Author Question: Regarding client contact, client-centered therapy recommends a. weekly meetings with the client, ... (Read 159 times)

LaDunn · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Regarding client contact, client-centered therapy recommends

a. weekly meetings with the client, with no extra sessions and no phone calls/e-mails/texts between sessions.
b. weekly meetings with the client, with extra sessions as needed but no phone calls/e-mails/texts between sessions.
c. weekly meetings with the client, with no extra sessions but phone calls/e-mails/texts between sessions, as needed.
d. weekly meetings with the client, with extra sessions as needed as well as phone calls/e-mails/texts between sessions, as needed.

Question 2

A client who is afraid of flying describes a recent episode in which his/her job required her to take a one-hour flight. A client-centered therapist is most likely to respond by

a. acknowledging the anxiety that the client must have felt .
b. pointing out to the client that he/she survived the flight and no catastrophe occurred, thus challenging the belief that flying is dangerous.
c. offering social reinforcements including smiles and compliments to increase the likelihood that the client will fly again.
d. offering the interpretation that the client's fear of flying may actually be a response (reaction formation) to an unconscious wish to fly away from home.