Chapter 14 - Family Therapy Systems

Question 1

The various approaches to family systems represent a paradigm shift that we might even call the “third force.”

T/F

Answer 1

FALSE

Question 2

The emergence of feminist and postmodern models in therapy has moved the field of family therapy toward more egalitarian, collaborative, cooperative, co-constructing relationships.
a. True
b. False

Answer 2

TRUE

Question 3

Experiential family therapy relies on the expert use of directives aimed at changing dysfunctional patterns.
a. True
b. False

Answer 3

FALSE

Question 4

A multilayered approach to family therapy is best supported by a collaborative therapist–client relationship in which mutual respect, caring, empathy, and a genuine interest in others is primary.
a. True
b. False

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

Conducting an assessment is one of the phases of the mutilayered perspective in family therapy.
a. True
b. False

Answer 5

TRUE

Question 6

The various approaches to family systems focus on the relational aspects of human problems.
a. True
b. False

Answer 6

TRUE

Question 7

In terms of assessment, it is useful to inquire about family perspectives on issues inherent in each of the layers.
a. True
b. False

Answer 7

TRUE

Question 8

The family therapist’s skill in communicating that understanding and empathy through active listening lays the foundation for an effective working relationship.
a. True
b. False

Answer 8

TRUE

Question 9

All change in human systems starts with understanding and accepting things just as they are.
a. True
b. False

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

A family systems perspective holds that individuals are best understood through assessing the interactions between and among family members.
a. True
b. False

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

By the late 1970s, the most used models in family systems therapy is
a. structural-strategic approaches.
b. Adlerian family approaches.
c. structural family therapy.
d. strategic therapy.

Answer 11

A) a structural-strategic approach

Question 12

One of the strengths of the systemic perspective in working from a multicultural framework is that
a. ethnic and cultural groups do not place any value on the extended family.
b. all ethnic groups place minimal value on extended family.
c. many ethnic and cultural groups place great value on the extended family.
d. all cultural groups place minimal value on extended family.

Answer 12

B)

Question 13

What do systemic approaches focus different from individual therapeutic approaches?
a. Transgenerational perspectives
b. Individual experiences and perspectives
c. Diagnosis
d. Problematic behaviors

Answer 13

a. Transgenerational perspectives

Question 14

Which model emphasizes communication and emotional experiencing?
a. Multigenerational family therapy
b. Structural family therapy
c. Human validation process model
d. Structural-strategic therapy

Answer 14

c. Human validation process model

Question 15

In what way postmodern approaches to family therapy are similar to narrative therapy?
a. Emphasizing the authority of the therapist
b. Reducing the power and impact of the therapist
c. Using assessment as the therapeutic tool
d. Identifying the limitations and capacities of each member

Answer 15

b. Reducing the power and impact of the therapist

Question 16

The systemic therapist may do all of the following except
a. focusing on the cause, purposes, and cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes involved in the client’s problems.
b. inviting family members into therapy with the client.
c. focusing on the family relationships within which the continuation of the client’s problem “makes sense.”
d. exploring the system for family process and rules, perhaps using a genogram.

Answer 16

a. focusing on the cause, purposes, and cognitive, emotional, and behavioral processes involved in the client’s problems.

Question 17

Which of the following questions a structural-strategic therapist might not ask when assessing families?
a. “What were the routines that made up your neighborhood’s lifestyle, and what rules were created?”
b. “What were common interactional sequences in your family?”
c. “What rules and boundaries were set around each subsystem?”
d. “Who was aligned with whom, and what did they use that alignment to achieve?”

Answer 17

a. “What were the routines that made up your neighborhood’s lifestyle, and what rules were created?”

Question 18

A basic assumption within the family system is that
a. an individual’s problematic behavior only grows out of the interactional unit of the family.
b. an individual’s problematic behavior grows out of the interactional unit of the family as well as the larger community and societal systems.
c. an individual’s problematic behavior grows out of the interactional unit of the family and not societal systems.
d. an individual’s problematic behavior only grows out of the interaction with the larger community.

Answer 18

b. an individual’s problematic behavior grows out of the interactional unit of the family as well as the larger community and societal systems.

Question 19

The focus of family therapy includes all of the following except
a. resolution of problematic symptoms with brief interventions.
b. here-and-now interactions in the family system.
c. identification of problem behaviors.
d. proposition of action-oriented solutions.

Answer 19

c. identification of problem behaviors

Question 20

Within the field of family therapy, ________________has been the most influential leader in the development of both gender and cultural perspectives and frameworks in family practice.
a. Monica McGoldrick
b. Michele Weiner-Davis
c. John Gottman
d. Jay Haley

Answer 20

a) monica mcgoldrick

Question 21

Which of the following functions would be most atypical of a structural family therapist?
a. Obtaining an accurate diagnosis using the DSM-5
b. Intervening in ways designed to transform an ineffective structure of a family
c. Mapping the underlying structure of a family
d. Joining the family in a position of leadership

Answer 21

a. Obtaining an accurate diagnosis using the DSM-5

Question 22

Family therapy often incorporates which of the following to bring multiple perspectives to the work?
a. Family directives
b. Passive audience
c. Reflecting teams
d. Experts

Answer 22

c) reflecting teams

Question 23

__________ is/are determined by the practitioner’s orientation or by a collaborative process between family and therapist.
a. Techniques
b. Interventions
c. Treatment
d. Specific goals

Answer 23

D) specific goals

Question 24

The central principle agreed upon by family therapy practitioners, regardless of their approach, is that the client
a. is connected to living systems.
b. is not connected to living systems.
c. is at fault for the problems.
d. must understand differences in the living system in order to create healthy relationships.

Answer 24

a) is connected to living systems

Question 25

__________ is/are based on the subjective descriptions that family members use to define themselves and the interactions that occur in everyday life.
a. Interventions
b. Assessment
c. Diagnosis
d. Therapeutic techniques

Answer 25

b) assessment

Question 26

What is Cybernetics?
First-order cybernetics views the counselor and therapist as an observer and in second-order cybernetics the family practitioner becomes part of the family system

Family therapists cannot be in charge of the people, but they need to be in charge of the process; that is, they own the responsibility for how therapy is conducted.

Answer 26

Cybernetics is the study of principles governing goal-directed, self-regulating, information-processing systems (artificial and living). Originating in the 1940s, it helped shape the cognitive revolution in psychology and has provided insight into cognition and the control of behavior.