Psychoeducational programs are most highly developed to help:
a. alcoholics
b. schizophrenics
c. anorectics
d. all equally
“He says he has to work late tonight. He”d rather be with someone else than me,” is an
example of:
a. a selective abstraction
b. an arbitrary inference
c. an overgeneralization
d. all of the above
The more open a family, the more:
a. adaptable to rule change
b. resistant to changing customary interactive patterns
c. the risk of eventual dysfunction
d. boundaries are difficult to cross
Therapeutic contracts are:
a. written agreements between spouses
b. pre-therapy arrangements with a therapist
c. insurance reimbursement forms
d. none of the above
The underlying patterns of family life were said by the new epistemologists to be best
captured by the:
a. pragmatic approach
b. aesthetic approach
c. psychodynamic approach
d. none of the above
Most marriage counseling or marital therapy practiced today takes which of the
following forms?
a. collaborative
b. conjoint
c. concurrent
d. complementary
The emergence of managed care has:
a. decreased the freedom of solo practitioners
b. decreased the need for time-limited therapeutic procedures
c. increased the freedom of solo practitioners
d. encouraged long-term treatment
In the case of detected child abuse, the therapist should:
a. deliberate on whether to report it, depending on circumstances
b. wait until therapy is over before reporting it
c. report it immediately to the police or child welfare agency
d. work out the problem with the family without reporting it to the proper authorities
According to the text, there is a developing trend toward:
a. a proliferation of schools of family therapy
b. narrowing the number of approaches to three
c. integration of approaches
d. factions developing within each school of family therapy
The role that her relationships with others plays in a woman’s life is emphasized by:
a. Whitaker
b. Levant
c. Miller
d. Minuchin
The Women’s Project in Family Therapy was insistent upon:
a. developing special therapeutic procedures for women
b. refusing to work with individual male clients
c. developing a nonsexist therapy
d. all of the above
_______________ especially looks for three-person involvement in all interactions.
a. Bowen
b. Haley
c. Whitaker
d. White
In the psychosocial typology of illness, Rolland does not include one of following.
Which one?
a. onset
b. blood type
c. outcome
d. incapacitation
Men’s studies draw attention to:
a. female role restrictions
b. curtailed emotional expressiveness in men
c. remarriage rates in men and women
d. gender blindness toward women but not men
Which of the following is not related to the expansion of family therapy research in the
1990s?
a. increased funding by the National Institute of Mental Health
b. increased funding by the National Institute of Drug Abuse
c. pressure from managed care insurance programs
d. pressure from psychoanalysts for funding to demonstrate the efficacy of that
approach
Family loyalty, unity, honor and obligation are especially important in:
a. Latin American families
b. all families
c. interracial families
d. economically impoverished families
Systemicists changed the direction of family therapy interventions by:
a. questioning family belief systems
b. observing family interactive patterns
c. taking detailed case histories
d. direction
Which of the following isnot a criticism by feminists of existing practices as:
a. favoring masculine values
b. devaluing nurturance
c. based on male development
d. all the theorists were men
When family therapists refer to first-order cybernetics, they are attending to:
a. birth order of family members
b. patterns of structure and feedback control that govern systems
c. family paradigms
d. early therapeutic interventions
As the result of differing socialization experiences, men and women typically:
a. develop distinct behavioral expectations
b. are granted disparate opportunities
c. have different life experiences
d. all of the above
Self-differentiation is a goal of:
a. family systems therapy
b. possibility therapy
c. premarital therapy
d. relational psychoanalysis
Teaching a couple to touch and explore each other’s bodies and learn each other’s erotic
areas is part of a sex therapy process called:
a. spectatoring
b. communicating
c. exploring
d. sensate focus
A common goal of narrative therapy is:
a. self-actualization
b. anger management
c. creating and internalizing new stories
d. using myths and other powerful stories to impart meaning to our lives
The clarity of boundaries between subsystems helps ensure stability, according to:
a. cognitive therapists
b. strategic therapists
c. solution-oriented therapists
d. structural therapists
Therapists are more apt to attend to _____________ research because it is more likely
to capture what they do in their daily work with clients.
a. confirmatory
b. quantitative
c. statistical
d. qualitative
The way a family organizes and maintains itself at any given time refers to its:
a. processes
b. power
c. structure
d. general systems theory
From a family life cycle perspective, psychiatric symptoms in a family member
represent:
a. intrapsychic distress
b. interpersonal distress
c. a signal that the family is having problems mastering the tasks at that stage in the
cycle
d. a learned response to anxiety
An ecosystemic approach to family assessment and treatment focuses on:
a. the family’s immigration status
b. the larger systems in which the family is embedded
c. racial and ethnic factors primarily
d. the family’s social class membership
Narrative therapists believe our current lives are directed by the ___________ we have
woven together about ourselves.
a. self-commands
b. dominant stories
c. self-reflections
d. subjugated stories
Hare-Mustin contends that, as opposed to men, a woman’s greater reliance on
relationships can be explained as a need to please others when one lacks:
a. affiliation
b. coalitions
c. social experiences
d. power
Minuchin was director of the _______________ from 1965″1975.
a. Chicago Family Institute
b. Mental Research Institute
c. Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute
d. Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic