Question 1

Encounter groups (also called t-groups) are a form of group training where participants learn about themselves, through interacting with other group members. Encounter groups do not have __________ or __________ .

Accepted Answer

Encounter groups do not function from specific agendas or goals, and therefore, lack a certain structure. Facilitators guide these groups, and encourage mutual sharing, on the part of participants.

Question 2

Why is cognitive therapy a useful approach for clients from many different cultures, and backgrounds? Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Cognitive therapy is a beneficial approach to use when working with clients from different cultures or backgrounds. The cognitive approach is based in the belief that therapy must be tailored to the individual need. This allows cognitive therapists access to a wide-array of interventions and techniques, to adapt for the client. Because cognitive therapy approaches the client as an individual, rather than as a part of a larger group, a cognitive clinician pays attention to client-specific behaviors. This provides a different way to understand the client, rather than depending solely on language.

Question 3

Therapeutic groups are different from psycho-educational groups, and support groups. An central element to therapeutic groups is that they are typically __________ .

Accepted Answer

Therapeutic groups are often closed, meaning the participants are predetermined, and the group is set for a specific length of time (ex - six weeks); therapeutic groups encourage participants to provide feedback to one another, as well as feedback from the leader; therapeutic groups frequently use the past as a window to the present functioning, and current struggles.

Question 4

Although group therapy is very advantageous for many reasons, there are possible drawbacks to as well. What are some of the causes of the negative effects in- group psychotherapy? Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

In- group psychotherapy, it can be detrimental if there is a lack of attention to group boundaries (ex - therapist showing up late, client absences), or absence of consideration to the group dynamics, such as scapegoating, or groupthink.

Question 5

A key belief of group psychotherapy is that although a client may feel alone in their experience of pain or struggle, interacting with individuals suffering from the same issue(s) can __________ that client's __________ .

Accepted Answer

People often feel different, or alone due to the symptoms they are experiencing because of a certain struggle or issue. Being around individuals dealing with the similar matters creates a sense of community and belongingness, and can encourage motivation to work through those problems.

Question 6

Group therapy, while often advantageous to its' members, can have potential anti-therapeutic effects. An example of an anti-therapeutic effect commonly seen in group therapy is:

Accepted Answer

Feedback from others is one of the most beneficial parts of group therapy, yet can be detrimental if the feedback is delivered is exceedingly confrontational, and/ or the amount of feedback one individual is receiving is overwhelming, and therefore, difficult to process.

Question 7

The purpose of family therapy is to restore the relationships within that family. The family therapist assists in this restoration through __________ .

Accepted Answer

In order to bring a family back to normal functioning, and restore familial relationships, therapists help families recognize behaviors of normally functioning families; the therapist also helps the family explore conflicts, and provides psychoeducation, around conflict resolution.

Question 8

One advantage to group therapy is that the therapist can see more than one client at a time. The disadvantage to this is that the therapist can concentrate too much on group processes, and __________ .

Accepted Answer

A disadvantage to group therapy is the therapist may focus to heavily on the group as a whole, and fail to tend to individual issues. This is especially evident in groups where the therapist is process-oriented.

Question 9

Carl Whitaker held a unique view that was innovative in the field of family therapy. What was this view?

Accepted Answer

In the 1960's, Whitaker's strong opinions began influencing the field of family therapy. He was considered a trailblazer in the world of family therapy, due to his view of the whole family as the client, rather than solely the individual.

Question 10

What kind of therapy helps clients identify subconscious issues through interventions, like guided imagery and role-playing?

Accepted Answer

Experiential family therapy helps clients' uncover subconscious struggles that are associated with present-day relationship issues within the family. Experiential therapy stems from Gestalt therapy, and puts the emphasis on individual responsibility.

Question 11

Brief psychodynamic therapy (BPD) has shown to be beneficial in treating depression in clients. BPD therapists use various approaches including __________ . Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Brief psychodynamic therapy is an effective approach for client's with depression. BPD for depression helps clients to increase their personal awareness, and knowledge about relational patterns contributing to depressive symptoms.

Question 12

Brief psychodynamic therapy is characterized by __________ . Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

- Brief psychodynamic therapy (BPD) is described as time limited, somewhere between 6 and 40 therapy sessions; high levels of therapist involvement are critical to BPD, where the client is taken through a process of connecting current problems, and struggles to past traumatic events, and issues.

Question 13

You are looking for a new therapist, and find one who comes from a humanistic-approach. This means the therapist emphasizes people as being __________, and __________ .

Accepted Answer

The humanistic-approach, sometimes called the phenomenological approach, views individuals as being capable and autonomous. Humanistic therapists study the "whole" person.

Question 14

The person-centered approach to counseling views the individual as their own best __________ on his or her life. Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Person-centered therapy views the individual as the best authority on his or her own life experience. Person-centered therapy was developed by Carol Rogers, and recognizes a client's ability to use personal resources for growth.

Question 15

Existential therapy is focused on the client's internal conflicts stemming from his or her fundamental concerns about existence. These include __________ . Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Existential therapists assess an individual's experience, based on four distinct dimensions personal isolation, certainty of death, duties associated with the concept of freedom, and the idea of meaninglessness, and insignificance in life. These dimensions can be broken up according to physical, social, emotional, and spiritual realms

Question 16

Behavior therapy can be used to treat a variety of mood disorders. One of these mood disorders is __________ .

Accepted Answer

Behavioral therapy is effective for a variety of mood disorders, including depression, and bipolar disorder. Yet, behavioral therapy can also be successful with anxiety disorders, and other mental disorders, including eating disorders, such as anorexia.

Question 17

Gestalt therapy focuses more on the __________, than the __________ .

Accepted Answer

Gestalt therapy is an existential therapy that focuses on the process, or what is happening, rather than the content, or what the discussion is about.

Question 18

Narrative therapy is useful with clients who have been victimized by others. Narrative therapy can be used with __________ . Choose all that apply.

Accepted Answer

Narrative therapy can be used with families, couples, and individuals. With couples or families, externalization of the problem, and allows for changing negative interactions, and allows for the possibility of positive interactions.

Question 19

Cognitive therapy is distinct from other therapies in the assumption that the way we think affects our behavior. According to cognitive therapy, most situations, and circumstances remain __________ until we ascribe meaning to them.

Accepted Answer

Cognitive therapy represents the idea that our thoughts affect our feelings, which affect the way we behave. This means that each individual perceives, and assigns meaning to a situation, based on his or her own thoughts. Yet until this occurs, the event, circumstance, or situation remains neutral. The individual is able to provide it a negative, positive, or other connotation.

Question 20

The goal of narrative therapy is __________ .

Accepted Answer

Narrative therapy uses an approach that helps the client tell his or her story, and externalize the issue; the therapist will help the client look for other possibilities, or alternatives to help the client understand a different outcome.

Quiz 8: Treatment Intervention Prevention and Supervision

Encounter groups (also called t-groups) are a form of group training where participants learn about themselves, through interacting with other group members. Encounter groups do not have or .