Theories of Psychotherapy & Counseling Concepts and Cases 5th Edition, International Edition by Richard S Sharf - Test Bank

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CHAPTER 14

FAMILY THERAPY

1. Marriage counseling originated in New York and Los Angeles around
   1. 1890
   2. 1910
   3. (535)
   4. 1945

 

2. The first theoretical approach to treating families in distress was
   3. person-centered.
   4. (535)

 

3. The first therapist to treat families as a unit was
   1. Alfred Adler.
   2. Anna Freud.
   3. Harry Stack Sullivan.
   4. Nathan Ackerman. (535)

 

4. 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?
   1. a double bind.
   2. marital schism (536)
   3. marital skew
   4. pseudomutuality

 

5. Ona’s mother’s severe manic depressive episodes creates a condition within the family that is called
   1. a double bind.
   2. marital schism.
   3. marital skew. (537)

 

6. To avoid his parent’s wrath, Otto behaves nicely, but avoids his parents whenever possible. This is known as
   1. a double bind.
   2. marital schism.
   3. marital skew.
   4. (537)

 

7. From a systems perspective, when Paula settles a dispute between her two sons, she is providing
   2. negative feedback. (539)
   3. positive feedback.

 

8. Bowen’s concept of “differentiation of self” refers to the individual’s ability to separate
   1. behaviors from thoughts.
   2. behaviors from judgments.
   3. feelings from judgments.
   4. feelings from thoughts. (540)

 

9. Carrie:   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

1. Carrie
2. Harry
3. Parry (540)
4. any one of the three

 

10. Bringing another family member into an argument is referred to ________ in Bowenian therapy.
    1. family projection process
    2. fusion
    3. multigenerational transmission process
    4. triangulation (540)

 

11. In family systems therapy, Bowen was interested in the positions of _________ within the family.
    1. aunts
    2. neighbors
    3. siblings (541)
    4. godparents

 

12. Wynne’s concept of pseudomutuality is most similar to Bowen’s concept of
    1. emotional cutoff. (541)
    2. family projection process.

 

13. When family members inadvertently put stress on another family member, this is seen as the family ________ process in Bowenian therapy.
    1. deflection
    2. introjection
    3. projection (541)
    4. rejection

 

14. Which of the following theorists is most likely to use a genogram in family therapy?
    1. Bowen (543)
    2. Haley
    3. Minuchin
    4. Satir

 

15. To work on a family problem, Bowen preferred to work with the
    1. entire family.
    2. healthiest family member. (543)
    3. identified patient.

 

16. In working with families, Bowenian therapists are most likely to focus on relationships with
    1. one individual.
    2. two individuals.
    3. three individuals. (543)
    4. seven individuals.

 

17. Bowen’s concept of triangulation is most similar to Minuchin’s concept of
    1. (547)
    2. family structure.
    4. the miracle technique.

 

18. According to structural family systems therapy, boundaries that are permeable tend to describe relationships in
    1. disengaged families.
    2. divorced families.
    3. enmeshed families. (546, 547)
    4. single parent families.

 

 

 

19. In structural therapy , Minuchin uses family mapping to examine
    1. relative ages of family members.
    2. patterns of relating in the family. (548)
    3. what parts of the world ancestors lived in.
    4. where family members spend time at home.

 

20. Which of these therapists is most likely to rearrange the seating of family members?
    1. Ackerman
    2. Bowen
    3. Haley
    4. Minuchin (549)

 

21. Asking a family to enact a current conflict is most likely to be done by
    1. Bowenian therapists.
    2. strategic therapists
    3. structural therapists. (549)
    4. therapists using behavioral approaches to family therapy.

 

22. Attention to family boundaries is most important to
    1. Bowenian therapists.
    2. solution-focused therapy.
    3. strategic thinking.
    4. structural therapy. (549)

 

23. 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.
    1. enactment
    2. joining
    3. reframing (549)
    4. straightforward tasks

 

24. 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
    1. coping question.
    2. detriangulation statement.
    3. paradoxical task.
    4. straightforward task. (554)

 

25. To relabel anger as love is the first step in presenting __________ in strategic family systems therapy.
    1. an enactment
    2. a boundary alignment task
    3. a paradoxical task (558)
    4. a straightforward task

 

26. Which family systems therapists used straightforward tasks in his therapeutic approach?
    1. Bowen
    2. Haley (554)
    3. Minuchin
    4. Whitaker

 

27. Which of these theorists relied on his or her own spontaneous reactions when doing family therapy?
    1. Bowen
    2. Haley
    3. Satir
    4. Whitaker (558)

 

28. Warmth and caring are particularly notable in this family systems theorist.
    1. Bowen
    2. Haley
    3. Satir (559)
    4. Whitaker

 

29. Virginia Satir’s technique of family sculpting features
    1. having clients make models of the family using clay.
    2. molding family members into poses characteristic of family relationships. (560)
    3. several therapists modeling improved relationships for family members to learn from, when interacting with each other.
    4. the use of role-play to create new “sculpted” relationships in the family.

 

30. Using more than one family systems approach to therapy is called
    2. (561)

 

 

 

31. Teaching parents how to deal with difficulties with their children would be an example of family
    1. Adlerian therapists. (562)
    2. existential therapists.
    3. gestalt therapists.
    4. psychodynamic therapists.

 

32. Helping family members see how they disturb themselves and the family through their irrational beliefs is characteristic of this family approach
    1. Adlerian therapy
    2. behavior therapy
    3. existential therapy
    4. rational emotive behavior therapy (563)

 

33. Training parents to change how a child acts in various situations is done by
    1. behavior therapists. (563)
    2. feminist therapists.
    3. existential therapists.
    4. reality therapists.

 

34. In brief family systems therapy, temporary change is called __________ order change.
    1. first (565)
    2. second
    3. third
    4. fourth

 

35. 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.
    1. first
    2. second (565)
    3. third
    4. fourth

 

36. 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
    1. complimentary (565)
    2. disengaged
    3. maladaptive
    4. symmetrical

 

37. Segal’s (1982) intervention in which husbands’ refused to change their diets after having suffered a heart attack and wives were instructed to take over estate and insurance planning, is an example of
    1. a coping question.
    2. a boundary alignment task.
    3. a paradoxical task. (565)
    4. a miracle question.

 

38. The Milan Associates meet once a month for about 10 months with a family for family therapy. This is called
    1. circular questioning.
    3. an invariant prescription.
    4. long brief therapy. (566)

 

39. The Milan Associates use a technique called circular questioning. Which of these is a circular question?
    1. How do each of you view Penny’s irritability? (508)
    2. Penny, can you explain what you are feeling now?
    3. Penny, why have you been irritable?
    4. Which one of you has felt irritable this week?

 

40. Selvini-Palazzoli, one of the Milan Associates group, usually gives an invariant prescription to
    1. parents in writing. (566)
    2. parents orally at the end of the session.
    3. the entire family in writing.
    4. the entire family orally at the end of the session.

 

41. In family systems therapy, psychoeducational approaches are often used with families who have members with this disorder:
    3. obsessive compulsive disorder.
    4. (567)

 

42. Research on the relative effectiveness of different systems of family therapy have shown
    1. clear support for Minuchin’s structural therapy.
    2. few clear results as most family therapists use a combination of approaches. *
    3. that methodology used in studying individual therapy cannot be applied to the study of family therapy.
    4. that schizophrenic patients respond well to Haley’s strategic approach.

 

43. In their study on the effectiveness of structural family therapy with diabetic and eating disordered children, Minuchin, Rosman, & Baker (1978) used _______ as a criterion measure of success.
    1. changes in brain wave patterns
    2. increase in caloric intake
    3. level of free fatty acids in the blood (571)
    4. measures of blood pressure

 

44. Psychoeducational approaches to family therapy can best be described as
    4. (568)

 

45. Family systems therapists view marriage counseling as
    1. a discipline that is less concerned with gender and multicultural issues than is family systems therapy.
    2. a discipline that is separate from family systems therapy.
    3. less effective than family systems therapy as it does not deal with the entire system.
    4. family therapy done with a small system. (575)

 

46. MRI brief therapy is most similar to the approach of
    3. (575)

 

47. Family therapy that asks that the parent’s first establish a baseline of the child’s behavior is called
    1. Adlerian therapy.
    2. behavior therapy. (563)
    3. existential therapy.
    4. structural therapy.

 

48. Who, of the following, is a family systems theorist?
    1. Adler
    2. Sigmund Freud
    3. Minuchin (546)
    4. Perls