Helping Relationships NCE Practice Test

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• What concept named for mathematician Wiener refers to families having feedback loops they use to self-correct their system?
• Victor Frankl's approach centers on the search for meaning to prevent existential vacuum. What is this therapy called?
• In strategic family therapy, the concept "you treat others the way you are treated; give something in return for something else" is captured by which term?
• Which cognitive distortion involves catastrophizing or assuming the worst will happen?
• Which Freudian concept refers to unconscious strategies that distort reality and protect against anxiety?
• In family therapy, which boundary type is considered most effective, offering some permeability while maintaining structure?
• Adlerian technique of taking the fun out of a problem behavior by explaining its payoffs and purposes is known as which technique?
• Who is the father of rational behavior therapy (RBT)?
• Which therapy is associated with Lazarus's BASIC ID and bridging to identify the dominant domain from which a client operates?
• Which defense mechanism channels an unacceptable impulse into a safe or socially acceptable outlet?
• White and Epston are associated with which therapy that externalizes problems and seeks unique outcomes?
• Which theory or model emphasizes the analysis of multigenerational patterns in families?
• Which Big Five trait is associated with being organized and reliable?
• Which Adlerian technique invites the client to behave as the person they want to become to test possibilities?
• Which therapy is known for employing counter paradox as a core technique?
• Templates for human thought and behavior - ex. persona, shadow, animus/anima are known as what?
• Who is associated with psychodynamic family counseling?
• Strategic family therapy is often associated with which organization?
• Relationship-building, action/intervention, termination are examples of what stage or concept in counseling?
• In transactional analysis, what term describes concealment of true ego state leading to 'games'?
• What is the major concept in family therapy that states everyone influences everyone else?
• Structural family therapy is most closely associated with which therapist?
• Which approach involves long-term, monthly sessions over about a year, with counselors working in teams and using counter paradox to avoid rapid change?
• What is the goal of Bowen's family systems therapy?
• Which therapy involves externalizing problems, thick narratives, external witnesses, and therapeutic letters?
• Reality Therapy is also called choice theory; emphasizes personal responsibility and control over actions.
• Milan technique where one family member comments on other members
• What is the name of the wellness model based on Adler's theory that has 17 wellness dimensions?
• Which technique group includes exception questions, miracle questions, scaling questions, positive blame, and skeleton keys?
• Which kind of change is better in a family because it's a structural change - first-order or second-order?
• Which term describes causes such as anxiety control, homework noncompliance, and negative social influence in therapy?
• Which Jungian technique involves comparing dreams to myth or fairy tale?
• Which theorist emphasizes improving family communication styles by identifying placaters, blamers, intellectualizers, and distracters to foster congruent communication?
• In Jungian psychology, what term describes the process of integrating different aspects of the psyche to realize the true self?
• Minuchin technique where counselor draws family's coalitions, boundaries, alliances
• Which of the following is an example of distorted thinking?
• Does strategic therapy focus on causes or symptoms?
• In family dynamics, when two members coordinate against a third, what is this called?
• Which term describes a therapy approach that uses a variety of techniques from different theories?
• Which approach is defined by the focus on family organization, including subsystems and boundaries, often using structural maps?
• Which Neo-Freudian described three modes of experience: protaxic, parataxic, and syntactic?
• In an alternate-term usage, which concept refers to the capacity for a family system to modify its organization in response to life changes?
• Which term describes when a client applies feelings about someone else to the therapist?
• Client imagines a hypothetical situation that would cause extreme anxiety to get desensitized; created by Stampfl is known as what therapy?
• Which defense mechanism involves adopting others' values as your own?
• Which therapy emphasizes rewriting self-narratives with thick descriptions to strengthen identity?
• Adlerian technique where you ask the client, 'How would your life be different if you were well?'
• Which Jungian technique involves linking dream content to myths and fairy tales to find symbolic meaning?
• Which framework emphasizes viewing family relations as circular rather than linear and uses tools like genograms and detriangulation?
• Which therapy uses BASIC ID and bridging to identify the client's operating domain?
• Cognitive therapy technique - interrupt a pattern of negative self-talk.
• Which cognitive distortion involves focusing on the negatives and ignoring positives?
• Strategic family therapy technique where the counselor tells family what to do; "I want the entire family to stay home for one day"
• Term coined by Adler, describing the feeling that you’re not as good as others?
• How many layers did Fritz Perls suggest must be pulled away to reach emotional stability?
• Which theory is associated with Self Psychology and emphasizes empathy and developmental needs?
• Which therapy approach is most associated with prescribing sequences of actions to patients to disrupt problematic patterns?
• How many dimensions does the Indivisible Self wellness model have?
• Which cognitive distortion involves focusing only on the negative aspects of a situation?
• Which therapy is known for its hypothesizing and positive connotation approach?
• Which technique involves the therapist commanding a task to disrupt dysfunctional patterns (for example, stay home together for a day)?
• In structural family therapy, what is the term for the map showing coalitions, boundaries, and alliances?
• Which term describes acting in the opposite way to your true feelings?
• In transactional analysis, what is the term for a transaction in which both participants respond from the same ego state?
• Which term describes universal symbolic patterns inherent in the collective unconscious?
• VRT, used for phobias and PTSD, stands for which therapy?
• Focus on clients' perception of event rather than event itself
• Stress Inoculation Therapy (SIT), developed by Meichenbaum, is a form of which overarching approach?
• Cognitive therapy technique - practice using new thoughts.
• Which defense mechanism involves acting opposite of how you really feel?
• Which approach emphasizes resolving conflicts to strengthen the ego and is considered neo-Freudian?
• Which strategic therapy technique requires performing a healthy behavior before an undesirable one, such as 'you must run on a treadmill before you can cry'?
• Structural family therapy technique where family acts out a typical situation (like an instant replay)
• In Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, which technique refers to resources that have previously worked?
• Which term describes the therapy approach that aims to alter interaction patterns by deliberate interventions rather than exploring psychodynamics?
• In transactional analysis, which type of transaction occurs when one person's ego state doesn't fit the other person's needs, such as a spouse seeking an adult interaction while the other acts like a playful kid?
• Henry Stack Sullivan focused on current interactions and relationships, with less emphasis on past experiences. Which theorist is associated with this focus?
• Behavioral technique where a child who throws a tantrum must put toys back and sweep the floor is called what?
• In Gestalt theory, what term describes the drive to maintain balance?
• Which therapy focuses on the organization of the family, subsystems, and boundaries, using structural maps, enactment, restructuring, and unbalancing?
• What type of therapy has the purpose of making the unconscious conscious?
• What is the central concept of Bowen's family systems therapy?
• Which term describes randomly using many techniques without a plan to integrate them?
• Who created a scale to measure counselor empathy?
• Which therapy centers on differentiating self from the family of origin and acknowledges parental anxiety projection onto children?
• Glasser -also called choice theory - goal is to make choices that result in happy, positive life - people are in control of actions
• In Adlerian psychology, what term describes people's beliefs about themselves and others that are false?
• Which family model advocates having balance in cohesion and adaptability?
• Which therapist is best associated with structural family therapy?
• Who is the father of rational behavior therapy (RBT), emphasizing written self-analysis?
• Which term refers to a slip of the tongue considered evidence of the unconscious?
• Milan concept that asks family not to change too quickly
• What term refers to a family system's ability to alter its structure in response to stress?
• In transactional analysis, which term describes a transaction where both participants respond from the same ego state?
• In family therapy, which term denotes an alliance among some members against a third member?
• Gestalt concept describing turning outward-directed energy inward toward oneself?
• Which Adlerian technique asks, 'How would your life be different if you were well?'
• Which of the following is a Big Five personality trait?
• Which therapy uses enactment as a technique to reveal interaction patterns and restructure family dynamics?
• Which core for effective counseling includes expertise, attractiveness, and trustworthiness?
• In the WDEP system used in Reality Therapy, which component follows Doing?
• Family therapists Framo and Skynner used what theoretical orientation?
• Explication in Jungian therapy is best described as which of the following?
• Which term describes alliances formed to oppose another family member?
• Beck's approach posits emotions and behavior are caused by thoughts; the primary goal is to change automatic thoughts.
• Which theoretical group is described as being more concerned with social factors than Freud?
• Adlerian technique that teaches client to focus on positive thought to create positive emotion is known as which technique?
• Which therapy uses the here-and-now focus and techniques like the empty chair?
• Purging of emotion is referred to as what?
• In psychoanalytic theory, if you treat only symptoms and ignore the unconscious, what phenomenon may occur?
• After Erickson, who carried on work with strategic family therapy and coined the term?
• Which therapeutic approach emphasizes free will and personal responsibility?
• Which theory emphasizes focus on current interpersonal relationships and interactions?
• Which theorist developed Individual Psychology, defining health as possessing social interest and compassion for others?
• Which family therapist introduced the idea of family legacy, a family ledger, and relational ethics?
• Which set of techniques includes here and now, psychodrama, and the empty chair?
• Situation in a family where two members team up against a third
• Carl Rogers - therapeutic relationship more important than techniques - unconditional positive regard and empathy - reconcile ideal self with real self
• In multimodal therapy, which technique has the counselor identify the sequence of events in a stressful situation?
• Which therapy was developed by Viktor Frankl and centers on meaning and purpose?
• In SFBT, which of the following is considered the most ready and engaged client compared with others?
• What strategic family therapy technique does this illustrate: "Research shows your wife is yelling at you because she loves you so much but feels foolish hugging you in that situation"?
• Which type of family therapy uses hypothesizing and positive connotation?
• Which theory posits personality develops through early parent-child interactions and can involve splitting?
• Which Jungian technique helps clients find out why certain things were in their dreams?
• In strategic family therapy, what concept describes the mistaken belief that a person's statement is caused by what another person says?
• Which technique involves prescribing the symptom, such as telling a client to cry all day?
• Which Adlerian technique is described as focusing on positive thought to create positive emotion?
• In strategic therapy, which technique involves telling the family that change might not be advisable and outlining the negative consequences of changing?
• What Gestalt concept describes past events that continue to affect present experience?
• Minuchin technique also called joining where counselor imitates the family's style
• Which term describes a slip of the tongue as evidence of the unconscious?
• What is the effect of reframing in family therapy?
• What term describes the feedback loop in which a person's behavior influences others who then influence the original person back?
• Which defense mechanism channels an unconscious impulse into a socially acceptable activity?
• Concept in strategic family therapy; mistaken belief of people that what they say is caused by what another person says
• Which defense mechanism redirects an impulse to a safer target, such as kicking a dog when angry at the boss?
• Gestalt technique where the client is asked to act like a person they dislike.
• Which defense mechanism is associated with Object Relations Theory, involving seeing others in all-or-nothing terms?
• Which therapy emphasizes the integration of mind and body and the experience of the whole person?
• In which therapy is the Miracle Question a core technique?
• Reality Therapy technique - Wants, Doing, Evaluation, Plan
• Which family therapist described "experience changes families" and used the psychology of the absurd?
• Which TA transaction type describes people concealing their true ego state and is associated with games?
• The Circumplex Model assesses family functioning along two core dimensions. Which pair is typically used?
• In Milan therapy, what term refers to asking family members about how their actions influence others in a circular fashion?
• The intergenerational concept coined by Boszormenyi-Nagy that refers to expectations and loyalties passed down through generations is called what?
• Dichotomous thinking is also known as all-or-nothing thinking.
• The term for expectations and loyalties passed down across generations in family therapy is called what?
• Which theory advocates viewing reality from the client's perspective, and includes brief therapy and narrative therapy?
• Which therapist is noted for introducing the concept of 'or deal' as a behavior-changing intervention?
• Strategic family therapy is often linked to which institution?
• Albert Ellis - rational and irrational beliefs produce emotion.
• In multimodal therapy, which technique involves the counselor identifying the domain the client prefers and beginning in that domain?
• In family therapy, the term for when some members align against another member is what?
• Kohut's neo-Freudian view emphasized empathy over interpretation and linked problems to unsatisfied developmental needs. Which approach does this describe?
• In strategic therapy, which technique involves the therapist exaggerating the client's condition to provoke change (for example, telling the client they may never recover)?
• Which of the following is NOT a Big Five trait?
• What is the most important predictor of therapy success?
• Which core for effective counseling includes empathy, positive regard, and genuineness?
• Which therapy posits that people operate from three ego states (Parent, Adult, Child) and analyzes life scripts and strokes?
• Structural family therapy is best characterized by which practice that realigns subsystems and boundaries?
• Who else besides Erickson and Haley is associated with strategic family therapy?
• Which statement correctly matches a technique with its description?
• The Milan approach is characterized by hypothesizing and positive connotation. Which option list contains Milan as the second item?
• Carl Whitaker is associated with which approach that seeks balance between togetherness and independence and looks for hidden symbols?
• Whose personality theory led to the establishment of child guidance centers and inspired Dreikurs and Dinkmeyer to research children and parenting?
• Which set of techniques includes circular questioning, hypothesizing, neutrality, and ritual prescription (paradoxical assignments)?
• Which therapist is associated with the Human Validation Process Model (Conjoint Therapy) emphasizing congruent communication?
• Which therapy uses hypothesizing and positive connotation as a hallmark?
• What term is associated with strategic family therapy and refers to a change in who's in control in the family?
• Which therapy is characterized by the client being the expert and the therapist as a collaborator emphasizing baby steps?
• Which therapy is good for trauma, PTSD, and unprocessed memories and uses bilateral stimulation of the brain to process memories?
• Who is associated with structural family therapy?
• What is the Jungian goal of psychology, discovering your inner self?
• Meichenbaum - Stress Inoculation Therapy (SIT) is a form of which therapy?
• Which family therapist's theory is sometimes referred to as intergenerational family therapy?
• Gestalt term describing the act of doing something to yourself that you'd like to do to someone else.
• The Adlerian set of techniques including Encouragement, Acting 'as if', 'How would your life be different if you were well?', Spitting in the client's soup, Catching oneself, Pushbutton is associated with which approach?
• Which concept refers to a subgroup of family members forming against another member?
• In Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, which technique refers to something that has worked before and can be used in many situations?
• Which concept emphasizes that reality is constructed by individuals and is not objective?
• Behavioral technique described as reducing a behavior by removing positive reinforcement, used in token economies is called what?
• Which boundary type, according to Minuchin, allows some exchange between subsystems while maintaining separateness?
• Which Adlerian technique emphasizes explaining the payoffs of a problem behavior to reduce its appeal?
• Which type of family therapy is linked to intergenerational perspectives?
• Adler believed personality is influenced by the number and order of siblings. Which psychologist is this associated with?
• What computerized simulation technique is being used as a promising treatment for phobias and PTSD?
• Adlerian technique that encourages client to act like the person they hope to be someday is known as which technique?
• Which cognitive distortion is exemplified by focusing on a situation's worst potential outcome rather than considering other aspects?
• Which therapy is associated with changing behavior through quid pro quo, the redundancy principle, and debates on symmetrical versus complementary relationships?
• In Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, which type of client is considered better prepared for therapy than a visitor or complainant?
• Which Jungian technique involves having clients talk to characters in their dreams?
• What term describes a family system's capacity to maintain its given structure in the face of stress?