Final Exam Family Therapy

Question 1

Acceptance

Answer 1

Neil Jacobson’s term for loving your partner as a complete person and not focusing on differences such as a strategy may promote change in couples. The therapist’s personal and professional comfortableness with a family.

Question 2

act as if

Answer 2

a role-playing strategy where persons act as if they are the persons they want to be ideally.

Question 3

Anatomy of intervention model (AIM)

Answer 3

a cognitive-behavioral strategy where the therapist learns to play many roles and be flexible. It involves five phases: (1) introduction, (2) assessment, (3) motivation, (4) behavior change, and (5) termination

Question 4

Baseline

Answer 4

a recording of the occurrence of targeted behaviors before an intervention is made

Question 5

behavioral therapy

Answer 5

the therapeutic approach that proposes that all behavior is learned and that people act according to how they have been previously reinforced. Behavio9r is maintained by its consequences and will continue unless more rewarding consequences result from new behaviors.

Question 6

behaviorism

Answer 6

a form of treating indivduals where therapists focus on changing observable behaviors through such methods as reinforcement, extinction, and shaping

Question 7

charting

Answer 7

a procedure that involves asking clients to keep an accurate record of problematic behaviors. The idea is to get family members to establish a baseline from which interventions can be made and to show clients how the changes they are making work

Question 8

classical conditioning

Answer 8

the oldest form of behaviorism in which a stimulus that is originally neutral is paired up with another event to elicit certain emotions through association

Question 9

cognitions

Answer 9

thoughts

Question 10

cognitive behavior theory

Answer 10

the idea that the cognitions indivuals hold, shape how they think, feel, and behave

Question 11

cognitive-behavioral family therapy

Answer 11

an approach to working with couples that takes into account the impact of cognitions (ie thoughts) and behaviors on modifying family interactions

Question 12

four phases of sexual responsiveness

Answer 12

excitement, plateau, orgasm, resolution

Question 13

functional family therapy

Answer 13

a type of behavioral family therapy that is basically systemic

Question 14

parent-skills training

Answer 14

a behavioral model in which the therapist serves as a social learning educator whose prime responsibility is to change parent’s responses to a child or children

Question 15

premack principle

Answer 15

a behavioral intervention in which family members must first do less pleasant tasks before they are allowed to engage in pleasurable activities.

Question 16

schema

Answer 16

core beliefs of an individual or couple

Question 17

shame attack

Answer 17

a process within role playing where someone does something he or she has previously dreaded, for example, asking for an allowance. Individuals who use this technique find that when they do not get what they asked for, they are not worse off for having asked.

Question 18

shapinng

Answer 18

the process of learning in small gradual steps; often referred to as successive approximation