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Course Introduction
This course provides an in-depth exploration of counseling theories, techniques, and interventions specifically designed for children and adolescents. Students will examine developmental stages, cultural and contextual factors, and the unique emotional, social, and behavioral issues faced by young clients. Emphasis is placed on ethical considerations, effective communication strategies, assessment tools, and evidence-based practices for working with diverse youth populations in various settings, including schools and mental health agencies. Through case studies, role-plays, and applied exercises, students will develop practical skills necessary for building rapport, implementing effective interventions, and collaborating with families and multidisciplinary teams.
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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) The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in 2013 that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Before 1940, mental health treatment focused on:
A) families
B) groups
C) individuals
D) interpersonal issues
Answer: C
Q3) The only woman pioneer in the early days of family therapy was:
A) Monica McGoldrick
B) Evelyn Duvall
C) Virginia Satir
D) Rachel Hare-Mustin
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) In general, singles are the second happiest demographic group (married couples being the happiest).
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Types and Functionality of Families
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Q1) The three least prevalent types of families in American culture are nuclear, single parent, and blended.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A high degree of religious/spiritual orientation is a characteristic of healthy families.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) All healthy families have deficits and all dysfunctional families have strengths.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Research on families is important because it helps identify healthy family characteristics, not just pathology
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Working With Single-Parent and Blended Families
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Q1) In working with blended families, therapists should
A) be passive
B) be active
C) be legal advisors
D) be predictable
Q2) In the _____, families created by divorce began to exceed those created by death.
A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s
Q3) 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
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) Multiculturalism 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
Q2) Although utilization rates for individual therapy are _____ among African Americans, they are _____ for family therapy.
A) high, low
B) low, high
C) about the same for each
Q3) _____ families place a high value on education.
A) African American
B) Asian American
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) American Indians/Alaska Natives
Q4) Assessing for levels of acculturation is important in working with culturally diverse families.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy
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Q1) Failure to fulfill the requisite standard of care when providing therapy services can result in
A) an "in camera review"
B) a malpractice suit
C) nonmaleficence
D) dual or multiple relationships
Q2) Most marriage and family therapists have a
A) bachelors degree
B) masters degree
C) doctoral degree
D) medical degree
Q3) Most marriage and family therapy clients are A) men
B) women
C) childless couples
D) deviant families
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) Critical factors in the success of the first few sessions are:
A) verbal and nonverbal behaviors
B) structuring and supportive behaviors
C) assessment and data collection
D) orientation and summarization
Q2) Beginning family therapists often overemphasize and try and do too much. All the following are examples of overemphasis except:
A) details
B) verbal expression
C) dealing with one member of the family
D) establishing structure
Q3) Involving peripheral members and pushing family members to make changes and breakthroughs is a characteristic of which phase of treatment?
A) initial
B) middle
C) termination
D) none of the above
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Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Therapy and Enrichment
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Q1) Which couples therapy approach focuses on the dual perspectives of intrapsychic processes and interpersonal processes?
A) Behavioral Couple Therapy
B) Emotionally Focused Therapy
C) Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy
D) Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy
Q2) In premarital counseling, the focus is on
A) prevention
B) enrichment
C) generalization
D) all of the above
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) Psychodynamic family therapy may not be appropriate for families that are abstract in handling situations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) The result of successful separation from your family of origin and distinguishing your rational and emotional selves is:
A) differentiation
B) emotional reactivity
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) Experiential family therapy is interested in exploirng:
A) the past
B) the present
C) the past and the present
D) the future
Q2) The major emphasis of experiential family therapy is:
A) behavior
B) interpersonal relations
C) affect and expression of feelings
D) irrational beliefs
Q3) The role of the 'distracter" is to place the focus on others and not take responsibility for what is happening.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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
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Chapter 11: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies
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Q1) A basic premise of behavioral family therapy is
A) all behavior is learned
B) underlying causes should be the target of change
C) all family members must be treated
D) the importance of insight in the change process
Q2) In _____, a neutral stimulus is paired up with another event to elicit certain emotions through association.
A) classical conditioning
B) shaping
C) stress inoculation
D) operant conditioning
Q3) In _____ people learn through rewards and punishments to respond behaviorally in certain ways.
A) classical conditioning
B) shaping
C) stress inoculation
D) operant conditioning
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) The technique of changing a perception by explaining a situation from a different context is called:
A) enactment
B) pragmatic fictions
C) reframing
D) restructuring
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) A parentified child is considered a dysfunctional role because, in the structural approach, it is best that parents are placed in charge of children.
A)True
B)False
Q4) This approach has a focus on:
A) the present
B) the past
C) the future
D) all of the above
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Chapter 13: Strategic Family Therapies
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Q1) Goals in strategic family therapy include all the following except:
A) behavior change
B) symptom removal
C) breaking up vicious cycles of interaction
D) instilling insight
Q2) The pretend technique that Cloe Madanes formulated is based on the idea that individuals change through experiencing control of a previously involuntary action.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) Strategic family therapy has been criticized for being too 'cookbookish' and 'mechanical.'
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative
Family Therapy
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Q1) Solution-focused family therapy is based on:
A) psychoanalysis
B) humanistic-existential psychology
C) social constructionism
D) humanistic-existential psychology.
Q2) In Narrative family therapy, normative patterns are used as models for families to strive for.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Unlike Bowen or psychoanalytic theory, in Solution-focused family therapy virtually no attention is paid to history.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In Narrative family therapy, _____ is a way for families to highlight different stories than those that have been dominant.
A) deconstruction
B) externalization
C) reauthoring
D) celebration
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Chapter 15: Working With Substance-Related Disorders,
Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
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Q1) Treatment of child abuse and neglect is complex and involves _____ issues.
A) historical, cultural, societal
B) environmental, community reinforcement, legal
C) legal, developmental, psychological
D) social ecology, behavioral, emotional cutoff
Q2) While many systemic therapy approaches work well in substance abuse situations, one approach is very cost effective and has a high success rate. This approach is:
A) Structural-strategic
B) Bowen
C) Behavioral
D) Multisystemic
Q3) There is a well-documented association between _____ and battering.
A) fear of abandonment
B) jealousy
C) alcohol intoxication
D) all of the above
Q4) Child sexual abuse is significantly underreported, especially for boys.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Research and Assessment in Family Therapy
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Q1) focuses on studying changes over time
A)exploratory research
B)descriptive research
C)developmental research
D)experimental research
E)correlational research
Q2) a qualitative approach used when issues are still being defined
A)exploratory research
B)descriptive research
C)developmental research
D)experimental research
E)correlational research
Q3) Brief therapy (20 sessions or less) is not as effective as open-ended or long-term therapies.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is based on the medical model and is individually oriented.
A)True
B)False
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