Question: Attachment styles and injuries are key components of which model of family therapy?
Answer Choices:
Systems
Structural
Strategic
Emotion-focused
Answer: Emotion-focused
Question: A first-time group member states she came because he is depressed over a recent divorce… What model of group therapy is this?
Answer Choices:
Cognitive Therapy
Behavior Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy
Solution-focused Brief Therapy
Answer: Solution-focused Brief Therapy
Question: The leader notices that John frequently interrupts others and monopolizes the conversation… Which action is therapeutic for the leader to take?
Answer Choices:
Say to John, “You are interrupting others and need to stop.”
Tell John privately what he must do to change.
Say to the group, “I want to go around the room and have everybody tell John how you feel about him.”
“John, please tell us in one sentence what is most important for us to hear about you.”
Answer: “John, please tell us in one sentence what is most important for us to hear about you.”
Question: A client shares with the group her fear of making a decision about whether to leave her current job… What model of therapy is in use?
Answer Choices:
Existential
Feminist
Solution-focused Brief Therapy
Psychoanalytic
Answer: Existential
Question: There are long silences, several members acting out, and frustrations with structure and leadership. Most likely this group is in which stage of group process?
Answer Choices:
Initial
Transition
Working
Final
Answer: Transition
Question: The therapist typically provides the most structure in which phase of group process?
Answer Choices:
Initial
Transition
Working
Final
Answer: Initial
Question: The therapist on an inpatient psychiatric unit conducts a daily psychoeducation group… What is the initial action the therapist should take?
Answer Choices:
Allow T.M. to attend the group
Interview T.M. to assess behavior
Come up with an individual activity for T.M. to do during group time
Warn the other group members about T.M.’s behavior
Answer: Interview T.M. to assess behavior
Question: The therapist draws a diagram with the family that includes important events such as births, deaths, and emotional connection. Which model of therapy is being used?
Answer Choices:
Systems
Structural
Strategic
Emotion-focused
Answer: Structural
Question: The novice therapist is describing to the supervisor how he conducted a therapy session… Which statement should be of concern?
Answer Choices:
“I told the members that they must respect one another.”
“I described the purpose of the group at the beginning of each session.”
“I reminded the group how many sessions we had left.”
“I assured the group that everything that was said would remain confidential.”
Answer: “I assured the group that everything that was said would remain confidential.”
Question: The therapist is conducting the first session of a bereavement group. Which statement by a member would be of most concern?
Answer Choices:
“I don’t know how a group is supposed to help me.”
“I am the mother-figure in the group.”
“The only reason I’m here is because my doctor said I had to come.”
“Don’t expect me to tell you all of my secrets.”
Answer: “The only reason I’m here is because my doctor said I had to come.”