CCMH 551 Wk 3 – Concept Check

In Person-Centered Theory, empathy, respect, caring, and unconditional positive regard are one of the following:

Core conditions for the therapeutic relationship

Goals for clients

Hopes for relationships

Outcomes of therapy

How is the use of theory helpful to counselors?

Provides structure and direction for sessions

Tells counselors when to terminate

Helps convey to clients that counselors know what they are doing

Signals to supervisors that a counselor’s work will be successful

Identifying and challenging cognitive distortions is a technique used in one of the following:

Psychoanalytic theory

All counseling sessions

Cognitive therapy

Recentering client expectations about reality

An example of an open-ended question is:

Have you thought about talking to him?

Do you want to tell me more about that?

Can you tell me more?

How have you responded to your boss’s request?

Select all that are an example of reflection of feeling:

You are annoyed that he hasn’t done what you asked.

You asked him to take care of it and he didn’t so you think he doesn’t hear you.

You sound worried about the implications of this.

Your think you are not good enough so you push people away.