Few counseling courses ask you to hold so many competing vocabularies in your head at once. Theories of Psychotherapy & Counseling: Concepts and Cases, 5th Edition by Richard S. Sharf works through a dozen major approaches, each with its own account of what has gone wrong in a person’s life and its own name for the remedy. Exams rarely ask for a definition in isolation; they quote a few lines of what a therapist said and expect you to identify whose chair she is sitting in.
Why this test bank helps
Sensing that an intervention sounds Gestalt is not the same as being able to say why it is not Adlerian. The rationale under each item names the concept that decides the answer: the mechanism of change the approach claims, the language it uses for the problem, the role it assigns the therapist. Reading those explanations builds the comparative map the case questions depend on, and it is the same map you use in practice when matching an approach to a presenting problem.
What’s inside
- Coverage that tracks the chapters in order, so each week’s reading has a matching set of practice items.
- Several question formats — multiple choice, true/false, matching and brief written responses.
- An explanation attached to every item, naming the concept the question was actually testing.
- Case-style items that hand you a therapist’s words or a client’s presentation and ask which approach is at work.
- A single organized PDF file, available for download as soon as checkout finishes.
Topics covered
- Psychoanalytic approaches — drives and defenses, transference and countertransference, object relations and self psychology
- Jungian analytic therapy — archetypes, the collective unconscious, individuation and psychological types
- Adlerian therapy — inferiority feelings, style of life, early recollections, social interest and encouragement
- Existential and person-centered work — meaning, freedom and responsibility, and the conditions of empathy, congruence and unconditional positive regard
- Gestalt therapy — awareness and contact, unfinished business, and experiments such as the empty chair
- Behavioral and cognitive therapies — conditioning and exposure, the ABC model, cognitive distortions and disputing
- Reality and feminist therapy — choice theory and the WDEP system, gender-role analysis and power in the relationship
- Family systems and integration — structural, strategic and Bowenian concepts, theory selection, research support and ethics
Who it’s for
Graduate counseling, clinical psychology and social work students in a theories of counseling or psychotherapy course using this edition, and anyone revising theory coverage before a comprehensive examination.
How to use it (the right way)
Cover the reading before you open the questions, then sit a set closed-book and time it roughly as your instructor would. Mark the items you guessed, not only the ones you missed, and read every rationale afterwards — the explanation is where the learning is. This is a study aid, and it belongs inside your institution’s academic-integrity policy, as revision rather than a shortcut around the coursework or anything carried into a graded assessment.
Sample question (shows the format — your download contains the full set)
Q. A therapist asks a client to speak directly to an empty chair representing her late father, then to change seats and answer as he might have. Which approach does this experiment come from?
- A. Person-centered therapy
- B. Gestalt therapy
- C. Rational emotive behavior therapy
- D. Reality therapy
Answer: B. The empty-chair experiment is a Gestalt method for bringing unfinished business into present awareness and making a split in the client’s experience available for contact. A is non-directive by design and would not assign a structured exercise. C would identify the irrational belief behind the distress and dispute it directly. D would concentrate on present choices and what the client is doing to meet her needs, not on dialogue with a figure from the past.
Edition & format
- Matches: Theories of Psychotherapy & Counseling: Concepts and Cases, 5th Edition, by Richard S. Sharf.
- Format: Digital PDF, delivered instantly after checkout.
- Access: Lifetime — re-download from your account whenever you need it.
Editions of this title do not line up chapter for chapter. Check that the edition and ISBN above are the ones on your syllabus before ordering.
Frequently asked questions
Which edition does this match? The 5th Edition, ISBN 9780840034625. Other editions of the same title are listed separately, because their chapters do not line up.
How is the file delivered? Instantly, as a digital download from the confirmation page, with a permanent copy kept in your account.
Is there an explanation for each item? Yes. Every question has a rationale under it, so a missed answer tells you which idea to go back to.
Is using a test bank allowed? As a study aid it works like any other practice resource. Follow your institution’s academic-integrity policy, and never take the material into a graded assessment.
Other books for the same sequence are listed under Counseling & Education Test Banks.
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