Cognitive behavior therapy attempts to modify a client’s:
a. thoughts
b. feelings
c. impulses
d. desires
Continuing or dramatic misconduct by a member of APA that results in a hazard to
clients or the public could lead to:
a. an educative warning
b. an educative advisory
c. expulsion
d. a mandated CE course
Nothing exists except in the now. This statement was likely made by a:
a. psychoanalyst
b. transgenerational therapist
c. Gestalt therapist
d. none of the above
A young adult’s primary developmental task is:
a. separating from one’s parents without cutting off from them
b. finding a suitable mate
c. realigning relationships with extended families
d. becoming a parent
Labeling an anorectic’s refusal to eat as ‘stubborn” rather than ‘sick” is an example of:
a. reframing
b. scapegoating
c. regression
d. shaping
Bipolar disorder refers to:
a. early onset of schizophrenia
b. late adolescent onset of a disorder
c. a polarized family conflict
d. an affective disorder
Most of today’s immigrants to the United States come from:
a. Eastern Europe
b. Western Europe
c. Asia and Latin America
d. Europe and Asia
The initial formulations regarding attachment theory were developed by:
a. Ainsworth
b. Kohut
c. Bowlby
d. Adler
Extensive changes typify the goals of:
a. strategic therapy
b. communication therapy
c. object relations therapy
d. psychoeducational therapy
Outside witness groups represent:
a. reflecting teams
b. professionals familiar with the case
c. therapeutic leagues
d. a jury of one’s peers
The major transition to be achieved before launching children involves:
a. introducing them to school
b. introducing them to social groups
c. experimenting with late teen independence
d. parents letting go and facing each other
Valid and reliable test instruments appraise family:
a. communication patterns
b. cognitive and affective patterns
c. interpersonal patterns
d. all of the above
According to the textbook which of the following does not characterize a modernist
approach to knowledge:
a. empirical methods
b. generalizable laws
c. relative but stable truths
d. constantly shifting meaning
Dyads and triads refer to:
a. two- or three-person relationships
b. two or three generations in this country
c. two or three family members who regularly attend family therapy sessions
d. therapist-couple transactions
Structuralists claim that dysfunctional families require:
a. a change in the covert rules that govern family transactions
b. resolving problems with each parent’s family of origin
c. increased togetherness
d. all of the above
Aponte contends that power is largely determined by:
a. gender
b. age
c. class membership
d. ethnic background
Bowen studied families with schizophrenic members, especially their:
a. marital disharmony
b. symbiotic mother/child interactions
c. neurotic parents
d. psychotic parents
Using therapeutic letters to summarize sessions is a technique introduced by:
a. Bruner
b. Epston
c. Meyerhoff
d. Morgan
According to Whitaker, the battle for initiative must:
a. remain in the hands of the therapist
b. be instituted only with resistant families
c. come from the family
d. none of the above
Minuchin, a structuralist, views symptomatic behavior in a family member as arising
from:
a. stories families develop about themselves
b. repeated use of the same flawed solutions
c. unresolved problems from childhood
d. dysfunctional family transactions
Closed systems tend to become disorganized and go into disorder. This is known as:
a. entropy
b. negentropy
c. homeostasis
d. cybernetics
Homophobia is often a characteristic of:
a. the “masculine mystique”
b. gender-sensitive family therapy
c. sexist assessments
d. gender-role analysis
Most authorities consider the family therapy movement to have gotten underway:
a. shortly after World War I
b. shortly after World War II
c. during the late 1960s
d. early in the current century
Suggesting to a bed wetter that he pretend to have wet his bed and that his mother
pretend to help is a strategic technique associated with:
a. Weakland
b. Watzlawick
c. Zuk
d. Madanes
Family coalitions:
a. may introduce stress into a family system
b. are usually beneficial, as in helping draw the distinction between what is expected of
males and of females
c. between children and grandparents are usually beneficial to overall family
functioning
d. generally result in family collapse
Tomm’s reflective questioning:
a. directs attention to the family’s belief system
b. is related to his notion of interventive interviewing
c. stimulates families to consider alternative cognitions
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Most family therapists tend to be:
a. ahistorical
b. psychoanalytic
c. multigenerational
d. historical
Family management skills training:
a. treats parents whose children develop behavior problems
b. treats parents and children together in a group
c. trains parents in behavioral principles and techniques
d. trains children by acting as surrogate parents
Collaborative therapists such as Harlene Anderson try to:
a. help families solve problems
b. help families dis-solve problems
c. help families resolve imprints from childhood
d. all of the above
Which of the following is not a factor in understanding the cultural background of
client families?
a. kinship networks
b. communication styles
c. the role of extended family
d. feedback loops
A shortcoming in the family life stage perspective is:
a. it is explanatory rather than descriptive
b. it offers normative data on extended families only
c. it emphasizes individual difference in the timings of modal events
d. it does not deal with transition periods between stages
The “miracle question” allows clients to:
a. speculate on their future once the problem is gone
b. put their faith in the therapeutic process
c. seek a religious experience
d. theoretically integrate spirituality within solution-focused therapy
Of the following, who is not considered a pioneer in cognitive and/or behavior therapy?
a. Selvini-Palazzolli
b. Patterson
c. Liberman
d. Stuart
Highly functional families, according to Beavers:
a. place all power in the hands of the parents
b. are high in entropy
c. are more likely to be closed systems than open ones
d. are characterized by parental coalitions which offer family leadership
e. all of the above
From a family systems perspective, the appearance of symptoms in a family member
represents the manifestation of:
a. a current family transaction pattern
b. a past family transaction pattern
c. genetic vulnerabilities
d. pervasive physical deficits