Question 1

Adler has been credited with being the first psychoanalyst to stress the importance of family relationships in the treatment of the individual.

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A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

When working with a family, the clinician must establish a therapeutic alliance with

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A)  the identified patient.
B)  the person who initially sought counseling for the family.
C)  each person in the family equally.
D)  the adults in the family only.

Question 3

Behavioral therapy has no place in family systems theory.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Describe each word in the following pairs, then give an example to show how they are different, similar, or the same. 
●coalition vs. triangulation
●differentiation of self vs. disengagement
●genogram vs. family mapping
●scapegoat vs. identified patient
●paradoxical intervention vs. relabeling

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Coalition vs. Triangulation:
- Coalition...

Question 5

Strategic family therapy developed by Jay Haley and others teaches therapists to:

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A)  look behind symptoms for possible secondary gains
B)  develop paradoxical directives
C)  propose experiments that may seem punishing or absurd
D)  all of the above D

Question 6

Family mapping was created by Murray Bowen as a way to document multigenerational relationships within the family.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Any family systems theory must focus on the pathology within the family to be truly effective.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

Ludwig von Bertalanffy developed systems theory

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A)  as an organizational system through which all living organisms and social groups could be understood.
B)  as a type of family therapy.
C)  to understand interactions between units and subunits of a system.
D)  to study the pathology of the mind.

Question 9

Most family therapists today use eclectic or integrated approaches to treating family systems.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Family therapists differ from individual therapists because:

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A)  they should be culturally competent and sensitive to issues of race, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation.
B)  family therapists take a systemic perspective.
C)  harm can result if the family therapist is not competent.
D)  improvement is more likely in family therapy than individual therapy.

Question 11

Of the five communication stances outlined by Virginia Satir, only the ___________stance is healthy and leads to communications and connections between people.

Accepted Answer

A)  placating
B)  irrelevant
C)  congruent
D)  super-reasonable

Question 12

Patterson operationalized many of the theoretical concepts of Bandura's social learning theory. Which of the following is not an intervention in behavioral therapy?

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A)  token economies
B)  use of narrative
C)  contingency contracting
D)  time out

Question 13

Which of the following is not a key concept of Bowenian family systems theory?

Accepted Answer

A)  multigenerational transmission process
B)  emotional cut off
C)  societal regression
D)  centering

Question 14

Which of the following statements is true of most types of family therapy?

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A)  It is short term.
B)  Family therapy focuses on solutions.
C)  It focuses on family relationships in the here and now.
D)  All of the above.

Question 15

Behavioral therapists generally work with one family member individually (usually a parent) to teach the parent skills to manage the child's problem.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Choose five of the following terms and describe them.
●boundaries
●emotional cut-off
●enmeshed
●feedback loops
●first order change
●joining
●ordeal therapy
●symbiotic
●tracking

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Question 17

Emotion-focused couples therapy combines attachment theory with an experiential and systemic approach.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In structural family therapy, which of the following is not a common problem, based on the theory developed by Salvator Minuchin?

Accepted Answer

A)  Alliances across generations can result in parentification of a child.
B)  Families can become either enmeshed and chaotic or disengaged and isolated.
C)  Parents forget their role in the family (e.g., mother, father) and cross boundaries into another subsystem (e.g., aunt/uncle, or sister/brother) .
D)  The therapist joins with the family to make a positive therapeutic alliance.

Question 19

Which of the following is not congruent with post-modern family systems theory?

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A)  the therapist's role is viewed as a director
B)  reality is considered to be subjective
C)  belief in cultural relativism
D)  ideas are generated through language A

Question 20

React to and explain the following statement. "Good therapy is fundamentally disciplined improvisation." Do you agree or disagree? Defend your answer.

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Of the five communication stances outlined by Virginia Satir, only the ___________stance is healthy and leads to communications and connections between people.

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Behavioral therapists generally work with one family member individually (usually a parent) to teach the parent skills to manage the child's problem.

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