Question 1

____________________ refers to an attempt by researchers to assess the strengths and limitations of the current research data on psychotherapy.

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Question 2

Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch (1974) distinguished between first-order changes and second-order changes. _________________ can be demonstrated if two parents are concerned with the repeated school absences.

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Question 3

Communication that leads to mixed messages results in a(n) _______ relationship.

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Question 4

_________________ are role-playing efforts to bring the outside family conflict into the session.

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Question 5

Discuss three techniques that a family therapist may use to alter family functioning. Under what circumstances might the therapist opt to use each of these techniques?

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Question 6

In family therapy, the "client" is the whole family. Describe how family therapy would proceed without relieving individual family members of their responsibility for their own behavior.

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Question 7

Describe the differences between first-order and second-order changes within a family. Give an example of a first-order change versus a second-order change.

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Question 8

Structural and strategic family therapists pay less attention to family or individual histories and focus on the current family organization, hierarchies, and ___________.

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Question 9

Describe the differences between structural family therapy and strategic family therapy.

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Question 10

Adlerian psychotherapy shares similarities with family therapy in the focus on the family constellation. What differentiates Adlerian psychotherapy from family therapy?

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Quiz 11: Family Therapy Irene Goldenberg and Mark Stanton