Qualities of a Helping Relationship
Test Questions with Answers
Erikson's Psychosocial Development - Answer-Presents stages of critical tasks across
the lifespan, with development impeded by an inability to negotiate challenges in each
stage
Ethological Theory - Answer-Focuses on the evolutionary significance of behavior for
human growth, emphasizing attachment theory and critical bonds with primary
caregivers
Bowlby's Attachment Theory - Answer-Emphasizes the critical bond between infants
and primary caregivers, informing perceptions, emotions, and expectations in later
relationships
Humanistic Theory - Answer-Emphasizes people's innate self-actualizing tendency, with
healthy development occurring through inner resource development, self-awareness,
and responsible choices
Healthy development - Answer-Occurs with inner resource development, self-
awareness, and responsible choices.
Carl Rogers' Client-Centered Theory - Answer-Emphasizes nurturing environment for
emotional, intellectual, and social needs.
Gestalt Therapy - Answer-Focuses on insight, meaningful relationships, and healthy
boundaries.
Existentialism - Answer-Emphasizes personal subjectivity in making meaning of
experience.
Positive Psychology - Answer-Belief in innate motivation and potential for a good life in
a supportive environment.
Classical conditioning - Answer-Involves stimulus-response learning.
Operant conditioning - Answer-Shapes behavior through reinforcement and
punishment.
Social learning theory - Answer-Emphasizes modeling, observational learning, and
motivation in shaping learning.
, Pavlov's Classical Conditioning - Answer-Learning based on stimuli shaping behavior
through impulse or reflex.
Skinner's Operant Conditioning - Answer-Shaping learning through reinforcement and
punishment after behavior.
Bandura's Social Learning Theory - Answer-Emphasizes modeling, observational
learning, reinforcement, and motivation in shaping learning.
Vygotsky's Influence - Answer-Behavior and thinking inseparable from cultural context.
Social constructionism - Answer-Emphasizes development constructed in interpersonal,
cultural, and political contexts.
Narrative Theory - Answer-Personal stories transmitted socially influence development.
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory - Answer-Development occurs within complex
social systems.
Feminist Theory - Answer-Critiques Western developmental theories and focuses on
extending equal opportunities for women.
Psychodynamic Approaches - Answer-Emphasize psychological and unconscious
forces shaping behavior and personality.
Adlerian Therapy - Answer-Focuses on early environment, family constellation, and
social interpersonal influences.
Ethological Approaches - Answer-Focus on present moment, shaping and reinforcing
behavior.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) - Answer-Process used to understand the
function or purpose of behavior, especially challenging behaviors.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - Answer-Scientific approach to understanding and
changing behavior.
Personalization Issues - Answer-Occurs when a helper's work is influenced by
unresolved personal issues.
Vicarious Traumatization - Answer-Helpers may experience traumatic reactions when
exposed to others' trauma stories.
Helping Relationship - Answer-Effort to offer strength and support to facilitate learning,
change, and growth, especially during difficult times
Test Questions with Answers
Erikson's Psychosocial Development - Answer-Presents stages of critical tasks across
the lifespan, with development impeded by an inability to negotiate challenges in each
stage
Ethological Theory - Answer-Focuses on the evolutionary significance of behavior for
human growth, emphasizing attachment theory and critical bonds with primary
caregivers
Bowlby's Attachment Theory - Answer-Emphasizes the critical bond between infants
and primary caregivers, informing perceptions, emotions, and expectations in later
relationships
Humanistic Theory - Answer-Emphasizes people's innate self-actualizing tendency, with
healthy development occurring through inner resource development, self-awareness,
and responsible choices
Healthy development - Answer-Occurs with inner resource development, self-
awareness, and responsible choices.
Carl Rogers' Client-Centered Theory - Answer-Emphasizes nurturing environment for
emotional, intellectual, and social needs.
Gestalt Therapy - Answer-Focuses on insight, meaningful relationships, and healthy
boundaries.
Existentialism - Answer-Emphasizes personal subjectivity in making meaning of
experience.
Positive Psychology - Answer-Belief in innate motivation and potential for a good life in
a supportive environment.
Classical conditioning - Answer-Involves stimulus-response learning.
Operant conditioning - Answer-Shapes behavior through reinforcement and
punishment.
Social learning theory - Answer-Emphasizes modeling, observational learning, and
motivation in shaping learning.
, Pavlov's Classical Conditioning - Answer-Learning based on stimuli shaping behavior
through impulse or reflex.
Skinner's Operant Conditioning - Answer-Shaping learning through reinforcement and
punishment after behavior.
Bandura's Social Learning Theory - Answer-Emphasizes modeling, observational
learning, reinforcement, and motivation in shaping learning.
Vygotsky's Influence - Answer-Behavior and thinking inseparable from cultural context.
Social constructionism - Answer-Emphasizes development constructed in interpersonal,
cultural, and political contexts.
Narrative Theory - Answer-Personal stories transmitted socially influence development.
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Theory - Answer-Development occurs within complex
social systems.
Feminist Theory - Answer-Critiques Western developmental theories and focuses on
extending equal opportunities for women.
Psychodynamic Approaches - Answer-Emphasize psychological and unconscious
forces shaping behavior and personality.
Adlerian Therapy - Answer-Focuses on early environment, family constellation, and
social interpersonal influences.
Ethological Approaches - Answer-Focus on present moment, shaping and reinforcing
behavior.
Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) - Answer-Process used to understand the
function or purpose of behavior, especially challenging behaviors.
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) - Answer-Scientific approach to understanding and
changing behavior.
Personalization Issues - Answer-Occurs when a helper's work is influenced by
unresolved personal issues.
Vicarious Traumatization - Answer-Helpers may experience traumatic reactions when
exposed to others' trauma stories.
Helping Relationship - Answer-Effort to offer strength and support to facilitate learning,
change, and growth, especially during difficult times
