Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
Gerald Corey , Chapter 005 Test Quiz Bank Complete
Solution 2023/2024
Family Constellation correct answers a questionnaire that helps therapist often gather information about
the individual's style of living which includes parents, siblings, and other living in the home, life tasks,
and early recollections
Early recollections correct answers stories of events that a person says occurred before he or she was 10
years old. ER are useful because indicate what clients do and how they think in both adaptive and
maladaptive ways.
Lifestyle Assessment correct answers the process of gathering early memories which involves learning to
understand the goals and motivations of the client. Lifestyle assessment is a way of investigating the
client's unique approach to the life tasks, friendship and work.
Adlerian Therapy correct answers A good client-therapist relationship characterized by two persons
working equally toward specific agreed goalbased on cooperation, mutual trust, respect, confidence,
collaboration, and alignment of goals. The therapist can model communication and acting in good faith.
Adlerian Main Goals: correct answers The therapeutic process includes forming a relationship based on
mutual respect; a holistic psychological investigation or lifestyle assessment; and disclosing mistaken
goals and faulty assumption within the person's style of living. This is followed by reeducation or
reorientation of the client toward the useful side of life. The main aim of therapy is to develop the
client's sense of belonging and to assist in the adoption of behaviors and processes characterized by
community feeling and social interest. This is accomplished by increasing the client's self-awareness and
modifying his or her fundamental premises, life goals, and basic concepts.
Encouragement correct answers is the most powerful method available for changing a person's beliefs,
for it helps clients build self-confidence and stimulates courage.
Adlerian Key Concepts correct answers • In the first 6 years of life form an approach to life
• Focus on how the person's past affects the present
• Individual's interpretation of early events influences the present. Look for continuity by paying
attention to themes running through a person's life.
• The focus of therapy: Humans are motivated by social relatedness vs sexual urges.
• All human behavior has a purpose and this purposefulness is the cornerstone of Adler's theory
• goal-oriented; consciousness, more than unconsciousness
• At 6 years, our life goal, unifies the personality and becomes the sources of human motivation; every
striving and every effort to overcome inferiority is now in line with this goal
• Human behavior is neither determined by heredity nor environment. Adlerians recognize that
biological and environmental conditions limit our capacity to choose and to create.
• Instead, we have the capacity to interpret, influence, and create events
• Adler believed people could change through social learning
• Adler first systematic therapist: he maintained that it is essential to understand people within the
systems in which they live.
, Inferiority feeling correct answers normal condition of all people and a source of all human striving,
wellspring of creativity. Motivates strive for mastery, success (superiority) and completion.
Striving for significance and superiority correct answers not superiority over others but as a means of
moving from a perceived lower position to a perceived better position in relation to oneself. People cope
with feelings of helplessness by striving for competence, self-mastery, and perfection. Change a
weakness in to strength.
Lifestyle correct answers core beliefs and assumptions guide each person's movement through life and
organize his or her reality, giving meaning to life events: plan of life, style of life, strategy of living, or road
map of life.
social learning correct answers Adler believed people could change through social learning
Adler first systematic therapist: correct answers he maintained that it is essential to understand people
within the systems in which they live.
Phenomenological correct answers attempt to view the world from the client's subjective frame of
reference.
Subjective reality -the way individual perceives their world; the individual's perceptions, thoughts,
feelings, value, beliefs, convictions and conclusions.
Objective reality is less important than how we interpret reality and the meaning we attach to what we
experience.
Individual Psychology correct answers indivisible psychology-understanding the whole person in the
context of his or her life. We can only think, feel and act in relation to our goal; we can be fully
understood only in light of knowing the purpose and goals toward which we are striving. Individual
psychology rets on a central belief that our happiness and success are largely related to this social
connectedness.
Holistic concept correct answers we cannot be understood in parts; rather all aspects of ourselves must
be understood in relationship to the socially embedded context of family, culture, school, and work.
More emphasis on interpersonal relationships
Fictional finalism correct answers "guiding self-ideal" or "goal of perfection" refer to an imagined life goal
that guides a person's behavior.
Social Interest correct answers sense of identification and empathy with others: "to see with the eyes of
another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another". As social interest develops,
feelings of inferiority and alienation diminish. Central indicator of mental health.
Community Feeling correct answers embodies the feeling of being connected to all of humanity-past,
present, and future- and to being involved in making the world a better place. Those who lack
community feeling become discouraged and end up on the useless side of life. Many of the problems we
experience are related to the fear of not being accepted by the groups we value. If our sense of
belonging is not fulfilled, anxiety is the result. Only when we feel united with others we are able to act
with courage in facing and dealing with our problems.
