Family Systems Therapy attempts to modify the family’s customary:
a. defense mechanisms
b. triangulated system
c. resistances
d. unconscious motivation
Evidence supporting family therapy has been especially strong for:
a. multisystemic therapy
b. parent management training
c. functional family therapy
d. all of the above
Each family system:
a. contains a number of co-existing subsystems
b. carries out its functions through subsystems
c. may include subsystems formed by sex, by generation, etc.
d. all of the above
White refers to seeking to discover a person’s underlying traits as relying on:
a. thin descriptions
b. thick descriptions
c. intentional descriptions
d. multistoried descriptions
All communication takes place at two levels – the surface level of content and the level
which qualifies what was said on the surface level. The second level is called:
a. communication
b. metacommunication
c. qualifying communication
d. non-communication
Framo’s outlook on family functioning is based on which theory?
a. intergenerational theory
b. multigenerational theory
c. object constancy theory
d. object relations theory
Research efforts in family therapy over the last two decades have been directed at:
a. social construction therapies
b. symbolic-experiential therapies
c. empirically-validated therapies
d. clinically based therapies
Collaborating with medical colleagues, the subspecialty of _______________ arose in
the 1980s:
a. psychological systems
b. medical family therapy
c. epistemology
d. none of the above
Many researchers find fault with clinicians for their:
a. lack of knowledge of research findings
b. willingness to adopt untested clinical procedures
c. unfamiliarity with experimental design
d. lack of statistical sophistication
The focus of object relations theory is:
a. monadic
b. dyadic
c. triadic
d. none of the above
Who “owns” the right to waive privilege regarding information obtained during a
conjoint session?
a. the therapist
b. the husband or the wife
c. the couple
d. the courts
Clinical theories that focus on the individual probably emphasize:
a. transaction events
b. interactional events
c. interpersonal events
d. intrapsychic events
The consultant who takes the interaction of two systems into account is using which
approach?
a. ecosystemic
b. interactional
c. relational
d. none of the above
Which of the following statements is true of Whitaker’s position?
a. symptoms should be attacked directly
b. insight leads to behavior change
c. the therapist should provide a set of explanations regarding client behavior
d. to be beneficial to the client, the therapist must attempt to benefit himself at the same
time
Treating AIDS, family therapists can:
a. prescribe new medications
b. help patients deal with loss of independence
c. hospitalize advanced cases
d. all of the above
The renewed interest in ethnicity is intended to:
a. help avoid stereotypes
b. alert family therapists to the folly of ethnocentrism
c. help therapists avoid imposing their cultural values on their clients
d. all of the above
Anthropologist Barbara Meyerhoff’s work on _______________ has been adopted by
narrative therapists:
a. possibility therapy
b. anorexia and bulimia
c. definitional ceremonies
d. unique outcomes
The study of paradoxes of communication in animals as well as humans is associated
with the name of:
a. Waxler
b. Fisher
c. Bateson
d. Miller
The fundamental curative factors in psychotherapy, according to Whitaker, are:
a. educational
b. symbolic
c. reality testing
d. medication, especially anti-psychotic drugs
PREP sessions may take place as:
a. survivor skills workshops
b. weekend marathons
c. home visits
d. all of the above
_____________________ A set of assumptions, delimiting an area to be investigated
scientifically and specifying the methods to be used to collect and interpret the
forthcoming data.
Exception-finding questions:
a. are efforts to manipulate clients
b. are rarely used by solution-focused therapists
c. build on past successes in dealing with a problem
d. are part of reflecting team strategies
Which of the following is not relevant with respect to informed consent before
commencing therapy:
a. describing procedures
b. describing the limits of confidentiality
c. risks of possible negative outcomes
d. describing the techniques the therapist plans to use in treatment
In the view of the authors, entrance into a family can occur:
a. only through marriage
b. through birth but not adoption
c. through birth, adoption, or other committed relationships
d. only through parenthood
During a session, an intersubjective psychoanalyst will listen to couples to discern their
a. selfobject transferences
b. drives
c. shifting affect and emerging self states
d. object relations
Which of the following does not characterize the immigrant Indian family described in
the text:
a. was a working class family
b. represented a relatively open system in their native country
c. reacted to immigration by becoming a more closed system
d. reacted to immigration by becoming a more open system in their new country
The Collaborative Family Healthcare Coalition:
a. is interdisciplinary
b. attempts to coordinate health care delivery
c. is family-centered
d. all of the above
Symptoms are strategies for controlling a relationship when other strategies have failed,
according to:
a. Ackerman
b. Haley
c. Bowen
d. Satir
Systemicists usually assign rituals in the form of:
a. paradoxical prescriptions
b. direct prescriptions
c. reframed questions
d. reframed labels
How clients ____________________ is not a part of cognitive assessment
a. organize information
b. store information
c. process information
d. process emotion
In the case described in the text of the rural family with financial problems:
a. the husband encouraged his wife to work away from the farm
b. the husband discouraged his wife from working away from the farm
c. the husband suggested couples therapy
d. the degree of enmeshment made psychotherapy impossible
Bowen and Framo have what in common?
a. both operate from a psychoanalytic framework
b. both encourage differentiation from the family of origin
c. both rely on couples groups
d. both were students of Ackerman
According to Freud’s early psychoanalytic formulations, family alliances:
a. do not influence a member’s personality development
b. require family participation during treatment
c. contribute to individual personality development
d. obscure who is the identified patient
Emotionally-focused therapeutic efforts are:
a. an outgrowth of humanistic therapies
b. highly cognitive by design
c. based on object relations theory
d. an outgrowth of first-order cybernetics
Two leading family therapists, Don Jackson and Murray Bowen, trained under
American psychiatrist:
a. Gregory Bateson
b. Nathan Ackerman
c. Harry Stack Sullivan
d. Alfred Adler
_____________________ According to Kohut, unconscious images or representations
of another person or object viewed by infants as extension of themselves in the process
of gaining self-esteem.
_____________________ A therapeutic perspective, regardless of theoretical
persuasion, that examines the impact of gender socialization on the outlooks, attitudes,
behaviors and interpersonal relationships of men and women; its aim is to empower
clients to make sexist-free role choices rather than be limited by roles determined by
their biological status as male or female.
_____________________ A view of an observing system in which the therapist, rather
than attempting to describe the system by being an outside observer, is part of what is
being observed and treated.
_____________________ The ease or flexibility with which members can cross
subsystem boundaries within the family.
_____________________ A behavioral assessment of a problem in order to determine
what interpersonal or environmental contingencies elicit the problematic behavior and
how to extinguish or reduce its occurrence.
_____________________ A legal concept protecting a client’s disclosure to a therapist
from being revealed in court; if the client waives the right, the therapist has no legal
grounds for withholding the information.
_____________________ Covert alliances or affiliations, temporary or long term,
between certain family members against others in the family.
_____________________ The legal rights of patients or research subjects to be told of
the purposes and risks involved before agreeing to participate.
_____________________ Problems to be overcome and conflicts to be mastered at
various stages of the life cycle, enabling movement to the next developmental stage.
_____________________ A statutory process established by a government agency,
usually a state or province, granting permission to persons, having met predetermined
qualifications, to call themselves by a particular title, and prohibiting the use of that title
without a certificate.
_____________________ A set of interacting units or component parts that together
make up a whole arrangement or organization.
______________________ Pertaining to circumstances or situations in which an event
took place; as a therapeutic approach, an emphasis on the relational determinants,
entitlements, and indebtedness across generations that bind families together.
______________________ As developed at the Palo Alto Mental Research Institute,
the study of interpersonal sequences between people in terms of the verbal and
nonverbal messages they exchange.
_____________________ A postmodern procedure for gaining meaning by
reexamining assumptions previously taken for granted, in the service of constructing
new and unencumbered meanings.
_____________________ The study of the origin, nature, and methods, as well as the
limits, of knowledge; thus, a framework for describing and conceptualizing what is
being observed and experienced.