Unique outcomes pertain to:
a. the past and present
b. the present and the future
c. the past and future
d. the past, present and future
Family stage markers are events in a family’s life that:
a. demand a new adaptation
b. differentiate one stage of life from the next
c. mark the close of the childbearing years
d. none of the above
According to the text, the major credit for applying cybernetic principles to human
communication belongs to:
a. Wiener
b. Haley
c. Sluzki
d. Bateson
Gender-sensitive family therapy:
a. tacitly accepts cultural stereotypes of men and women
b. advocates therapist neutrality
c. is built upon feminist family therapy
d. increasingly is becoming unnecessary as parity between men and women continues
Kohut viewed narcissism as:
a. a pathological condition of self-absorption
b. a normal stage of development
c. disappearing after adolescence
d. concern for the welfare of others
The attempt to guide clients into unlocking dysfunctional patterns stemming from their
family of origin is called:
a. Family Life Fact Chronology
b. The Seed Model
c. The Primary Triad
d. Family Reconstruction
A spouse who projects undesired aspects of oneself onto a partner and then fights these
characteristics in that mate is engaging in:
a. projective identification
b. projective techniques
c. sculpting
d. projective reintegration
Which of the following is not a likely ground for bringing a suit for malpractice?
a. ineptitude
b. carelessness
c. negligence
d. scheduling error
Postmodernists place considerable emphasis on:
a. objective truth
b. objective reality
c. language used to exchange views of the outside world
d. science
One tactic employed by Minuchin in treating anorectics is to:
a. avoid the subject of eating until brought up by a family member
b. arrange for the first session to meet the family for lunch
c. work individually with the identified patient
d. avoid enactments
Solution-focused brief therapy argues that:
a. determining why and how a particular problem arose is the first order of business in
working with families
b. insight provides the basic tool for change
c. client families have run out of ways of dealing with their problems
d. functional family therapy is the most practical approach
Gender, power, and control issues are involved in:
a. multicultural approaches to family therapy
b. family violence
c. sexist counseling
d. none of the above
Which of the following is not a consequence of parental fusion, according to Bowen?
a. chronic marital conflict
b. a psychologically damaged child
c. physical illness in a spouse
d. profound love between parents
Which of the following statements is not consistent with the structural viewpoint?
a. family members relate according to certain arrangements which govern their
interactions
b. family transaction patterns offer clues regarding family organization
c. emotional cutoff separates a member from the remainder of the family
d. a family in difficulty is operating within a dysfunctional structure
Many early family therapists rejected the notion of:
a. redundancy
b. punctuation
c. intrapsychic dynamics
d. homeostasis
Which of the following is not an example of an ethical issue in family therapy is:
a. to whom the therapist owes primary loyalty
b. how to deal with confidentiality
c. when and how to diagnostically label family members
d. a diagnositic disagreement with a supervisor
Peer review refers to:
a. class discussion of cases
b. review courses for state licensing exams
c. independent evaluation by a colleague of one’s procedures
d. none of the above
Which theory is basic to EFCT?
a. natural systems theory
b. interaction theory
c. attachment theory
d. Adlerian sibling birth order
Homeostasis refers to:
a. the tendency within a family for persons of the same sex to band together
b. roles within a family being assigned according to traditional sex roles
c. the inclination of a system to maintain a dynamic equilibrium around a central
tendency
d. none of the above
Which of the following characterizes emerging adulthood?
a. a heightened sense of assuming responsibilities
b. launching children
c. initial experiences of sexual exploration
d. consolidating gender
According to Ackerman, family dysfunction reflects:
a. a failure of role complementarity
b. learned maladaptive or problematic behavior
c. a struggle for power
d. none of the above
The Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic is especially known for their work with:
a. schizophrenics
b. delinquent boys
c. psychosomatic families
d. schizophrenogenic mothers
Most family rules are:
a. overtly stated
b. unwritten and covertly stated
c. unchangeable as long as the family remains a functioning unit
d. not open to negotiation once the rules are established
A therapist who determines that there is imminent danger to someone the client vows to
harm should:
a. warn the potential victim
b. maintain client confidence
c. wait to see if the threat is carried out
d. remain neutral
The probability of a psychologist being sued in court is:
a. about one in 25
b. about one in 100
c. less than one in 100
d. nonexistent
The risk of not growing up in an intact family:
a. is a new phenomenon first appearing in the second half of the 20th century
b. has been part of American life for a long period of time
c. is largely the result of teenage pregnancies
d. is largely the result of widespread adoptions by single women
Pseudomutuality refers to:
a. hostile exchanges between family members
b. the appearance of an open relationship without really having one
c. the development of strong personal identities among family members
d. none of the above
All family therapists attend to which of these factors in assessing family functioning?
a. monadic and dyadic
b. dyadic and triadic
c. monadic, dyadic, and triadic
d. quadradic
White’s style is directed at all but one of the following. Which one?
a. what the person is experiencing
b. how the problem is being experienced
c. why the problem is being experienced
d. how the client would describe the problem
The number of followers of Satir’s methods:
a. has doubled since her death
b. has remained about the same since her death
c. has dwindled since her death
d. has increased slightly since her death
The PREP Program is associated with:
a. John Gottman
b. Gerald Patterson
c. Howard Markman
d. Bernard Guerney
Structural Family Therapy is:
a. geared to past obligations
b. based on insight preceding action
c. primarily concerned with pathological families
d. concerned with the context of family structures
One of the following is not a concept used by the communication theorists. Which one?
a. redundancy principle
b. family homeostasis
c. family of origin sessions
d. punctuation
In the case of single-parent families led by a teenage mother:
a. the parent-child relationship predominates
b. extended family involvement is rare
c. sufficient money is available through welfare checks
d. grandmother-mother-daughter relationships are likely to predominate
Which of these statements is true?
a. Object relations therapists believe the marital dyad contains examples of projective
identification
b. Behavior therapists view the family of the symptomatic person as the problem
c. Psychoanalytic therapists insist on monadic investigations
d. Psychoeducational therapists aim interventions at the identified patient