MFT Practice Exam - IPV Flashcards
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<p>Truth or False: Partner violence has adverse effects on only those directly involved.</p>
<p>FALSE</p>
<p>Truth or False: Couples therapy may be an appropriate treatment for some couples in which the man is violent toward his partner</p>
<p>TRUE</p>
<p>Truth or False: Giving your partner the " silent treatment " can he considered emotional abuse.</p>
<p>TRUE</p>
<p>Truth or False: Pushing and shoving are not considered to be acts of physical abuse. All partner violence is considered battering.</p>
<p>False Physical Abuse Physical abuse includes a variety of nonsexual assaultive behaviors. We consider grabbing, pushing, shoving, pinching, and biting acts of physical abuse although often clients do not define them as such. Slapping, hitting, and punching are acts of physical abuse that most clients are concerned about. Of course, the most extreme forms of physical abuse such as choking, hitting with an object, or assaulting with a deadly weapon (e.g., gun or knife) are acts that have a high potential to cause physical harm to the victim or fear of harm.</p>
<p>Truth or False: All partners violence is considered battering</p>
<p>FALSE While intimate partner violence may theoretically occur once or rarely between partners in an intimate relationship, it can also become a pattern of assault and coercive behaviors that include all three forms of abuse described above. The term battering is often used when these behaviors are severe and repetitive and carry with them elements of fear, oppression, and control.</p>
<p>Truth or False: Clients are usually forthcoming to their therapist about partner violence occurring » within their relationship.</p>
<p>FALSE</p>
<p>Truth or False: It is not necessary for you to assess for relationship violence if the client has not identified it as a therapeutic issue.</p>
<p>FALSE</p>
<p>Truth or False: You should ask about the specific details of incidents of partner violence when both partners are in the room.</p>
<p>FALSE</p>
<p>Truth or False: Violent men tend to be a heterogeneous (diverse in nature) group.</p>
<p>FALSE</p>
<p>Truth or False: Violent men tend have strengths and resources that may be useful to the therapeutic process.</p>
<p>TRUE</p>
<p>Truth or False: Jealousy and poor communication skills are the most frequently cited motivations for hitting one' s partner.</p>
<p>FALSE, Why Do They Hit? There are different types of abusive men and a variety of reasons that may explain why they hit. Maintaining or asserting control over his partner is the most often cited motivation for hitting a partner.</p>
<p>Truth or False: One way for a victim of abuse to ensure her safety is to leave her abusive partner.</p>
<p>FALSE Treatment Most abused women take active measures to stop their abuse including calling the police, fleeing to shelters, or seeking informal or formal advice and support. Keep in mind that when a woman seeks your help, she may not identify abuse as a problem and, if she does, she may not want to leave her abusive partner. An abused woman who seeks help may want to know how to survive the abuse or make him stop. She may see the abuse as her fault and will most likely feel ashamed. Thus, you face the dilemma of respecting her wishes without colluding with the violence condemning the violent behavior without condemning her for staying. We recommend taking a strong position against violence while taking a nonjudgmental position about her decision to stay.</p>
<p>Truth or False: An abused women who seek therapy want to leave their abusive partners.</p>
<p>False an abused woman who seeks help may want to know how to survive the abuse or make him stop. She may see the abuse as her fault and will most likely feel ashamed. Thus, you face the dilemma of respecting her wishes without colluding with the violence condemning the violent behavior without condemning her for staying. We recommend taking a strong position against violence while taking a nonjudgmental position about her decision to stay.</p>
<p>Truth or False: A victim who leaves the relationship often experiences a grieving process.</p>
<p>TRUE</p>
<p>Truth or False: Violent individuals should be held accountable for their abusive behavior,</p>
<p>TRUE</p>
<p>Truth or False: Hitting their partner back is a good way for victims to get their partners to slop hitting them.</p>
<p>FALSE</p>
<p>1. Prevalence rates of intimate partner violence tend to vary widely from one study to another because:</p>
<p>a. Some researchers tend to exaggerate their findings for political reasons.</p>
<p>b. Samples and types of questions asked vary from one study to another.</p>
<p>c. Researchers do not know how to assess for violence.</p>
<p>d . Violence is no longer a significant problem in the United States.</p>
<p>b.</p>
<p>2. Prevalence rates of violence occurring in gay and lesbian relationships are especially difficult to determine because:</p>
<p>a. Rates are determined only by reports of self-selected samples from the gay and lesbian community.</p>
<p>b. Rates are generally based on lesbian samples.</p>
<p>c. Heterosexism tends to silence gays and lesbians.</p>
<p>d. All of the above.</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>3. Women who experience abuse from their intimate partner may experience:</p>
<p>a. suicidal ideations, headaches, and depression.</p>
<p>b. broken bones.</p>
<p>c. physical injuries.</p>
<p>d. all of the above.</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>4. Children who live in homes where intimate partner violence is occurring have been found to experience all of the following, except:</p>
<p>a. increased likelihood of assaulting their siblings and parents.</p>
<p>b. increased likelihood of committing violent crimes outside the family.</p>
<p>c. increased likelihood of being assaulted themselves.</p>
<p>d. increased likelihood of experiencing serious childhood illnesses.</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>5. Emotional abuse is difficult to define because it does not produce readily observable scars and is usually designed to:</p>
<p>a. frighten, control, or disparage a partner</p>
<p>b. prepare a partner for physical abuse.</p>
<p>c. force a partner to have sex.</p>
<p>d. help the partner leave the relationship.</p>
<p>a.</p>
<p>6. Which of the following are considered physically abusive acts?</p>
<p>a. grabbing</p>
<p>b. shoving</p>
<p>c. slapping</p>
<p>d. all of the above</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>7. Which of the following is an explanation for why victims may not tell their therapists? they are being abused.</p>
<p>a. They may be embarrassed about it.</p>
<p>b. They may be unaware of the impact that the violence has on themselves and their relationship.</p>
<p>c. They may be fearful that their partner will become more violent if they tell their therapist.</p>
<p>d. All of the above.</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>8. Which is the best way to find out about abuse that is occurring in your clients relationship?</p>
<p>a. Ask your client, if your partner abusing you?</p>
<p>b. Ask your client, has your partner ever pushed, shoved, or hit you?</p>
<p>c. Ask about abusive behavior in a conjoint session.</p>
<p>d. Do not ask directly about abuse; let the client talk about the abuse when he or she is ready.</p>
<p>b.</p>
<p>9. Screening for partner violence should include all of the following except:</p>
<p>a. On the intake form, ask clients about concerns with the ways anger is handled.</p>
<p>b. Use a standardized instrument, such as the CTS in the assessment package.</p>
<p>c. Interview each client separately and ask about the occurrence of specific controlling, emotionally abusive, and physically abusive acts.</p>
<p>d. Contact family members without the clients' permission to discover unreported partner violence.</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>10. If the client reports that abuse is occurring, the therapist should assess the lethality of the violence by asking about:</p>
<p>a. the severity, frequency, and chronicity of the violence, and whether it has been escalating.</p>
<p>b. whether the victim has done anything to provoke the offender</p>
<p>c. whether the victim has hope that the offender will stop the abuse.</p>
<p>d. whether the victim loves the offender.</p>
<p>a.</p>
<p>11 What protective factors might lead you to feel more hopeful</p>
<p>a. Each partner has a healthy support system, and the offender appears to take responsibility for his actions.</p>
<p>b. The couple is abusing alcohol, but no illegal drugs.</p>
<p>c. The offender has a high level of depression.</p>
<p>d. The victim is planning on leaving the offender.</p>
<p>a.</p>
<p>12. An important risk marker for offenders is:</p>
<p>a. a belief that men and women should be treated equally.</p>
<p>b. a belief that people over 30 should not be trusted.</p>
<p>c. a belief that men should be powerful and in control while women should be dependent and submissive.</p>
<p>d. a belief that women should not work outside the home.</p>
<p>c.</p>
<p>13. What are the clinical implications of the batterer typology literature?</p>
<p>a. All batterers should receive the same type of treatment.</p>
<p>b. Batterers should be treated through the criminal justice system.</p>
<p>c. Different types of batterers should receive different types of treatment.</p>
<p>d. It is probably not possible to treat batterers.</p>
<p>c.</p>
<p>14. Why do batterers hit?</p>
<p>a. To maintain or assert control over their partner</p>
<p>b. Because the victim provokes them</p>
<p>c. It's their part in the relationship dance</p>
<p>d. They have been programed to hit because of growing up in a violent home</p>
<p>a.</p>
<p>15. Which assumptions underlie cognitive-behavioral approaches to treating male batterers?</p>
<p>a. Male socialization in the context of societal-sanctioned oppression of women fosters abuse.</p>
<p>b. Abuse-supporting beliefs, lack of behavioral self-control, and poor relationship skills foster abuse</p>
<p>c. Abuse arises when childhood attachment injuries are reactivated in contemporary relationships</p>
<p>d. All of the above</p>
<p>b.</p>
<p>16. What is the primary reason victims stay in abusive relationships?</p>
<p>a. economic dependence</p>
<p>b. relationship commitment</p>
<p>c. fear of offender</p>
<p>d. all of the above</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>17. The time when a victim leaves an abusive relationship.</p>
<p>a. is an exciting and rewarding time for the victim.</p>
<p>b. is a particularly dangerous time for the victim.</p>
<p>c. is not particularly stressful for the victim.</p>
<p>d. is the time when the victim is safest.</p>
<p>b.</p>
<p>18. The primary goal of conjoint treatment of partner violence is:</p>
<p>a. to improve marital relationships.</p>
<p>b. to decrease the likelihood of couples divorcing.</p>
<p>c. to end all forms of violence.</p>
<p>d. to enhance the quality of life for couples.</p>
<p>c.</p>
<p>19. Which of the following is not a safeguard for conjoint treatment of partner violence?</p>
<p>a. Couples where the victim, in a private interview, expresses fear of her partner, should be excluded from conjoint treatment.</p>
<p>b. Couples where either partner has ever shoved pushed or slapped their partner should be excluded from conjoint treatment.</p>
<p>c. Couples where either partner has a current substance abuse problem should be excluded from conjoint treatment.</p>
<p>d. The safety of conjoint therapy should be continuously reassessed throughout the treatment process.</p>
<p>b.</p>
<p>20. Systems theory helps to understand partner violence for all of the following reasons except:</p>
<p>a. It focuses on how individuals are involved in violent relationships.</p>
<p>b. It holds individuals responsible for their actions that contribute to abusive relationships.</p>
<p>c. It assumes that the couple is the unit for assessment and intervention rather than one partner in isolation.</p>
<p>d. It assumes the victim is as much at fault for the violence as the offender.</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>21. Why is conjoint treatment appropriate for some couples if they intend to remain together?</p>
<p>a. All violent individuals are not alike, and treatment needs to be tailored to the individual/couple.</p>
<p>b. If reciprocal violence is taking place in relationships, treating men without treating women is not likely to stop the violence.</p>
<p>c. Failure to address relationship problems at some point in the treatment of partner violence puts the couple at risk for continued violence.</p>
<p>d . All of the above.</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>22. The results from six experimental studies that compared conjoint treatment for partner violence with alternative treatment approaches found:</p>
<p>a. Conjoint treatment puts victims at risk for further violence.</p>
<p>b. Violent men who are treated with their female partners reduced their violence.</p>
<p>c. Violent men who are treated with their partners escalated their violence,</p>
<p>d. Conjoint treatment increased the likelihood that couples would remain married.</p>
<p>b.</p>
<p>23. Which of the following statements is not true?</p>
<p>a. Battering</p>
<p>b. Victims of domestic violence often have substance abuse problems.</p>
<p>c. According to one study, between 25% and 50% of violent episodes involve the use of alcohol or drugs by either the husband or the wife.</p>
<p>d. Alcohol use has been proven to be the cause of partner violence in most cases.</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>24. As a clinician working with couples in violent relationships, you should:</p>
<p>a. Focus on the problem of interpersonal violence and leave the assessment and treatment of substance abuse to a substance abuse professional.</p>
<p>b. Always assess each partner in a violent relationship for substance abuse problems and make successful treatment for substance abuse a prerequisite for conjoint treatment.</p>
<p>c. Treat every individual in a violent relationship for substance abuse regardless of whether or not they admit to having a problem with substance abuse.</p>
<p>d. All of the above.</p>
<p>b.</p>
<p>25. Therapists€™ emotional reactions toward clients in violent relationships can precipitate</p>
<p>the following response:</p>
<p>a. blaming the client</p>
<p>b. overfunctioning</p>
<p>c. distancing</p>
<p>d. all of the above</p>
<p>d.</p>
<p>26. Which of the following suggestions are not recommended to help therapists deal with intense emotional responses to clients in violent relationships?</p>
<p>a. monitoring your own reactions</p>
<p>b. viewing your own reactions as normal and as valuable information</p>
<p>e trying to ignore or distract yourself from thinking about your reactions.</p>
<p>d seeking supervision to assist you in processing your reactions.</p>
<p>c.</p>
<p>27. If family therapists are going to gain credibility in the community as appropriate treatment providers for some couples in violent relationships, they need to:</p>
<p>a. speak out about the flaws of batterer intervention programs.</p>
<p>b. become active participants in community coalitions designed to address intimate partner violence.</p>
<p>c. work quietly in their own offices without becoming involved in the controversy about conjoint treatment.</p>
<p>d. all of the above.</p>
<p>b.</p>