Quiz 1

Question 1

When elements of a system automatically adjust to coordinate their functioning

Answer 1

Accommodation

Question 2

The power struggle at the beginning of therapy in which the patient desires to control the “structure” of therapy, including how the therapist will function, who will attend, when the appointment happens, etc., though the therapist must control the structure.

Answer 2

Battle for Structure

Question 3

The idea that actions are related through a series of recursive loops or repeating cycles

Answer 3

Circular Causality

Question 4

The reciprocity that is the defining feature of any relationship

Answer 4

Complementary

Question 5

Common patterns of behavior and experience derived from settings in which people live.

Answer 5

Culture

Question 6

Fogarty (1976) description of the person in the marital dyad that is likely to pull away when experiencing anxiety in order to maintain homeostasis in the relationship and invoke pursuit by the partner.

Answer 6

Distancer

Question 7

The lack of energy or information in a system.

Answer 7

Entropy

Question 8

The tendency for a family to resist change in order to maintain a steady state (or avoid change)

Answer 8

Family Homeostasis

Question 9

The functional organization of families that determines how family members interact within the system and with larger systems.

Answer 9

Family Structure

Question 10

The evidence-based model of therapy in which the therapist uncovers the function of the problem behavior as a manner of reframing the issue and decreasing blame.

Answer 10

Functional Family Therapy

Question 11

The construct that describes a system’s tendency toward stability, or a steady-state

Answer 11

Homeostasis

Question 12

A directive given to an individual or subsystem designed to promote a desirable behavior through a possible problematic means (couple must “sneak away” together, child must hide responsible behavior from parents)

Answer 12

Invariant Prescription

Question 13

Communication about the subject of communicating which is covert and often unnoticed in communication

Answer 13

Metacommunication

Question 14

An intensive, crisis-oriented form of family therapy developed by Robert MacGregor; family members are treated in various subgroups by a team of therapists.

Answer 14

Multiple Impact Therapy

Question 15

Assisting families in crisis by gathering the whole family, friends, employers, etc., or what might be called the “suprasystem”.

Answer 15

Network Therapy

Question 16

A paradoxical intervention in which the client is directed to do something that is more of a hardship than the symptom.

Answer 16

Ordeals

Question 17

The type of feedback that indicates that a maximum has not been reached, that change has occurred in the system and that system has responded with a maintenance behavior to the change.

Answer 17

Positive Feedback

Question 18

A technique whereby patients act out their conflicts instead of just discussing them.

Answer 18

Psychodrama

Question 19

The paradoxical technique of overcoming resistance by suggesting that the family cannot change

Answer 19

Restraining

Question 20

A school of therapy in which clients are asked to build on what is happening when they are not having the problem instead of eliminating the problem.

Answer 20

Solution Focused Therapy

Question 21

A relationship based on equality and the behavior of one mirrors that of the other or is considered a parallel

Answer 21

Symmetrical Relationships

Question 22

Emotional fusion within the family whereby emotional difference is not permitted as a ‘rule’ in the family.

Answer 22

Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass