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WorksheetsHumanistic Approaches
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 12mins
The central goal of existential psychotherapy is to:
decrease selfawareness.
increase awareness.
help clients reject the responsibility of choosing.
keep the client from experiencing authentic existence.
Philosophically, the existentialists would agree that
the final decisions and choices rest with the therapist.
people do not redefine themselves by their choices.
a person cannot go beyond early conditioning.
making choices can create anxiety.
According to the existential viewpoint, death:
makes life absurd.
makes life meaningless and hopeless.
gives significance to living.
should not be explored in therapy.
In regards to techniques, existential practitioners believe:
free association is essential to the growth and healing of the client.
no set of techniques is considered essential.
analysis of dysfunctional family patterns is imperative.
role playing is the most important technique used.
Existential therapists prefer to be thought of as:
an observer-technician.
philosophical companions, not as people who repair psyches.
a teacher and coach.
an advocate for social change.
The person-centered approach’s view of human nature:
views people as basically competitive.
states that humans are driven by irrational forces.
emphasizes clients' abilities to engage their own resources to act in their world with others.
assumes that, while humans have the potential for growth, we tend to remain stagnant.
What is the most important factor related to progress in person-centered therapy?
Defining concrete and measurable goals
The therapist’s technical skills
The relationship between the client and therapist
The therapist’s ability to think logically and to scientifically solve problems
The person-centered therapist is best described as a:
facilitator.
teacher.
human engineer.
friend.
In order for a therapist to communicate “accurate empathic understanding” the counselor must:
feel a deep sense of warmth toward the client.
connect emotionally to the client’s subjective world.
clarify details and facts relevant to the client’s experiences.
have experienced a situation very similar to the client’s current predicament.
Gestalt therapy is a form of:
Freudian psychoanalytic therapy.
neo-Freudian analytic therapy.
behavior therapy.
existential therapy.
The Gestalt therapist:
helps the client understand why he or she is behaving in self-defeating ways.
pays attention to the client's nonverbal language.
is mainly nondirective.
freely makes interpretations for the client.
Mariah tells her therapist, a Gestaltist, that she dreamt she got married to a pit bull and felt uneasy about telling
her parents that she married a dog. When her parents discovered their son-in-law was a pit bull, they disowned
her and suddenly became dogs themselves. In response to this dream, Mariah’s therapist:
should interpret the dream for her client.
may need to contact a psychiatric hospital (and possibly an animal shelter) since it is likely Mariah
unconsciously desires to marry a dog.
should assist her client in reliving the dream as though it was happening in the now and have her become
each part of the dream.
should encourage her client to forget the dream since it was meaningless.
The basic goal of Gestalt therapy is:
to attain awareness and contact with the environment.
to understand why we feel as we do.
to uncover repressed material.
to help clients develop better social skills.
__________ are preplanned activities in Gestalt therapy that can be used to elicit emotion, produce action, or achieve a specific
goal.
Cathartic events
Exercises
Faulty experiments
Conflicting opinions
In Gestalt therapy, the relationship between client and counselor is seen as:
the heart of therapy.
a place for the therapist to work on personal issues.
not being an I/Thou interaction.
technique bound.
