Group and Family Therapy

Question 1

He is a leading figure in the interpersonal
approach to group therapy

Answer 1

Irvin Yalom

Question 2

It is practiced in a wide variety of forms, including adaptations of many well-known individual therapy approaches such as psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic-existential, and many others

Answer 2

Group therapy

Question 3

The group therapy experience itself is based on interacting with other

Answer 3

Interpersonal interaction

Question 4

11 Therapeutic Factos in Group Therapy

Answer 4

1. Instillation of hope
2. Universality
3. Imparting information
4. Altruism
5. Corrective recapitulation of the
   primary family group
6. Development of socializing
   techniques
7. Imitative behavior
8. Interpersonal learning
9. Group cohesiveness
10. Catharsis
11. Existential factors

Question 5

To find oneself in a room full of other people who have similar problems can be uplifting in and of itself.

Answer 5

Universality

Question 6

Their symptoms may differ superficially, the fundamental issues that underlie them may in fact be quite similar.

Answer 6

Heterogeneous group

Question 7

The feelings of interconnectedness among group members.

Answer 7

Group cohesiveness

Question 8

Learning from the in-group interpersonal experience

Answer 8

Interpersonal Learning

Question 9

Relationship tendencies that characterize clients’ relationships with important people in their personal lives will predictably characterize the relationships they form with their fellow group members.

Answer 9

Social Microcosm

Question 10

allow individual members to enter or leave the group at any time.

Answer 10

Open-enrollment groups

Question 11

all members start and finish therapy together, with no new members added during the process

Answer 11

Closed-enrollment groups

Question 12

The mere presence of a second set of eyes and ears to notice the rich array of verbal and nonverbal communication inevitably produced by a room full of clients

Answer 12

Cotherapist

Question 13

This is most concerning ethical issue in group therapy

Answer 13

Confidentiality

Question 14

This therapy initially arose in the mid-1900s, and it was considered revolutionary.

Answer 14

Family Therapy

Question 15

An approach in which the whole is more than the sum of the parts, from philosophy and the sciences.

Answer 15

Systems approach

Question 16

These are events from the past cause or determine events in the present in a unidirectional or “one-way street” manner

Answer 16

Linear causality

Question 17

These are events that influence one
another in a reciprocal way, such that a parent’s and a child’s behavior each affects the other continuously

Answer 17

Circular causality

Question 18

Family therapists have pointed to ____________________________________ among family members as the type of interaction that most significantly contributes to psychological problems.

Answer 18

unhealthy communication patterns

Question 19

Psychological symptoms may appear maladaptive, they are in fact functional within the individual’s family environment.

Answer 19

Functionalism

Question 20

Systems have the ability to regulate themselves by returning themselves to a comfort zone or “set point.”

Answer 20

Homeostasis

Question 21

It is a pencil-and-paper method of creating a family tree that incorporates detailed information about the relationships among family members for at least three generations.

Answer 21

Genogram

Question 22

Part of the family life cycle wherein young adults become self-sufficient

Answer 22

Leaving home

Question 23

Part of the family life cycle wherein a new couple forms a new family system

Answer 23

Joining of families through marriage or
union

Question 24

Part of the family life cycle wherein it is about taking care of children

Answer 24

Families with young children

Question 25

Part of the family life cycle wherein parents provide children with increasing amounts of independence

Answer 25

Families with adolescents

Question 26

Part of the family life cycle wherein parents are adjusting to the “empty nest,”

Answer 26

Launching children and moving on in midlife

Question 27

Part of the family life cycle wherein the focus shifts to managing declining health

Answer 27

Families in late middle age

Question 28

Part of the family life cycle wherein they are accepting the realities and inevitability of death

Answer 28

Families nearing the end of life

Question 29

It is a more structured and formal way of assessing abuse and violence within families

Answer 29

Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS)

Question 30

Griffin (2002) divides this wide range of styles into three broad categories:

Answer 30

1. Ahistorical styles
2. Historical styles
3. Experiential styles

Question 31

The styles emphasizing current functioning and deemphasizing family history

Answer 31

Ahistorical styles

Question 32

The styles emphasizing family history and typically longer duration than ahistorical styles

Answer 32

Historical styles

Question 33

The styles emphasizing personal growth and emotional experiencing in and out of sessions

Answer 33

Experiential styles

Question 34

Every family has rules by which it operates

Answer 34

Family structure

Question 35

These should be permeable enough to allow emotional closeness between family members but rigid enough to allow for independence as well.

Answer 35

Boundaries

Question 36

If boundaries are too permeable

Answer 36

Enmeshed

Question 37

If boundaries are too rigid

Answer 37

Disengaged

Question 38

According to Murray Bowen and his followers, a primary task for each family member is an appropriate degree of self-determination.

Answer 38

Differentiation of Self

Question 39

When two people are in conflict, either one might decide to bring in a third party in an attempt to garner support.

Answer 39

Triangles

Question 40

It evolved from the strategic family therapy approach of Don Jackson, Jay Haley, and Cloé Madanes and shares its pragmatic emphasis

Answer 40

Solution-focused therapy

Question 41

The leaders of the solution-focused therapy approach, including Steve deShazer and Insoo Kim Berg, emphasize that family therapists should use “__________________” rather than “problem-talk”

Answer 41

solution-talk

Question 42

The clients are instructed to take note of aspects of their lives in the upcoming week that they want to continue to happen.

Answer 42

Formula first-session task

Question 43

This therapy highlights clients’ tendencies to create meanings about themselves and the events in their lives in particular ways, some of which may cause psychological problems.

Answer 43

Narrative therapy

Question 44

It is designed for adolescents with long-term behavioral and emotional problems that involve legal offenses.

Answer 44

Multisystemic family therapy

Question 45

Ethical issue in family therapy wherein they find themselves in the difficult position of having learned information from one family member in a private conversation

Answer 45

Confidentiality

Question 46

Ethical issue in family therapy since the DSM contains no diagnostic labels that apply to families

Answer 46

Diagnostic Accuracy