Chapter 15: Extensions, Adaptations, and Spinoffs: Couples and Family Counseling
1. Some of the very early precursors to couples and family therapy included all but which of the
following?
2. ________________was one of the first to include the family when treating individuals,
although family members were usually in a separate room from the client.
3. The shift towards family therapy becoming acceptable was largely related to work done by
____________ at ___________where communications in systems was researched and where
many well known family therapists worked and provided consultation.
4. The early research done at Palo Alto was led by a number of researchers who became well
known in the field of communication in systems. This included all but which of the following?
5. Out of the original research done at Palo Alto, Don Jackson led a group of researchers at the
______________ that looked at ______________.
6. Which of the following is an association for family counseling?
7. The theory that describes the functioning of all types of systems is called:
8. Which of the following developed general systems theory?
9. A couple begins to argue, and each time one individual says something, the other ups the
ante to the point when the couple begin to hit one another. This is an example of which of the
following?
10. Relative to general assumptions made by most family therapists, which of the following is of
little importance?
11. Which of the following is not matched correctly?
12. The tendency for components in a system to maintain their typical ways of functioning,
whether those actions within the system are functional or dysfunctional, is called:
13. A healthy system has which of the following?
14. Which of the following is true of a scapegoat within a family system?
15. The more serious the unfinished business from the past that husbands and wives bring into
the marriage, the more likely it will:
16. Watzlawick and others included all but which of the following in their principles of
communication theory?
17. The death of a child or sibling would be an example of a(n):
18. In recent years family therapists with a social constructionist bent have become more
popular. In contrast with the more traditional family therapists, these individuals suggests all
but which of the following?
19. The school of family therapy most associated with Virginia Satir is called:
20. The primary survival triad includes:
21. Which of the following is not an example of a communication pattern as described by Satir?
22. Which of the following is least stressed by Virginia Satir’s approach to family counseling?
23. A mother is depressed and disengaged from her family and the father is stressed and overly
involved with the three children. Which of the following would be an example of what a human
validation process model family therapist might do with this family?
24. The school of family therapy most associated with Salvador Minuchin is called which of the
following?
25 Which of the following is not an important tenet of structural family therapy?
26 A mother is depressed and disengaged from her family and the father is stressed and overly
involved with the three children. Which of the following would be an example of what a
structural family therapist might do with this family?
27 The school of family therapy most associated with Jay Haley is which of the following?
29. Strategic family therapy would stress all but which of the following?
30. Strategic therapists believe that:
31. A mother is depressed and disengaged from her family and the father is stressed and overly
involved with the three children. Which of the following would be an example of what a
strategic family therapist might do with this family?
32. Family counselors who take on the multigenerational approach focus on which of the
following?
33. The school of family therapy most associated with Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and Murray
Bowen is which of the following ?
34. A ledger of indebtedness and entitlements is:
35. A mother is depressed and disengaged from her family and the father is stressed and overly
involved with the three children. Which of the following would be an example of what a
multigenerational family therapist might do with this family?
36. Bowen suggested that a family projection process leads to which of the following?
37. The school of family therapy most associated with Carl Whitaker is called which of the
following?
38. Which family therapist believed that therapy occurs in stages from defensiveness, to
genuineness and openness, to discussion of inner conflicts, to facilitation by therapist, to
members working on their own, to individuation and closure?
39. A mother is depressed and disengaged from her family and the father is stressed and overly
involved with the three children. Which of the following would be an example of what an
experiential family therapist might do with this family?
40. The school of family therapy most associated with Nathan Ackerman and Robin Skynner is
called which of the following?
41. Which of the following is not true of psychodynamic family therapy?
42. A mother is depressed and disengaged from her family and the father is stressed and overly
involved with the three children. Which of the following would be an example of what a
psychodynamic family therapist might do with this family?
43. Which of the following is not a characteristic of behavioral and cognitive-behavioral family
therapy?
44. A mother is depressed and disengaged from her family and the father is stressed and overly
involved with the three children. Which of the following would be an example of what a
cognitive-behavioral family therapist might do with this family?
45. Which behavioral approach tends not to be used in cognitive-behavioral family therapy?
46. The school of family therapy most associated with Michael White and David Epston is called
which of the following?
47. Narrative family therapists tend to do all but which of the following?
48. A mother is depressed and disengaged from her family and the father is stressed and overly
involved with the three children. Which of the following would be an example of what a
narrative family therapist might do with this family?
49. The school of family therapy most associated with Insoo Kim Berg, Steve de Shazer, and Bill
O’Hanlon is called which of the following?
50. Which is not a basic underlying assumption of solution-focused family therapy?
Change is constant and inevitable.
51. Relative to solution-focused family therapy, which technique is not matched with its
appropriate definition?
52. Relative to multicultural issues, which is not important in family counseling?
53. Which of the following accredits marriage and family counseling programs?
54. Meta-analyses on research conducted on couples and family therapy had found all but
True/False
2.Bowen noted that the nuclear family emotional system is made up of all family members
(living, dead, absent and present) and represents the emotional impact the members have on
4. Covert rules are generally less important than overt rules in governing the functioning of
5. Digital communication is the meaning about communication, analog communication is the
7. Carl Whitaker’s negation of theory is not evident when you examine how he actually
8. Cognitive-behavioral family therapists integrate systems theory with cognitive behavioral
9. As opposed to individually oriented cognitive-behavior therapy, because of its very nature,
cognitive-behavioral family therapy has to focus on underlying issues and intrapsychic
10. Psychodynamic family therapy tends to be a very slow process, much like individually
11. The basis of narrative family therapy is to identify each problem, work on the identified
problems, and then write about them in journal form in order to have a catharsis about them.
12. Interpersonal and intrapsychic forces play a much more important role in working with
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