THEORY AND PRACTICE OF COUNSELLING
AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 10TH EDITION| TEST
BANK COREY ALL CHAPTERS COMBINED
WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TESTED
AND APPROVED 2026 LATEST
Introduction and Overview: Chapters 01
1. Which approach was developed during the 1940s as a nondirective reaction against
psychoanalysis? a. person-centered therapy
b. family systems therapy
c. Adlerian therapy
d. reality therapy
e. cognitive therapy
ANS: A PG: 10
2. Francesca, a cognitive behavioral therapist, likes to give homework assignments to her
clients. What might her rationale be for doing this?
a. Homework can be a vehicle for assisting her clients in putting into action what they
are learning in therapy.
b. By assigning homework to her clients, she establishes her clear authority over them
(as if she is their teacher).
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,c. She is probably a novice therapist who is insecure about her skills; thus, by assigning
homework, she may feel like she is being more productive.
d. In order to be reimbursed by insurance companies, Francesca is required to give her
clients homework assignments.
ANS: A PG: 6
3. Which of the following statements best describes the author’s view of the medical model?
a. Corey appreciates the focus on psychopathology and believes it gives clinicians the
tools to assess what’s wrong with clients.
b. A focus on the medical model restricts therapeutic practice because it stresses deficits
rather than strengths.
c. The medical model emphasizes strengths and competencies rather than
psychopathology.
d. The medical model is especially relevant for culturally diverse client populations.
ANS: B PG: 7
4. A comprehensive approach to counseling:
a. goes beyond focusing on our internal dynamics and addresses those environmental
and systemic realities that influence us.
b. focuses almost exclusively on the client’s internal dynamics.
c. focuses primarily on the therapist’s internal reactions to the client’s behavior.
d. focuses only on systemic factors.
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, ANS: A PG: 7
5. Effective psychotherapy is a practice in which:
a. the therapist solves problems for clients.
b. the therapist is merely a skilled technician.
c. the client and therapist collaborate in co-constructing solutions to problems.
d. the client is in complete control of the direction of the therapy.
ANS: C PG: 7
6. Which of the following is not an issue that Stan struggles with?
a. fear of being alone
b. fear of intimate relationships with women
c. substance use
d. lacking a sense of direction and meaning in his life
e. aggressive outbursts
ANS: E PG: 14
7. Synthesizing the approaches covered in the text:
a. can easily be accomplished after taking an introductory course.
b. is usually mastered by the end of the first year of one’s graduate program.
c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling experience.
d. rarely, if ever, happens and is a completely unrealistic goal.
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, ANS: C PG: 5
8. Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented
therapy? a. Gestalt therapy
b. family systems therapy
c. existential approach
d. person-centered approach
ANS: B PG: 10
9. Which one of the following is not associated with the cognitive-behavioral action-
oriented therapies?
a. existential therapy
b. cognitive therapy
c. reality therapy
d. behavior therapy
e. rational emotive behavior therapy
ANS: A PG: 10
10. Which humanistic approach emphasizes the basic attitudes of the therapist as the core
of the therapeutic process? a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. Adlerian therapy
c. person-centered therapy
d. cognitive-behavioral therapy
e. family therapy
ANS: C PG: 12
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AND PSYCHOTHERAPY 10TH EDITION| TEST
BANK COREY ALL CHAPTERS COMBINED
WITH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TESTED
AND APPROVED 2026 LATEST
Introduction and Overview: Chapters 01
1. Which approach was developed during the 1940s as a nondirective reaction against
psychoanalysis? a. person-centered therapy
b. family systems therapy
c. Adlerian therapy
d. reality therapy
e. cognitive therapy
ANS: A PG: 10
2. Francesca, a cognitive behavioral therapist, likes to give homework assignments to her
clients. What might her rationale be for doing this?
a. Homework can be a vehicle for assisting her clients in putting into action what they
are learning in therapy.
b. By assigning homework to her clients, she establishes her clear authority over them
(as if she is their teacher).
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,c. She is probably a novice therapist who is insecure about her skills; thus, by assigning
homework, she may feel like she is being more productive.
d. In order to be reimbursed by insurance companies, Francesca is required to give her
clients homework assignments.
ANS: A PG: 6
3. Which of the following statements best describes the author’s view of the medical model?
a. Corey appreciates the focus on psychopathology and believes it gives clinicians the
tools to assess what’s wrong with clients.
b. A focus on the medical model restricts therapeutic practice because it stresses deficits
rather than strengths.
c. The medical model emphasizes strengths and competencies rather than
psychopathology.
d. The medical model is especially relevant for culturally diverse client populations.
ANS: B PG: 7
4. A comprehensive approach to counseling:
a. goes beyond focusing on our internal dynamics and addresses those environmental
and systemic realities that influence us.
b. focuses almost exclusively on the client’s internal dynamics.
c. focuses primarily on the therapist’s internal reactions to the client’s behavior.
d. focuses only on systemic factors.
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, ANS: A PG: 7
5. Effective psychotherapy is a practice in which:
a. the therapist solves problems for clients.
b. the therapist is merely a skilled technician.
c. the client and therapist collaborate in co-constructing solutions to problems.
d. the client is in complete control of the direction of the therapy.
ANS: C PG: 7
6. Which of the following is not an issue that Stan struggles with?
a. fear of being alone
b. fear of intimate relationships with women
c. substance use
d. lacking a sense of direction and meaning in his life
e. aggressive outbursts
ANS: E PG: 14
7. Synthesizing the approaches covered in the text:
a. can easily be accomplished after taking an introductory course.
b. is usually mastered by the end of the first year of one’s graduate program.
c. often requires many years of study, training, and practical counseling experience.
d. rarely, if ever, happens and is a completely unrealistic goal.
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, ANS: C PG: 5
8. Which one of the following is not considered an experiential and relationship-oriented
therapy? a. Gestalt therapy
b. family systems therapy
c. existential approach
d. person-centered approach
ANS: B PG: 10
9. Which one of the following is not associated with the cognitive-behavioral action-
oriented therapies?
a. existential therapy
b. cognitive therapy
c. reality therapy
d. behavior therapy
e. rational emotive behavior therapy
ANS: A PG: 10
10. Which humanistic approach emphasizes the basic attitudes of the therapist as the core
of the therapeutic process? a. psychoanalytic therapy
b. Adlerian therapy
c. person-centered therapy
d. cognitive-behavioral therapy
e. family therapy
ANS: C PG: 12
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