Developmental tasks:
a. always involve children
b. occur at all stages of the life cycle
c. rarely involve family conflict
d. always impede family functioning
The Milwaukee Brief Therapy Center makes use of:
a. one-way mirrors and intercom systems
b. co-therapy
c. multiple impact therapy
d. low impact therapy
Which of the following is not an example of a larger system with which problematic
families may engage?
a. schools
b. health care clinics
c. open systems
d. probation departments
Clients who describe their unhappiness but wait for their partner to change first are
called what by solution-focused therapists?
a. visitors
b. customers
c. non-participants
d. complainants
The past is emphasized by all but one of the following theorists. Which one?
a. Scharff
b. Bowen
c. Boszormenyi-Nagy
d. Kempler
The developers of Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy are:
a. Satir and Kempler
b. Johnson and Satir
c. Whitaker and Greenberg
d. Johnson and Greenberg
Which therapeutic technique is frequently employed by Symbolic-experiential
therapists?
a. group therapy
b. interpretation
c. co-therapy
d. family reconstruction
Which therapists try to help the family detach from a dominating story line?
a. narrative therapists
b. psychoanalysts
c. experiential therapists
d. strategists
Wynne’s concept of a rubber fence refers to:
a. locked hospital wards
b. closed family systems
c. shifting boundaries around a family
d. easy access to a psychiatric hospital
A problem analysis:
a. tries to uncover the underlying problem
b. pinpoints the specific behavioral deficit
c. measures therapeutic changes
d. none of the above
The authors contend that clinical effectiveness is determined by:
a. personal experiences
b. theoretical knowledge
c. empathy
d. all of the above
According to the authors, most family therapists:
a. look for hierarchical patterns in their family assessment
b. rely on formal psychological tests in their family assessment
c. do not rely on formal psychological tests
d. ignore hierarchical patterns in their family assessment
Whitaker conceptualizes schizophrenia as:
a. an intrapsychic disturbance
b. an interpersonal deficit
c. a communication disorder
d. an intrapsychic and interpersonal dilemma
Psychologist Mary Pipher has described ___________ as developing eating disorders in
reaction to societal demands that emphasize physical appearance.
a. boys below the age of puberty
b. adolescent girls
c. young adults
d. middle-aged women
Reflecting teams make use of:
a. one-way mirrors
b. two-way mirrors
c. supervisors entering the consultation room
d. supervisors telephoning suggestions to the therapist
One objective of structural interventions is for the psychosomatic family to achieve:
a. greater enmeshment
b. clearer boundaries
c. more rule-governed interactions
d. greater disengagement
A holding environment refers to:
a. a caring and nurturing environment that supports “good enough” development
b. physical contact with a therapist
c. parental neglect
d. a waiting area in a psychiatric hospital
One of the unique aspects of Boszormenyi-Nagy’s outlook is his concern with:
a. values and ethics
b. structure and process
c. insight and action
d. dyads and triads
The family therapist who joins a family and engages in a dialogue rather than observing
from outside is probably an advocate of:
a. first-order cybernetics
b. second-order cybernetics
c. both of the above
d. neither of the above
According to Kerr, which of the following is not characteristic of emotional cutoff?
a. it reflects a family problem
b. it solves a family problem
c. it creates a family problem
d. it is not related to family problems
Cultural specificity refers to:
a. knowledge about who makes up a society
b. detailed knowledge regarding unfamiliar groups
c. appreciation of the immigrant experience
d. therapist self-awareness of cultural influences
Which of the following does not characterize a high degree of family fusion?
a. triangulating will occur
b. poorly differentiated members will be drawn into tense situations
c. families will insist on togetherness
d. the dyad will emerge safely
Epistemology refers to:
a. rules for gaining knowledge and drawing conclusions about the world
b. the anthropological investigation of tribal family customs
c. the practice of family therapy rather than individual therapy
d. none of the above
Which of the following statements is true?
a. Narrative therapists re-author people’s lives
b. The main thrust of narrative therapists is in working with anorexics
c. Cultural stories often provide dominant narratives to a family
d. Narrative therapists act as “editors” who work on people’s self-narratives.
A general cultural sensitivity to families characterizes:
a. the culture-specific approach
b. the ethnicity approach
c. the multicultural approach
d. the family functioning approach
_____________________ An affective disorder in which the patient experiences
alternating periods of depression and mania.
Which of the following is not true?
a. gay adults are less fit parents than straight adults
b. lesbian women do not differ from heterosexual women in their child rearing practices
c. there are 12 to 15 million children living with gay or lesbian parents in the US
d. gay and lesbian families are as diverse as heterosexual families
Which of the following is not considered by the authors as a root of family therapy?
a. group therapy
b. the child guidance movement
c. marriage counseling
d. cognitive development
Two”income families represent:
a. mostly working class people
b. successful efforts to balance work and family responsibilities
c. families in which men enjoy child care-giving
d. women who spend less time doing household chores than in the past.
Which of the following models of family interaction is based largely on the
psychoanalytic model?
a. psychodynamic
b. communication
c. structural
d. behavioral
Which of the following is not typically included in RE programs?
a. cognitive instruction
b. skills building
c. miracle questioning
d. behavioral instruction
According to the text, which subsystem is most basic in a family?
a. spousal
b. parental
c. sibling
d. all equally basic
Bowen’s approach may be considered a bridge between what two views?
a. psychoanalytic and structural
b. systems and psychodynamic
c. psychodynamic and communication
d. structural and systems
Which of the following statements would likely be made by a structural family
therapist?
a. family therapy is a group encounter emphasizing growth
b. troubled marriages usually contain pathogenic introjects from past relationships
c. individual symptoms are rooted in the context of family transaction patterns
d. clear communication reduces family dysfunction
______________________ An interviewing technique, first formulated Milan systemic
therapists, aimed at eliciting differences in perception about events or relationships
from different family members, particularly regarding points in the family life cycle
when significant coalition shifts and adaptations occurred.
_____________________ A statistical technique for reviewing, analyzing, and
summarizing the results of a discrete group of studies, as in investigating the differences
between treatment and no-treatment groups in outcome research.
_____________________ A three-person system, the smallest stable emotional system;
according to Bowen, a two-person emotional system, under stress, will recruit a third
person into the system to lower the intensity and anxiety and gain stability.
_____________________ The postmodern theory that there is no objective “truth,”
only versions of “reality” constructed from social interaction, including conversation,
with others.
_____________________ In structural family therapy, a facilitating intervention in
which the family is induced to enact or play out its relationship patterns spontaneously
during a therapeutic session, allowing the therapist to observe and ultimately to develop
a plan or new set of rules for restructuring future transactions.
_____________________ The view that an individual who receives important
contradictory injunctions at different levels of abstraction, and about which he or she is
unable to comment, is in a no-win, conflict-producing situation.
_____________________ A perspective that goes beyond intrafamilial relationships to
attend to the family’s relationships with larger systems (schools, courts, health care).
_____________________ The defining characteristics of a social grouping sharing
cultural traditions transmitted over generations and reinforced by the expectations of the
subgroup in which the individual or family maintains membership.
_____________________ A linked family system created by the marriage of two
persons, one or both of whom has been previously married, in which one or more
children from the earlier marriage(s) live with the remarried couple.
______________________ A form of learning in which a previously neutral stimulus,
through repeated pairing with a stimulus that ordinarily elicits a response, eventually
elicits the response by itself.
_____________________ Tending to move outward or away from the center; within a
family, forces that push the members apart, especially when the family organization
lacks cohesiveness, so that they seek gratification outside of, rather than within, the
family.
_____________________ A dynamic state of balance or equilibrium in a system, or a
tendency toward achieving and maintaining such a state in an effort to ensure a stable
environment.
_____________________ Described by Whitaker as the therapist’s demand that the
family capitulate to his/her way of conducting the therapy, particularly during the initial
stages.
_____________________ The viewpoint that a predisposition or vulnerability to a
severe mental disorder, such as schizophrenia, is inherited; its ultimate manifestation is
determined by how that vulnerability is later modified by life events, especially those
involving the family.
_____________________ Tending to move toward the center; within a family, forces
that bind or otherwise keep the members together so that they seek fulfillment from
intrafamilial rather than outside relationships.
_____________________ A physical arrangement of the members of a family in space,
with the placement of each person determined by an individual family member acting
as “director”; the resulting tableau represents that person’s symbolic view of family
relationships.
______________________ An experiential approach, based on humanistic and
systemic foundations, that attempts to change a couple’s negativity.