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Which statement is most accurate regarding the suitability of Adlerian therapy for women and minority clients?


A) Adler was an early feminist and his approach is sensitive to social dynamics that can affect women adversely.
B) Although it focuses on the individual, Adler's social and family constellation emphasis makes his approach suitable for many minority groups.
C) Adler's legacy of only working with more wealthy populations limits the generalizability of his approach to working-class clients.
D) All of the above are true.
E) Only a and b are true.

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According to Adler, the most basic striving in human beings is toward:


A) Understanding.
B) Sympathy.
C) Completeness.
D) Uniqueness.
E) Gemeinschaftsgefuhl.

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Which of the following techniques is most likely to be used by an Adlerian therapist to obtain pertinent information about a client's lifestyle development?


A) Behavioral observation.
B) The question.
C) Cognitive self-monitoring.
D) Free association.
E) Earliest recollections.

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What are the three phases of Watts's "reflecting as if" technique?


A) Reflecting, creating new images, and catching oneself.
B) Reflecting, planning, and implementing.
C) Dream analysis, reflecting, and planning.
D) Striving for superiority, acting as if, and reflecting.
E) Looking at your reflection, smiling, and recording cognitions.

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Which of the following statements is the most inconsistent with Alfred Adler's individual psychology?


A) People can be best viewed as being composed of many separate, distinct parts.
B) People are active participants within their environments and experiences.
C) Mental problems are at least partially caused by environments and relationships that lack support and encouragement.
D) Human beings have the capacity to shape themselves and their environments.
E) None of the above.

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The therapy stage during which client and therapist work together to develop therapeutic goals is called:


A) Forming the therapeutic relationship.
B) Lifestyle assessment and analysis.
C) Interpretation and insight.
D) Reorientation.
E) None of the above.

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Which strategy is NOT one of the three main strategies for assessing client lifestyle?


A) Goal alignment.
B) The family constellation interview.
C) The question.
D) Earliest recollection.
E) These are all main Adlerian assessment strategies.

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All of the following are examples of Adlerian techniques except:


A) Acting as if.
B) The future autobiography.
C) Motivational Interviewing.
D) The push-button technique.
E) Creating new images.

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Which statement is consistent with an initial style of life interpretation?


A) It is designed to further the connection between therapist and client and begin the process of a deeper problem analysis.
B) It occurs early in counseling and is more of a collaborative guess than an interpretation and should be phrased as such.
C) It should be stated with an air of authority.
D) All of the above are true.
E) Only a and b are true.

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Which of these descriptions most accurately describes the relationship between Adler and Freud?


A) Adler was slightly older than Freud and guided Freud toward the discovery of the unconscious.
B) Adler was a bit younger than Freud, but he had published a book before he met Freud so they're best viewed as contemporaries.
C) Adler was younger than Freud and was always viewed as one of his main disciples.
D) Adler was always a strong rival of Freud's and never saw any utility in any of Freud's ideas.
E) None of these statements are true about Adler and Freud.

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Ralph gets tired of his therapist and decides to see someone different. This new therapist helps Ralph learn to use positive images to change his mood and coaches him on when to "push a button" to think of a positive image and improve his mood. What type of counselor is Ralph probably seeing now?


A) A Jungian analyst.
B) A psychoanalytic therapist.
C) A behavior therapist.
D) A person-centered therapist.
E) None of the above.

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Which of the following reflects the state of psychotherapy research of Adlerian therapy?


A) Additional research to evaluate Adlerian therapy is unnecessary because the overall process of this treatment is effective and because paradoxical interventions, which are often used by Adlerian therapists, are highly effective.
B) Meta-analytic evidence suggests that Adlerian therapy may be more effective than placebo, but the studies were small in number and dated (i.e., they were conducted more than 20 years ago) .
C) Because Adlerian therapy cannot be adapted to a brief therapy format, it is unlikely that future research will evaluate this outdated form of treatment.
D) None of the above.
E) Only b and c.

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In individual psychology, "the question" is intended to establish:


A) If there are any secondary gains associated with the client's symptoms.
B) Why the client is seeking therapy.
C) The client's family constellation.
D) The client's prognosis.
E) Whether objective inferiority is present or absent.

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How would an Individual (Adlerian) therapist view why children misbehave?


A) Children who misbehave are experiencing guilt and/or anxiety and, when acting out, they obtain the negative attention they're seeking.
B) Children who misbehave lack self-awareness and thus have deficiencies in self-regulating their own behavior.
C) Children's misbehavior is purposeful and they strive toward goals, such as attention, power, or revenge, or they display inadequacy.
D) Children who misbehave are spoiled from having experienced an excess of encouragement.
E) None of the above is consistent with Adlerian theory.

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Which three life tasks did Adler himself believe individuals must face in the world?


A) Work and occupation; social relationships; love and marriage.
B) Education; work and occupation; love and marriage.
C) Education; work; social relationships.
D) Social relationships; work and occupation; death.
E) The avoidance tendency; the blaming tendency; the self-interest tendency.

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Soft determinism refers to:


A) A weak or subassertive lifestyle.
B) The midpoint between deterministic, cause-and-effect thinking and nondeterminism, which assumes no causal connections.
C) A gently persuasive strategy used by Adlerian therapists to facilitate change.
D) A moderate position lying somewhere between postmodern and premodern thought.
E) Soft determinism can be used to refer to either a or c.

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Let's assume Michelle didn't make her college basketball team, but instead of moving on, she keeps feeling and noticing all of her personal weaknesses and poor abilities in many different areas. For the most part Michelle contains these feelings and they don't affect her behavior much. Which term best describes her condition?


A) Objective inferiority.
B) Inferiority feelings.
C) A normal inferiority complex.
D) A psychopathological inferiority complex.
E) Intensive inferiority.

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Mike is working with an Adlerian counselor to address his unhealthy eating habits, a lack of exercise, and problems with obesity. Which life task domain will Mike's counselor be most likely to focus on in counseling?


A) Work or occupation.
B) Love and marriage.
C) Self.
D) All of the above.
E) Only a and b.

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Which of the following terms is viewed as consistent with Adler's early concept of fictional finalism or fictional goals?


A) Community feelings.
B) Determinism.
C) Soft determinism.
D) Epistemological phenemenology.
E) Guiding self-ideal.

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Which of the following is the best description of the central proposition underlying Adler's individual psychology?


A) The individual is shaped by his or her unconscious conflicts.
B) Our environments shape us as individuals.
C) Male and female norms and behaviors should be distinguished and upheld.
D) Humans actively shape themselves and their environments.
E) Behavior is a function of its consequences.

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