Max, a borderline client who professes to believe that all people are untrustworthy, is seeing a DBT therapist who is working to address this belief and help Max see that this expectation is not always accurate. From a DBT perspective, what is the counselor doing?
a. Attempting to relieve client suffering by applying aa strict set of interventions.
b. Providing empathy in order to encourage change.
c. Educating the client on the way the world really is.
d. Working to engage dialectic tension in order achieve synthesis and transcend the tensions.
D
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a. facilitate self-exploration and self-understanding. b. discern the best fit for careers. c. predict success in various work domains. d. match personality with vocation.
Systemic counselors view the family as ___________________________________
a. defensive and unable to change without significant intervention on behalf of the counselor b. continually growing and changing in response to stages of development and unexpected life events c. a dysfunctional system where a deficits-approach is the best way to communicate with the family the areas of change they should focus on d. the enemy of its individual members
Which of the following steps of empathic confrontation includes the Confrontation Client Change Scale (CCS)?
a. listening and observing b. providing feedback on internal and external conflict c. evaluating how the client received the confrontation and whether it led to change d. all of these
Which of the following are important points when arranging an initial appointment?
a) discuss fees b) set clear boundaries for the appointment c) be available whenever the client needs to be seen d) make a contract for the number of sessions counseling will last