Clinical Interventions in Family Counseling Practice Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores evidence-based clinical interventions used in family counseling to address a variety of familial and relational issues, including communication breakdown, conflict, trauma, and mental health challenges. Students will examine foundational theories and models, such as Structural, Strategic, and Bowenian Family Therapy, and apply these frameworks to develop effective intervention strategies. Emphasis is placed on assessment techniques, cultural competency, ethical concerns, and the practical application of counseling skills across diverse family systems. Through case studies, role plays, and supervised practice, students will build competencies in designing, implementing, and evaluating treatment plans tailored to the unique needs of families.
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Family Therapy History Theory and Practice 6th Edition by Samuel T. Gladding
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Chapter 1: The History of Family Therapy: Evolution and Revolution
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Q1) There are currently two associations accrediting marriage and family therapy training programs:
A) APA; AAMFT
B) CACREP; AAMFT
C) AFTA; AAMFT
D) AAMFT; ACME
Answer: B
Q2) The most popular family therapy approaches in the 1970's were experiential family therapy, structural family therapy, and strategic family therapy.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) The purpose of mystification is to simultaneously send two seemingly contradictory messages, leading to confusion.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy
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Q1) In Stage 5, Launching Children and Moving On, families typically seek family therapy due to:
A) the stresses involved with caring for multiple generations
B) a lack of social skills to establish significant relationships with others
C) frustration/anger over the marriage and/or career ambitions
D) lack of meaning or enjoyment in life
Answer: C
Q2) A relatively recent development is couples who have adolescents and their aging parents to take care of and who feel they are squeezed psychologically and physically. This development is called:
A) planful competence
B) empty nest
C) circular causality
D) sandwich generation
Answer: D
Q3) Definitions of what a family is have remained pretty much the same over generations and across cultures.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Types and Functionality of Families
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Q1) Studies reveal that healthy and functional families in virtually all cultures are able to:
A) adapt to change
B) set appropriate boundaries
C) express confidence in themselves and their children
D) all of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Symmetrical interaction is based on:
A) rigidity and maximizing differences
B) family closeness and getting needs met inside the family
C) disengagement
D) similarity of behavior and competition
Answer: D
Q3) Centrifugal families are more _____ than centripetal families.
A) healthy
B) disengaged
C) enmeshed
D) none of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Working With Single-Parent and Blended Families
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Q1) To help kids through the divorce process, it can be helpful to:
A) define and refine clear boundaries and roles
B) have diffuse boundaries and roles
C) have a more formal style of relating
D) have both parents tell the children about the divorce and let the children decide who's right and who's wrong
Q2) An important step in developing new relationships in blended families is
A) giving up old loyalties to make space for new ties
B) setting up closed systems to maximize internal family strengths
C) encouraging projection
D) mourning the loss of previous relationships
Q3) Healthy adjustment of children is strongly correlated with
A) pre-divorce/death levels of family functioning
B) mental and emotional anguish
C) taking sides
D) premarital counseling
Q4) Most people who divorce eventually remarry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Working With Culturally Diverse Families
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Q1) Which cultural group tends to be physically expressive (e.g., gesturing while they talk)?
A) African American
B) Asian American
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) American Indians/Alaska Natives
Q2) Ethnicity is
A) a term used to refer to the cultural groups within a region or nation
B) a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock
C) the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
D) the dominant perception or view of a specific group
Q3) A strong belief in the institution of marriage has resulted in more African Americans marrying today than at any time in history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy
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Q1) Modern practitioners understand that all therapeutic decisions are related to values and therefore therapeutic practice must be ethically neutral.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Marriage and family therapists may be called to provide testimony in court. One role in which family therapists are asked to testify about probable causes and recommendations in regard to family members is called:
A) child custody evaluator
B) expert witness
C) court ordered witness
D) court advocate
Q3) Most marriage and family therapists have a A) bachelors degree
B) masters degree
C) doctoral degree
D) medical degree
Q4) Sexual relations between a therapist and a family member are never allowed. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Process of Family Therapy
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Q1) Reframing can be used to give a positive and different interpretation to the family's resistance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) While being a family therapist can be stressful, it may also give therapists a greater appreciation of their own families.
A)True
B)False
Q3) SOLER is an acronym which describes effective interactive skills for therapists. In this acronym, the "R" stands for:
A) relax and feel comfortable
B) establish roles
C) reframe
D) respect the family
Q4) A common problem of beginning family therapists is the tendency to try too hard to make everyone happy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Therapy and Enrichment
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Q1) A procedure used in behavioral couple approaches in which one or both partners act as if they care about each other, regardless of the other's actions, is called:
A) behavioral analysis
B) self-analysis
C) gunnysacking or dumping
D) caring days
Q2) Effective treatments for infidelity include
A) Multisystemic
B) community reinforcement
C) Behavioral and Cognitive-behavioral
D) Bowen and Structural
Q3) The process of helping families or couples settle disputes or dissolve their relationships in a nonadversarial way is called:
A) marriage education
B) marriage encounter
C) relationship enhancement
D) mediation
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Chapter 9: Transgenerational Theories: Psychodynamic
Family Theory and Bowen Family Systems Theory
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Q1) Splitting is a way of evaluating relationships that result in viewing object representations as:
A) all good or all bad
B) predictable or unpredictiable
C) internalized or externalized
D) interlocking pathologies
Q2) Psychodynamic family therapy may not be appropriate for families that are abstract in handling situations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) _____ is a frequent way of dealing with anxiety in which tension between two persons is projected onto another object.
A) family projection process
B) multigenerational transmission process
C) emotional cut off
D) triangulation
Q4) Differentiation is the opposite of fusion.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Experiential Family Therapy
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Q1) In Experiential Family Therapy, the therapist is an active participant.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A technique in experiential family therapy in which family members are physically placed into positions symbolizing actual relationships as seen by one or more members is called:
A) sculpting
B) choreography
C) use of props
D) family reconstruction
Q3) Although their methods were different, Satir and Whitaker agreed that the primary goal of experiential family therapy is:
A) unlocking the past
B) educating the family
C) growth, sensitivity, and sharing of feelings
D) family growth and interpersonal change
Q4) There is strong research evidence for the efficacy of experiential family therapy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies
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Q1) Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral family therapy are focused on A) the present
B) the past
C) the future
D) all of the above
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Q2) _____ is an age appropriate type of time out for adolescents and preadolescents.
A) acceptance
B) shame attack
C) squeeze technique
D) job card grounding
Q3) A written schedule describing terms for trading or exchanging behaviors and reinforcers between two or more individuals is known as:
A) social exchange theory
B) quid pro quo
C) teasing technique
D) contingency contract
Q4) The 'squeeze technique' is used for treating performance anxiety.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Structural Family Therapy
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Q1) In order to highlight and modify interactions in the family, structural therapists must use intensity to
A) interrupt rigid patterns of conflict-avoidance
B) break families loose from their patterns of equilibrium
C) extend interactional sequences beyond the point where dysfunctional homeostasis is reinstated
D) all of the above
Q2) If successful, structural family therapy results in more functional boundaries and more positive ways of interacting among family members.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Subsystems may include all the following except:
A) spousal
B) sibling
C) cross-generational
D) parental
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Chapter 13: Strategic Family Therapies
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Q1) A strategic family therapy technique with a goal for the client to give up symptomatic behavior in order to avoid performing a constructive behavior is known as:
A) restraining
B) prescribing
C) ordeal
D) pretending
Q2) Strategic family therapists believe that families interact within a limited range of repetitive behavioral sequences known as the ________ principle.
A) neutrality
B) family dance
C) redundancy
D) redefining
Q3) Use of a therapeutic team within Milan systemic family therapy is cost-efficient and ineffective.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative
Family Therapy
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Q1) In Narrative family therapy, normative patterns are used as models for families to strive for.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Questions designed to reveal the meaning and importance of exceptions are called:
A) exception questions
B) unique outcomes
C) reauthoring questions
D) significance questions
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Q3) In Solution-focused therapy, the best approach to use with 'complainants' is to:
A) respect them, try and establish rapport, and hope they will become customers eventually
B) assign them activities where they can focus on exceptions, respect them, and hope they will become customers eventually
C) engage them in solution oriented conversations and co-create assignments to reproduce behaviors that are exceptions to the problem
D) none of the above
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Chapter 15: Working With Substance-Related Disorders,
Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
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Q1) One of the conditions necessary before selecting conjoint couples therapy is
A) an assessment of safety issues
B) an emphasis on empowerment
C) full disclosure of the violence
D) unilateral responsibility for the violence
Q2) Before treatment for child abuse or neglect can begin, historical issues from childhood and current adult behaviors associated with the history must be addressed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Almost 60% of the world's production of illegal drugs as well as a substantial percentage of legal alcohol products are consumed in the US
A)True
B)False
Q4) The modern method of using concerned significant others in substance abuse treatment is to:
A) get them involved with support groups such as Al-Anon
B) teach them behavioral skills designed to influence the substance abuser
C) have them confront the abuser about the problems they have caused
D) have them surprise the abuser at a meeting known as "the intervention"
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Chapter 16: Research and Assessment in Family Therapy
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Q1) Brief therapy (20 sessions or less) is not as effective as open-ended or long-term therapies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Regarding the importance of research in family therapy, research findings help establish both similarities and distinct differences with other mental health practitioners. This is called
A) accountability
B) practicality
C) uniqueness
D) none of the above
Q3) focuses on studying changes over time
A)exploratory research
B)descriptive research
C)developmental research
D)experimental research
E)correlational research
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