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Theories CH. Quiz
Question | Answer |
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T/F: Psychoanalysis assumes that severe mental health issues consist of a constellation of symptoms that are caused by intrusions of hidden drives into voluntary behavior when defense mechanisms fail. | True |
T/F: The psychoanalytic approach suggests that all presented symptoms are meaningful and relevant to the client’s subjective experience and are therefore useful in treatment. | True |
T/F: In traditional psychoanalysis, the counselor and client share the goal of examining the problems in the client’s interpersonal relationships and developing an understanding of how new language and communication styles can redefine relationships for more satisfying outcomes. | False |
Which component of the personality is responsible for helping an individual cope with reality and preventing the individual from acting on his or her basic urges? | Ego |
T/F: Displacement is the use of a cognitive approach without the attendant emotions to suppress and attempt to gain mastery over the perceived disorderly and potentially overwhelming impulses | False |
T/F: Having a clear focus makes it possible to do interpretive work in a relatively short time because the counselor only addresses the circumscribed problem area. | True |
A client tells the counselor that he is falling in love with the counselor. This is an example of | Transference |
In its brief form, a psychodynamic approach | Uses direct dialogue Uses interpretation to examine unresolved conflicts and symptoms Explores past dysfunctional relationships that manifest themselves in maladaptive symptoms and behaviors |
If fixation occurs at the __________ stage, the individual will have issues with dependency or aggression later in life, which may result in problems with an emphasis on oral stimulation, such as drinking, eating, smoking, or nail biting. | Oral |
A traditional technique in psychoanalysis that invites clients to relate whatever comes into their minds during the session without self-censorship is | Free association |
T/F: Jung parted ways with Sigmund Freud over Freud’s emphasis on biological drives and sexual urges as prime human motivating factors. | True |
T/F: Jung believed that there were three basic stages of human development: childhood, middle age, and old age. | False |
T/F: According to Jung, the personal unconscious includes thoughts and memories that can be recalled. | True |
T/F: Jung believed the libido to be life energy. | True |
T/F: The collective unconscious is derived from universal thoughts, emotions, fears, dreams, and mythical themes symbolically represented by archetypes. | True |
According to Jung, the masculine aspect of the female is | The animus |
According to Jung, one way in which the archetype is expressed is through | The Shadow |
During the initial session, What would most likely be discussed? | Dreams |
What are the four parts to dream narratives according to Jung? | Telling the who, where, when, and what of the dream Exposing and exploring the complexes Identifying the turning point in the dream The conclusion of the dream |
What represents the integration of the conscious, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious in the individual? | Psyche |
T/F: Adler believed that how a person is in the world results from social creation as much as genetic design. | True |
T/F: Inferiority feelings are not normal. | False |
T/F: Confrontation is never used in Adlerian counseling. | False |
T/F: Encouragement is conditional and focuses on client outcomes. | False |
T/F: Adler believed that individuals use emotions to pursue goals. | True |
What are Adler's the three life tasks? | Work Community Love |
Which of Adler’s four types of individuals cooperates and contributes to the social world? | Socially useful |
What is social interest? | The innate drive of a person to cooperate and contribute with others for the common good |
Which of the following is not a principle of Adler’s theory? | a. Social interest b. Goal oriented c. Early sexual childhood experiences*** d. Holism |
What is used to conduct a lifestyle analysis in Adler's theory? | Questions about the family constellation |
T/F: Existential philosophy has few concepts applicable to existential counseling. | False |
T/F: Existential counseling is based on the scientific model. | False |
T/F: Frankl was an important theorist who survived the Holocaust and developed logotherapy, an early form of existential counseling. | True |
T/F: Research in existential counseling has found that even serious mental disorders can be helped by an existential approach. | True |
T/F: Existential counselors focus on behaviors and cognitions exclusively, making it easy for counselors to measure those characteristics in clients. | False |
Adolescence is a time when existential issue | Are real, death can no longer be denied |
Yalom’s theory focused on | Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic existential counseling Death, freedom, isolation, and meaning The importance of the relationship |
Research on existential theory | Has been labored because the unscripted nature of the existential journey does not easily lend itself to the scientific process of measurement |
Spirituality (Existential) | Was important to early theorists such as Frankl and Maslow Has sometimes evolved from the existential journey |
Unique among theories existentialism provides | A worldview A focus on responsibility and guilt An understanding about the importance of finding meaning in life |