8.Awareness - and Working with Interruptions in the Cycle

Module Eight Quiz

Please complete the following quiz. Answers are either multiple choice or True/False. You will be shown incorrect answers and be able to retake the quiz if necessary. You will need 70% to pass each module. You may go back any time before finishing the quiz and change your answers. (The first question -- your name -- doesn't count!) . If you do not pass the quiz, please go back to the original link and begin again.

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* 1. Please type in your name

Name

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* 2. Our bodies hold all the manifestations of the ways we’ve had to disconnect from our own drives for completion. The smallest flinches, constrictions, slumps, incongruent smiles, and tensions reveal the efforts needed to protect from full engagement. These can become habitual and can guide the therapeutic focus to the old need to disconnect.

True

False

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* 3. We disconnect to protect from discomfort and danger, or the expectation of that. Common dynamics of disconnection include:

a. Deflection - changing the subject

b. Projection - perhaps with blaming

c. Minimizing - “I don’t care” arises in the midst of a struggle to face something important

d. Placating, or going along to avoid conflict

e. Spacing out

f. A, C and E

g. All of the above

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* 4. Which of the following is not an example of disconnecting?

“I’m so over that,” while there is tension.

A shrug shows up in the midst of fighting a loss.

Your client does not finish their own sentence.

Your client starts to say “I don’t know”, but pauses and says, “No, wait. I do know.”

Your client does something new, and says “That wasn’t me. That was lucky.”

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* 5. In the case of “Jerry,” the shift from “content to process” happened when:

a. Jerry had new insights from simply telling the same story over again

b. The therapist brought awareness to Jerry’s voice getting softer and how his throat tightened up as he spoke of his wife’s anger.

c. With more somatic awareness of himself, Jerry spontaneously connected with his own anger, fear, and sense of not knowing what to do.

d. Jerry realized that his wife has a personality disorder

e. B and C

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* 6. Which of the following are true?

a. It is the therapist’s job create the drive for completion in their clients.

b. The drive for completion already exists in our nature. We get to take advantage of it.

c. As therapists, we can co-create the conditions in which awareness can be sustained with enough resilience to allow the cycle of experience to be well engaged.

d. Our drive for completion can push all the way through on its own, when there is sufficient resiliency.

e. B, C, and D