Working with Self-Esteem in Psychotherapy: Questions

Working with Self-Esteem in Psychotherapy appeared in Hatherleigh's Quarterly Series Directions in Clinical Psychology. The following preface appeared in front of the text under the title "Questions based on this lesson."

1. Direct expressions of low self-esteem.
2. Attempts to deny low self-esteem.
3. Direct expressions of excessively high self-esteem.
4. Unrelated to self-esteem.

1. Tangible achievement is the most important prerequisite of acquiring self-esteem.
2. Healthy parenting skills, in which parents model healthy self-esteem, guarantees that children will develop healthy self-concepts.
3. The higher a client's self-esteem, the more inclined he or she will be to form nourishing rather than toxic relationships.
4. Clients with an individualistic perspective tend to be antisocial and deny the importance of generosity and social cooperation.

1. The refuse to regard part of ourselves as "alien."
2. The acquisition of a sense of control over one's actions.
3. Honoring one's needs, values, and convictions, and expressing them appropriately.
4. The integration of one' s values, ideals, and convictions into everyday actions.

1. The technique illustrates that there is no real connection between thought and feeling.
2. Sentence completion can be used during group therapy to help set action plans.
3. The process acts as a stimulus to new associations that might not be made manifest in the course of therapy.
4. Using sentence completion can allow the client to come up with insights on his or her own, rather than by simply listening to the therapist -- a process at facilitates gradual self-esteem building.