Relationships are defined by _______________ messages.
a. instructional
b. parental
c. egalitarian
d. command
Psychoeducational programs emphasize all but one of the following. Which does not
belong?
a. skills-building
b. psychotherapy
c. stress management
d. informational programs
A central idea in family psychology is:
a. psychopathology
b. circular causality
c. intrapsychic organization
d. determining who in the family is most in need of therapy
One of Bowen’s innovative research techniques was:
a. to have families move in with their hospitalized schizophrenic member
b. to study double-bind messages in schizophrenic’s families
c. to study double-bind messages in normal families
d. all of the above
According to White, a comprehensive understanding of a person calls for:
a. thin descriptions
b. thick descriptions
c. intentional descriptions
d. multistoried descriptions
The Avanta Network represents:
a. an outgrowth of Satir’s humanistic outlook
b. the Italian branch of Satir’s disciples
c. Satir’s attempt to remain in family therapy’s mainstream
d. none of the above.
The authors consider Satir’s primary talents to be:
a. therapist and researcher
b. therapist and trainer
c. trainer and theory builder
d. researcher and theory builder
In Kohut’s system, selfobjects refer to:
a. childhood play objects
b. transitional objects in childhood
c. self-sustaining psychic function that takes place within a self in its relationship to
others that supports the self in its development
d. the development of the self into an object
Bowen’s concept of societal regression extends his view to:
a. individual fixations in society
b. a family’s ability to regress during family therapy
c. society’s emotional functioning
d. none of the above
Early developmental schemes typically described:
a. immigrant families
b. intact middle-class American families
c. all families covered in the 1940 census
d. only childless families
A major example of brief therapy takes place at the:
a. Mental Research Institute
b. Ackerman Institute
c. Madison Brief Therapy Clinic
d. Milwaukee Hospital
The erosion of family structure among economically impoverished families often leads
to:
a. increased efforts to reorganize or strengthen family ties
b. learning to view their own impotence as normal
c. reduced dependence on the community’s social institutions
d. all of the above
Adopting a family psychology framework permits one to:
a. negate the significance of individual internal processes
b. focus on the context in which individual behavior is but one part
c. give equal power to adults and children alike
d. all of the above
The authors describe the search for unique outcomes as:
a. a deconstruction tactic
b. a structural tactic
c. a postmodern tactic
d. a poststructural tactic
Ethnicity and cultural tradition:
a. are rarely as important as racial or religious factors in understanding family
functioning
b. influence how we celebrate holidays primarily
c. affect how we think, feel, express anxieties, etc.
d. have no place in a democratic society
Bowen believed that, generally speaking, people choose mates with _______________
levels of differentiation than their own:
a. slightly lower
b. slightly higher
c. about the same
d. considerably higher or considerably lower
According to Aponte and Van Deusin, every family transaction makes a statement
regarding:
a. power
b. boundaries
c. alignments
d. all of the above
All social climates, such as families, have characteristics (e.g., supportive, autocratic)
that can be measured and that, in turn, provide a framework for better comprehending
relationships among members within that climate, according to:
a. Watzlawick
b. Moos
c. Howells
d. Bowen
A schizophrenogenic mother is one who:
a. is simultaneously angry and guilty over her anger
b. is possessive and guilt-producing
c. marries a domineering husband
d. becomes schizophrenic with the birth of her first child
Which of the following is not a major element of a communications viewpoint on
recasting problems?
a. interactional
b. ongoing and currently occurring
c. situational
d. reframing
In the view of MRI family therapists:
a. a depressed person needs to be cheered up and an anxious person taught relaxation
techniques
b. clients need to be restrained from repeating unworkable solutions
c. hypnosis is a useful adjunctive technique
d. clients need to be commanded to repeat previously unworkable solutions
In the Goolishian-Anderson approach, therapist and client are:
a. conversational partners
b. adversarial in describing reality
c. both resistant to change
d. all of the above
Building supportive partnerships within the family is a goal of:
a. Gestalt therapy
b. transgenerational therapy
c. symbolic-experiential therapy
d. psychoeducational therapy
Developmentally speaking, gay and lesbian adolescents:
a. face entirely different demands to become independent as heterosexual adolescents
b. may experience greater anxiety, secrecy, and shame than heterosexual adolescents
c. have a relatively easy time “coming out” to their parents
d. experience the same anxiety over their erotic feelings as heterosexual adolescents
An empirically valid theory:
a. confirms predictions
b. requires experimental proof
c. is subject to narrative analysis
d. always contradicts clinical
Postmodern therapists attend particularly to a family’s:
a. dysfunctional structure
b. flawed interactive patterns
c. “dirty games”
d. assumptions regarding their problems
Medical family therapy addresses the relationship between family health and:
a. family relationships
b. hospitalization
c. disease-proneness
d. genetic family illness
Which of the following is not characteristic of “psychosomatic families”?
a. disengagement
b. enmeshment
c. overprotective attitude by parents
d. overprotective attitude by child
In a typical managed care arrangement:
a. therapists must submit written treatment plans
b. fees are set by the therapist
c. referrals come from all areas
d. there are unlimited sessions
According to the textbook authors, behavioral family therapists often adopt a
______________ outlook.
a. linear
b. systems
c. circular
d. psychodynamic