Deck 19: Family Therapy Approaches

Question 1

Shortly after World War I, _______set up more than 30 child guidance clinics in Vienna.

A) Adler
B) Haley
C) Satir
D) Minuchin

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Sarah's ability to separate her own ideas and thoughts from those of her family of origin is called what?

A) Triangulation
B) Source identification
C) Differentiation of self
D) Boundaries mapping

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which is an example of unbalancing the system?

A) The therapists starts an argument within the family
B) The therapist takes the father's side against the rest of the family
C) The children obtain power over their parents in the family
D) The parents take back power from the children

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A therapist puts effort forth to keep herself from becoming triangulated within the family. This therapist is most likely which type of therapist?

A) Adlerian
B) Structural
C) Experiential
D) Bowenian

Question 5

Who is the first psychiatrist in the modern era to perform family therapy?

A) Sigmund Freud
B) Alfred Adler
C) Carl Rogers
D) Fritz Perls

Question 6

One of the main goals of Bowen family therapy is to increase the level of differentiation of each family member.

Question 7

According to Bowen family therapy, why do people develop psychological disorders?

A) Their ideal self is very different from their actual self
B) They are unable to handle the level of stress in their lives
C) They have reduced social support due to poor family communication
D) They have problems that have been passed down through the generations

Question 8

Which is NOT a limitation of the Whitaker approach to family therapy?

A) Theory is deemphasized
B) The therapist must be heavily involved and take risks
C) Confrontational approaches may not work with some families
D) There is too much emphasis on the past

Question 9

__________ theorized that people choose partners who have similar levels of differentiation.

A) Adler
B) Bowen
C) Satir
D) Haley

Question 10

Emotional cutoffs work to resolve problems within families.

Question 11

Which area of family therapy focuses on coalitions and subsystems?

A) Bowen family therapy
B) Strategic family therapy
C) Structural family therapy
D) Adlerian family therapy

Question 12

What therapy method entails the therapist telling the family about the situation of another family?

A) Displacement story technique
B) Detriangulation
C) Reframing
D) Unbalancing a system

Question 13

Which is a belief that would be supported by Haley when working with disruptive children?

A) That the client has no ability to control the disruptive behavior
B) That disruptive behavior often has little to do with the power hierarchy in a family
C) That the disruptive behavior may actually be stabilizing the family structure
D) That fixing communication problems often does not resolve the disruptive behavior

Question 14

General systems theory states that if any part of the family system is impacted, this influences the entire family.

Question 15

What is the overall goal of Satir's therapy?

A) To increase family communication
B) To
C) To change behaviors that disrupt the family system
D) To improve family member's self-esteem

Question 16

Bowenian family therapy focuses on the past instead of dealing with the present.

Question 17

In Bowen family therapy, the family members are instructed to speak to the therapist and not each other.

Question 18

Which therapist used the techniques of choreography, touch, and props?

A) Bowen
B) Minuchin
C) Satir
D) Whitaker

Question 19

Bowen's early research at the NIMH focused on families of which type?

A) Those with children who had autism
B) Those that had experienced domestic violence
C) families with individuals who were diagnosed as schizophrenics.
D) Those in which one of the parents has a substance use disorder

Question 20

Minuchin began his work with families with which population?

A) Families dealing with schizophrenia
B) Low income African American families
C) Families that had a parent with a substance abuse problem
D) Immigrant families

Question 21

Strategic family therapists concentrate on which dimensions of family life?

Question 22

What are the six core concepts of Bowen family therapy?

Question 23

According to Bowen, there are five main functions of the therapist in the treatment process. Please provide 3 of these.

Question 24

Satir (1972) developed five stages of treatment. Please provide two of these.

Question 25

Family therapists should avoid discussing the potential role of discrimination when working with multicultural families.

Question 26

Breunlin, Schwartz, and Mackune-Karrer (1992) have identified 10 areas of assessment that are critical in helping family therapists to bring a multicultural perspective to their therapy. List 5 of these.

Question 27

What information is gained from the use of a genogram in family therapy?

Question 28

What are the goals of strategic family therapy?

Question 29

Provide an example of an emotional cutoff.

Question 30

What are the four steps of "sculpting"?

Question 31

Discuss two contributions of the family systems approach to therapy.

Question 32

What is the going home again technique?

Question 33

What is triangulation?

Question 34

What is family homeostasis?

Question 35

Discuss the role of the Whitaker therapist.

Question 36

Bowenian family therapists and structural family therapists use genograms for the same purpose in therapy.

Question 37

Haley (1976) has outlined five stages of therapy. Discuss the interaction stage.

Question 38

When two people in a family have problems with each other, one or both will "triangle in" a third family member.

Question 39

A child who becomes the object of a parent's projection becomes the one most attached to the parents and the one with the least amount of self-differentiation.

Question 40

Experiential family therapy is related to person-centered therapy.