Question : MULTIPLE CHOICE 1.Which of the following NOT an essential proposition of : 1181917

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1.Which of the following is NOT an essential proposition of the psychoanalytic approach?

a.Mental life is best understood as a dynamic interaction of competing forces.

b.Mental life occurs mainly at an unconscious level.

c.There is a relationship between a client’s developmental history and current problems.

d.Most learning is observational.

2.Defense mechanisms

a.are conscious strategies that the ego employs to contain anxiety.

b.are always successful and adaptive.

c.can be at the root of behaviors that cause client distress.

d.are always problematic and must be eradicated as a goal of treatment.

3._________________ is the process of bringing maladaptive patterns of relating into the therapy, whereby typical patterns of relationships are re-enacted with the therapist.

a.Dynamic conflict

b.Catharsis

c.Transference

d.Countertransference

4.Which of the following are listed in the correct order of occurrence in psychoanalysis?

a.transference, resistance, interpretation, working through

b.defensiveness, resistance, working through, transference

c.interpretation, defensiveness, psychic determinism, working through

d.none of the above, there is no predictable course of therapy in psychoanalysis

5.Which of the following is NOT a goal of psychoanalysis?

a.repairing the mother-child rupture

b.intellectual and emotional insight into the causes of problems

c.strengthening the ego’s control over the id and superego

d.working through the implications of insights into causes of problems

6.Which of the following are sources of unconscious material that psychoanalysts utilize?

a.free association material

b.slips of the tongue, body language

c.accidents, memory lapses, humor

d.all of the above would be material that would interest an analyst

7.After a trip to New York City, a client shares a dream in which she fell off the Empire State Building. In analyzing this dream, the Empire State Building would be considered the ______________ and the falling off would be the __________________.

a.manifest content; latent content

b.latent content; manifest content

c.phallic symbol; dream work

d.structural dimension; transference fear

8.What was a significant characteristic of Alfred Adler’s approach to psychotherapy?

a.Adler focused on exploring and altering maladaptive lifestyles.

b.Adler used homework and modeling as ways to help clients become aware of their lifestyle.

c.Adler focused more on the social and relational aspects of psychopathology and less on intrapsychic conflicts.

d.all of the above

9.The theorists who sought to use psychoanalytic techniques to understand and explore clients’ strengths and adaptive ego functions are collectively called

a.individual psychologists.

b.object-relations therapists.

c.ego analysts.

d.reverse psychoanalysts.

10.In object relations therapy, “object relations” refer to

a.the importance placed on things the client owns.

b.how individuals relate to the social world and things around them.

c.relationships that develop from the earliest infant-caregiver interactions.

d.all of the above