Counseling Theories & Techniques Flashcards
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In Motivational Interviewing, which technique involves reflecting back an amplified or exaggerated version of what the client said to highlight ambivalence?
Answer: Amplified reflection
An amplified reflection overstates the client's resistance or concern to prompt the client to argue the other side, eliciting change talk.
A student assistance counselor uses the empty chair technique to help a student process unresolved feelings about a deceased parent. This technique originates from which theoretical orientation?
Answer: Gestalt therapy
The empty chair technique is a hallmark of Gestalt therapy, used to help clients work through unfinished business with significant others.
Which concept in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) refers to demanding that things must be a certain way, often expressed as 'should,' 'must,' or 'ought'?
Answer: Musturbation
Albert Ellis coined 'musturbation' to describe irrational demands people place on themselves, others, and the world that lead to emotional disturbance.
In the context of school-based counseling, a SAC counselor practicing structural family therapy would primarily focus on:
Answer: Modifying family subsystems and hierarchies
Structural family therapy, developed by Minuchin, targets family organization by restructuring subsystems, boundaries, and hierarchies to improve functioning.
A counselor avoids giving a student direct advice and instead uses open-ended questions to help the student discover their own solutions. This approach is most consistent with:
Answer: Non-directive (person-centered) counseling
Carl Rogers' person-centered (non-directive) approach trusts clients to find their own solutions when provided with a facilitative therapeutic environment.
Which behavioral technique involves having a client approach a feared stimulus gradually, starting with the least anxiety-provoking situation?
Answer: Systematic desensitization
Systematic desensitization, developed by Wolpe, pairs progressive muscle relaxation with gradual exposure to a hierarchy of anxiety-provoking stimuli.
In Adlerian therapy, the concept of 'social interest' (Gemeinschaftsgefühl) refers to:
Answer: A person's sense of belonging and contribution to the community
Alfred Adler believed that psychological health is measured by one's degree of social interest — the innate potential to contribute to and connect with the community.