Question 1

This family therapist\'s personal resolution of emotional reactivity in his family was as  significant for his approach to family therapy as Freud\'s self-analysis was for psychoanalysis.

Accepted Answer

Murray Bowen

Question 2

Jackson\'s concept, _____________, that families are units that resist change, became the  defining metaphor of family therapy\'s first three decades.

Accepted Answer

family homeostasis

Question 3

According to Theodore Lidz, marital schism occurs when:

Accepted Answer

there is a chronic failure of spouses to achieve role reciprocity

Question 4

The group therapy model was not entirely appropriate for families for what reason?

Accepted Answer

families have a shared history

Question 5

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann\'s concept, \"______________ mother,\" described a domineering,  aggressive, rejecting, and insecure mother who was thought to provide the pathological  parenting that produced schizophrenia.

Accepted Answer

schizophrenogenic

Question 6

Quid pro quo refers to

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a bargain struck between husband and wife which constitutes an equal exchange

Question 7

The techniques of structural family therapy fall into two general categories, joining and  _______.

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restructuring techniques

Question 8

Kurt Lewin\'s idea of ______________ can be seen in action in Minuchin\'s promotion of  crises in family lunch sessions, Norman Paul\'s use of cross-confrontations, and Peggy Papp\'s  family choreography.

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unfreezing

Question 9

Family sculpting and choreography are applications of this early approach to group treatment, which consists of dramatic enactments from the lives of group members and uses a number of techniques to stimulate emotional expression and clarify conflicts.

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psychodrama

Question 10

Leaders of family therapy who are social workers include all except?

Accepted Answer

Carl Whitaker

Question 11

Reflecting the recent recognition that some problems are in fact problems of individuals and  not caused by families, Carol Anderson and colleagues developed this family therapy  approach to treating families with schizophrenics.

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psychoeducation

Question 12

This family therapist believed in the existence of an interpersonal unconscious in every  family.

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Nathan Ackerman

Question 13

The only means to effectively escape a double bind is to:

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withdrawal from the relationship AND metacommunicate Answer is A and B

Question 14

The first to apply group concepts to family treatment was

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John Elderkin Bell

Question 15

Since the beginning of their profession, _____________ have been concerned with the family, both as a context of problems and the focus of intervention.

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Social worker

Question 16

Lyman Wynne\'s term for the facade of family harmony that characterized many schizophrenic families is:

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pseudo..... mutuality

Question 17

Hospital clinicians began to acknowledge and include the family in an individual\'s treatment when:

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a. they noticed when the patient got better, someone in the family got worse c. they realized the family continued to influence the course of treatment anyway

Question 18

Superficial change in a system which itself stays invariant is termed ____________, while basic change in the structure of a system is called ___________.

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first-order; second-order

Question 19

Constructivism first found its way into psychotherapy in the work of:

Accepted Answer

George Kelly

Question 20

With the exception of the feminist critique, what has been largely missing in family therapy has been an examination of

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All of the above: cultural biases the society we are helping people fit into  value systems

Question 21

Narrative therapy differs from solution-focused therapy in being more focused on ______ than _______.

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attitudes; behavior

Question 22

Which is not a concept of von Bertalanffy\'s general systems theory?

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\"black box\" metaphor

Question 23

The phrase, \"where the id is, there the ego shall be,\" best fits which concept?

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differentiation of self

Question 24

Functionalism is:

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the idea that symptoms are often ways to distract or otherwise protect family members from threatening conflicts

Question 25

The notions of functionalism, structuralism, and general systems theory are all embraced by which family theory?

Accepted Answer

structural family therapy

Question 26

The greatest conceptual influence on the early development of family therapy was:

Accepted Answer

systems theory

Question 27

General systems theory, cybernetics, and social constructionism are ______concepts.

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metapsychological

Question 28

Structural-functionalist and cybernetic perspectives have been criticized for what reason?

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All of the above: they fail to adequately consider the impact of contextual processes they are considered too mechanistic they are reductionistic

Question 29

It is easy to get caught up in context, but if you really want to instill change you need to look at

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process----ex. \"what to you think your daughter is trying to say when she sys she wants t drop out of high school?\"

Question 30

The concept of the family life cycle was introduced to the field by:

Accepted Answer

Jay Haley

Question 31

A balanced steady state of equilibrium is known as

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homeostasis

Question 32

Boundaries around the executive subsystem in the family are of particular importance because the family ___________ is seen by structural therapists as crucial to the family\'s well-being.

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hierarchy

Question 33

Which phenomena are not a focus of cybernetics, as applied to families?

Accepted Answer

family hierarchy

Question 34

The privatization of family therapy training had what effect on the field?

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Released from the economic constraints of academia, family therapy became a profitable enterprise.

Question 35

A biological model of living systems as whole entities which maintain themselves through continuous input and output from the environment, developed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy is known as

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general systems theory

Question 36

The study of control processes in systems, particularly the analysis of the flow of information in closed systems, is known as:

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cybernetics

Question 37

The stages of a family\'s life from separation from one\'s parents to marriage, having children, growing older, retirement, and finally death, are known as the:

Accepted Answer

Family Life Cycle

Question 38

For initial interviews, the author recommends seeing

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everyone in the household

Question 39

A treatment contract typically includes:

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the fee and how it should be paid

Question 40

What is the major presenting pitfall in listening to a family\'s perspective on the presenting problem?

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accepting a linear perspective on the problem

Question 41

The \"child-protective approach\" to cases of sexual abuse:

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tries to ensure that the abuse doesn\'t continue  may undermine the integrity of the family  tries to reduce the long-term impact of the trauma  answer is all of the above

Question 42

Treating the couple together in cases involving domestic violence:

Accepted Answer

may allow the batterer to rationalize his behavior

Question 43

According to the author, therapists should inquire about drug and alcohol consumption:

Accepted Answer

when there is suspicion that this may be a problem

Question 44

Family structure involves:

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how people interact in a family  the overall organization of the family  patterns of communication  answer is All of the Above

Question 45

Unlike experiential therapists, Bowenians seek to _______ levels of anxiety in order to  increase levels of differentiation of self in the family.

Accepted Answer

decrease

Question 46

According the Bowen theory, the flight from an unresolved emotional attachment to one\'s  parents is known as:

Accepted Answer

emotional cutoff

Question 47

According to Bowen theory, more highly differentiated individuals will likely

Accepted Answer

have parents who are highly differentiated

Question 48

A Bowen therapist working with an individual family member in treatment is most likely to do which of the following?

Accepted Answer

model how to take an \"I\" position work with a genogram  Answer is C and D

Question 49

An increase in chronic anxiety in the nuclear family system will tend to_____ less differentiated families, while it will ________more highly differentiated families.

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cause an increase in symptoms in/be absorbed by

Question 50

_________ is a prominent technique in Bowen therapy designed to clarify emotional  processes involved in altering key triangles. The technique is used in order to help family  members become aware of systems processes and recognize their own roles in them--it was first developed for use with emotional pursuers and distancers.

Accepted Answer

relationship experiments

Question 51

People tend to marry spouses at _________ levels of differentiation.

Accepted Answer

similar

Question 52

The primary goal of Bowen family therapy is to:

Accepted Answer

increase the level of differentiation of self in family members

Question 53

In Bowen theory, this is a process wherein the projection of varying degrees of immaturity to different children in the same family occurs. The child who is most involved in the family emerges with the lowest level of differentiation, and passes on problems to succeeding  generations.

Accepted Answer

multigenerational transmission process

Question 54

The \"differentiated\" individual:

Accepted Answer

can balance his or her needs for closeness and autonomy

Question 55

A flight from an unresolved emotional attachment to one\'s parents is known as:

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emotional cutoff

Question 56

According to the principles of which Bowenian construct, simply teaching a mother better  techniques for disciplining her son will fail, because the intervention ignores the problem that  she is overinvolved with the boy as a result of her husband\'s emotional distance.

Accepted Answer

triangles

Question 57

According to Bowen, ________ are the smallest stable unit of human relations.

Accepted Answer

triangles

Question 58

The central premise of Bowen theory is that unresolved _______ must be resolved before one can differentiate a mature, healthy personality.

Accepted Answer

emotional reactivity to one\'s family of origin

Question 59

From a Bowenian perspective, optimal development in the family occurs when all members are relatively differentiated, anxiety is low, and parents _________.

Accepted Answer

remain in emotional contact with family of origin

Question 60

Murray Bowen developed his ideas about family therapy while at the NIMH, studying  __________ families. Based on his observations of these families\' intense clinging  interdependence, he concluded that a lack of differentiation was responsible for all family  pathology.

Accepted Answer

psychotic

Question 61

By training family members in 3 areas--teaching differentiation, avoiding triangulation, and  ______, Bowen therapists can enable a single individual to transform the whole network of  his or her family system.

Accepted Answer

reopening cut-off family relationships

Question 62

According to Sulloway\'s research on the correlates of sibling position in  families___________ are more likely to question the status quo and are more open to experience.

Accepted Answer

laterborns

Question 63

_________ is a prominent technique in Bowen therapy designed to clarify emotional  processes involved in altering key triangles. The technique is used in order to help family  members become aware of systems processes and recognize their own roles in them--it was first developed for use with emotional pursuers and distancers.

Accepted Answer

relationship experiments

Question 64

This family therapist believed in the existence of an interpersonal unconscious in every  family.

Accepted Answer

Nathan Ackerman

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