midterm

Question 1

Which of the following models of family interaction is based largely on the psychoanalytic model

Answer 1

psychodynamic theory

Question 2

Which of the following does not characterize a double-bind situation?

Answer 2

-Parental yielding to infantile demands

Question 3

The degree of affect expressed within a family, especially noteworthy in families with members suffering with schizophrenia, where intense, negative interactions are considered a factor in relapse describes the theory of:

Answer 3

Expressed emotion

Question 4

Clients need to be told of the possible risks before commencing treatment. This is an example of

Answer 4

-informed consent

Question 5

One goal in Family Systems therapy is for each family member to

Answer 5

-maximize self differentiation

Question 6

A major characteristic of strategic therapists is:

Answer 6

-issuing directives

Question 7

Many researchers specifically find fault with clinicians of their:

Answer 7

-willingness to adopt untested clinical procedures?

Question 8

A general cultural sensitivity to families characterizes

Answer 8

-The multicultural approach

Question 9

Symptoms are strategies for controlling a relationship when other strategies have failed, according to:

Answer 9

haley

Question 10

Three subsystems are important in Minuchin’s approach. Which of the following is NOT one of those?

Answer 10

Extended (most important are spousal, parental, sibling)

Question 11

The family therapist most closely identified with solution-focused brief therapy is

Answer 11

de shazer

Question 12

A primary therapeutic goal for structuralists is

Answer 12

-organizational change (from the powerpoints: Clear boundaries between all subsystems;
Effective parental hierarchy; Family structure that promotes development and growth of individual and family)

Question 13

Family therapists have sought licensing because

Answer 13

-all the above

Question 14

Cybernetics refers to a systems method of

Answer 14

feedback control

Question 15

systems-oriented clinicians are most interested in

Answer 15

the process, what how, when, but not why

Question 16

From a family life cycle perspective, psychiatric symptoms in a family member represent:

Answer 16

A signal family is having problems mastering the tasks at tstage in cylcle

Question 17

Clinical theories that focus on the individual probably emphasize

Answer 17

Intrapsychic events

Question 18

Research efforts in family therapy over the last two decades have been directed at:

Answer 18

Empirically-validated therapies

Question 19

Sibling position, in Bowen’s theory, refers to the relationship between marital partners based on:

Answer 19

Their birth order

Question 20

Psychoeducation is a therapeutic effort offering educational programs directed at helping families better understand and learn skills for dealing with family members with mental illness.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Contingency contracting is a behavioral procedure that is probably most useful with

Answer 21

Adolescents

Question 22

In solution-focused brief therapy, “skeleton keys” refer to

Answer 22

Intervention that work for a variety of problems

Question 23

Narrative therapists believe our current lives are directed by the ___ that we have woven together about ourselves

Answer 23

Dominant stories

Question 24

Satir called her approach

Answer 24

The human validation process

Question 25

The attempt to guide clients into unlocking dysfunctional patterns stemming from their family of origin, according to Satir is called

Answer 25

family reconstruction

Question 26

The belief that our view of reality is based on the stories by which we circulate knowledge about ourselves is called

Answer 26

Narrative metaphor

Question 27

Therapists are more apt to attend to ___ research because it is more likely to capture what they do in their daily work with clients and families

Answer 27

Qualitative

Question 28

The major characteristic of strategic family therapy is that the therapist

Answer 28

Issue directives

Question 29

Which of the following terms does NOT describe a structural therapeutic tactic

Answer 29

Reconsolidation

Question 30

According to the text, the trend in family therapy today is toward

Answer 30

Eclectism

Question 31

General systems theory is considered by the authors to:

Answer 31

Provide underpinning for much of family theory

Question 32

A common goal of narrative therapy is

Answer 32

Creating and internalizing new stories

Question 33

The developmental approach to family life focuses upon the family’s

Answer 33

Life cycle

Question 34

Feminists are critical of the cybernetic concept of circular causality in male-female relattionships because of the implication of

Answer 34

Equal power and control

Question 35

Bowen’s concept of societal regression extends his view to

Answer 35

Society’s emotional functioning

Question 36

The practice, according to the authors, most family therapists are:

Answer 36

Eclectic

Question 37

One goal of gender-sensitive family therapy is to

Answer 37

Enable clients to move beyond prescribed sex roles

Question 38

The view that multiple systems in which families are embedded require attention is

Answer 38

Ecosystemic analysis

Question 39

Which integrative theory has emerged as dominant in the field of family therapy

Answer 39

None of the above

Question 40

Pseudomutuality refers to

Answer 40

The appearance of an open relationship without really having one

Question 41

Family interactions follow certain persistent patterns which become the family rules. These repetitive behavioral sequences are known as the family stage markers

Answer 41

False (it’s the redundancy principle?)

Question 42

Psychoeducational programs emphasize all but one of the following. Which is not a focus of psychoeducation

Answer 42

Psychotherapy

Question 43

An enduring set of beliefs that organizes subsequent perceptions is known as

Answer 43

Schemas

Question 44

Satir suggests that people handle their communications with one another by playing one of five roles. Which of the following is NOT one of those roles

Answer 44

Family pet

Question 45

A schizophrenogenic mother is:

Answer 45

a domineering, cold, rejecting, possessive, guilt-producing person who, in combination with a passive, detached, and ineffectual father, causes her male offspring to feel confused and inadequate and ultimately to become schizophrenic (a linear cause-and-effect relationship between pathogenic parents and schizophrenia).

Question 46

Cognitive behavior therapy attempts to modify a client’s

Answer 46

Feelings and behaviors by changing cognitions

Question 47

Solution focused brief therapy argues that

Answer 47

Clients families have run out of ways of dealing with their problems

Question 48

Problems to be overcome and conflicts to be mastered at various stages of the life cycle, enabling movement to the next developmental stage are

Answer 48

Developmental tasks