Psychotherapy Midterm Test Bank
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Synthesizing the approaches covered in the text:
a. can easily be accomplished after taking an introductory course.
b. is usually mastered by the end of the first year of one's graduate program.
c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling
experience.
d. rarely, if ever, happens and is a completely unrealistic goal. Correct Answer:
c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling
experience.
Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-
oriented therapy?
a. Gestalt therapy
,b. family systems therapy
c. existential approach
d. person-centered approach Correct Answer: b. family systems therapy
Which one of the following is not associated with the cognitive-behavioral
action-oriented therapies?
a. existential therapy
b. cognitive therapy
c. reality therapy
d. behavior therapy
e. rational emotive behavior therapy Correct Answer: a. existential therapy
,Which humanistic approach emphasizes the basic attitudes of the therapist as
the core of the therapeutic process?
a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. Adlerian therapy
c. person-centered therapy
d. cognitive-behavioral therapy
e. family therapy Correct Answer: c. person-centered therapy
Presenting one model to which all trainees subscribe
a. is what the counseling profession endorses at present.
b. is likely to be a reality by the year 2020 when the CACREP standards are
revisited.
, c. is dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in working with a diverse
range of future clients.
d. is illegal in the Northeastern region of the U.S., but not in other parts of the
country. Correct Answer: c. is dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in
working with a diverse range of future clients.
The author makes a case for:
a. initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations, and then
delving more deeply into each approach.
b. delving deeply into one approach initially and then taking a superficial look
at other theoretical models.
c. learning the theories of counseling only after starting to work with clients in
order to make the theories more relevant.
d. the reader to choose the approach to which s/he subscribes. Correct
Answer: a. initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations, and
then delving more deeply into each approach.
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Synthesizing the approaches covered in the text:
a. can easily be accomplished after taking an introductory course.
b. is usually mastered by the end of the first year of one's graduate program.
c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling
experience.
d. rarely, if ever, happens and is a completely unrealistic goal. Correct Answer:
c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling
experience.
Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-
oriented therapy?
a. Gestalt therapy
,b. family systems therapy
c. existential approach
d. person-centered approach Correct Answer: b. family systems therapy
Which one of the following is not associated with the cognitive-behavioral
action-oriented therapies?
a. existential therapy
b. cognitive therapy
c. reality therapy
d. behavior therapy
e. rational emotive behavior therapy Correct Answer: a. existential therapy
,Which humanistic approach emphasizes the basic attitudes of the therapist as
the core of the therapeutic process?
a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. Adlerian therapy
c. person-centered therapy
d. cognitive-behavioral therapy
e. family therapy Correct Answer: c. person-centered therapy
Presenting one model to which all trainees subscribe
a. is what the counseling profession endorses at present.
b. is likely to be a reality by the year 2020 when the CACREP standards are
revisited.
, c. is dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in working with a diverse
range of future clients.
d. is illegal in the Northeastern region of the U.S., but not in other parts of the
country. Correct Answer: c. is dangerous in that it can limit their effectiveness in
working with a diverse range of future clients.
The author makes a case for:
a. initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations, and then
delving more deeply into each approach.
b. delving deeply into one approach initially and then taking a superficial look
at other theoretical models.
c. learning the theories of counseling only after starting to work with clients in
order to make the theories more relevant.
d. the reader to choose the approach to which s/he subscribes. Correct
Answer: a. initially getting an overview of the major theoretical orientations, and
then delving more deeply into each approach.
