focus is on taking constructive action, not the alleviation of discomfort or the attainment of some ideal feeling state. A. Naikan therapy B. Network therapy C. Morita therapyD. Rational-emotive therapy (RET) - Answer-C. Morita Therapy, sometimes referred to as the psychology of action, is a Japanese therapeutic intervention developed by Japanese psychologist Shoma Morita in the early part of the twentieth century originally to treat anxiety and neurosis. Morita therapy doesn't deal with the past, inner dynamics, or with emotions directly as a prerequisite to change. Emphasis is on learning to accept the internal fluctuations of thoughts and feelings and ground behavior in reality and the purpose of the moment. The focus is on the external environment, behavior, and distinguishing what is and is not controllable. All emotions are accepted as valid, pain is inevitable and there is no attempt to control or govern feelings. Concrete effort to take action, with or without success and despite the accompanying emotions, is encouraged. Progress is measured by degree of responsiveness to behavioral demands and in the effort for self impr a Japanese therapeutic intervention developed by Japanese psychologist Shoma ____ in the early part of the twentieth century originally to treat anxiety and neurosis. ________ doesn't deal with the past, inner dynamics, or with emotions directly as a prerequisite to change. Emphasis is on learning to accept the internal fluctuations of thoughts and feelings and ground behavior in reality and the purpose of the moment. The focus is on the external environment, behavior, and distinguishing what is and is not controllable. All emotions are accepted as valid, pain is inevitable and there is no attempt to control or govern feelings. Concrete effort to take action, with or without success and despite the accompanying emotions, is encouraged. Progress is measured by degree of responsiveness to behavioral demands and in the effort for self improvement. Like cognitive behavioral therapy, _________ deals with changing behavior - Answer-Morita Therapy (aka the psychology of action) A Japanese approach that is based on clients asking themselves three questions: what have I received from? What have I given to? What troubles or difficulties have I caused to? Through such self-reflection, a client's awareness of the role they play in the relationship or situation, the amount of support they've received, and an appreciation for others is said to be increased - Answer-Naikan Therapy (aka the psychology of reflection) Therapeutic approach where the client's family, friends, and relatives (i.e. the client's network) are brought together, through the therapist's initiative, to implement the therapeutic process - AnswerNetwork Therapy Therapeutic approach that views irrational thoughts as the cause of clients? problems and that the maintenance of problems is due primarily to self-indoctrination - Answer-Rational-emotive therapy Which of the following is not an aspect of crisis theory? A. overwhelming emotions are the prime motivators for changeB. crisis theory emphasizes the cognitive and behavioral elements of a crisis C. people in crisis tend to follow a predictable sequence of responses D. crisis intervention will be more successful when a client is able to understand how his or her behavior is related to the crisis - Answer-A. According to crisis theory, people in crisis tend to follow a predictable sequence of responses (c.) and a key goal of crisis intervention is to help individuals in crisis learn more effective coping so that they can respond more adaptively when having similar experiences in the future. Crisis management strategies often include grief work; active listening; encouraging the open expression of feelings; increasing understanding of the crisis; promoting greater acceptance of reality; exploring constructive ways of coping; linkage to a social network; decision counseling; and reinforcement of newly learned coping behaviors. While addressing a client's emotions, including overwhelming ones, is a part of crisis intervention, crisis theory and crisis intervention also emphasize the cognitive and behavioral elements of a crisis (b.). Although crisis theorists do predict that crisis intervention will be more successful w According to Sue and Sue's Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model, a person in the dissonance stage would experience: A. appreciation of the self and depreciation of the dominant group B. depreciation of the self and appreciation of the dominant group C. appreciation of the self and the dominant group D. conflict between appreciation and depreciation of the self and the dominant group - Answer-D. Even if you were unfamiliar with Sue and Sue's Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model, you may have been able to guess correctly if you realized that the term "dissonance" refers to conflict. Sue and Sue's (1990) Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model (R/CID) is an elaboration of the Minority Identity Development model (MID) proposed by Atkinson, Morton, and Sue (1989). Both models describe the same stages (conformity, dissonance, resistance and immersion, introspection, and integrative awareness) but the R/CID model elaborates on individuals' attitudes toward self and others. During the Conformity stage, a person depreciates the self (and others of the minority group) but appreciates the dominant majority group. During the Dissonance stage, minority individuals experience conflict between appreciation and depreciation of the self and the majority group. In the Resistance and Immersion stage, the individu Sue and Sue's Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model: During the _________ stage, a person depreciates the self (and others of the minority group) but appreciates the dominant majority group. - Answer-1. Conformity Sue and Sue's R/CID Model:During the _________ stage, minority individuals experience conflict between appreciation and depreciation of the self and the majority group. - Answer-2. Dissonance Sue and Sue's R/CID Model: In the ______ stage, the individual appreciates the self and depreciates the majority group. - Answer-3. Resistance and Immersion Sue and Sue's R/CID Model: In the ______stage, the person again experiences conflict and questions the basis of his or her appreciation and depreciation of self and others. - Answer-4. Introspection Sue and Sue's R/CID Model: The stage where the person experiences self-appreciation and selective appreciation of the majority group - Answer-5. Integrative Awareness Minuchin, the founder of structural family therapy, defines "triangulation" as occurring when: A. the child and one parent "gang up" on the other parent. B. the parents either consistently attack or protect the child. C. each parent demands that the child side with him/her. D. two members of the family consistently challenge the therapist's authority. - Answer-C. Minuchin defines three types of "rigid triangles" that involve chronic boundary disturbances - triangulation (answer C); detouring (answer B); and a stable coalition (answer A) Differing locus of control and locus of responsibility combinations yield the four worldviews described by Sue and Sue (2003). Mainstream American culture would best be characterized by an: A. internal locus of control and external locus of responsibility B. internal locus of control and internal locus of responsibility C. external locus of control and internal locus of responsibility D. external locus of control and external locus of responsibility - Answer-B. B. Worldview refers to the manner in which people perceive, evaluate and react to encountered situations. Sue and Sue describe mainstream American culture "as the epitome of the individualcentered approach that emphasizes uniqueness, independence and self-reliance" (p.277). This is characterized by an internal locus of control and locus of responsibility in Sue, D.W. & Sue, D. (2003).