Family & Couples Treatment

Question 1

Family and Couples

Choose the correct “Identified Client”

Answer 1

It may be one member or more. Once you’ve chosen the identified client (PPL), your answer must match the identified client

Question 2

Identified Family Member

Answer 2

Normally the one who is in crisis or the center of the problem, “Hot Seat” displays issues/problems. then your answer should address the family as a whole unit.

Question 3

Structural Family Therapy

Theorist - Minuchin

Answer 3

The goal is to promote restructuring the family system by establishing subsets/boundaries to avoid enmeshment

Question 4

Enmeshment

Answer 4

Defined as having no clear boundaries, overly dependent

Question 5

Triangulation

Answer 5

When one family member communicates to another family member through a third family member.
Ex: child caught in the middle of parent’s argument

Question 6

Couples Therapy

Answer 6

understand and resolve conflicts to improve the relationships (same rule applies to couples)

Question 7

Paradoxical Directive

Answer 7

Instructing clients to continue their maladaptive behaviors with the goal of bringing about awareness & change.
Ex: “A method used in marital therapy: instruct couple to continue bickering, to allow them to become aware of their behaviors and develop solutions.”