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1. When leaders work with culturally diverse group members, they:
a. need to be aware of the privilege and power they possess and recognize that they may symbolize various institutions of oppression and privilege for some members.
b. None of the choices.
c. should assume the role of expert so clients have confidence in their abilities to facilitate a group.
d. All of these choices.
e. should shape group norms by telling these members how things are done in the mainstream culture and expect them to conform to mainstream ways.
2. By challenging members to think about early decisions they made about themselves and paying attention to members' self-talk, group leaders are drawing from the ________ approaches.
a. spiritual
b. cognitive
c. affective
d. behavioral
3. In group counseling, therapist interpretations should be:
a. All of these choices.
b. based exclusively on Gestalt principles.
c. nondirective.
d. plausible and well timed.
4. Effective modeling entails:
a. wearing a professional façade.
b. being very self-critical of the therapeutic mistakes you make.
c. exercising your authority as leader and demonstrating how much more insightful you are than the members.
d. engaging in honest, appropriate, and timely self-disclosure.
5. Some therapists have communicated to GLBT clients that they do not approve of their sexual identity and cannot continue to work with them because of moral or religious beliefs. What are the potential consequences of communicating this message?
a. GLBT clients will be eager to find a different therapist to work with.
b. GLBT clients may change their sexual identities upon realizing that therapists don't approve of their lifestyle.
c. GLBT clients are likely to feel positive regard towards the therapists who communicate this message
d. GLBT clients may feel judged, ridiculed, embarrassed, and pressured to be less than who they are.
6. Group therapists have ________by virtue of their leadership expertise and specialized knowledge and skills.
a. coercive power
b. legitimate power
c. absolute power
d. multidimensional power
7. For an inpatient group composed of lower functioning members, it is desirable to meet:
a. twice a month.
b. on a daily basis for 90 minutes.
c. on a daily basis for 45 minutes.
d. once a week.
e. rarely, if ever, since lower functioning individuals cannot benefit from group work.
8. In his system of pregroup preparation, Yalom (2005) is guided by seven goals. Which of the following is not one of them?
a. Anticipate frustrations and disappointments, including predicting stumbling blocks participants are likely to encounter.
b. Strive to create an alliance with group members, so they can become collaborators in their own change process.
c. Instill faith in group therapy.
d. Discuss ground rules about confidentiality, but avoid discussing other topics such as subgrouping, so as not to prematurely accuse members of doing something wrong.
9. Kyla and Janine will be coleading a group but, due to logistical reasons, will not be able to screen members. One can conclude that:
a. their group will be unsuccessful.
b. they are unethical practitioners.
c. they will need to provide some form of orientation so members understand what the group is about and how to best participate in it.
d. they are unethical and their group will be unsuccessful.
10. With regard to the establishment of goals:
a. assisting members in identifying and clarifying specific goals is a major task for the leader(s) during the initial stage of group development.
b. it is important to establish individual goals but not group goals.
c. None of these choices.
d. goals can be general during the first couple of phases, but should be more specific by the time the group reaches the working stage.
11. Pressure to experience catharsis and crying is an example of a(n):
a. explicit goal.
b. implicit norm.
c. implicit goal.
d. explicit norm.
12. Nicole accused her group leader of not caring as much about her as the other members. This may be a:
a. genuine reaction to the way the leader was treating Nicole.
b. sign that transference is occurring or that the leader was treating Nicole differently than the other members.
c. sign that countertransference is occurring.
d. sign that transference is occurring.
13. Which of the following is an example of an effective confrontation?
a. "You're always judgmental, and you make me feel inadequate."
b. "You aren't getting anything from this group. You never talk, you just observe. We're just interesting cases for you."
c. "I find it difficult to trust you, because often when you say you're angry, you're smiling. That makes it hard for me to know what to believe."
d. "I'm tired of your games."
14. Which of the following occur(s) in a working group?
a. Group members use out-of-group time to work on problems raised in the group.
b. All of the choices.
c. There is an emphasis on combining the feeling and thinking functions. Catharsis and expression of feeling occur, but so does thinking about the meaning of various emotional experiences.
d. Group norms are developed cooperatively by the members and the leader.
15. A group's identity is shaped by the way its members resolve certain critical issues. These issues include all of the following except:
a. Acceptance Versus Rejection.
b. Honesty Versus Superficiality.
c. Spontaneity Versus Control.
d. Integrity Versus Despair.
e. Disclosure Versus Anonymity.
16. According to the Coreys, self-disclosure is not:
a. displaying hidden secrets to the group.
b. the means by which open communication occurs within the group.
c. a way of deepening one's self-knowledge.
d. one's willingness to make oneself known to others.
17. A group member's style of leaving:
a. reveals a great deal about how they handle pain, unresolved loss, and grief.
b. is usually to feel relief that the group is ending.
c. is usually to become distant, problematic, and argumentative.
d. has very little to do with how they handle pain, unresolved loss, and grief.
18. The termination process in open groups:
a. involves only the member who is terminating from the group.
b. is essentially the same as the process experienced in closed groups.
c. is irrelevant since people are joining and leaving the group constantly.
d. differs from the termination process in closed groups.
19. Cultural conflicts between American-raised adolescents and their immigrant parents are often:
a. no more complex than typical adolescent/ parent conflicts within mainstream American families.
b. exaggerated because their deepest values, beliefs, and cultural practices are very strong and link them together.
c. a significant source of stress since these adolescents may be functioning at adifferent level of assimilation or integration than their parents.
d. None of these choices.
20. According to the text, young people who have experienced trauma or loss may be unable to focus on the acquisition of ________that are normative tasks.
a. technical and vocational skills
b. visual/spacial skills
c. social, coping, and cognitive skills
d. practical skills
21. People afflicted with HIV need support because they tend to:
a. live with anxiety that they will come down with AIDS.
b. stigmatize themselves.
c. live in fear of discovery and rejection by society in general and by significant persons in their life.
d. All of these choices.
22. Which of the following topics are likely to be discussed in a men's group?
a. male-male relationships
b. fear and shame
c. all of the choices
d. none of the choices
e. vulnerability
23. Eating disorders groups that are based on a cognitive behavioral approach aim to:
a. increase members' insight about themselves by examining their early recollections.
b. help members reintegrate aspects of themselves that they have disowned.
c. bring unconscious fears about losing control into conscious awareness and work with the material by fostering transference.
d. increase members' awareness of their thoughts and feelings associated with eating patterns and draw on strategies for changing their beliefs and behaviors.
24. Which of the following behaviors should be avoided when facilitating a group for older adults?
a. Affirm the dignity, intelligence, and pride of older group members.
b. Talking to them as if they were small children, no matter how severely impaired they may be.
c. Allowing your members to complain, even if there is nothing you can do about their complaints.
d. Laughing with them.
25. Aging people often have a special need to:
a. be touched.
b. All of these choices.
c. reclaim their youth by acting rebellious.
d. keep their stories to themselves.