ISSA TRANSFORMATION SPECIALIST EXAMS SCRIPT
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Positive psychology is now widely referred to as a _____________________. -
✔✔Strengths-based approach
✔✔The premise of positive psychology is that through _____________________ we
raise our levels of happiness, such that we move past simply surviving, to a state of
thriving (or flourishing). - ✔✔Identifying, cultivating and expressing our strengths
✔✔Positive psychology looks to adversity as __________________. - ✔✔A catalyst for
growth
✔✔Attributional styles are measured through __________________. - ✔✔The
Optimism test*
✔✔A pessimistic explanatory style interprets bad events ____________________. -
✔✔In permanent, pervasive and personal ways
✔✔: Optimists explain good events in ______________. - ✔✔Permanent, pervasive,
and personal ways
✔✔: Which is NOT a way to teach your client to think more optimistically? - ✔✔Find
ambivalence
✔✔According to positive psychology, weakness arise _______________________. -
✔✔Out of a failure to fully develop and express strengths
✔✔Which is NOT a domain of post-traumatic growth? - ✔✔Deepened sense of control
✔✔Which is NOT a way to use setbacks to build your client's strengths? - ✔✔Identify
problem areas
✔✔Which is NOT an element of flourishing? - ✔✔Admiration of others
✔✔Which is NOT a way to use flourishing to boost your client's mood? - ✔✔Identify and
overcome barriers
✔✔Attributions reflect the client's ______________________. - ✔✔Explanatory style
✔✔Clients who give up easily tend to explain things to themselves in ______________.
- ✔✔Permanent ways
, ✔✔Those who make __________________ explanations for failures give up on
everything when failure strikes. - ✔✔Universal
✔✔Personalization describes what a person ______________ while permanence and
pervasiveness describe what a person _______________. - ✔✔Thinks, will do
✔✔Research on the Optimism Test has demonstrated consistently is that no single
score is as important as ____________________. - ✔✔The hope score
✔✔For pessimists, the real problem is _____________________. - ✔✔Thinking in rigid,
inflexible ways
✔✔: Which is helpful for pessimists? - ✔✔To improve their tolerance for uncertainty
✔✔Client strengths are measured through which test? - ✔✔The brief strength inventory
✔✔Helping your clients become more _____________ with their strengths and
identifying ways to _____________ them is a way to boost optimism. - ✔✔Familiar,
express
✔✔Which is NOT an exercise used to increase positive emotions? - ✔✔Shift
personalization
✔✔A Relationship Litmus Test is as way to_________________. - ✔✔Improve
relationships
✔✔Which of the following is a way to increase your client's sense of meaning? - ✔✔Re-
aligning priorities
✔✔Which is of the following is a way to increase client achievement? - ✔✔Chunking
✔✔Self-control appears to be ___________________. - ✔✔A limited resource
✔✔Hyperbolic discounting describes a phenomenon where in the present the benefits
of a decision (such as going jogging in the morning) outweigh the costs, yet, over time,
the benefits will ____________ and the costs will increase, until the decision is no
longer favorable to us. - ✔✔Decrease
✔✔Temptation costs refer to the _______________ costs of avoiding temptations -
✔✔Psychological
✔✔: The long run self can exert control over impulses while the short run self often
_______________. - ✔✔Falls prey to impulses
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Positive psychology is now widely referred to as a _____________________. -
✔✔Strengths-based approach
✔✔The premise of positive psychology is that through _____________________ we
raise our levels of happiness, such that we move past simply surviving, to a state of
thriving (or flourishing). - ✔✔Identifying, cultivating and expressing our strengths
✔✔Positive psychology looks to adversity as __________________. - ✔✔A catalyst for
growth
✔✔Attributional styles are measured through __________________. - ✔✔The
Optimism test*
✔✔A pessimistic explanatory style interprets bad events ____________________. -
✔✔In permanent, pervasive and personal ways
✔✔: Optimists explain good events in ______________. - ✔✔Permanent, pervasive,
and personal ways
✔✔: Which is NOT a way to teach your client to think more optimistically? - ✔✔Find
ambivalence
✔✔According to positive psychology, weakness arise _______________________. -
✔✔Out of a failure to fully develop and express strengths
✔✔Which is NOT a domain of post-traumatic growth? - ✔✔Deepened sense of control
✔✔Which is NOT a way to use setbacks to build your client's strengths? - ✔✔Identify
problem areas
✔✔Which is NOT an element of flourishing? - ✔✔Admiration of others
✔✔Which is NOT a way to use flourishing to boost your client's mood? - ✔✔Identify and
overcome barriers
✔✔Attributions reflect the client's ______________________. - ✔✔Explanatory style
✔✔Clients who give up easily tend to explain things to themselves in ______________.
- ✔✔Permanent ways
, ✔✔Those who make __________________ explanations for failures give up on
everything when failure strikes. - ✔✔Universal
✔✔Personalization describes what a person ______________ while permanence and
pervasiveness describe what a person _______________. - ✔✔Thinks, will do
✔✔Research on the Optimism Test has demonstrated consistently is that no single
score is as important as ____________________. - ✔✔The hope score
✔✔For pessimists, the real problem is _____________________. - ✔✔Thinking in rigid,
inflexible ways
✔✔: Which is helpful for pessimists? - ✔✔To improve their tolerance for uncertainty
✔✔Client strengths are measured through which test? - ✔✔The brief strength inventory
✔✔Helping your clients become more _____________ with their strengths and
identifying ways to _____________ them is a way to boost optimism. - ✔✔Familiar,
express
✔✔Which is NOT an exercise used to increase positive emotions? - ✔✔Shift
personalization
✔✔A Relationship Litmus Test is as way to_________________. - ✔✔Improve
relationships
✔✔Which of the following is a way to increase your client's sense of meaning? - ✔✔Re-
aligning priorities
✔✔Which is of the following is a way to increase client achievement? - ✔✔Chunking
✔✔Self-control appears to be ___________________. - ✔✔A limited resource
✔✔Hyperbolic discounting describes a phenomenon where in the present the benefits
of a decision (such as going jogging in the morning) outweigh the costs, yet, over time,
the benefits will ____________ and the costs will increase, until the decision is no
longer favorable to us. - ✔✔Decrease
✔✔Temptation costs refer to the _______________ costs of avoiding temptations -
✔✔Psychological
✔✔: The long run self can exert control over impulses while the short run self often
_______________. - ✔✔Falls prey to impulses
