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Psychologist Post-Test

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Questions:
 1. What are the values that constitute the philosophical bases of the therapeutic relationship that present boundary challenges?
2. What are stages in attitude formation from past experiences?
3. What are the steps in the ethics assessment technique?
4. What are the factors that based your ability to be comfortable with yourself?
5. The conflict between growth and security is reflected in what five areas?
6. What is a good exercise to increase your self awareness of your values system?
7. What are aspects of tempo in setting boundaries?
8. What is the method to develop an awareness of your nonverbal communication?
9. What is a good method to assess if your touching of clients violates an ethical boundary?
10. The boundary of acceptance is not to be confused with what?
11. By accepting your client and not judging, you set expectations based on what?
12. What can be the end result of unnecessarily prolonged therapy?
13. One of the best tools in setting a boundary with transference or counter transference is to state what?
14.therapeutic partnership is based on understanding and acceptance of the differences in roles and tasks between therapist and client. Thus, the partnership is not to be confused with what?
15. What are the sides of reality?
16. What is the reason to use partialization?
17. What is one example of a situation when advice giving is appropriate?
18. What is the method to maintain an ethical boundary between being inappropriately confrontational and being straight forward?
19. When is manipulating acceptable?
20. What are four possible reactions your client may have when a referral to another professional or agency is suggested?
21. What are areas that require particular attention concerning the setting of constructive clear boundaries?
Answers:
A. 1. reaction, 2. trial-and-error, 3. effective response, 4. feeling “right,” 5. reinforcement, 6. others are “wrong”
B. worth for the individual, self-determination; sharing the benefits of society; and the mutual rights of your client and society
C. 1. acceptance of self; 2. flexible adaptive pattern; 3. ability to deal with negative attitudes; and 4. realize self-liking is always changing
D. 1. What is the context of the situation? 2. What are the client’s goals? 3. Is there a potential harm?
E. your use of the terms “they” and “them”
F. emotional, physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual
G. body scan
H. the pace of your lifestyle and the timing of unfolding information
I. liking or approving
J. Robison’s three point ethics check
K. tends to become sterile and meaningless
L. reality
M. a friendship
N. the reality of the situation
O. to help break the client’s problem down into manageable units
P. number one, the reality as it is, and number two, the reality as the client sees it-must be fully comprehended before the worker can make a valid judgment.
Q. By following the flow from the general to the specific
R. Crisis situation
S. rejection, anger, hope, and expectation
T. when used as a tool to provide a constructive experience or to achieve a desirable goal.
U. physical contact, pity, overidentification and detrimental dependence

Questions:
22. How does enabling differ from empowering?
23. What are the techniques for setting boundaries?
24. What is one area that the NASW, AAMFT, NBCC, and APA Codes of Ethics agree upon regarding the setting of clear and ethical boundaries with clients?
25. What are consequences therapists have to consider when reporting domestic violence?
26. What is a multistep program for diffusing marital conflict?
27. What are some “rules for engagement” with resistant clients?
28. What was a key issue PTSG group members had to face?
29. When we reach the limits of what we know or can do, when we feel confused or blocked by a situation that is beyond our understanding or abilities, what is an easy way out?
30. What is one rationalization some have about abuse of the personal contact boundary with clients?
31. What are phases of healing for the survivor of abuse?
32. What are potential clients warned about concerning boundaries and the power dynamic in consumer information?
33. What are problematic feelings a therapist might experience regarding a client/patient that might lead to a sexual transgression?

Answers:
A. think in a preventative fashion, discuss ethical situations with the client in the initial session, and get feedback from colleagues
B. empowering is the process of assisting the client to solve their own problem or issue through self action. Enabling can be described as the therapist improving the situation by appearing to “fix” the problem without true involvement of the client.
C. 1) children sometimes get taken out of their homes prematurely or more likely, 2) children who report domestic violence to counselors who are mandated to report the DHS are not removed from the home and many times suffer harsh consequences from the batterer for talking to outsiders in the first place.
D. Respect the client
E. keep your sense of humor, do not retialiate, define rules an roles, stay flexible, and be pragmatic
F. delineation of the salient issues and help the couple to admit and express their feelings more sensitively and clearly while fostering greater acceptance of each other’s positions
G. blame the client.
H. how much to trust, recognizing that the previously complete trust had been ill-advised.
I. 1. Remembering the trauma; 2. getting in touch with the feelings; and 3. developing a survivor rather than a victim mentality.
J. Sexual abuse of clients mainly happened in the 90’s, and before. Today therapist are too lawsuit conscious for this to be an issue.
K. Thinking about the person outside of the normal context; recurring thoughts or fantasies about intimacy with the client; satisfying personal wishes rather than focusing on therapeutic goals.
L. The relationship feels uncomfortable, ambiguous, or confusing to the patient.

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