Chapter 4: Systemic and Strategic Therapies

Chapter 4: Systemic and Strategic Therapies

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

1. MRI systemic therapists conceptualize symptoms of individuals within the larger network of their family and socials systems. MRI systemic therapists take a __________ stance toward all members of the family.
   1. nonblaming
   2. nonpathologizing
   3. both A and B
   4. neither A nor B

ANS:         C

REF:          MRI Systemic Therapy (p. 62)

1. In response to a mother’s report that her daughter’s no longer bringing her tea in the morning must mean her daughter does not love her, the therapist says: “Your daughter’s bringing you tea fewer times a week may mean she is building friendships with girls her own age, which could be a sign she is making progress toward her goal of becoming more independent.” What is the term to describe this?
   1. Reframe
   2. Paradox
   3. Metacommunication
   4. Attempted solution

ANS:         A

REF:          MRI Systemic Therapy (p. 62)

1. Which of the following best describes the basic component of a reframe?
   1. Therapists seeing the problem not as an individual problem, but as a relational one.
   2. Therapists discussing what the client has been doing to solve their problem.
   3. Therapists identifying the interactional behavioral sequences that constitute the problem.
   4. Therapists finding an alternative yet equally plausible explanation for the same set of facts.

ANS:         D

REF:          MRI Systemic Therapy (p. 62)

1. MRI therapists focus on viewing the presenting problem as a part of which of the following?
   1. The individual’s inherent neuroses
   2. As a dysfunctional element of all familial relationships
   3. The interactional sequence of behaviors that have emerged through repeated exchanges
   4. Attempts at second-order change

ANS:         C

REF:          The Big Picture: Overview of Treatment (p. 64)

1. In the big picture of treatment, MRI therapists focus solely on which of the following?
   1. Fixing the problem
   2. Interrupting the problem interactional sequences
   3. The therapist’s agenda
   4. Repeating attempted solutions

ANS:         B

REF:          The Big Picture: Overview of Treatment (p. 64)