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    You are a client seeing de Shazer for a common anxiety issue. What might he ask to get you to focus on a positive future and determine what is causing the anxiety? 

Neal has chosen to go see a feminist therapist. What distinct therapy quality(ies) do you suppose he’s likely to experience during his feminist therapy sessions?

Which constructive therapy approach explicitly emphasizes that clients don’t need to know anything about why or how their problem originated and therapists don’t need to know anything about how clients’ problems developed?

What technique was Jay Haley using when he told a woman whose husband chased her around the room with an ax that he was just “trying to get closer to her”?

Glasser believes that children and teens become too focused on freedom and power only when which other human need isn’t being adequately met?

Creativity in humans is directly related to which of Glasser’s five basic needs?

_________________ is an example of a paradoxical intervention used in strategic family therapy. 

In the Johnson family, it’s common for Mom to vent to her teenage daughter about her less than satisfying sex life. This is an example of:

What do constructivists mean when they say that therapists are not simply “taking history,” but are “making history”?

Carol Gilligan’s work with Kohlberg on moral development led her to: