Final

Question 1

If a client says, “I don’t know” they’re acting…

Answer 1

Stupid

Question 2

What theory?
The past is the present
“A couple’s struggle over emotional and physical closeness might be a renewal of difficulties each had in forming relationships early in life”

Answer 2

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 3

This theory emphasize the importance of historical, social, and childhood experiences and stress the significance of unconscious forces in the lives of the families.

Answer 3

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 4

Founders of this approach were trained as psycho-analytical therapists. Treatment may be long term, more than 20 sessions

Answer 4

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 5

What theory? Basis of unconscious drives were sexual and aggressive, therapy was reductionistic

Answer 5

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 6

What theory? Clients labored under intrapsychic conflicts stemming from the childhood, having to do with whether they could express their impulses

Answer 6

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 7

What theory? Family was the source of the problem, but did not sustain it in the present. Relationship with analyst was sufficient to reawaken all of the conflicts associated with the original parents.

Answer 7

Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 8

What theory? Focus on the resolution of transference. Therapy was retrospective. Therapy was individual, and not interpersonal beyond the analyst-patient relationship

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Psychodynamic Therapy

Question 9

Treatment of psychodynamic therapy

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• Uncovering and interpreting unconscious impulses and defenses against them
• Either finding a way to relax defenses against the expression of healthy impulses
• Strengthening defenses against excessive gratification

Question 10

Every human being longs to be …

Answer 10

appreciated

Question 11

We also want to be _____ in a relationship

Answer 11

competent

Question 12

If our desire is frustrated at an early age, the way we go about gaining appreciation is

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tied to that period of our lives

Question 13

What theory?

Bridge between individual theory and family theory

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Object Relations Theory -Klein

Question 14

What theory?

Internal “objects” that is, images of self and others forged in early fantasy and experiences, and internalized

Answer 14

Object Relations Theory -Klein

Question 15

What theory?

The ego was not so much driven by impulses as motivated to find an outside match for the internal object

Answer 15

Object Relations Theory -Klein

Question 16

What theory? Love, and the desire to connect, was more important than instinct

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Object Relations Theory -Klein

Question 17

Object Relations Theoriest

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Melanie Klein

Question 18

Psychodynamic Theroriest

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Sigmund Freud

Question 19

• A child has a profound need for ….
• If frustrated in their search, then children will later …
• This sensitivity gives rise to …

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…a stable and constant object
…suffer depression and an extreme sensitivity to a lack of support
…enmeshed and disengaged relationships (Bowen)

Question 20

Average _______ facilitates individuation

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expectable environment

Question 21

• Devotes herself to child sufficiently to establish security
• Shifts to self interest as child needs her less
• Transitional object as a symbol of the mother

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“Good enough” mother (Young)

Question 22

Two qualities of parenting are thought to be essential to a secure self:

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1. Mirroring = Understanding + Acceptance

2. Idealization

Question 23

We fall for someone who is…

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…a substitute for our unattained ideals

Question 24

We want our mates to conform to an…

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…internalized unrealistic model of fulfillment

Question 25

Self-objects are not quite separate in the child’s experience, so ________ more easily. Whatever a mother does or says translates into...

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...nurturance is taken into the self | ...an experience of self love

Question 26

An interactional process in which we behave according to our projections of anxiety=arousing aspects of ourselves

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Projective identification

Question 27

The repressed aspects of each person which are kept repressed by tacit understanding (Jung)

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The individual and marital “shadow”

Question 28

_______ link family members and influence individuals in the decisions about whom they marry

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Unconscious processes

Question 29

When parents project their fantasies upon their children, rather than letting them be themselves

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Delineations

Question 30

The presenting problem (symptom bearer) is often symbolic of the parent’s ...

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...own denied emotion or wish.

Question 31

When a child takes on a symptom to unite their parents concern

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Invisible loyalties

Question 32

The projection onto the therapist of feelings, attitudes, or desires

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Transference

Question 33

Technique used to uncover needs and wishes within the family members

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Dream analysis

Question 34

Procedure through which the therapist points out to families how their behavior conflicts or contradicts with their expressed wishes

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Confrontation

Question 35

The therapist points out to a family ways that they have demonstrated the ability of breaking past dysfunctional patterns of interaction

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Strengths

Question 36

The therapist points out from their history

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Life history

Question 37

The degree of harmony or reciprocity in the meshing of family roles

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Complementarily

Question 38

Bringing unconscious conflicts between members into consciousness

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Interpretation

Question 39

Only way out of a triangle is...

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being an Adult

Question 40

``` A B(2) C(2) D E ```

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- Activating event (might cause consequence) - Belief (belief or behavior that causes activating event) –Irrational (making a demand, should, must) or Rational (preference or wish) - Consequence (result of activating event) –Feeling or Action - Dispute the irrational belief (challenge the beliefs) - Effect (the new effect; what will happen once you do ABCD)

Question 41

What theory? A healthy family is a family that openly experiences life with each other in a lively manner in the here and now

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Experiential Family Therapy

Question 42

Here and now therapy

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Gestalt

Question 43

Experiential Theorist (2)

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Virginia Satir & Carl Whitaker

Question 44

What technique used by Virginia Satir? (experiential)

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Structure techniques

Question 45

What technique used by Carl Whitaker? (experiential)

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Limit techniques

Question 46

1. Process, not progress is the focus of therapy 2. The family is the context of our primary experience 3. Emphasis is on the therapeutic system 4. Characteristics of the therapeutic system: battle for structure, initiative, bilaterality

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Experiential Family Therapy

Question 47

Process of Family Therapy

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* Setting the tone * Empowering the family * Breaking the patterns of the system’ * Offering an ending

Question 48

Individuals in families are not aware of their emotions, and if aware, they suppress them. Because of this a climate of “emotional deadness” is created that results in the expression of symptoms within one or more family members

Answer 48

Experiential Therapy

Question 49

Family members avoid each other and occupy themselves with work and other activities. This behavior perpetuates the dysfunctionality of the family. The resolution to this situation is to emphasize sensitivity and feeling-expression among family members “in the present”. This expression can come in the form of verbal, affect, or behavior nonverbal manner

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Experiential Therapy

Question 50

Family members can represent the distance they wish to maintain between themselves and other family members by using role play, mime, or even arranging physical objects such as furniture in a particular way.

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Experiential Therapy

Question 51

* Filial therapy * Art therapy * Family drawings * Share feelings * Touch * Humor * Disregard theory and emphasizing intuitive spontaneity

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Experiential techniques

Question 52

* Modeling and teaching clear communication skills * Play therapy * Choreography * Props * Puppet interviews * Role-playing * Sculpting * Family reconstruction

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Experiential techniques

Question 53

The goals of experiential treatment (4)

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* To promote growth, change, creativity, flexibility, spontaneity and playfulness * To make the covert overt * To increase emotional closeness of family members and disrupt rigidity * To unlock defenses, enhance self-esteem, and recover the potential for experiencing

Question 54

Process and outcomes of experiential treatment

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* Therapists and families focus on growing and winning the battles for structure and initiative respectfully * Family members become more aware of their needs and feelings

Question 55

Experiential therapy for Satir occurs in three stages:

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making contact, chaos, and integration

Question 56

Experiential therapy for Whitaker occurs in three phases:

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engagement, involvement, and disentanglement

Question 57

Experiential family therapy emphasizes (5)

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1. Creativity and spontaneity in families 2. Changing roles and increased understanding of self and others 3. Treating all members of the family as equal in status 4. Increased awareness of feelings within and among family members 5. The breakdown of defenses within the family and among family members through structured exercises

Question 58

* Not everyone in the family has to be treated for change to occur * May see only one member (wife) and teach her assertiveness and desensitization * Concentrate on dyadic relationships, such as parents and child or the couple system * Emphasize stimulus, reinforcement, shaping and modeling

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Behavioral & Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy

Question 59

Stages of addiction (4)

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Precontemplation (thinking about doing it) Ritual (what you do before action; getting ready) Action/Act of precontemplation (the action/addiction) Feeling (what you feel afterwards)

Question 60

Precontemplation Ritual Action/Act of precontemplation Feeling

Answer 60

..thinking about doing it ...what you do before action; getting ready ...the action/addiction ...what you feel afterwards