Theory In Psychotherapy

1. In therapy, when the therapist's verbal and non-verbal messages do not match (e.g. the therapist states they are listening, but they are looking at the clock), the client is most likely to believe _______________

The nonverbal message

A combination of the nonverbal and verbal messages

The message that most agrees with what the client is thinking

The verbal message

2. In person-centered therapy, being who you really are as a therapist without pretenses, fictions, roles, or veiled images is called____________.

Genuineness

Therapeutic honesty

Empathic transference

Unconditional truth

3. Which of the following therapist factors has NOT been shown (according to Lambert & Barley, 2001) to be related to successful psychotherapy treatment?

The therapist's affirmation of the patient

The therapist's credibility

The therapist's attractiveness

The therapist's skill

The therapist's ability to engage the patient

4. Selective attending to the cognitive part of a client's message, with the client's key words and ideas rephrased into other words in a shortened and clarified form is called _______________

Parroting

Reflecting

Paraphrasing

Restating

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the six necessary and sufficient counseling conditions that produce client personality change?

Positive counter-transference

Unconditional positive regard

Counselor genuineness

Accurate empathy

6. According to the Lambert and Barley (2001) article, the therapeutic alliance is often conceptualized as having which of the following three components

Tasks, ties, and bonds

Tasks, bonds, and goals

Goals, ties, and bonds

Relationship, tasks, and barriers

7. Effective therapist factors found in the Lambert and Barley (2001) study are similar to the three facilitative conditions proposed by which theory?

Cognitive behavioral theory

Gestalt theory

Psychodynamic theory

Person centered theory

None of these theories

8. According to Lambert and Barley (2001) article, 40% of improvement in psychotherapy patients can be attributed to

Common factors

Skill level of therapist

Extratherapeutic change

Luck

Specific therapy techniques

9. According to the Lambert and Barley (2001) article, specific therapy techniques account for what percentage of improvement in psychotherapy patients?

50%

40%

14%

15%

80%

10. As a therapist, sharing a thought or feeling as it occurs in the helping session is called ______________

Transference

Reacting

Emotional responding

Immediacy