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Standardized tests for assessing couples and families are utilized particularly by:
a. narrative therapists
b. behaviorally-oriented family therapists
c. structural therapists
d. strategic therapists
Reciprocal determinism refers to:
a. adopting a relationship outlook
b. attending to content rather than process
c. linear causality
d. none of the above
The person who receives a double-bind message:
a. is doomed to failure whatever response he or she makes
b. may disobey both commands
c. may respond positively to both commands
d. none of the above
White's narrative approach encourages families to:
a. create alternative accounts of their lives
b. gain awareness of the origins of their problem
c. attend to reflecting team observations
d. develop a problem-saturated perspective
Another name for an amplifying loop is:
a. negative feedback
b. positive feedback
c. alternating positive and negative feedback
d. none of the above
The textbook authors contend that systems theory:
a. encompasses cybernetics and general systems theory
b. replaces cybernetics and general systems theory
c. is another name for cybernetics only
d. is another name for general systems theory but not cybernetics
Research on stress in families with schizophrenic members emphasizes the relationship
between _______________ and relapse.
a. anxiety
b. depression
c. phobias
d. expressed emotion
Minuchin developed many of his therapeutic techniques working with underorganized
families of delinquent youngsters at the:
a. Wiltwyck School
b. Jewish Board of Guardians
c. Ackerman Institute
d. Georgetown University Family Center
According to Miklowitz, the best indicator of relapses in schizophrenia is:
a. discontinued medication
b. the family's expressed emotion
c. homelessness
d. despair
Feminist-informed therapists are especially critical of:
a. the viewpoint of men's studies
b. the view that feeling is less mature than thinking
c. gender analysis
d. feminist family therapy
Postmodern therapists are apt to be:
a. collaborators
b. manipulative
c. detached observers
d. interpretive of family behavior
The greater the level of undifferentiation of the parents, the more likely they will rely
on the _______________ to stabilize the system:
a. family projection process
b. family scapegoats
c. family ledger
d. family pet
Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy:
a. represents an early form of Gestalt therapy
b. attempts to integrate experiential and systems thinking
c. had its origins in the 1960s
d. emphasizes symbolic aspects of therapy
Which of the following is not emphasized by Structural therapists?
a. a family's hierarchical organization
b. the narrated stories families use to understand their transaction patterns
b. a family's subsystems
c. the wholeness of the family
