EPPP Sample Questions - Clinical Psychology Questions with Correct Answers

EPPP Sample Questions - Clinical Psychology Questions with Correct Answers 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 - Correct 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. - Correct 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 therapy D. Rational-emotive therapy (RET) - Correct Answer C. Morita Therapy, sometimes referred to as the psychology of action, is a Japanese therapeutic intervention develop