River Of Life Professional Counseling
Building Intimacy In Couples Home Study Test 20202022
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Home Study Test: Cultural Questions 1-15
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1. Intimacy with couples is really about developing skills for becoming more physically close.
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2. Intimacy involved not only physical touch but also dynamics of communication, listening and paraphrasing, conflict management, and forgiveness.
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Describing your partner’s personality in terms of descriptive adjectives is helpful.
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4. Research suggests that building friendship and planning for conflict are two areas that increase the likelihood of healthy couple’s relationships.
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5. It is useful to help couples identify the cognitive thought errors in each other.
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6. It is best for each individual to identify their own thought errors and use cognitive debating skills to challenge them.
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7. It is not as much about what actually happens to us and what we tell ourselves about what happens to us.
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8. Understanding what situations increased feelings of vulnerability and verbalizing thus to one’s partner assists in problem solving in marriage.
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9. Attributions and assumptions are usually on target with healthy couples because they know each other very well.
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10. The territorial method of counseling looks at who owns the task as well as who executes the task.
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11. It is useful to facilitate discussion of what each partner believes the value of his or her roles and tasks is.
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12. I messages are preferrable in communication because the speaker talks only form his or her point of view, they are concise, and they speak in terms of desired behavior.
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13. The communication game is a variation of the I message in which each partner attempts to understand and paraphrase what the other is saying.
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14. Listening to the speaker involves hearing their feelings, experience, behaviors, and thoughts and beliefs.
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15. The listener should always be figuring out what he or he is going to say next while the speaker is talking.
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Questions 15-20: Cultural Home Study Test
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16. Developing a “we against others” attitude builds healthy relationships
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17. The four horsemen are all a problem because they communicate disrespect to the other in the relationship.-
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18. The STOP-DROP-SWAP steps assist in increasing healthy engagement in relationships.
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19. Asking your partner for behavior change in terms of “would you be willing to ______” is the best way to approach concerns.-
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20. The word “no” is always one word that should be avoided.
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21. Setting boundaries and using a healthy “no” can be some of the most loving things people can do.-
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22. Research has found that men and women listen differently so starting with the end result and goal is helpful when speaking with men.
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23. Everyone communicates love in the same ways.
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24. It is important to find out clients’ operational definitions of love, good communication, trust and other words that may have a different connotation for each of them.
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25. Most of the statements we initially tell ourselves have some lie and some truth in them so we have to learn skills to tell ourselves the whole truth.
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26. To increase the likelihood of follow through on behavioral goals it is helpful for people to be very specific about what concrete behaviors are being addressed.
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27. It is possible for couples to decide on a plan for conflict management ahead of time.
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28. Solution focused approaches which highlight what couples are doing well are just as important as building skills in areas the couple is deficient in.
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29. Forgiveness of offenses means creating a plan for getting back to the relationship exactly as it was before the offense.-
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30. One exercise for building intimacy is to facilitate discussion about the turn ons and turn offs which each of the five senses.
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