When therapists minimize, reassure, explain, or simply move away ...

[craiczarry]

When therapists minimize, reassure, explain, or simply move away from a client's painful feelings, it is often because:
 
  A) they feel responsible for causing the client's painful expressions.
  B) their reaction evokes a countertransference response.
  C) they feel responsible for alleviating their pain, but don't quite know how.
  D) both they feel responsible for causing the client's painful expressions and they feel responsible for alleviating their pain, but don't quite know how are correct.

Question 2

According to Beck's hot cognitions, it is when that clients are most apt to distort or misperceive the therapist's response and slot it to fit old expectations.
 
  A) a client has a significant lack of trust in the therapist
  B) strong feelings have been triggered
  C) a client perceives an inauthentic connection with the therapist
  D) a client feels sequestered in their own experiences

[aliotak]

Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

B