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NR605 FINAL UPDATED EXAM WITH MOST TESTED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | ASSURED SUCCESS WITH DETAILED
RATIONALES
Which of the following is a central tenet of the humanistic-existential approach to
psychotherapy?
A. Strict behavior modification
B. Holism and self-actualization
C. Pharmacologic symptom eradication only
D. Forced insight via interpretation
Rationale: Humanistic-existential therapy emphasizes the whole person (mind/body/spirit) and
growth toward self-actualization.
Supportive psychotherapy is primarily used for clients who are:
A. Seeking long analytic insight only
B. Experiencing emotional distress or problems in living
C. Only psychotic with no functioning
D. Not motivated for therapy
Rationale: Supportive therapy targets stabilization, symptom relief, and coping for those in
distress.
Supportive psychotherapy is particularly appropriate for clients who:
A. Have fully mature defenses only
B. Are only in cognitive therapy groups
C. Have psychotic personality organization or immature defenses
D. Require only medication management
Rationale: Supportive therapy helps those with fragile ego structure and less capacity for insight.
Which is NOT a primary goal of supportive therapy?
A. Problem solving
B. Symptom relief
C. Intensive multi-year analytic insight
D. Management of life stressors
Rationale: Intensive, long-term analytic insight is a goal of psychoanalysis, not supportive
therapy.
Supportive therapy is commonly used to achieve:
A. Long analytic interpretation only
B. Stabilization and resource building
C. Only exposure therapy goals
D. Immediate behavior extinction
Rationale: Supportive therapy focuses on stabilizing and strengthening coping resources.
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Which mnemonic best represents techniques used in supportive therapy (PEER)?
A. Plan, Evaluate, Execute, Review
B. Providing comfort, Empathic listening, Encouragement, Reassurance
C. Psychoanalysis, Education, Exposure, Rehearsal
D. Probe, Explore, Evaluate, Reframe
Rationale: PEER captures the empathic, reassuring elements central to supportive work.
Psychoanalysis is commonly used for which conditions?
A. Short-term situational stress only
B. Panic attacks only
C. Anxiety, OCD, mood disorders, personality disorders, sexual dysfunction
D. Acute medical admissions only
Rationale: Psychoanalysis addresses deep personality organization and chronic disorders.
A primary goal of psychoanalysis is:
A. Immediate symptom suppression with meds
B. Development of deeper self-understanding and lasting change
C. Eliminating all feelings of anxiety permanently
D. Group social support only
Rationale: Psychoanalysis aims for insight and structural personality change.
Which clients are most likely to benefit from psychoanalysis?
A. Those with chaotic reality testing
B. Clients with poor impulse control only
C. Reality-oriented clients with mature defenses and neurotic–healthy organization
D. Clients in acute medical crises
Rationale: Psychoanalysis requires capacity for introspection and tolerance of insight.
Which is a classic psychoanalytic technique?
A. Behavior rehearsal only
B. Exposure hierarchy
C. Free association, transference, interpretation (WRRITF list)
D. Medication tapering
Rationale: Techniques such as free association and interpretation are central to psychoanalytic
work.
To succeed in psychoanalysis, a client should be able to:
A. Avoid introspection
B. Rely entirely on the therapist for answers
C. Think reflectively and be self-motivated
D. Have no symptoms at all
Rationale: Psychoanalysis is introspective and requires client motivation and reflective capacity.
Contraindications to psychoanalysis include:
A. High motivation for self-exploration
B. Mature defenses only
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C. Poor impulse control, concrete thinking, major crisis, low motivation
D. Chronic but stable neurosis
Rationale: Intensive analytic work is poorly suited to those with low tolerance for insight or
instability.
Compared to other therapies, psychoanalysis is more intense mainly due to:
A. Use of group formats only
B. Lack of any transference work
C. Frequency of sessions and intensity of transference
D. Brief time-limited structure
Rationale: Psychoanalysis commonly involves multiple sessions per week and deep transference.
Typical psychoanalysis scheduling usually involves:
A. One session per month
B. Only telephone sessions
C. Several sessions per week over years
D. Single session crisis intervention
Rationale: Traditional analysis is frequent and long-term.
Which best defines ―recollection‖ as a psychoanalytic technique?
A. Ignoring past events
B. Reconstructing memories of past events
C. Medication-facilitated memory
D. Role playing only
Rationale: Recollection involves retrieving and examining earlier experiences.
―Repetition‖ in psychodynamic therapy refers to:
A. Practicing breathing exercises repeatedly
B. Replaying transference emotions and interactions in therapy
C. Repeating medication doses
D. Repeating homework assignments only
Rationale: Repetition uses reenactment to reveal and modify patterns.
Free association is:
A. A guided behavior experiment
B. Speaking spontaneously about anything to let unconscious material emerge
C. A forced homework assignment
D. Therapist interpretation only
Rationale: Free association allows thoughts/feelings to surface without censorship.
―Working through‖ involves:
A. Avoiding emotional material
B. Integrating repressed memories into consciousness and resolving conflicts
C. Only family therapy interventions
D. Simple symptom suppression
NR605 FINAL UPDATED EXAM WITH MOST TESTED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS | GRADED A+ | ASSURED SUCCESS WITH DETAILED
RATIONALES
Which of the following is a central tenet of the humanistic-existential approach to
psychotherapy?
A. Strict behavior modification
B. Holism and self-actualization
C. Pharmacologic symptom eradication only
D. Forced insight via interpretation
Rationale: Humanistic-existential therapy emphasizes the whole person (mind/body/spirit) and
growth toward self-actualization.
Supportive psychotherapy is primarily used for clients who are:
A. Seeking long analytic insight only
B. Experiencing emotional distress or problems in living
C. Only psychotic with no functioning
D. Not motivated for therapy
Rationale: Supportive therapy targets stabilization, symptom relief, and coping for those in
distress.
Supportive psychotherapy is particularly appropriate for clients who:
A. Have fully mature defenses only
B. Are only in cognitive therapy groups
C. Have psychotic personality organization or immature defenses
D. Require only medication management
Rationale: Supportive therapy helps those with fragile ego structure and less capacity for insight.
Which is NOT a primary goal of supportive therapy?
A. Problem solving
B. Symptom relief
C. Intensive multi-year analytic insight
D. Management of life stressors
Rationale: Intensive, long-term analytic insight is a goal of psychoanalysis, not supportive
therapy.
Supportive therapy is commonly used to achieve:
A. Long analytic interpretation only
B. Stabilization and resource building
C. Only exposure therapy goals
D. Immediate behavior extinction
Rationale: Supportive therapy focuses on stabilizing and strengthening coping resources.
,ESTUDYR
Which mnemonic best represents techniques used in supportive therapy (PEER)?
A. Plan, Evaluate, Execute, Review
B. Providing comfort, Empathic listening, Encouragement, Reassurance
C. Psychoanalysis, Education, Exposure, Rehearsal
D. Probe, Explore, Evaluate, Reframe
Rationale: PEER captures the empathic, reassuring elements central to supportive work.
Psychoanalysis is commonly used for which conditions?
A. Short-term situational stress only
B. Panic attacks only
C. Anxiety, OCD, mood disorders, personality disorders, sexual dysfunction
D. Acute medical admissions only
Rationale: Psychoanalysis addresses deep personality organization and chronic disorders.
A primary goal of psychoanalysis is:
A. Immediate symptom suppression with meds
B. Development of deeper self-understanding and lasting change
C. Eliminating all feelings of anxiety permanently
D. Group social support only
Rationale: Psychoanalysis aims for insight and structural personality change.
Which clients are most likely to benefit from psychoanalysis?
A. Those with chaotic reality testing
B. Clients with poor impulse control only
C. Reality-oriented clients with mature defenses and neurotic–healthy organization
D. Clients in acute medical crises
Rationale: Psychoanalysis requires capacity for introspection and tolerance of insight.
Which is a classic psychoanalytic technique?
A. Behavior rehearsal only
B. Exposure hierarchy
C. Free association, transference, interpretation (WRRITF list)
D. Medication tapering
Rationale: Techniques such as free association and interpretation are central to psychoanalytic
work.
To succeed in psychoanalysis, a client should be able to:
A. Avoid introspection
B. Rely entirely on the therapist for answers
C. Think reflectively and be self-motivated
D. Have no symptoms at all
Rationale: Psychoanalysis is introspective and requires client motivation and reflective capacity.
Contraindications to psychoanalysis include:
A. High motivation for self-exploration
B. Mature defenses only
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C. Poor impulse control, concrete thinking, major crisis, low motivation
D. Chronic but stable neurosis
Rationale: Intensive analytic work is poorly suited to those with low tolerance for insight or
instability.
Compared to other therapies, psychoanalysis is more intense mainly due to:
A. Use of group formats only
B. Lack of any transference work
C. Frequency of sessions and intensity of transference
D. Brief time-limited structure
Rationale: Psychoanalysis commonly involves multiple sessions per week and deep transference.
Typical psychoanalysis scheduling usually involves:
A. One session per month
B. Only telephone sessions
C. Several sessions per week over years
D. Single session crisis intervention
Rationale: Traditional analysis is frequent and long-term.
Which best defines ―recollection‖ as a psychoanalytic technique?
A. Ignoring past events
B. Reconstructing memories of past events
C. Medication-facilitated memory
D. Role playing only
Rationale: Recollection involves retrieving and examining earlier experiences.
―Repetition‖ in psychodynamic therapy refers to:
A. Practicing breathing exercises repeatedly
B. Replaying transference emotions and interactions in therapy
C. Repeating medication doses
D. Repeating homework assignments only
Rationale: Repetition uses reenactment to reveal and modify patterns.
Free association is:
A. A guided behavior experiment
B. Speaking spontaneously about anything to let unconscious material emerge
C. A forced homework assignment
D. Therapist interpretation only
Rationale: Free association allows thoughts/feelings to surface without censorship.
―Working through‖ involves:
A. Avoiding emotional material
B. Integrating repressed memories into consciousness and resolving conflicts
C. Only family therapy interventions
D. Simple symptom suppression
