River Of Life Professional Counseling

20222024 Rethinking Resistance and Conflict Home Study Test

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Issues and Applications For Spiritual Clients True-False Test

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For each question you will click either true or false for your answer. All questions must be completed and no items can be skipped over. Once completed your results will be sent to River of Life Professional Counseling LLC for our records of completion and for requirements for receiving CEUs for the home study. In addition, you are encouraged at the end of the test to add your e mail so that you can receive a receipt of your test for your records.

1) Defense mechanisms and resistance are to be feared and avoided.

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2) What appears to be resistance may actually give us useful information info. about the ways a client approaches life.

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3) Unchallenged assumptions are deadly to relationships.

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4) Resistance can be diffused by empathy, lack of judgment and a “We” mentality.

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5) Nonverbal communication can either support or counteract verbal exchanges in therapy.

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6) Conflict can be a positive thing.

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7) Closed questions can hinder communication.

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8) Confronting personhood using descriptive adjectives about what we do not like about someone is preferable to confronting behavior.

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9) Problem solving can be done well when we make sure we are dealing with the same issue and keeping decisions focused on desired behaviors.

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10) There are things we can agree upon even in the midst of conflict.

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11) One important consideration is making sure basic human needs like food, water and clothes are met before more complicated needs.

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12) Developing multiple solutions can increase flexibility which indirectly reduces resistance.

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13) The safer method is one way to assess threat and reduce resistance.

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14) Closed questions are better than open ended questions because they reduce the number of possible answers.

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15) Our actions can either attract or push away the positive in our lives and interpersonal relationships.

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16) Empathy involves listening for the other person’s feelings, desires, wants, needs and perceptions.

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17) Planning what to say while another person is speaking is a good way to effectively have a conversation.

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18) All people have the exact same listening style.

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19) People may act resistant because they are used to doing things one way across situations and believe that it is actually work for them even when it is toxic.

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20) Keep in mind that when many people are escalated they find it difficult to self soothe.

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21) The defense mechanisms a client may use and session are frequently the ones he or she has used in his or her life.

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22) Once clients identify defense mechanisms they are easily ready to change them.

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23) It may take time before a client realizes the defense mechanisms in resistance are not working.

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24) If clients and therapists believe they are consenting to different things there may be resistance.

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25) A good starting place in therapy is for a therapist and client to set as a treatment goal the smallest thing they both agree to.

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26) Much resistance is related to the feeling unsure and to if he or she matters to anyone or if he/she has a useful purpose in life.

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27) Shame based internal messages may be at the root of some resistance.

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28) Resiliency cannot be cultivated with clients who are not born with this skill.

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29) Therapist irrational cognitions related to burnout can be as much responsible for resistance as other client factors.

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30) There are a number of practical things that both clients and therapists can do to reduce possible resistance.

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