An idiosyncratic family pattern refers to:
a. a pattern unique to the culture
b. a pattern unique to a specific family
c. a pattern common to all groups
d. none of the above
Family therapy gained its initial legitimacy during the 1950’s by:
a. emphasizing research over treatment
b. emphasizing treatment over research
c. hospitalizing entire families
d. practicing experiential family therapy
In families labeled as pathogenic, demands by an adolescent for a rule change would
likely be met with:
a. encouragement since it showed independence
b. increased rigidity regarding the retention of rules
c. increased flexibility because all members sought changes
d. a reexamination of all family rules
An example of a psychoeducational effort is:
a. parent skills training
b. externalization
c. the miracle question
d. all of the above
Therapist interpretations are an integral part of:
a. experiential family therapy
b. contextual therapy
c. object relations family therapy
d. none of the above
The view that multiple systems in which families are embedded require attention is:
a. ecosystemic analysis
b. systems integration
c. existentialism
d. none of the above
All but one of the following can be considered to adhere to an experiential model.
Which one does not belong?
a. Kempler
b. Bowen
c. Satir
d. Kantor
Which of the following does not represent Boscolo and Cecchin’s work with families?
a. neutrality
b. joining the family
c. becoming part of the observing system
d. issuing directives
In the famous case of Little Hans, in which the child feared leaving his house for fear of
being bitten by a horse:
a. Freud treated the whole family
b. the treatment was carried out by the father, under Freud’s guidance
c. Bowen worked with the boy and his father together
d. Bowen never saw Hans, but worked with his parents
A good example of combining quantitative and qualitative research can be seen in the
work of:
a. Whitaker
b. Kempler
c. Gottman
d. Satir
The Scharffs consider their treatment to be successful by the degree to which the
family:
a. reports fewer hostile exchanges
b. masters developmental stresses
c. avoids coalitions
d. avoids alliances
Family therapists with a transgenerational view:
a. attend to a family’s intergenerational issues
b. reject the notion of therapist as outside expert
c. are less interested in a family’s ‘stuck” places than are the social constructionists
d. are sometimes referred to as structuralists
When a child internalizes the image of his mother into a good object and a bad object,
he is engaging in:
a. projective identification
b. splitting
c. identifying
d. differentiating
The therapist’s role in Gestalt Family therapy is to help clients:
a. become aware of what they do to block achieving what they want
b. engage in self-analysis of their childhood experiences
c. focus on “then and there” rather than “here and now”
d. all of the above
The Collaborative Coalition emphasizes:
a. traditional medical care
b. outpatient care only
c. inpatient care only
d. none of the above
Imitating a family’s manner, style, and affective range calls for a therapeutic technique
called _______________ by structuralists:
a. enactment
b. tracking
c. mimesis
d. none of the above
Returned information regarding the consequences of an event is called:
a. feedback
b. positive feedback
c. negative feedback
d. negative information processing
The _______________ of subsystem boundaries is more important for effective family
function than the composition of the family subsystems.
a. composition
b. age
c. size
d. clarity
According to the postmodern view:
a. most families lack resilience
b. most families accurately perceive an objective reality
c. most families collectively construct a sense of reality
d. resilience is genetically based
By marital quid pro quo, Jackson was referring to:
a. an exchange of benefits between marital partners
b. role overload
c. discontinuous changes in the family life cycle
d. all of the above
The authors consider all but one of the following to be the major founders of family
therapy:
a. Ackerman
b. Whitaker
c. Miller
d. Jackson
For most families, engagement with larger systems is:
a. omnipresent
b. prolonged
c. time-limited
d. conflictual
Functional family therapy attempts to bring about __________________ changes in
individuals and their families.
a. psychic but not cognitive
b. exclusively behavioral
c. both behavioral and cognitive
d. exclusively cognitive
Externalizing a restraining problem is meant to:
a. help explore family dynamics
b. understand family transaction patterns
c. help search for past traumatic events
d. help separate the person’s identity from his or her problem
In a joint legal custody arrangement, both parents:
a. remain living together but in separate quarters of the home
b. have physical custody of the children for several days each week
c. share decision-making regarding child raising issues
d. none of the above
In an enmeshed family:
a. members separate easily
b. members are intertwined in each other’s lives
c. clear boundaries exist between persons and between subsystems
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
According to the textbook, the trend in family therapy today is toward:
a. psychoanalytic approaches
b. eclecticism
c. psychodynamic interpretations
d. evidence-based practice
In Rosenberg’s example of helping a mother deal with the tantrums of her 2-1/2
year-old, he used the technique of:
a. reframing
b. enactment
c. time-out
d. paradoxical intervention
Working with schizophrenics, psychoeducators focus on the impact of:
a. the symptomatic member on family life
b. the family’s impact on the life of the patient
c. insight therapy on family functioning
d. none of the above
Hudson and O’Hanlon help couples recognize that:
a. “the map represents the territory”
b. they can rewrite the story of their relationship
c. one partner has a clearer view of reality than the other
d. solution-oriented therapy can explain their problems
Understanding the male/female interactive patterns among Turkish-American families
represents an effort to be:
a. multinational
b. international
c. multicultural
d. culture-specific
Defending against anxiety by externalizing unwanted parts of oneself onto others is
called:
a. introjection
b. projection
c. rationalization
d. projective identification
Dysfunctional families are caught up in destructive games, according to:
a. social constructionists
b. Milan systemic therapists
c. object relations therapists
d. psychoeducational therapists