Chapter 8: Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness-Based Couple and Family Therapies

Chapter 8: Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness-Based Couple and Family Therapies

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

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1. Of the behavioral and cognitive-behavioral couple and family therapies, which one is a scientifically-based approach to couple therapy based on 30 years of research on the key differences between happy and unhappy marriages?
   1. Cognitive-behavioral family therapy
   2. Integrative behavioral couples therapy
   3. Gottman method couple therapy
   4. Functional family therapy

ANS:         C

REF:          Lay of the Land (p. 275-276)

1. In general in the mental health field, which therapies are some of the most commonly used therapeutic approaches?
   1. Systemic therapies
   2. Cognitive-behavioral therapies
   3. Experiential therapies
   4. Psychoanalytic family therapies

ANS:         B

REF:          Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)

1. Cognitive-behavioral family therapies have had the greatest influence in which area?
   1. Parenting
   2. Couples dynamics
   3. Individual pathology
   4. Attachment

ANS:         A

REF:          Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)

1. Reinforcement refers to which of the following?
   1. Implementing boundaries
   2. Rewarding a client to make the therapeutic process more enjoyable and easy for the therapist
   3. Using punishment to force clients to adapt to the way the therapist thinks they should be living their lives
   4. How positive or negative responses from the environment shape future behaviors

ANS:         D

REF:          Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)

1. Reinforcement is typically only effective if parents are __________.
   1. cordial
   2. authoritarian
   3. consistent
   4. emotionally involved

ANS:         C

REF:          Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies (p. 276)