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,Test Bank For The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-
Development Approach to Helping
Chapter 1: The Ingredients of Successful Helping
Chapter 1: The Ingredients of Successful Helping
1. Which of the following is/are the primary goal(s) of helping?
A. To help clients become better at helping themselves in their everyday lives
B. To help clients manage their problems in living more effectively and developing unused
or underused resources and opportunities more fully
C. To help clients develop an action-oriented prevention mentality in their lives
D. All of these choices
ANS: D PG: 5-13
2. What two basic issues cause most people to seek the helping process?
A. Problem situations and unused opportunities
B. Depression and alcoholism
C. Missed opportunities and anger
D. Problem situations and anxiety
ANS: A PG: 5
3. A therapist is focusing on a client’s current difficulties of adjusting to college by helping the
client manage her problems with time management. The therapist’s approach involves teaching
the client to manage her own time and to be proactive preparing for class. Which principle of
outcome-focused helping is missing from this approach?
A. Producing life-enhancing outcomes
B. Developing a prevention mentality
C. Learning how to help oneself
D. Dealing with crises when they become critical
ANS: A PG: 8
4. Helping is about ________.
A. constructive change that leads to results
B. confronting and understanding one's childhood
C. bringing the unconscious into the conscious
D. teaching the client to follow professional advice
ANS: A PG: 9
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,Test Bank For The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-
Development Approach to Helping
Chapter 1: The Ingredients of Successful Helping
5. A client has come to see a professional because s/he is not living as fully as s/he would like.
Which of the following would be the best starting point for working with this client?
A. Focus on accepting life as it is.
B. Focus on working through the client’s most immediate issue.
C. Focus on what has gone wrong in the past.
D. Focus on missed opportunities and unused potential.
ANS: D PG: 6
6. Though there are many ingredients in helping, what is ultimately one of the most key
predictors of successful therapy?
A. The client’s ability to clearly understand the problem
B. The client’s freedom from emotional baggage
C. The client’s development of cognitive and behavioral skills
D. The client’s participation in the therapeutic endeavor
ANS: D PG: 15
7. An advantage to helping a client develop an action-oriented mentality in their lives is that it
helps them to ________.
A. overcome disabling depression
B. feel aligned with the helper
C. prevent future problems
D. overcome all of life's problems
ANS: C PG: 12
8. According to research what is the second most important ingredient in successful therapies
(after client factors)?
A. Therapist factors (e.g., experience)
B. The quality of the relationship between the client and therapist
C. The timing of therapist interventions
D. Scientifically-based approaches to helping
ANS: B PG: 18
9. Feedback is an important ingredient in the helping process. What typifies best practices
regarding feedback?
A. One-way feedback from the client to the therapist about how therapy is going
B. Two-way feedback between the client and therapist about how therapy is going
C. The awareness that feedback may be needed in some cases, but not others
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, Test Bank For The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-
Development Approach to Helping
Chapter 1: The Ingredients of Successful Helping
D. Frequent feedback early in therapy, and the reduction or elimination of feedback later on
in therapy
ANS: B PG: 19-21 | 31
10. Decision making is a common factor that is important in the therapy process. What are the
four keys to decision making?
A. Information gathering, analysis, making a choice, and follow through
B. Information gathering, analysis, contemplation, and reanalysis
C. Expert advice, decision-focused thinking, openness, and reanalysis
D. Expert advice, analysis, contemplation, and intuition
ANS: A PG: 25-28
11. According to the text, there are hundreds of different treatment models. Which of the
following statements is the most accurate regarding the effectiveness of these different
approaches?
A. There are clear differences in the outcomes among the bona fide treatment models.
B. There are clear advantages of some bona fide treatment models for some disorders (e.g.,
depression).
C. There are no clear differences in the outcomes among the bona fide treatment models.
D. There is evidence indicating that the treatment model is the primary driver of therapeutic
success.
ANS: C PG: 21-22
12. Uncertainty in decision making and in the helping process:
A. is unlikely to be an issue in most cases.
B. can be avoided in order to increase the efficiency of the therapeutic process.
C. can be a place to find unlimited possibilities.
D. should be avoided at all costs.
ANS: C PG: 29-30
13. An important principle of dialogue in therapy involves:
A. convincing clients that their experiences are abnormal.
B. convincing clients that the therapist knows best.
C. co-creating an experience and the outcomes with clients.
D. explaining to clients the impact of childhood experience on present and future conditions.
ANS: C PG: 31
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