Quantitative research emphasizes:
a. case studies
b. audio and video tapes
c. large samples
d. open-ended inquiries
Which of the following statements is true?
a. families that show dysfunctional behavior lack strengths and resources
b. families that show dysfunctional behavior lack those interactive processes that
strengthen hardiness
c. members of functional families never engage in damaging behavior with one another
d. all families have resources to call upon
A major value of the introduction of the one-way mirror in the 1950s was in:
a. viewing schizophrenia up close
b. providing clinical confirmation of circular causality
c. making sure all family members attended the session
d. allowing insurance companies on-site therapist assessment
The elements of a system are delineated by its:
a. units
b. boundaries
c. feedback mechanisms
d. none of the above
Anderson and Goolishian view therapy as:
a. a linguistic event
b. a self-differentiating event
c. an insight-attaining event
d. none of the above
Markman’s research on marital distress prevention found:
a. earlier marriages are most successful
b. remarriage is usually successful
c. volatile couples make for poor marriages
d. positive communication patterns make for higher functioning levels
The first journal devoted exclusively to family therapy, and edited by Jay Haley,
appeared in 1962. Its name?
a. Family Therapy
b. Journal of Family Therapy
c. Family Process
d. The Family Coordinator
Redundancy letters refer to:
a. urging reluctant family members to attend sessions
b. termination of therapy announcements
c. urging specific family members to give up duplicate roles in the family
d. summarizing a previous month’s worth of sessions
In the case presented by the authors of a Latino family seeking counseling, the
presenting problem involved:
a. gang participation
b. irregular school attendance
c. parental separation
d. drugs
One way to avoid successful malpractice suits is to:
a. document treatment plans
b. consult with colleagues
c. do not go outside your area of competence
d. all of the above
In treating the major psychoses, psychoeducation is now seen as necessary, along with:
a. medication
b. individual psychotherapy
c. conjoint family therapy
d. network interventions
Which of the following is not characteristic of Interactional therapy?
a. revealing a family’s hidden agenda
b. interpreting transactional patterns
c. changing outmoded family rules
d. extinguishing paradoxical communication patterns
Generally speaking, behavioral couples therapists today:
a. adhere to an operant conditioning model
b. attend to cognitive factors in marital dysfunction
c. stress underlying unconscious choices of mates
d. are increasingly experiential
Managed care plans require:
a. fee for service providers
b. preauthorization before therapy
c. psychiatric supervision
d. all of the above
Narrative therapists use reflecting teams to:
a. eavesdrop on family conversations
b. support the family’s development of new narratives about themselves
c. solve family problems
d. develop scaling questions
The double-bind concept was first introduced to account for the development of:
a. anorexia nervosa
b. both anxiety and depression
c. substance abuse
d. schizophrenia
Genograms helps shed light on:
a. how many generations currently live together
b. a family’s multigenerational relationship patterns
c. family enmeshments and disengagements
d. none of the above
Successful aftercare programs for schizophrenics emphasize reduced family conflict at
home and:
a. individual therapy
b. family therapy
c. antipsychotic medication
d. all of the above
An early effort to help parents deal with their emotionally disturbed children is:
a. filial therapy
b. psychoanalysis
c. conjoint therapy
d. marital enhancement therapy
Published outcome studies appear in two forms – efficacy studies and:
a. efficacy plus studies
b. efficiency studies
c. confirmatory studies
d. statistical studies
Family therapists have sought licensing because:
a. they want legal recognition
b. the public equates licensing with professionalism
c. reimbursements from health plans require licensing
d. all of the above
Coontz views marriage as a:
a. social invention derived from early societies
b. means for dividing complementary roles for men and women
c. changing phenomenon as current views of marriage have broadened
d. all of the above
An outstanding example, in the 1960s, of research relevant to family therapy was
carried out by Minuchin and his associates at:
a. the Ackerman Institute
b. the Yale Psychiatric Institute
c. the Family Studies Section of NIMH
d. the Wiltwyck School
Which of the following is not thought to stimulate client change?
a. the patient-therapist alliance
b. the emotional experience
c. self-disclosure
d. commanding techniques
In the view of second-order cyberneticists, which of the following is apt to see family
systems as analogous to mechanical systems?
a. constructionists
b. psychoanalysts
c. first-order cyberneticists
d. all of the above
Feminists challenge the systems metaphor because it:
a. reifies concepts
b. ignores gender and power issues
c. overemphasizes power distinctions between men and women
d. overemphasizes feedback loops
One purpose in asking mother and father to change chairs, in the case of the shy and
withdrawn teenage girl described in the text, was:
a. to make each more comfortable
b. to fulfill father’s request, although mother objected
c. to bring father into the picture as an involved parent
d. to grant the daughter’s request for the change
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is intended to:
a. support HMOs over fee-for-services delivery
b. protect the security of health information transmitted by practitioners
c. discourage private practice
d. increase the number of practitioners in rural areas
A Couple and Family Map offers information about:
a. transactional patterns
b. behavioral patterns
c. feedback loops
d. relationships strengths
Therapeutic double-binds:
a. mirror a family’s paradoxical communications
b. are efforts by families to resist change
c. usually result in families learning to improve their paradoxical communications
d. all of the above
Object relations theory evolved from the study of:
a. objective analyses of other persons
b. object constancy
c. early mother-infant relationships
d. father/mother/siblings bonding
Which of the following is a true statement?
a. Practitioners are expected to make correct judgments
b. Practitioners are expected to predict the future behavior of their clients
c. Practitioners are expected to be informed and act in good faith
d. Practitioners are expected to deliver within an 85% range of symptom remediation
Which of the following is not characteristic of working wives today:
a. are more likely to receive help from their husbands regarding domestic chores than in
the past
b. continue to bear the major brunt of household chores
c. are more likely than their husbands to take responsibility for maintaining contact with
parents
d. are likely to quit their work once children come along
Which of the following statements is true?
a. Proponents of formal family assessments contend accurate measurement is essential
for a scientific discipline.
b. Quantitative research in family therapy is by and large unfounded.
c. Few family therapists engage in clinical assessment.
d. All are true.
_____________________An auxiliary therapeutic approach developed by Satir,
whereby family members are guided back through stages of their lives in order to
discover and unlock dysfunctional patterns from the past.
_____________________ A higher-level system in which other systems represent
component parts and play subsystem roles.
______________________ Abnormal or impaired in the ability to accommodate to or
cope with stress.
_____________________ Imprints or memories from the past, usually based on
unresolved relationships with one’s parents, that continue to impose themselves on
current relationships, particularly with a spouse or one’s children.
_____________________ According to object relations theory, a primitive process by
which an infant makes contradictory aspects of a mother or other nurturing figure less
threatening by dividing the external person into a good object and a bad object and
internalizing the split perception.
_____________________ This is the process by which a new story is developed.
_____________________ Those circular mechanisms by which information about a
system’s output is continuously reintroduced back into the system, initiating a chain of
subsequent events.
_____________________ A process involving two-way mirrors in which team
members observe a family and then discuss their thoughts and observations in front of
the family and therapist. Later, the therapist and family discuss the team’s conversations
about them.
_____________________ A philosophical outlook rejecting the notion that there exists
an objectively knowable universe discoverable by impartial science, and instead
arguing that there are multiple views of reality ungoverned by universal laws.
_____________________ A form of collaborative, egalitarian, nonsexist intervention,
applicable to both men and women, addressing family gender roles, patriarchal
attitudes, and social and economic inequalities in male-female relationships.
______________________ A view from outside the system of the feedback loops and
homeostatic mechanisms that transpire within a system.
_____________________ The tendency of a system to remain flexible and open to new
input, necessary for change and survival of the system.
_____________________ A form of psychoeducational family therapy involving
collaboration with physicians and other health care professionals in the treatment of
persons or families with health problems.
_____________________ An assessment technique used by structural family therapists
to graphically describe a family’s overall organizational structure and determine which
subsystem is involved in dysfunctional transactions.
_____________________ As used by behavioral family therapists, written negotiated
agreements between family members to make specific behavior changes in the future.