Counseling Psychology Questions

As part of an internship, you are able to lead a support group for patients with a new medical diagnosis. You are struck by the group members' comments about the main benefit of the group, stating that they realize that they are not alone in their experience of the new diagnosis. What phenomenon are you observing?

When clients risk exposing their pain, vulnerability, or shame, and the therapist response with kindness and understanding, clients:

In the beginning stage of therapy, most clients see the source of their problems as:

Setting limits is especially appropriate when clients experience

To keep therapy from reenacting common but dysfunctional family patterns, the therapist and client want to being their own relationship by:

How does the body respond when the parasympathetic nervous system becomes active during the stress cycle?

According to the Horney, a client who rises above their needs through aloofness and glorifies this stance by feeling self-righteously self-sufficient has a characterological interpersonal style of moving

In order to utilize the process dimension, therapists may employ all but the following in helping their clients gain genuine understanding of the problems:

According to Beck's "hot cognitions," it is when _____ that clients are most apt to distort or misperceive the therapist's response and slot it to fit old expectations

One of the most effective ways therapists can help their clients change is to:

Therapist's ability to respond to the unique circumstances of each client and provide the specific interpersonal experiences the client needs to change, illustrate the concept of:

____ is focused on recognizing problematic interaction patterns that lead to conflict, identifying negative emotions related to attachment problems, and then helping couples better see how fears and insecurities hinder their relationship.

The phases of violence include all of the following EXCEPT

One of the most important ways to help clients achieve a greater sense of adequacy and mastery in their lives is to:

According to Horney, a client who is always sensitive to the needs of others, committed to the ideals of peace and harmony, and wins, needed approval from others is defending against a blacked need by moving?

The therapeutic response to adolescents coming into the medical clinic should include

The best way for a therapist to demonstrate his or her understanding of the client's experiences is:

Karen Horney's interpersonal coping styles of moving toward, moving away, and moving against work for the clients to:

One way in which therapist's counter-transference reactions are revealed in therapy is by the therapist:

Clients often interpret their own resistance as being _______ and want to _______ the topic