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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:

Which of the following is the best description of William Glasser’s views on mental illness?

Stan’s counselor is practicing reality therapy. One thing Stan has noticed is that his therapist is not inclined to discuss past events . . . with one exception. What type of past event do you think Stan’s reality therapist is interested in talking about?