Deck 14: Family Therapy

Question 1

Because Brenda and Boris, a married couple with two children, are so angry with each other, they criticize and demean each other.Which phrase describes their marital discord?

A)a double bind.
B)marital schism
C)marital skew
D)pseudomutuality

Answer 1

B

Question 2

To avoid his parent's wrath, Otto behaves nicely, but avoids his parents whenever possible.This is known as

A)a double bind.
B)marital schism.
C)marital skew.
D)pseudomutuality.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following theorists is most likely to use a genogram in family therapy?

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

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Marriage counseling originated in New York and Los Angeles around

A)1890
B)1910
C)1930.
D)1945

Question 5

Ona's mother's severe manic depressive episodes creates a condition within the family that is called

A)a double bind.
B)marital schism.
C)marital skew.
D)pseudomutuality.

Question 6

The first therapist to treat families as a unit was

A)Alfred Adler.
B)Anna Freud.
C)Harry Stack Sullivan.
D)Nathan Ackerman.

Question 7

According to structural family systems therapy, boundaries that are permeable tend to describe relationships in

A)disengaged families.
B)divorced families.
C)enmeshed families.
D)single parent families.

Question 8

Wynne's concept of pseudomutuality is most similar to Bowen's concept of

A)emotional cutoff.
B)family projection process.
C)fusion.
D)triangulation.

Question 9

Bringing another family member into an argument is referred to ________ in Bowenian therapy.

A)family projection process
B)fusion
C)multigenerational transmission process
D)triangulation

Question 10

To work on a family problem, Bowen preferred to work with the

A)entire family.
B)healthiest family member.
C)identified patient.
D)parents.

Question 11

When family members inadvertently put stress on another family member, this is seen as the family ________ process in Bowenian therapy.

A)deflection
B)introjection
C)projection
D)rejection

Question 12

Bowen's concept of "differentiation of self" refers to the individual's ability to separate

A)behaviors from thoughts.
B)behaviors from judgments.
C)feelings from judgments.
D)feelings from thoughts.

Question 13

The first theoretical approach to treating families in distress was

A)existential.
B)Jungian.
C)person-centered.
D)psychoanalytic.

Question 14

Carrie: 12.Responsible and clear about goals and responsibilities. Harry: 11.Quiet, but makes good judgments.
Parry: 11.Often confused, changes her mind a lot.
When Barry and Larry are arguing, who are they most likely to bring into the discussi

A)Carrie
B)Harry
C)Parry
D)any one of the three

Question 15

Which of these therapists is most likely to rearrange the seating of family members?

A)Ackerman
B)Bowen
C)Haley
D)Minuchin

Question 16

In family systems therapy, Bowen was interested in the positions of _________ within the family.

A)aunts
B)neighbors
C)siblings
D)godparents

Question 17

Bowen's concept of triangulation is most similar to Minuchin's concept of

A)coalition.
B)family structure.
C)permeability.
D)the miracle technique.

Question 18

In structural therapy , Minuchin uses family mapping to examine

A)relative ages of family members.
B)patterns of relating in the family.
C)what parts of the world ancestors lived in.
D)where family members spend time at home.

Question 19

In working with families, Bowenian therapists are most likely to focus on relationships with

A)one individual.
B)two individuals.
C)three individuals.
D)seven individuals.

Question 20

From a systems perspective, when Paula settles a dispute between her two sons, she is providing

A)equifinality.
B)negative feedback.
C)positive feedback.
D)pseudomutuality.

Question 21

To relabel anger as love is the first step in presenting __________ in strategic family systems therapy.

A)an enactment
B)a boundary alignment task
C)a paradoxical task
D)a straightforward task

Question 22

In family systems therapy, psychoeducational approaches are often used with families who have members with this disorder:

A)anxiety.
B)depression.
C)obsessive compulsive disorder.
D)schizophrenia.

Question 23

The Milan Associates use a technique called circular questioning.Which of these is a circular question?

A)How do each of you view Penny's irritability?
B)Penny, can you explain what you are feeling now?
C)Penny, why have you been irritable?
D)Which one of you has felt irritable this week?

Question 24

Warmth and caring are particularly notable in this family systems theorist.

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

Question 25

Virginia Satir's technique of family sculpting features

A)having clients make models of the family using clay.
B)molding family members into poses characteristic of family relationships.
C)several therapists modeling improved relationships for family members to learn from, when interacting with each other.
D)the use of role-play to create new "sculpted" relationships in the family.

Question 26

Using more than one family systems approach to therapy is called

A)experiential.
B)integrative.
C)strategic.
D)structural.

Question 27

Attention to family boundaries is most important to

A)Bowenian therapists.
B)solution-focused therapy.
C)strategic thinking.
D)structural therapy.

Question 28

Selvini-Palazzoli, one of the Milan Associates group, usually gives an invariant prescription to

A)parents in writing.
B)parents orally at the end of the session.
C)the entire family in writing.
D)the entire family orally at the end of the session.

Question 29

Helping family members see how they disturb themselves and the family through their irrational beliefs is characteristic of this family approach

A)Adlerian therapy
B)behavior therapy
C)existential therapy
D)rational emotive behavior therapy

Question 30

A relationship in which a husband maintains a dominant position and a wife maintains a submissive position would be called, according to MRI brief family therapy

A)complementary
B)disengaged
C)maladaptive
D)symmetrical

Question 31

Teaching parents how to deal with difficulties with their children would be an example of which type of family therapy?

A)Adlerian.
B)existential.
C)gestalt.
D)psychodynamic.

Question 32

Which of these theorists relied on his or her own spontaneous reactions when doing family therapy?

A)Bowen
B)Haley
C)Satir
D)Whitaker.

Question 33

Which family systems therapists used straightforward tasks in his therapeutic approach?

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

Question 34

The Milan Associates meet once a month for about 10 months with a family for family therapy.This is called

A)circular questioning.
B)enmeshment.
C)an invariant prescription.
D)long brief therapy.

Question 35

In structural family therapy, Minuchin used this technique to help family members see a problem as a family problem rather than a problem of the identified patient.

A)enactment
B)joining
C)reframing
D)straightforward tasks

Question 36

Training parents to change how a child acts in various situations is done by

A)behavior therapists.
B)feminist therapists.
C)existential therapists.
D)reality therapists.

Question 37

In Haley's strategic therapy, if a mother and daughter are not getting along, a therapist might ask them to work on a task, such as planning a vacation together.This is called a

A)coping question.
B)detriangulation statement.
C)paradoxical task.
D)straightforward task.

Question 38

In brief family systems therapy, temporary change is called __________ order change.

A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth

Question 39

Asking a family to enact a current conflict is most likely to be done by

A)Bowenian therapists.
B)strategic therapists
C)structural therapists.
D)therapists using behavioral approaches to family therapy.

Question 40

In brief family systems therapy, when a client changes a symptom in therapy and then later makes changes in the family that persist, then ________ order change is said to have taken place.

A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth

Question 41

Family systems therapists view marriage counseling as

A)a discipline that is less concerned with gender and multicultural issues than is family systems therapy.
B)a discipline that is separate from family systems therapy.
C)less effective than family systems therapy as it does not deal with the entire system.
D)family therapy done with a small system.

Question 42

Psychoeducational approaches to family therapy can best be described as

A)authoritarian.
B)psychotherapy.
C)supervisory.
D)teaching.

Question 43

Who, of the following, is a family systems theorist?

A)Adler
B)Sigmund Freud
C)Minuchin
D)Perls

Question 44

MRI brief therapy is most similar to the approach of

A)Adler.
B)Bowen.
C)Haley.
D)Jung.

Question 45

Research on the relative effectiveness of different systems of family therapy have shown

A)clear support for Minuchin's structural therapy.
B)few clear results as most family therapists use a combination of approaches.
C)that methodology used in studying individual therapy cannot be applied to the study of family therapy.
D)that schizophrenic patients respond well to Haley's strategic approach.

Question 46

Family therapy that asks that the parent's first establish a baseline of the child's behavior is called

A)Adlerian therapy.
B)behavior therapy.
C)existential therapy.
D)structural therapy.