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A psychodynamic therapist pays close attention to her own reactions to each client. She uses her reactions to clients as a source of clinical material about the relational patterns of the clients. In one word, please name the concept that best captures the therapist’s approach:    

Please choose ONE of the three questions below and write a short essay (no more than 2-3 paragraphs) in response to this question. 1. Please describe monocultural versus multicultural perspectives. Choose one of these theories: psychodynamic, attachment, Adlerian, person-centered, or existential. If you consider this theory through a multicultural lens, what stands out as TWO strengths and TWO limitations of this approach? If you were to adopt this approach for your clinical practice, how would you modify it to make it more applicable to all people? 2. Please explain the concepts of transference and resistance, and describe how these concepts are used in psychodynamic/psychoanalytic therapy. (You can choose one type of psychodynamic therapy or you can approach it more broadly.) Imagine that you work with Ruth in counseling. Hypothetically, how might transference and resistance manifest during your work with her? How could you apply these concepts in your work with Ruth? 3. Please name and briefly explain four “existential givens” of human condition. If you were to work with Ruth  in counseling, what therapeutic goals would you pursue for each of these givens and why? Be careful to answer all parts of the question you choose to write about. Enter ONE short essay here:

46) Kepler’s 1st Law of planetary motion states that

At what angle between the sound beam and the direction of motion will the Doppler shift be maximum?

23) Beneath the surface or which moon of Jupiter is there the strongest evidence for the existence of a subsurface ocean of liquid water?

15) A rock sample contains 1/4 micrograms of the parent radioactive isotope Potassium-40 and 3/4 micrograms of its daughter isotope Argon-40. If the half-life of this decay is 1.25 giga (or USA billion) years, how old is this rock?

34) Isotopes have the same number of

3) Who discovered that Jupiter has moons?

11) Mafic (lava) is a term derived by contracting “magnesium” and “ferric”; it is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or rock that is rich in magnesium and:

17) Asteroids and comets are