Counseling Techniques
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Course Introduction
Counseling Techniques introduces students to the core skills, strategies, and theoretical approaches used by professional counselors to facilitate client growth and well-being. The course emphasizes the development of essential interpersonal abilities, such as active listening, empathy, questioning, rapport building, and ethical decision-making. Through experiential learning, practice sessions, and case studies, students learn to apply a variety of evidence-based techniques suited to diverse client needs and multicultural contexts. By exploring both individual and group counseling methods, participants gain a practical foundation for effective helping relationships and professional practice in counseling settings.
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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) Family therapy focuses on the _____ rather than the _____, which creates new and unique ways of resolving problems.
A) intrapersonal; interpersonal
B) physical; emotional
C) individual; system
D) interpersonal; intrapersonal
Answer: D
Q2) Family therapy tends to be _____ than individual counseling. A) longer
B) briefer
C) about the same
D) faster Questions
Answer: B
Q3) Family therapy is particularly effective with: A) adult obesity
B) insomnia
C) couple distress
D) A and C
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy
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Q1) An inability to work through interpersonal issues, such as developing adequate or optimal communication patterns, is one of many issues that may prompt new couples to seek family therapy.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Although at first they seem very different, the individual and family life cycle models share an emphasis on:
A) interpersonal development
B) intrapsychic development
C) pathological development
D) growth and development
Answer: D
Q3) Circular causality differs from linear causality. In linear causality, _____.
A) each family member's actions influence others
B) family member's actions move in one direction only
C) family member's actions are complementary
D) family member's actions are interrelated
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Types and Functionality of Families
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Q1) Useful family characteristics for coping with stress include all the following except:
A) lack of physical violence
B) identification of the family member who caused the problem
C) solution oriented rather than blame oriented
D) open and clear communication
Answer: B
Q2) Research on families is important because it helps identify healthy family characteristics, not just pathology
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The three least prevalent types of families in American culture are nuclear, single parent, and blended.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Working With Single-Parent and Blended Families
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Q1) In most blended families, family members have a realistic attitude concerning how to establish cohesion and trust among new family members.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Families that experience the temporary absence of a parent due to military deployment or other temporary circumstances are not considered to be "single-parent families."
A)True B)False
Q3) Most people who divorce eventually remarry.
A)True B)False
Q4) Families that are created as a result of the death of a parent may experience three developmental stages: mourning, readujstment, and renewal and accomplishment. A)True B)False
Q5) Bibliotherapy is a helpful means of working with single-parent families.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 5: Working With Culturally Diverse Families
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Q1) Assessing for levels of acculturation is important in working with culturally diverse families.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In African American families, _____ has been an essential element for survival.
A) an emphasis on social stability and collectivity
B) a collectivistic culture
C) a strong emphasis on self-discipline, order, social etiquette, and hierarchy
D) the family
Q3) In all forms of family therapy with culturally diverse families, it is essential for family therapists to:
A) memorize variations among cultural groups
B) utilize standard approaches
C) make assumptions in order to generalize treatment among cultural groups
D) explore personal biases and values
Q4) For African American families, _____ approaches may offer the greatest benefit.
A) problem focused and multigenerational
B) brief therapy
C) structural family therapy combined with traditional healing modalities
D) strengths based
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Chapter 6: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy
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Q1) The professional association that focuses on accrediting educational institutions and advocating for MFT licensure at the state level is:
A) AAMFT
B) AFTA
C) IAMFC
D) NCFR
Q2) In the ethical decision making process, the first step is to consult with colleagues or an ethics case manager.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Relationship ethics refer to ethics in a family that are based on the principles of:
A) values and culture
B) equitability and caring
C) behavior and values
D) mutuality and complementarity
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) 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
Q2) Family therapy begins with the first session as opposed to the first few sessions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In managed care systems, submitting written justification for treatment and comprehensive treatment plans is called:
A) utilization review
B) capitation
C) fee for service
D) care pathway guidelines
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Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Therapy and Enrichment
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Q1) Common topics for marriage encounter, enrichment, and education programs include communication skills and conflict resolution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The ideal time for premarital counseling is 4 to 12 weeks before the wedding date.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Infidelity in American society is:
A) rare
B) increasing
C) decreasing
D) common
Q4) Effective treatments for infidelity include
A) Multisystemic
B) community reinforcement
C) Behavioral and Cognitive-behavioral
D) Bowen and Structural
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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) 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
Q3) Differentiation is the opposite of fusion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The basic building block of any emotional system is the 'good enough mother.'
A)True
B)False
Q5) Bowen Family Therapy is systemic in nature.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Experiential Family Therapy
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Q1) The role of the 'distracter" is to place the focus on others and not take responsibility for what is happening.
A)True
B)False
Q2) There is strong research evidence for the efficacy of experiential family therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Experiential family therapy is interested in exploirng:
A) the past
B) the present
C) the past and the present
D) the future
Q4) 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
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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 the assessment stage of functional family therapy, the focus is on clarifying the relationship dynamics.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) Neil Jacobson developed the concept of 'acceptance' or loving your partner as a complete person and not focusing on differences.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Structural Family Therapy
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Q1) Boundaries are physical and psychological factors that separate people from one another and help organize them. The healthiest boundaries are:
A) clear
B) rigid
C) diffuse
D) stable
Q2) Subsystems may include all the following except:
A) spousal
B) sibling
C) cross-generational
D) parental
Q3) Structural family therapy is collaborative approach in which the therapist and client family share responsibility for setting up and directing therapeutic activities and interventions.
A)True
B)False
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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) Therapeutic neutrality means that the therapist does which of the following?
A) takes an active role in the therapy
B) joins with the family
C) encourages family members to generate solutions to their own problems
D) reframes negative communication
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Q3) Strategic family therapy has been found to be successful in treating families and their members who display such dysfunctional behaviors as ______
A) enmeshment
B) eating disorders
C) substance abuse
D) all of the above
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Chapter 14: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative
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Q1) A treatment technique in the narrative family therapy model is _____, which is used to solve problems in that the problem becomes a separate entity that the whole family needs to solve as a team.
A) externalization
B) reauthoring
C) celebration
D) significance
Q2) 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
Q3) In Narrative family therapy, normative patterns are used as models for families to strive for.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Working With Substance-Related Disorders,
Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
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Q1) 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
Q2) Most families with substance abusing members are seen in family therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Substance abuse related disorders are considered to be family based.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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
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Chapter 16: Research and Assessment in Family Therapy
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Q1) classic research methodologies with hypotheses, dependent/independent variables with at least one variable manipulated
A)exploratory research
B)descriptive research
C)developmental research
D)experimental research
E)correlational research
Q2) In general, most individuals and families _____ with couple and family therapy, especially when compared with control groups.
A) improve
B) worsen
C) stay about the same
D) relapse
Q3) A _____ is used when the representiveness of a whole population is not as important as the information itself.
A) systematic random sample
B) convenience sample
C) probability sample
D) nonprobability sample
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