Rhonda is a counselor at a drug and alcohol treatment center. She grew up in an alcoholic home and is not fully aware of the "unfinished business" she has with her parents. She is still angry and resents her parents for having to grow up in an alcoholic family system. It is most likely that Rhonda will:
A. be able to understand her addicted clients through her own childhood experiences.
B. examine her unresolved conflicts as she continues to work in the treatment center.
C. obstruct the progress of her clients as they attempt to move toward recovery.
D. feel comfortable with her clients because she is familiar with their behavior.
Answer: C
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In experiential play therapy, the stage where the client becomes willing to share difficult thoughts and feelings through play is called the ___________________ stage
a. Exploratory b. Testing c. Dependency d. Therapeutic growth
The tendency to separate oneself from those who are different results in
A. fewer miscommunications, due to limited interaction. B. increased categorical thinking. C. intensified perception of threat from out groups. D. a united front from which to dismiss myths of one's own group.
Family therapy for adolescents was associated with all of the following EXCEPT for ______.
a. greater reduction in substance use than CBT b. more rapid reductions in alcohol use c. greater emphasis on decreasing family conflict than CBT d. more lasting abstinence than CBT