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More than most family therapists, Bowen stresses the role of theory for:
a. guiding treatment
b. teaching purposes
c. research
d. all of the above
Albert Ellis employs the use of:
a. schemas
b. attributions
c. cognitive restructuring
d. operant conditioning
Which of the following is not one of Bowen's concepts?
a. interlocking pathology
b. family projection process
c. nuclear family emotional system
d. societal regression
Gender-sensitive family therapy emphasizes:
a. blurring differences between men and women
b. multicultural considerations
c. overcoming sex-role stereotyping
d. all of the above
In a symmetrical pattern of communication, the participants do not:
a. mirror each other's behavior
b. engage in "one-upmanship" games
c. hold equal power
d. dominate each other
Satir's humanistic orientation developed more fully as a result of her work at:
a. Esalen
b. MRI
c. Ackerman Institute
d. none of the above
Ackerman used the term _______________ to describe several disabilities within a
family which depend on each other for expression or control.
a. family ego mass
b. triangulation
c. interlocking pathology
d. marital schism
Family rules directing what may or may not occur between members can be considered
to be:
a. descriptive
b. metaphoric
c. prescriptive
d. intrapsychic
A family therapist who stresses infant attachment is probably:
a. a solution-focused therapist
b. an object relations psychoanalyst
c. an experiential therapist
d. a Gestalt therapist
In the Beavers system of classification, families can be rated along a continuum
according to their level of:
a. cohesion
b. competence
c. adaptability
d. conflict
Questionnaires used for assessment are examples of:
a. self-report measures
b. reliable measures
c. valid measures
d. objective measures
Humanistically-oriented therapists view dysfunctional behavior as:
a. resulting from unresolved unconscious conflict
b. a deficit in growth
c. behavioral excesses
d. behavioral deficits
Family therapist Virginia Satir helped families:
a. set up written contracts stating agreed-upon family rules
b. de-emphasize their feelings and avoid topics causing family pain
c. follow rules she establishes for them
d. recognize their unwritten rules
Freedom of choice laws:
a. allow marital/family therapists to practice
b. allow consumers to choose between licensed practitioners
c. allow third-party payors to pay certain professions but exclude others
d. cover women seeking to terminate pregnancies
Most heads of one-parent households:
a. eventually remarry
b. are sufficiently financially secure so that they do not seek remarriage
c. avoid remarriage until their children are grown
d. can be considered to be non-custodial parents
Object Relations Family Therapy emphasizes the basic human need for:
a. sexual gratification
b. the release of aggression
c. experiences
d. attachment
Structuralists view anorexia nervosa as:
a. genetic
b. intrapsychic
c. a family system diagnosis
d. all of the above
Stepfamily preparation programs were founded by:
a. McDaniel and Rolland
b. Visher and Visher
c. Bray and Guerney
d. Guerney and Guerney
Family therapy's interest in schizophrenia:
a. was strong during the 1980s
b. grew out of confirmation of the schizophrenogenic mother
c. was reestablished by the 1990s
d. once psychoeducational practitioners could prescribe psychopharmacological drugs
A meta-analysis of research studies:
a. summarizes data from a group of studies
b. analyzes how well the studies were conducted
c. refers to qualitative research only
d. all of the above
According to the view of narrative therapists, symptomatic behavior in a family
member:
a. reflects underlying family problems
b. represents repetitive previous solutions
c. oppresses rather than protects a family
d. protects rather than oppresses a family
Cognitive-behavioral therapists traditionally work at three related levels. Which is not
one of these levels?
a. underlying assumptions
b. automatic thoughts
c. schemas
d. affect
Sibling position, in Bowen's theory, refers to the relationship between marital partners
based on:
a. the number of children from a previous marriage
b. whether there are children from a previous marriage
c. their birth orders
d. their gender
Hardy & Laszloffy have proposed a ____________ to help people trace their heritage:
a. genealogy search on the Internet
b. a cultural genogram
c. a three-generation family conference
d. none of the above
The notion that there is an objectively knowable world to be observed and measured
represents which viewpoint?
a. postmodernism
b. poststructuralism
c. modernism
d. none of the above
Stepfamilies typically:
a. cause a disruption in the family life cycle
b. add an additional phase to the life cycle
c. require a restructuring of parent-child relationships
d. all of the above
Relying heavily on learning theory at first, _______________ theory first came into
prominence in the 1960s:
a. structural
b. strategic
c. psychodynamic
d. behavior
Circular questioning is likely to:
a. probe differences in how family members perceive problems
b. be a free form of therapeutic questioning
c. rely heavily on directives
d. rely heavily on prescriptions
According to collaborative therapists, problems are created through:
a. interpersonal conflict
b. behavioral sequences
c. language
d. none of the above
What actually transpires during a therapy session? Answers to such questions are
addressed by:
a. outcome research
b. effectiveness research
c. confirmatory research
d. process research
