One goal in Family Systems Therapy is for each family member to:
a. minimize future contact with each other
b. maximize attachments to the family of origin
c. maximize fusion
d. maximize self-differentiation
“Family therapy may be hazardous to your health.” This statement points to the fact
that:
a. symptoms may develop in the course of treatment
b. what most benefits the family as a whole may not be best for each member
c. stress may accompany participation
d. smoking is rarely allowed during therapy sessions
Which of the following is not true, according to postmodernists:
a. knowledge depends on context
b. knowledge is relative
c. belief systems mirror our social constructions
d. knowledge is obscure but ultimately knowable
Framo utilizes all but one of the following in his family therapy:
a. individual sessions with each spouse separately
b. couple groups
c. the occasional use of a female co-therapist
d. conjoint sessions
Which of the following is not characteristic of a Bowenian therapists?
a. calm and low key
b. coaches
c. careful not to get triangled into family turmoil
d. emotionally confrontational
Which of the following is least interested in life cycle issues?
a. structural family therapists
b. strategic family therapists
c. social constructionist family therapists
d. cognitive-behavioral family therapists
Gottman calls four forms of negativity between marital partners the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse. Which of the following is not one of them?
a. criticism
b. stonewalling
c. defensiveness
d. dominance
The Family Environment Scale contains all but one of these dimensions. Which one
does not belong?
a. independence
b. organization
c. control
d. anxiety
Which of the following would not be considered to be a part of the British Middle
School:
a. Winnicott
b. Fairbairn
c. Balint
d. Framo
With his concept of self-differentiation, Bowen argues for:
a. emotional detachment
b. objectivity
c. balance
d. rationality
Satir called her approach:
a. humanistic psychotherapy
b. neo-communication family therapy
c. the human validation process
d. growth-enhancing therapy
Of the following, who is not considered a founder of marriage counseling?
a. Nathan Ackerman
b. Paul Popenoe
c. Abraham & Hannah Stone
d. Emily Mudd
Ellen expresses her viewpoint at a meeting, although she is shy and her self-doubt
usually tries to silence her. Narrative therapists view this as:
a. an exception
b. a unique outcome
c. a possibility
d. an aberration
An example of a vertical stressor is :
a. a family coping with changes over time
b. dealing with family transitions
c. precocious physical development in a child
d. attitudes passing down over generations
By symbiosis, Bowen is referring to:
a. emotional cutoff
b. male-female sibling positions
c. an intense mother-child attachment
d. family triangles
Williamson proposes that hierarchical boundaries are lowered and parents and children
achieve greater peer status:
a. once children leave home
b. once children become parents
c. when one parent dies
d. by the time children reach their forties
Families with an adolescent frequently must deal with:
a. rule changing
b. limit setting
c. role renegotiation
d. all of the above
Which of the following is not an element in a malpractice suit?
a. a breached standard of care
b. therapist intentions
c. plaintiff harm
d. negligence
Many of the underlying assumptions and interventions used by strategic therapists are
based on the earlier work of:
a. Erik Erikson
b. Milton Erickson
c. John Bell
d. Braulio Montalvo
In Whitaker’s view of psychotherapy, both therapist and client(s):
a. regress
b. avoid affect
c. exchange insights about one another
d. all of the above
Emotionally-focused therapists first try to:
a. help couples agree to get along better
b. help couples take turns on the hot seat
c. help couples identify negative interactions
d. help couples to improve triangulating abilities
Which of the following statements is true?
a. feedback loops refer to escalating quarreling patterns between spouses
b. negative feedback is corrective, adjusting the input and returning the system to a
steady state
c. positive feedback is corrective, adjusting the input and returning the system to a
steady state
d. information processing refers to the set of family rules developed through the life
cycle
Relational psychoanalysis involves:
a. the mutual impact of external, interpersonal, or social relations, internal relations
among persons, varied self-states, and object relations
b. the impact of narcissistic transferences
c. the mutual impact of internal, personal object relations as they affect other people
d. the mutual impact of drives on internal and external objects
Therapists influenced by postmodern thinking help clients:
a. find new meanings in their life situations
b. gain insight into their early relationships
c. engage in self-differentiation
d. develop clearer boundaries
Deconstruction, according to narrative therapists, refers to disassembling:
a. closed systems
b. entropic systems
c. family roles, rules, and hierarchies
d. family assumptions about themselves
Cybernetics refers to a system’s method of:
a. linear causality
b. feedback control
c. therapeutic efficacy
d. conceptualizing family dysfunction
Probably Kempler’s outstanding therapeutic tactic is his insistence on:
a. punctuality
b. self-disclosure
c. insight
d. physical contact
According to Bowen, the basic building block in a family’s emotional system is the:
a. ego mass
b. triangle
c. reinforcement sets
d. all of the above
Many early family therapists:
a. were feminists
b. saw men and women as having equal power
c. were especially attuned to family politics
d. acknowledged inequality between marital partners
Family maps are apt to reveal information about:
a. failed strategies
b. status quo relations
c. disaffiliation
d. affiliation
The Family Life Fact Chronology is essentially:
a. a word-count of how much information is provided by families during an hour-long
session
b. a review of key events throughout the family’s life cycle to date
c. a test of attitude formation
d. a structural test
Which of the following is not considered to be an enduring subsystem?
a. spousal
b. gender
c. sibling
d. parental
The observer is an integral part of the family system rather than an outside observer,
according to:
a. structuralists
b. behaviorists
c. constructionists
d. all of the above
Defrauding insurance carriers is likely to be met with a _______________ level
sanction by the APA.
a. expulsion
b. educative
c. reprimand
d. censure
_____________________ Following therapy, letters are written to the family that
summarize the sessions, invite reluctant members to attend future sessions, and address
the future. This serves the purpose of extending conversations while encouraging family
members to record or map out their own futures.
_____________________ An assessment procedure in which a therapist identifies the
targeted behavior to be changed, determines the factors currently maintaining the
behavior, and formulates a treatment plan that includes specific criteria for measuring
the success of the change effort.
_____________________ A technique of the Milan School that involves asking each
family member questions that address a difference or define a relationship about two
other family members.
_____________________ A therapeutic effort offering educational programs directed at
helping families better understand and learn skills for dealing with a seriously disturbed
family member, such as a schizophrenic recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
______________________ In contextual family therapy, the overall, long-term
preservation of fairness within a family, ensuring that each member’s basic interests are
taken into account by other family members.
_____________________ As practiced by communication theorists, an effort to change
ongoing family transactional patterns without searching for their origins; verbal and
nonverbal behaviors, as well as their congruence, are examined.
_____________________The mechanism by which parental conflicts and immaturities
are transmitted, through the process of projection, to one or more of the children.
_____________________ Training couples in communication skills, the exchange of
positive reinforcements, cognitive restructuring, and problem-solving skills in order to
facilitate marital satisfaction.
_____________________ The series of longitudinal stages or events that mark a
family’s life, offering an organizing schema for viewing the family as a system
proceeding through time.
_____________________ In narrative therapy, those instances when the client did not
experience the problem; such outcomes are intended to help contradict a client’s
problem-saturated outlook.
_____________________ A legal concept addressing the failure to provide a level of
professional skill or render a level of professional services ordinarily expected of
professionals in a similar situation.
_____________________ According to Fromm-Reichmann, a cold, domineering,
possessive but rejecting mother (usually married to an inadequate, passive husband)
whose behavior toward her son is thought to be a determining factor in his
schizophrenic behavior.
______________________ 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.
_____________________ A post divorced family structure in which the former spouses
reside in separate households and function as two separate units; although living
separately, their nuclear family is thus restructured but remains intact.
______________________ A philosophical outlook that rejects the notion that there
exists an objectively knowable universe discoverable by impartial science, and instead
argues that there are multiple views of reality ungoverned by universal laws.
_____________________ Shared behaviors, meanings, symbols, and values
transmitted from one generation to the next.
_____________________ A learned set of culturally prescribed attitudes and behaviors
as masculine or feminine, associated with but distinct from the biological status of
being male or female.