Integrative Approach

Question 1

True or false: for decades Councillors were resistant to integration, often to the point of denying the validity of alternative theories and of ignoring effective methods from other theoretical schools

Answer 1

T

Question 2

True or false: as the field of psychotherapy has meant you would, the concept of integration has emerged as a mainstay

Answer 2

T

Question 3

True or false: syncretism occurs when a practitioner, lacking in knowledge and skill in selecting interventions, looks for anything that seems to work

Answer 3

T

Question 4

True or false: one of the best-known forms of technical integration is multidimensional therapy created by Arnold Lazarus

Answer 4

F

Question 5

True or false: psychotherapy integration stresses tailoring of interventions to the individual client, rather than to an overarching theory

Answer 5

T

Question 6

True or false: although clients’ spiritual and religious beliefs may be important to them, it is ethically inappropriate for clinicians to address these beliefs in the context of therapy

Answer 6

F

Question 7

Most forms of short-term psychotherapy are active in nature, collaborative in relationship, an integrative in orientation: true or false

Answer 7

T

Question 8

True or false: therapeutic goals should always be specific, concrete, and short term

Answer 8

F

Question 9

True or false: evaluating how well psychotherapy works is relatively simple

Answer 9

F

Question 10

True or false: significant empirical research on effectiveness has been produced for all of the major models covered in this book

Answer 10

F

Question 11

_____ Is best characterised by attempts to look beyond and across the confines of single-school approaches to see what can be learned from other perspectives
A. Psychotherapy integration
B. Person-centred integration
C. Syncretic confusion
D. Syncretism

Answer 11

A

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT one of the four most common pathways toward the integration of psychotherapies
A. Technical integration
B. Symbolic integration
C. Assimilative integration
D. Common factors approach

Answer 12

B

Question 13

Which path calls for using techniques from different schools without necessarily subscribing to the theoretical positions that spawned them
A. Technical integration
B. Symbolic integration
C. Assimilative integration
D. Common factors approach

Answer 13

A

Question 14

Which of the following therapies synthesise the best aspects of two or more theoretical approaches
a. Dialectical behaviour therapy
B. Acceptance and commitment therapy
C. Emotion-focused therapy
D. All of these

Answer 14

D

Question 15

The ________ approach is grounded in a particular school of psychotherapy, along with an openness to selectively incorporate practices from other therapeutic approaches
A. Technical integration
B. Symbolic integration
C. Assimilative integration
D. Common factors approach

Answer 15

C

Question 16

Support, warmth, feedback, reassurance, and credibility are considered ________ they have empirically shown to be curative
A. Common factors
B. Techniques
C. Theoretical factors
D. Symbolic factors

Answer 16

A

Question 17

________ will increasingly become the organising force for integration
A. Practice-based evidence
B. Evidence-based practice
C. Theory-based practice
D. Theory-based evidence

Answer 17

B

Question 18

One aspect of integration that is particularly well-suited to taking cultural factors into account is
a. Syncretism
B. Symbolism
C. Therapeutic flexibility
D. Transference

Answer 18

C

Question 19

Sydney, a grief counsellor, mentioned to his colleagues in a peer supervision group that is open to discussing his clients’ spiritual and religious beliefs with them. What should he say to his colleagues who are sceptical about this practice
A. My clients’ spiritual and religious beliefs are a major sustaining power that supports them when all else fails, I think it would be unethical for me to overlook this
B. I know it is unethical for me to raise these issues during sessions, but my clients don’t seem to mind
C. Who are you to question my practices? You are being completely negligent and unethical by not discussing religion with your clients
D. None of these

Answer 19

A

Question 20

Which of the following is NOT a defining characteristic of brief therapy?
A. Clear specification of achievable treatment goals
B. Emphasis on client’s deficits and unconscious dynamics
C. Here-and-now orientation with a primary focus on current functioning in thinking, feeling, and behaving
D. Clear division of responsibilities between client and therapist

Answer 20

B

Question 21

What would both cognitive behaviour therapists and reality therapist be inclined to say to their clients

A. I think you’re projecting anger onto me that belongs with your mother lets explore that
B. Tll me about every part of your dreams you can recall what do you think your dream is trying to tell you
C. Wat you think about trying out the behaviours we have discussed during the week? Can you think of opportunities you may have this week to practice being assertive?
D. Why don’t you tell your mother that she has a toxic effect on your everytime she compares you to her sister. And feel free to tell her that you’re therapist think so too
.

Answer 21

C

Question 22

Which of the following approaches does NOT emphasise the personal relationship as the crucial determinant of treatment outcomes
A. The existential approach
B. The person-centred approach
C. The Gestalt approach
D. The behavioural approach

Answer 22

D

Question 23

Eliza considers herself and Adlerian therapist, duly regards herself as a feminist therapist, and Carl specialises in cognitive behavioural therapy. What must all three therapisst do regardless of their theoretical orientation
A. They must decide what relationship style to adopt with each client
B. They must decide what techniques, procedures, or intervention methods to use in each case
C. They must decide when to use certain techniques, procedures, or intervention methods and with which clients
D. All of these

Answer 23

D

Question 24

Most outcome studies in counselling have been conducted by researchers affiliated with:
A.behaviour and cognitive therapy and person centred therapy
B. Narrative therapy
C. Psychodrama
D. Gestalt therapy

Answer 24

A

Question 25

Research evidence from meta analysis has demonstrated that psychotherapy is
a. Not effective at all
B. Somewhat effective’s
C. Moderately effective
D. Remarkably effective

Answer 25

D