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Disciplined Compassion: Beyond Empathy and Neutrality - Test
by Enrico Gnaulati, Ph.D.

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1. The expression that best captures Freud's notion of therapeutic abstinence or neutrality is an ethic of: Help
Disciplined compassion.
 Dispassionate compassion.
 Disconcerted compassion.
 Dispassionate detachment.
2. The expression that best captures Carl Roger's empathic stance to therapy is an ethic of: Help
Disciplined compassion.
 Dispassionate compassion.
 Compassionate detachment.
 Dispassionate detachment.
3. A therapeutic stance that embodies disciplined compassion is characterized by: Help
Devotion to the client's emotional well-being.
 Determination to be of help to clients.
 Deep emotional engagement and identification with clients' life problems.
 All of the above.
4. Therapists can manifest authentic care with clients by: Help
Prioritizing spontaneity over stiltedness.
 Saying what they mean and meaning what they say.
 Emphasizing the use of common speech over clinical jargon.
 All of the above.
5. When practicing with authentic care therapists are advised not to: Help
Value tactics over tact.
 Rely on spontaneity.
 Prioritize the use of humor.
 Overuse common speech.
6. Humanistically-oriented psychotherapists claim that: Help
Client progress is predicated on therapist professionalism.
 Therapist practical wisdom is essential for client progress.
 Client progress is dependent upon therapist self-disclosure.
 Therapist authenticity begets client authenticity.
7. To practice more authentically as a therapist you first have to be: Help
Prudently engaged.
 Conscientiously attuned.
 Mastery oriented.
 Sufficiently "congruent" as a person.
8. Therapist self-disclosure can be effectively employed in order to: Help
Normalize beliefs a client may believe are aberrant.
 Familiarize the client with aspects of the therapist's personal life.
 Make the therapist appear more professional.
 Establish a friendship with the client.
9. In the Freudian and humanistic traditions advice giving is largely thought to promote: Help
The therapeutic alliance.
 Inappropriate client passivity and dependence.
 Justification for high fees.
 The uncovering of repressed memories.
10. Confirmatory feedback by therapists can be instrumental in undoing the childhood effects of: Help
Favoritism.
 Mystification.
 Neglect.
 Authoritarian parenting.
11. Humor and a keen sense of the absurd can enable clients to be more boldfaced in accepting: Help
Religious mandates.
 The therapist's blindspots.
 The precariousness and arbitrariness inherent in human existence.
 The limited behavior change than can be obtained from psychotherapy.
12. At an implicit level, when therapists engage in humorous exchanges with clients, it can be indisputable evidence: Help
They enjoy working with them.
 They are being unprofessional with them.
 They are being off-task in terms of any therapeutic agenda.
 Their countertransference is active.
13. In order to maximize multi-cultural competence, therapists need to watch being too ethno-culturally insular in their personal lives in ways that: Help
Subtly reinforce values and attitudes they think are normal for all people.
 Lessen their exposure to the latest evidenced-based multi-cultural therapy techniques.
 Undercut their openness to paradigmatic diversity.
 Deemphasize plurality of clinical purpose.
14. An example of overvaluing or undervaluing cultural attitudes they have been raised with when treating clients is: Help
A White therapist might idealize the need for adolescents to individuate from parents.
 A White therapist might minimize a Latina mother's complaint that her son is being unacceptably disobedient, seeing it as normal rebelliousness.
 A Latina therapist might idealize an adolescent's need to be compliant with parents, seeing it as normal respect, rather than thwarted individuation.
 All of the above.
15. In the Self-Psychology tradition, founded by Heinz Kohut, mirroring affirmation of clients' proud moments is thought to remedy: Help
Overabundant cognitive distortions.
 Under-reinforced assertiveness.
 Thwarted self-esteem formation.
 Thwarted gender identity development.
16. When therapists empathically give from their humanity the client feels not only heard, but: Help
Confirmed and authenticated.
 Affirmed and adjudicated.
 Liberated.
 Stimulated.
17. Reliable access to sensitive therapist attunement when a client experiences upsurges of intense emotion lessens the potential for them to get: Help
Behaviorally disorganized.
 Emotionally flooded.
 Cognitively appropriated.
 Mentally cloudy.
18. Empathically immersed therapists – consciously and unconsciously – adapt their behavior to that of the client's by engaging in: Help
Synchronized facial synchrony.
 Well-timed head nods, frowns, and grimaces.
 Use of the client's preferred idiomatic expression.
 All of the above.
19. Heinz Kohut postulated that meeting clients' "mirroring needs" is critical for the attainment of: Help
Lower potential for cognitive distortion.
 Lower potential for overgeneralization.
 A viable and vital sense of self.
 An ego ideal.
20. Helping clients understand the historical roots of and covert motives for their undesirable behavior - elements of psychological mindedness – is therapeutically beneficial because: Help
It provides them with a context for understanding their behavior and a newfound flexibility in responding.
 Clients are inherently curious about their psychological past.
 It demystifies their psychosocial expectations.
 Clients are apt to avoid engaging in positive self-talk.
21. Psychological mindedness involves: Help
Deciphering one's own and others' intentions.
 Decoding one's behavioral expectations.
 Managing one's behavioral expectations.
 Renouncing self-deception.
22. To build a sense of personal agency in therapy, clients are exhorted to clarify, assess, and commit to pursuing life commitments that are in line with: Help
The behavioral goals identified at the onset of treatment.
 Their own true talents, preferences, values, and ideals.
 The therapeutic alliance.
 Radical reduction of their cognitive distortions.
23. Confident expectation that they will be listened to and sensitively responded to largely on their terms, can awaken in clients: Help
Foreshadowed future despair.
 Foreclosed memories, desires, grievances, and aspirations.
 Unrepressed grievances.
 Denied compulsive eating habits.
24. In the Freudian tradition, a stronger sense of personal agency is obtained by: Help
Greater expressive mastery of "primitive" emotions.
 Correcting cognitive distortions.
 Engaging in positive self-talk.
 Engaging in "free association."

 

 

  
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