Deck 15: Determining Personal Style in a World of Multiple Theories

Question 1

Define your style with special attention to your own ability to engage in the several levels of competence. How has your natural style become modified over time in this course? What specific changes do you think you might need to be able to reach more clients with your natural style?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Indicate which level of competence is being illustrated. You engage in a role-played assertiveness interview.

A) identification and classification competence
B) basic competence
C) intentional competence

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The next step in your journey begins

A) next semester
B) next week
C) tomorrow
D) now

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Developing a personal style of helping means, according to the authors,

A) doing your own thing.
B) examining alternative methods and theories that exist (including the microskills approach)and organizing them in a meaningful fashion, useful both to you and others.
C) learning the microskills and five-stage structure at an intentional competence level.
D) examining your personal history and identifying what in the helping field is most meaningful to you.

Question 5

The five-stage/dimension interviewing structure is best described as

A) a model for assertiveness training.
B) a framework for integrating many different types of theories.
C) a useful way to make decisions.
D) all of these

Question 6

Provide a detailed plan outlining what you can do to continue your journey.

Question 7

Indicate which level of competence is being illustrated. You are able to use reflection of feeling and your client talks in more depth about emotions.

A) identification and classification competence
B) basic competence
C) intentional competence

Question 8

How do you define your theoretical orientation or building theoretical orientation to the interviewing, counseling, and psychotherapy field?

Question 9

Microskills of multiple theoretical orientations have been presented in the final chapter of this book. What theoretical orientations would you next like to explore, and why do you make that decision? Include as a possibility expansion of your knowledge of one or more of the theories presented in this text.

Question 10

Indicate which level of competence is being illustrated. You are able to take a client and teach them attending behavior skills in the interview.

A) identification and classification competence
B) basic competence
C) intentional competence

Question 11

Chunking is best described as

A) grouping microskills concepts into meaningful groups.
B) putting together two theories into a unified whole.
C) finding your own way to integrate skill concepts.
D) mixing and matching different skills to produce different theories.

Question 12

Indicate which level of competence is being illustrated. You are able to watch an expert therapist in a film and list the skills and concepts he or she is using.

A) identification and classification competence
B) basic competence
C) intentional competence