Family Sculpting is a:
a. frequently used Gestalt technique
b. a nonverbal communication method
c. a family vacation project
d. a form of co-therapy
“Problems are stories that people have agreed to tell themselves.” This statement is
consistent with the viewpoint of all of the following except one. Which one does not
fit?
a. Whitaker
b. Goolishian
c. Hoffman
d. Hare-Mustin
Supervisees should inform clients that:
a. they are being supervised
b. they can not guarantee complete confidentiality
c. the session may be recorded
d. all of the above
Children living with unmarried mothers are:
a. probably middle-class as a whole
b. probably poor
c. likely to be self-sufficient
d. likely to seek therapy when needed
A legal exception to confidentiality maintenance occurs in the case of:
a. clients telling therapists secrets
b. husbands and wives divulging secrets in individual sessions
c. divulging information to third-party payors
d. client admits to a fantasy of killing someone
Child management problems are frequently dealt with by behavior therapists using a
_______________ model.
a. social modification
b. social stratification
c. social adherence
d. social learning
MRI therapists believe problems arise from:
a. faulty attachments
b. splitting and projective identification
c. faulty solutions
d. family debts and obligations
Narrative therapy was developed to:
a. help clients articulate their problems
b. help clients gain insight
c. help clients reexamine the stories that have shaped their lives
d. help clients reconstruct early trauma
An example of banding together to deal with a common problem is:
a. The Possibility League
b. The Anti-Dysphoria League
c. The Anti Anorexia/Anti-Bulimia League
d. none of the above
Outside witness groups:
a. are usually made up of extended family members
b. help reinforce alternative narratives
c. are often used in solution-focused therapy
d. have no place in brief therapy
Families that live in relative isolation, communicating primarily among themselves, are
apt to become:
a. disengaged systems
b. relatively closed systems
c. totally closed systems
d. negentropic
“Attenuated feedback loops” is suggested in the text as a better term for:
a. negative feedback
b. positive feedback
c. alternating positive and negative feedback
d. none of the above
Which of the following would not be considered a communication theorist?
a. Weakland
b. Jackson
c. Minuchin
d. Haley
The group therapy technique whereby a stage is utilized and the patient acts out
significant life events in front of an audience is called:
a. psychotheatrics
b. psychodrama
c. theater for now
d. none of the above
Which statement below is not characteristic of lesbian parents:
a. They have similar life cycle stresses to heterosexual parents.
b. They may rely on donor insemination to have children.
c. They may adopt children
d. They have children who are just as gender stereotyped as heterosexual parents.
In narrative therapy, White helps families:
a. internalize a problem
b. externalize a problem
c. subjectify a problem
d. all of the above
In a managed care setup, therapists are usually referred to as:
a. psychologists
b. counselors
c. providers
d. none of the above
Psychoeducators tend to view schizophrenia as a:
a. result of family dysfunction
b. result of a schizophrenogenic mother and passive father
c. biological disease
d. defuser of family conflict
A safe, holding environment is established by:
a. structuralists
b. Gestalt therapists
c. psychoanalysts
d. symbolic-experiential therapists
Alfred Adler is generally credited with founding:
a. the child guidance movement
b. psychoanalysis
c. family therapy
d. none of the above
Probably the approach least interested in gathering assessment data is:
a. narrative therapists
b. behavior therapists
c. cognitive therapists
d. Bowenians
Advocates of a new epistemology, such as Dell, view the therapist’s role as:
a. restoring the family’s former homeostatic balance
b. searching for new levels of balance
c. remaining outside observers
d. none of the above
Which is not true of Madigan’s league in Vancouver?
a. is a politically active group
b. emphasizes that the problems addressed are rooted in one of society’s dominant
discourses
c. insists the person is not the problem
d. it uses one-way mirrors
Cognitive restructuring calls for:
a. emotional catharsis
b. classical conditioning to be effective
c. changing belief structures about marriage
d. operant conditioning to be effective
Members of disengaged families run the risk of over-emphasizing:
a. family belongingness
b. indifference to each other’s needs
c. individual differentiation
d. togetherness
Which of the following isnot related to the MRI interactional approach?
a. general systems theory
b. information theory
c. humanistic theory
d. cybernetics
According to the authors, the most significant milestone in a family’s life cycle is
usually:
a. deciding to marry
b. choosing a career
c. the arrival of children
d. deciding on a life style
Which of the following terms does not describe a structural therapeutic tactic?
a. joining
b. accommodating
c. restructuring
d. reconsolidation
Bowen’s family systems theory is derived from:
a. General Systems Theory
b. feedback mechanisms and self-regulating systems
c. a natural systems theory
d. structural theory
The belief that our view of reality is based on the stories by which we circulate
knowledge about ourselves is called:
a. redundancy metaphor
b. narrative metaphor
c. narrative imperative
d. redundancy imperative
_____________________ The degree of affect expressed within a family, especially
noteworthy in families with schizophrenic members, where emotionally intense and
negative interactions are considered a factor in the schizophrenic’s relapse.
_____________________ In the narrative approach, helping families view the problem
or symptom as occurring outside of themselves, in an effort to mobilize them to
overcome it.
_____________________ A paradoxical technique in which the client is directed to
voluntarily engage in the symptomatic behavior; as a result, the client is put in the
position of rebelling and abandoning the symptoms or obeying, thereby admitting it is
under voluntary control.
_____________________ A setting where clients feel protected and safe because the
therapist permissively accepts any free associations or spontaneous interactions. This
context allows clients to access repressed or forgotten material needed for assessment.
_____________________ These formal interventions or stock prescriptions can be used
with many different types of problems.
_____________________ A view of an observing system in which the therapist, rather
than attempting to describe the system by being an outside observer, is part of what is
being observed and treated.
_____________________ The merging of the intellectual and emotional aspects of a
family member, paralleling the degree to which that person is caught up in, and loses a
separate sense of self in, family relationships.
_____________________ An ethical standard aimed at protecting client privacy by
ensuring that information received in a therapeutic relationship will not be disclosed
without prior client consent.
______________________ According to Bowen, the separation of one’s intellectual
and emotional functioning; the greater the distinction, the better one is able to resist
being overwhelmed by the emotional reactivity of his or her family, thus making one
less prone to dysfunction.
_____________________ The therapeutic tactic of entering a family system by
engaging its separate members and subsystems, gaining access in order to explore and
ultimately to help modify dysfunctional aspects of that system.
Which of the following is a school-related intervention program based upon a social
ecological viewpoint?
a multisystemic therapy
b. multiphasic therapy
c. psychosocial therapy
d. family-school therapy
_____________________ Ask the family how things would be different if change
occurred and the problem were solved. This question encourages the family to think
about change and exactly what would happen if changes occurred.
______________________The intervention technique developed by Bell based on
social-psychological principles of small-group behavior.
_____________________ A therapeutic approach based on systems theory, cognitive
theory, and behavioral principles in which clients are helped to understand the function
or interpersonal payoff of certain of their behaviors as a prelude to substituting more
effective ways to achieve the same results.
_____________________ Involving patterns and influences occurring over two or
more generations.
_____________________ A family organization in which boundaries between
members are blurred and members are overconcerned and overinvolved in each other’s
lives, limiting individual autonomy.
_____________________ The communication concept that each participant in a
transaction believes whatever he or she says is caused by what the other says, in effect
holding the other responsible for his or her reactions.