This is a copy of the actual test you will take to receive Continuing Education credit for this course. To obtain credit please return to the web site and purchase the test. Commonwealth Educational Seminars Certification Exam Select one response for each question below. Why Do I Keep Doing This To Myself? The Enduring Power of Unresolved Family Issues. (Audio recording/DVD recording) By Robert G. Fox, LICSW and Robin Chalfin, LICSW 1. Robert Fox contends that people with the repetitive compulsion seldom wake up in the morning with the thought that they are going to do things in a better way. a. True b. False 2. Paul Russel says that the repetition compulsion is the result of not learning and in a circular way, the reason why we cannot learn. a. True b. False 3. The repetition compulsion needs to be understood dialectically, but it also needs to be understood in terms of an ongoing circular unfolding. a. True b. False 4. One reason we repeat the same behavior is the hope for the possibility of some genuine healing. a. True b. False 5. When dealing with a fear of abandonment, one seldom makes it happen rather than waiting for the potential outcome to occur. a. True b. False 6. Robin Chalfin found no sustenance in writing when her father disappointed her at a time when she was experiencing medical problems. a. True b. False 7. Chalfin feels that her repetition compulsion is both her pathology and her gift. a. True b. False 8. Fox's first repetition compulsion story is entitled "Me & My Mother". a. True b. False 9. Fox states that one of the great tragedies in his life is that his mother never told him stories. a. True b. False 10. Fox feels that he lost his mother at the age of four. a. True b. False 11. Fox's therapist, in his opinion, loved him enough to challenge him and make him heal. a. True b. False 12. With Fox, nothing came close to the pain of the repetition compulsion. He missed the repetition compulsion. a. True b. False 13. A deeper understanding came to Fox: The need to delight in himself. Not only in terms of what he could offer people, but also in being truly in love with himself. a. True b. False 14. Fox feels that we feel guilty about our repetition compulsions because they don't only hurt us, but they hurt others, too. a. True b. False 15. Rather than talking about "Treating" the repetition compulsion, Fox deals with ways of working with the repetition compulsion. a. True b. False 16. Fox does not feel that his issues stem from an unresolved a. True b. False 17. Fox suggests that it is important to look closely to cultural and developmental aspects of clients' repetition compulsion. a. True b. False 18. The most useful way about learning about a client's repetition compulsion is either seeing it in action or experiencing it in the intersubjective field of transference and counter-transference. a. True b. False 19. Fox suggests that therapists try to have their clients give up their symptoms quickly, since they don't need them. a. True b. False 20. Fox proposes that to be able to laugh at yourself without self-deprecation is an extremely useful thing. a. True b. False 21. Chalfin states that Russell suggests that it is the relationship that replaces the repetition compulsion. a. True b. False 22. Chalfin refers to her client's "self-fulfilling prophecy" of "Let's get it right" which insures that she will always get it wrong. a. True b. False 23. Chalfin tells her client to trust her and to trust the therapy, that she does not respect her mistrust. harder. a. True b. False 24. Chalfin's client was disappointed in the "niceness" of the therapy, as well as the "niceness" of Chalfin. his problem. a. True b. False 25. Chalfin's client began to remember a relationship with her neighbor, Mary, who loved her in a way that neither of her parents did. a. True b. False 26. Chalfin's client remembered a tall pine tree that she was very afraid of as a child. a. True b. False 27. Fox states that he has never experienced interlocking repetition compulsions between himself and his client. a. True b. False 28. Fox realized that his own repetition compulsion led him to become a compulsive rescuer of depressed women. a. True b. False 29. The names for Fox's fictitious couple, Harry and Ethyl, came from the parrots he had as a child. a. True b. False 30. Fox describes "Jody" as a vivacious person, full if ideas and opinions, who is comfortable taking up space. a. True b. False 31. Fox states that a repetition compulsion is not "a thing" that you have, but rather a concept that we have to understand feeling and behavior. a. True b. False