What is a verbal sign of active listening?
nodding
paraphrasing
minimal encouragers
reassuring
Expressing in fresh words the client's essential feelings, stated or implied is called what?
Summarising
Reflecting
Transference
Acknowledgement
What is a technique a therapist can use to check and clarify their understanding, and give direction to the dialogue?
Paraphrasing
Echoing
What is a Non-verbal sign of listening?
Silence
Sterotyping
Eye Contact
Pausing
Saying "You must be really sad to have not had any children" to a client is an example of:
Stereotyping
Overshooting
Identifying salient points, drawing them together, and presenting them in a clear way to the client is known as:
Parsimony
The client says "I don't think I could be away from my boyfriend for an entire year". The therapist responds by saying "You feel like you'd be so lonely that you would not be able to function without him?". The therapist's response is an example of:
Reflection
Parroting
Psychotherapy is...
An approach that combines psychoanalysis with evidence-based therapy.
The treatment of mental disorder by psychological means.
A long-term approach to the treatment of mental disorders involving a client and therapist.
The treatment of mental disorders through a process of case formulation, client assessment, and therapy evaluation.
What are the major steps in psychotherapy?
Assessment and observation, Case formulation, treatment plan, evaluation
Assessment and observation, Case formulation, treatment plan, evaluation, and termination
Assessment, observation, case formulation.
Assessment, case formulation, treatment plan, termination.
What part of the psychotherapeutic process can be considered to be 'the theory of the individual client'?
Treatment plan
Mental-schemas
Repressed memories
Case formulation
According to Murdock (2009), a good theory has:
precision and testability, parsimony, practicality, and external validity.
precision and testability, parsimony, practicality, and empirical validity.
precision and testability, parsimony, internal validity, and empirical validity.
empirical validity, parsimony, testability, and practicality.
Past occurrences of mood disturbance within the family, and core beliefs about one not being smart enough are an example of:
Historical factors
Preceding factors
Precipitating events
Predisposing factors
