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1. According to the research on psychotherapy outcome, the percentage of clients who benefit from therapy has been placed at:
a. 90% b. 75% c. 50% d. 25% |
1. B
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2. You see a Mexican-American family consisting of a father, age 53, a mother, 51, and a son, 14, for an initial session of counseling. The family immigrated to this country five years ago. The parents report that they are constantly fighting with their son and he refuses to listen to what they say. Which of the following is a possible cause of the family's problems?
a. Different levels of acculturation within the family b. The fact that Latin-American families often experience more conflict than other families. c. The family is being too permisive with the son. d. The mother and father are triangulating the son into a conflict that exists between themselves. |
2. A
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3. Which type of therapist is most likely to talk to clients about their needs for power and freedom?
a. client-centered therapist b. reality therapist c. gestalt therapist d. ego psychologist |
3. B
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4. Which of the following is true regarding Eysenck's research research findings?
a. Psychotherapy is effective for 75% of patients. b. All types of psychotherapy are equally effective c. They prompted further psychotherapy outcome studies d. They were the first to utilize meta-analytic techniques |
4. C
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5. A person's MMPI-2 scores are all between 65 and 70. This indicates:
a. "faking bad" b. social and personal discomfort c. psychosis d. an invalid profile |
5. B
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6. A woman is planning to quit smoking on the 1st of next month. According to Prochaska and DiClemente's model she is most likely in which stage of change?
a. Precontemplation b. Contemplation c. Preparation d. Action |
6. C
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7. An African-American in which stage of identity development would least likely prefer having an African-American therapist?
a. conformity b. dissonance c. resistance and immersion d. introspection |
7. A
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8. According to Helms, a person is most likely to get along with people of other races during which stage of development?
a. Autonomy b. Contact c. Immersion-Emersion d. Pseudo-Independence |
8. A
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9. On the Rorschach, "form quality" is described as:
a. the examinee's response makes use of the entire inkblot b. the examinee's response corresponds to the actual structure of the inkblot. c. determinants are fully integrated. e. a response meaningfully integrates two or more adjacent detail areas. |
9. B
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10. From the perspective of Jungian therapy, transference can be viewed as:
a. a phenomenon that may not exist or, if it does, is not clinically significant b. a conflict between two different archetypes. c. projection of aspects of the personal and collective unconscious onto the therapist. d. a type of universal knowledge that lies dormant in the unconscious of all people. |
10. C
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11. Better therapy outcome is correlated with:
a. higher intelligence b. lesser degree of disturbance c. higher social economic status d. age |
11. A
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12. The most important factor to consider when treating a client form another country is the client's:
a. level of acculturation b. stage of minority identity development c. feelings about working with someone from a different culture d. individual goals |
12. D
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13. Someone advocating an emic rather than an etic approach to cross-cultural psychology would argue that the study of a culture:
a. should be undertaken from a detached and objective position. b. should be undertaken from within the culture itself. c. should involve a comparison across different cultures. d. should use the history of the culture being studied as a reference point. |
13. B
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14. The "miracle question" is a technique used in:
a. structural family therapy b. strategic family therapy c. solution focused therapy d. Gestalt therapy |
14. C
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15. All of the following statments are true of both feminist therapy and non-sexist therapy, except:
a. they both attempt to equalize power between the therapist and the patient. b. they both view social and political change as a goal of therapy. c. they both focus on alternatives to traditional gender roles. d. They both stress the importance of encouraging clients to seek help from peers. |
15. B
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