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,Test Bank for Clinical Interviewing, 5th EditionBy
John Sommers-Flanagan
Emily Sidor
The University of Montana
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TEST QUESTIONS FOR CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION: PHILOSOPHY AND ORGANIZATION
1. The authors consider it the therapist’s professional responsibility to ___________ client self-
expression.
A. Limit
B. Encourage
C. Forbid
D. Both A and B
E. None of the above
2. What is the first skill interviewers should learn in order to conduct effective clinical interviews?
A. How to focus on their own thoughts and feelings.
B. How to obtain diagnostic and assessment information about their clients.
C. How to quiet themselves and listen to clients.
D. How to build rapport with clients.
E. How to decide which shoes to wear for the first interview.
3. Regardless of their theoretical orientation, what do almost all counselors and psychotherapists
agree on?
A. The need for a structured interviewing style.
B. The importance of developing a positive relationship with clients.
C. The importance of obtaining diagnostic information as soon as possible.
D. The need for the client to modify his or her worldview to fit the interviewer’s perspective.
E. None of the above.
4. Quieting yourself in an interview is important because:
A. It helps clients to open up and express themselves.
B. It allows you to focus more clearly on your own thoughts.
C. It allows you to listen well to the clients.
D. All of the above are correct.
E. Only A and C are correct.
5. A positive working relationship has a better chance of being developed between interviewer and
client if, during the initial interview, the interviewer:
A. Identifies the most appropriate intervention technique to use with the client.
B. Focuses on how to be with the client instead of what to do with the client.
C. Assures the client that his or her problems will be solved.
D. Gives good advice to the client to demonstrate competence and experience.
E. Provides his or her services for free.
6. Students beginning to learn clinical interviewing skills often make the mistake of:
A. Using nondirective listening skills.
B. Not using the correct theoretical orientation.
C. Giving premature advice.
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D. Using the wrong technique at the wrong time.
E. All of the above.
7. When should therapists begin using specific counseling or psychotherapy interventions?
A. Once they have quieted themselves and listened to the client’s communications.
B. Once they have developed a positive relationship with their clients.
C. Once they have identified their client’s needs and therapy goals through diagnostic and
assessment procedures.
D. All of the above.
E. Only A and B.
8. Which of the following can happen if therapists immediately begin using active and directive
interviewing approaches with new clients?
A. Therapists run the risk of appearing insensitive if they don’t start an interview with at
least some nondirective interviewing responses.
B. The therapist has the opportunity to learn about the client in the client’s own words.
C. Therapists can fool the client into thinking they are more experienced than they actually
are.
D. Active and directive interviewing approaches help clients establish feelings and beliefs of
independence.
E. Therapists begin to develop and enhance their own self-awareness.
9. Which of the following is/are true?
A. It is easier and probably preferable to begin an interview with a nondirective approach and
then move toward a directive approach rather than proceeding in the opposite direction.
B. A nondirective approach can help ease an interviewer’s tension and help him or her cope with
the urge to do something during the interview.
C. A nondirective approach places the responsibility for interview progress more squarely on the
client and lessens the chance of an interviewer missing the mark with early questions and
comments.
D. All of these statements are true.
E. Only A and B are true.
10. Which statement is true regarding the comparison of person-centered and psychodynamic
interviewing approaches?
A. Both approaches are basically nondirective or less directive than other approaches.
B. Person-centered approaches are completely nondirective, but psychoanalytic approaches
are completely directive.
C. Both approaches are more on the directive end of the continuum.
D. Person-centered approaches are directive, but psychoanalytic approaches are
nondirective.
E. None of the above are true.
11. For Carl Rogers, expressions of unconditional positive regard, congruence, and accurate empathy
are:
A. Necessary but not sufficient for positive client change.
B. Necessary and sufficient for positive client change.
C. Neither necessary nor sufficient for positive client change.
D. Necessary for billing purposes, because if clients don’t feel respected they’re less likely
to pay their therapist.
E. None of the above are true.
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