Deck 11: Tailoring Treatment to Specific Populations and Problems

Question 1

The primary goal of the psychoeducational approach to treatment of schizophrenia is

A) to cure the patient of schizophrenia
B) to determine the family's contribution to the illness
C) to remove the patient from their family environment
D) to maximize functioning and minimize relapse

Answer 1

to maximize functioning and minimize relapse

Question 2

In the section on relationship enrichment programs with of the following was not described as a critical skill for effective functioning as a couple?

A) Accommodation
B) Boundary making
C) Sexual compatibility
D) Fun
E) None of the above

Answer 2

Sexual compatibility

Question 3

The one-day "survival-skills workshop" conducted with groups of family members is used in which treatment approach?

A) internal family systems therapy
B) medical family therapy
C) solution-focused therapy
D) psychoeducation

Answer 3

psychoeducation

Question 4

While the focus on problem resolution or cure has been family therapy's trademark, these family therapists are advocating coping with serious psychopathology as a worthy goal.

A) structural
B) psychoeducational
C) psychodynamic
D) behavioral

Question 5

In addition to its use with families with schizophrenia, the psychoeducational model is purportedly applicable to the treatment of ________ as well.

A) family violence
B) eating disorders
C) bipolar disorder
D) all of these choices

Question 6

Medical family therapists believe that the field of family therapy has ignored the impact of ________ on family functioning.

A) gender inequalities
B) race relations
C) transitions in the family life cycle
D) chronic illness

Question 7

The primary structural problem in most single-parent families is

A) an enmeshed mother
B) failure to accommodate
C) rigid boundaries
D) emotional cutoff from extended families

Question 8

According to the ________ approach to treatment, family stress is thought to cause problems for schizophrenic members, but families don't cause schizophrenia.

A) psychoeducation
B) psychodynamic
C) strategic
D) structural

Question 9

Primary resources for many African American families are

A) the extended kinship system
B) the church community
C) A and B
D) the Democratic party

Question 10

________ family approaches have demonstrated considerable success in preventing the rehospitalization of schizophrenics.

A) psychoeducational
B) experiential
C) structural
D) none of these choices

Question 11

Research which focuses on the ________ family therapy is scarce.

A) effectiveness of
B) process of
C) therapeutic relationship in
D) outcome of

Question 12

Medical family therapists help families reorganize their resources and prepare to deal with a family illness by relying on their assessment of

A) onset and course of the illness
B) stage in the family life cycle
C) the family's resources and degree of isolation
D) all of these choices

Question 13

What is a "survival-skills workshop?"

Question 14

According to Henggler and Boruin, what should be the number one focus of home-based family therapy?

Question 15

What is expressed emotion and what role does it play in mental illness?

Question 16

What is discernment counseling?

Question 17

What is problematic about the DSM-IV diagnosis: "gender identity disorder"?