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According to the post modern view

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Most families collectively make their own reality

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Today, the trend in family therapy is toward

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eclecticism

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Systems-oriented therapists are most interested in

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the process that is taking place in a family

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A series of of linked behavioral transactions occurring over a period of time

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Family Process

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Reciprocal determinism refers to adopting a

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relationship outlook

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A disturbed mother produces disturbed children. This is an example of

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linear causality

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According to __ causality, behavior is best understood by looking at its interactional context

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circular causality

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Cybernetics refers to a system’s method of

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Feedback control

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which of these would see family systems as similar to mechanical systems

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first-order cybernetics

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a family therapist who joins the conversation instead of just observing from the outside is someone who believes in

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second-order cybernetics

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What kind of therapist wants to study family transitions

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Structuralists

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the developmental framework for studying families was first proposed by

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Family sociologists

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A family stage marker refers to

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A particular life event

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Family stage markers are events in a family’s life that

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demand a new adaptation

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A young adult’s primary developmental task is

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separating form one’s parents without cutting off from them

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As children grow up and leave home, the family’s developmental task involves

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Creating adult to adult relationships between parents and children

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Which is an example of a discontinuous life change

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Death of a young child

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What kind of stressor is the birth of a handicapped child

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horizontal

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Three examples of gender issues

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patriarchal behavior
sexism
sex-based role assignment

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According to Mary Pipher, who usually gets eating disorders

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Adolescent girls

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Gender-sensitive family therapy emphasizes

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overcoming sex-role stereotyping

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Gender-sensitive family therapy is built upon

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feminist family therapy

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One goal of gender-sensitive family therapy is to

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enable clients to move beyond prescribed sex roles

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A general cultural sensitivity to families characterizes

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the multicultural approach

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Increased interest in cultural factors in family functioning has led to renewed interest in
Spirituality in family life
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Which of the following is NOT a factor in understanding the cultural background of a client
feedback loops
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the textbook contends that systems theory
encompasses cybernetics and general systems theory
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A systems perspective stresses
wholeness over unity
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Each family subsystems is all of the above:
Contains a number of co-existing subsystems Carries out its functions through subsystems May include subsystems formed by sex, generation, etc
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Which family subsystem is the most basic?
Spousal
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Which of the following is not considered to be an enduring system
Gender
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The more open a family is, the more
adaptable to rule change
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Which of these is NOT an example of a larger system a family might engage with
Open Systems
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The consultant who takes the interaction of two systems into account is using which approach
Ecosystemic
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Which is a school related intervention program based upon a social ecological viewpoint
Multisystemic therapy
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Research about schizophrenics was done at every place except
The Ackerman Institute
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Bowen studied families with schizophrenic members, especially their
symbiotic mother/child interactions
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Which is NOT part of a double-bind situation
Parent yielding to infantile demands
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One criticism of the double-bind concept is
Linear outlook
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Pseudomutuality refers to
the appearance of an open relationship without really having one
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A family therapist seeks licensure because
All the above legal recognition the public view licensing as professional reimbursement from health plans requires it
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A ___ law regulates who may practice in a state
Licensing
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Clients need to be told of the possible risks before starting treatment. this is an example of
Informed consent
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Protecting a client from unauthorized disclosures by the therapist without prior consent is called
Confidentiality
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A legal exception to confidentiality maintenance occurs in the case of
Divulging information to third-party payors
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which of the following is not relevant with respect to informed consent before starting treatment
describing the techniques the therapist plans to use in treatment. (is that correct?)
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Supervisees should inform clients that
All of the above
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Which of the following models is based on the psychoanalytic model
psychodynamic
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Transgenerational approaches are
historical
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The opposite of self-differentiation, in Bowen's view is
Fusion
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The undifferentiated family ego mass refers to
family symbiotic relationships
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In Bowen's Differentiation of Self Scale, people at the low end are apt to lead lives:
dominated by the feelings of those around them
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With his concept of self-differentiation, Bowen argues for
balance
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According to Bowen, the basic building block in a family's emotional system is the
Triangle
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Family Systems Therapy attempts to modify the family's customary
Triangulated system
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One goal in Family Systems Therapy is for each family member to
Maximize self-differentiation
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Family Sculpting is a
nonverbal communication method
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Satir called her approach
the human validation process
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Which of the following does not characterize a symptom according to Satir
Unconscious conflict
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Three subsystems are most important in Minuchin's system. Which is NOT one of the three
Extended | the 3 are spousal, parental, sibling
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Which of the following terms does NOT describe a structural therapeutic tactic
Reconsolidation (joining, accommodating, and restructuring are the correct tactics
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Structural therapists tend to focus on family
transactional pattern
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Structural Family Therapy is
Concerned with the context of family structures
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The second level of communication is
metacommunication
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Prescribing the symptom is a form of
therapeutic double-bind
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The major characteristic of a strategic family therapy is that the therapist
Plans a strategy for solving the presenting problems
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An enduring set of beliefs that organizes subsequent perceptions is known as
Schemas
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How clients ___ is not a part of cognitive assessment
process emotion
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Cognitive-behavioral therapists traditionally work at 3 related levels. Which is NOT one of these levels?
Affect | the 3 levels are underlying assumptions, automatic thoughts, and schemas
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Cognitive-behavioral therapists rely, for assessment purposes, on
Observable behavior
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Solution-focused brief therapy argues that
Client families have run out of ways of dealing with their problems
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Solution-oriented therapists
create a collaborative dialogue with families
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In solution focused brief therapy, skeleton keys refer to
Interventions that work for a variety of locks
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The miracle question allows clients to
Speculate on their future once the problem is gone
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Exception-finding questions
build on past successes in dealing with a problem
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Family narratives
help explain and justify family patterns
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Narrative therapists believe we attempt to make sense of our lives through
self-narratives
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The belief that our view of reality is based on the stories by which we circulate knowledge about ourselves is called
Narrative metaphor
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Narrative therapists believe our current lives are directed by the ___ we have woven together about ourselves
dominant stories
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True or false: Cultural stories often provide dominant narratives in a family
True
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A common goal of narrative therapy is
Creating and internalizing new stories
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Narrative therapy was developed to
help clients re-examine the stories that have shaped their lives
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White's narrative approach encourages families to
create alternative accounts of their lives
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Which of the following are not addressed by psychoeducational?
deep seated characterological issues
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Psychoeducation programs emphasize all but one of the following. Which does NOT belong
psychotherapy | the correct ones are skills building, stress management, and informational programs
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Family therapy's interest in schizophrenia was
reestablished in the 1990s
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Psychoeducators tend to view schizophrenia as a
biological disease
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Psychoeducational programs are most highly developed to help
schizophrenics
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Research on stress in families with schizophrenic members emphasizes the relationship between ___ and relapse
expressed emotion
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Efforts in family therapy over the last 2 decades have been directed at
empirically validated therapies
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Quantitative research emphasizes
large sample sizes
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Therapists are more apt to attend to ___ research because it is more likely to capture what they do in their daily work
Qualitative
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In practice, according to the authors, most family therapists are
eclectic
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all family therapists attend to which of these factors in assessing family functioning
monadic, dyadic, and traidic
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Clinical effectiveness is determined by
All of the above - personal experience - theoretical knowledge - empathy

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