Questions: 1. What are five assessment areas regarding the client's level of vulnerability related to self-esteem? 2. What are three methods for cognitive restructuring to use with self-critical perfectionism? 3. What are five determining factors regarding the strength of self-critical perfectionism? 4. What are three styles of a client self-critical responses? 5. What are three methods of cognitive distortion that affect self-esteem? 6. What are three probe techniques to use with a client experiencing depression and low self-esteem? 7. What are two cognitive restructuring techniques to use with a client experiencing low self-esteem?

Answers: A. pathological practices, ownership of self-critical behaviors, the client’s purposes, problematic situations, and historical influences. B.Key words, the list of Don’ts, and understanding of probing. C. passive response, aggressive response, and passive aggressive response. D. the degree to which issues of taste, personal needs, safety, or good judgment were mislabeled as moral imperatives, the degree to which parents failed to differentiate between behavior and identity, the frequency of the forbidding gestures, the consistency of forbidding gestures, and the frequency with which forbidding gestures were tied to parental anger or withdrawal. E. The Howitzer Mantras. F. self reproach evaluations, personifying the critic, and introducing the healthy voice. G. agreeing in part, agreeing in probability, and agreeing in principle.