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Counseling Psychology Questions

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A child who has difficulty with potty training may get stuck in the anal phase.TrueFalse

true or false: Freud used to go to morgues and examine the bodies of abused children

what are some psychological intervention factors that could contribute to low beneficence?

true or false: meta-analyses show that some specific techniques are better than others

true or false: case formulation is key to successful practice

Karen Horney was an important neo-freudian focused on feminismTrueFalse

does research test theories and provide support or lack of support for their tenants?

can research prove theories to be absolutely true or false?

true or false: research has demonstrated the superiority of a few select psychotherapy techniques over other specific techniques

true or false: an ethics code is essential for all that practice medicine as well as psychology

true or false: research shows that there are common therapeutic factors operating across different therapy techniques, rendering them all more or less equivalent

Freud's colleagues' response to his famous paper "The Aetiology of Hysteria" is best described as:Cold and rejecting.Warm and engaging.Supportive, yet skeptical.Strongly positive.

true or false: there is nothing that a psychotherapist does that a counselor does not do

A boy and a girl aged 11 are constantly bickering, and say that they hate each other. Yet you suspect that they actually like each other. Their behavior is an example of:Denial.Reaction formation.Repression.Sublimation.

A therapist finds herself feeling excessively and uncharacteristically irritated while listening to a client. This is an example of:Projection.Transference.Aggression.Countertransference.

Which attachment style(s) was/were NOT formulated by Mary Ainsworth and was/were INSTEAD identified by her student, Mary Main?Anxious-resistant insecure attachment.Anxious-avoidant insecure attachment.Disorganized/disoriented attachment.Secure attachment.

What is most true about the status of therapy effectiveness?Everyone agrees that therapy is very effective.Most researchers believe therapy is effective, but there are a few critics who question its efficacy.It's unlikely that therapy is effective.There really hasn't been enough research on therapy to say whether it's effectiveEffectiveness is the top dog and ineffectiveness is the underdog.

are coaches the same thing as therapists?

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) utilize ____________ to facilitate emotional regulation. TrephiningBuddhist mindfulness.String cheese.Feminist concepts.Medical interventions.

Anna Freud is to ego psychology as ________________ is to self psychology.Heinz Kohut.Mary Ainsworth.Sigmund Freud.Erik Erikson.