CPCE Core Counseling Theories 5

Question 1

Structural family therapy, associated with Salvador Minuchin, primarily addresses:

Accepted Answer

Family organization, boundaries, and hierarchical structures

Answer

Minuchin's structural approach maps and restructures the family's organizational patterns — subsystems, boundaries, and hierarchies — to reduce symptoms.

Question 2

In acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), 'psychological flexibility' involves:

Accepted Answer

Contacting the present moment fully while changing or persisting in behavior guided by values

Answer

ACT defines psychological flexibility as the capacity to be in full contact with the present moment and, based on what the situation affords, to change or persist in behavior in the service of chosen values.

Question 3

The 'ABC model' in CBT refers to:

Accepted Answer

Activating event, Belief, and emotional/behavioral Consequence

Answer

Ellis's ABC model holds that it is not the Activating event (A) but the Belief (B) about that event that determines the emotional and behavioral Consequence (C).

Question 4

Which theorist is credited with developing the concept of 'unconditional positive regard' as a therapeutic condition?

Accepted Answer

Carl Rogers

Answer

Carl Rogers identified unconditional positive regard — accepting the client without judgment or conditions — as one of the three necessary and sufficient conditions for therapeutic change.

Question 5

In strategic family therapy, the technique of 'prescribing the symptom' (paradoxical intervention) works by:

Accepted Answer

Directing the client to intentionally perform the symptom, disrupting its involuntary quality

Answer

When a therapist prescribes the symptom, the client must choose to perform it deliberately, which often undermines the symptom's automatic, involuntary nature.

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CPCE Core Counseling Theories 5