One highlight of Framo’s approach is the:
a. family loyalty explorations
b. family of origin conferences
c. parent-adolescent rap sessions
d. contextual approach
“Time-out” from positive reinforcements is probably most useful when working with:
a. young children
b. adolescents
c. college students
d. the elderly
Which of the following is not an example of a discontinuous life style change event in a
family’s history?
a. birth of a handicapped child
b. father’s retirement
c. birth of a child to midlife parents
d. birth of a child to a teenage girl
A major characteristic of strategic therapists is:
a. relationship building
b. the issuance of directives
c. interpretation of unconscious impulses
d. none of the above
In disengaged families, boundaries are:
a. inappropriately rigid
b. easily crossed
c. poorly differentiated
d. clear between people
The leading advocates today of a multidimensional, multicultural view of the life cycle
concept are:
a. Duvall and Hill
b. Duvall and Miller
c. Carter and Strauss
d. Carter and McGoldrick
A systems perspective:
a. emphasizes S-R connections
b. supports linear explanations of behavior
c. views component parts as greater than the whole
d. stresses wholeness or unity
The major journal in medical family therapy is:
a. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
b. Journal of Medical Family Therapy
c. Families, Systems, and Health
d. Medical Family Therapy
White’s therapeutic approach is based on:
a. making interpretations
b. employing therapeutic questions
c. issuing directives
d. using paradoxical interventions
A primary therapeutic goal for structuralists is:
a. organizational change
b. insight
c. self-differentiation
d. educating the client
Increasingly, behavioral couple therapists are attending to client:
a. positive reinforcements
b. negative reinforcements
c. thoughts, attitudes, and expressions of feelings
d. contracting
Bowen encouraged back home visits in order to:
a. settle old scores with parents
b. change the family’s hierarchical power structure
c. monitor distressing emotional patterns with one’s family
d. none of the above
A family stage marker refers to:
a. a particular life event
b. a stage of life
c. the final decade of life
d. all of the above
The family therapy approach that comes closest to classical psychoanalytic theory is
that offered by:
a. Kohut
b. Ackerman
c. Scharff
d. Framo
Unique outcomes typically _______________ the troubled family’s dominant story:
a. contradict
b. reinforce
c. confirm
d. are unrelated to
Which of the following does not characterize the work of Anderson and Goolishian?
a. human systems are meaning-generating systems
b. human systems are language-generating systems
c. in therapeutic conversation
d. all of the above
Satir’s ___________ style with families has been studied by Bandler, Grinder and Satir:
a. cognitive
b. affective
c. holistic
d. linguistic
Which of the following statements is true?
a. Family research has always had secondary status compared to family therapy
b. Early efforts at family therapy, during the 1950s, were often undertaken to maintain
contact with research families
c. Family research has always had primary status compared to family therapy
d. Family research and family therapy tend to utilize similar observational procedures
Hermeneutics represents an approach to knowledge that emphasizes:
a. home study
b. individual interpretation of events influenced by the observer’s beliefs
c. groupthink
d. all of the above
Who is usually credited as the first object relations theorist?
a. Melanie Klein
b. Anna Freud
c. James Framo
d. Robin Skynner
Who among the following is not a forerunner of narrative therapy?
a. Meyerhoff
b. Foucault
c. Bruner
d. Ellis
Aaron Beck views depressed persons as:
a. psychotic
b. immature
c. overwrought with feelings
d. making errors in thinking
In Ackerman’s approach:
a. both office interviews and home visits were employed
b. office visits are common but home visits were avoided
c. all therapeutic work with the family occurs in the home
d. both office interviews and home visits are avoided by seeing families in a hospital
setting
An ethical code violation such as inappropriate advertising of one’s services is likely to
be met with a _______________ level sanction by the APA.
a. expulsion
b. educative
c. reprimand
d. censure
A family’s metarules refers to:
a. rules about the rules
b. discarded rules
c. flexible family rules
d. inflexible family rules
According to Anderson, Reiss, and Hogarty, recovering hospitalized schizophrenics:
a. remained symptom-free for six months
b. relapsed when returning home to family
c. were bipolar
d. none of the above
When Beels and Ferber classified the leading family therapists in 1969, they
distinguished two types, conductors and:
a. crisis-inducers
b. responders
c. reactors
d. active, aggressive therapists
Behavior is best understood by examining its interactional context, according to:
a. linear causality
b. circular causality
c. symptom appearance
d. resiliency
The best researched family skills training program is:
a. Masters and Johnson
b. Expressed Emotion Enhancement
c. Relationship Enhancement
d. REBT
The most common grounds for a malpractice suit is:
a. sexual involvement with a client
b. business arrangements with a client
c. divorce following therapy
d. unsuccessful treatment
Negative and positive feedback loops are:
a. bad and good respectively
b. good and bad respectively
c. neither intrinsically good or bad
d. invariably destabilizing
All but one of the following are techniques introduced by the Milan systemic therapists:
a. positive connotation
b. rituals
c. fusion
d. counterparadox
Family debts and obligations are emphasized by:
a. Satir
b. Boszormenyi-Nagy
c. Selvini-Palazzoli
d. Scharff
Common terms used by experiential family therapists include all but one of the
following. Which term does not fit with the others?
a. existence
b. encounter
c. unconscious
d. growth
Which of the following statements is true?
a. Women complete graduate educations at an equal or greater rate than men
b. Pay inequalities between men and women doing the same job no longer exist
c. The modal American family today has a stay-at-home mom
d. The number of women in the professions will likely decrease