Theories (COUN 601)-Dr. Fager-Exam 1
correctly answered to pass
Therapeutic Alliance - correct answer ✔✔A caring relationship that unites a therapist and a client in
working to solve the client's problems. It allows the client to feel liked and valued.
Systematic Viewpoint - correct answer ✔✔The worldview you grow up with, affected by internalized
culture, which impacts how you view others and attempt to understand them
Internalized Culture - correct answer ✔✔Your values and philosophy of life: sex age, geological roots,
religion, economic class (Essentially, your social history)
Common Factors - correct answer ✔✔an approach to psychotherapeutic integration that aims to
understand the common ingredients that work across different forms of therapy, such as rationale for
how treatment will take place, therapist expectations for change, and a strong therapeutic relationship
Specific Factors - correct answer ✔✔those factors in psychotherapy that are specific to a given approach,
such as free association in psychoanalysis or systematic desensitization in behavior therapy
Bruce Wampold - correct answer ✔✔He proved psychotherapy is effective- in a meta-analysis of 400+
studies, the average client in therapy showed more improvement than 75% of individuals who did not
get treatment
He also (2001) showed that no type of therapy is better than another.
Primary Component of Positive Outcome in Counseling - correct answer ✔✔Therapeutic Alliance and
the positive regard of the therapist
Measure of Quality of Therapeutic Alliance - correct answer ✔✔The client's judgment of the alliance.
"Warm, accepting relationship"
Client - correct answer ✔✔Primary Change Agent
, E.S.T. Empirically Supported Theories - correct answer ✔✔Theories supported by researchers in
controlled experiments
Must be supported by data
Reasons for Psychological Theories - correct answer ✔✔Give us a starting point to understand
Explain the "why"
Req. to qualify as psychological theory - correct answer ✔✔Make Predictions
Can be tested
Help Understanding
Guide Action
Explain a group of phenomena or facts
Axis 1 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔Clinical Disorders: Mental diagnoses except personality disorders and
mental retardation are coded according to the sections of the DSM, along with the severity of the
problem. Show presenting problems here.
Axis 2 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation: The more lasting and
intractable problems, which also have sections in the DSM. There is a code for the absence of these
problems too. Personality Defects may also be listed here
Axis 3 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔General Medical Conditions: Physical conditions and disorders, which
may affect a client's psychological state.
Axis 4 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔Psycho-social and Environmental Problems: Problems the client has
in the outside world, such as poverty, housing difficulties, loss of work, jail time, and so forth.
Axis 5 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔The Axis that notes the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)
where you give a score from 1 to 100 based on how high-functioning that person is in society
correctly answered to pass
Therapeutic Alliance - correct answer ✔✔A caring relationship that unites a therapist and a client in
working to solve the client's problems. It allows the client to feel liked and valued.
Systematic Viewpoint - correct answer ✔✔The worldview you grow up with, affected by internalized
culture, which impacts how you view others and attempt to understand them
Internalized Culture - correct answer ✔✔Your values and philosophy of life: sex age, geological roots,
religion, economic class (Essentially, your social history)
Common Factors - correct answer ✔✔an approach to psychotherapeutic integration that aims to
understand the common ingredients that work across different forms of therapy, such as rationale for
how treatment will take place, therapist expectations for change, and a strong therapeutic relationship
Specific Factors - correct answer ✔✔those factors in psychotherapy that are specific to a given approach,
such as free association in psychoanalysis or systematic desensitization in behavior therapy
Bruce Wampold - correct answer ✔✔He proved psychotherapy is effective- in a meta-analysis of 400+
studies, the average client in therapy showed more improvement than 75% of individuals who did not
get treatment
He also (2001) showed that no type of therapy is better than another.
Primary Component of Positive Outcome in Counseling - correct answer ✔✔Therapeutic Alliance and
the positive regard of the therapist
Measure of Quality of Therapeutic Alliance - correct answer ✔✔The client's judgment of the alliance.
"Warm, accepting relationship"
Client - correct answer ✔✔Primary Change Agent
, E.S.T. Empirically Supported Theories - correct answer ✔✔Theories supported by researchers in
controlled experiments
Must be supported by data
Reasons for Psychological Theories - correct answer ✔✔Give us a starting point to understand
Explain the "why"
Req. to qualify as psychological theory - correct answer ✔✔Make Predictions
Can be tested
Help Understanding
Guide Action
Explain a group of phenomena or facts
Axis 1 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔Clinical Disorders: Mental diagnoses except personality disorders and
mental retardation are coded according to the sections of the DSM, along with the severity of the
problem. Show presenting problems here.
Axis 2 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation: The more lasting and
intractable problems, which also have sections in the DSM. There is a code for the absence of these
problems too. Personality Defects may also be listed here
Axis 3 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔General Medical Conditions: Physical conditions and disorders, which
may affect a client's psychological state.
Axis 4 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔Psycho-social and Environmental Problems: Problems the client has
in the outside world, such as poverty, housing difficulties, loss of work, jail time, and so forth.
Axis 5 of DSM - correct answer ✔✔The Axis that notes the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)
where you give a score from 1 to 100 based on how high-functioning that person is in society
