Couples and Family Counseling Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
Couples and Family Counseling explores the theories, practices, and ethical considerations essential to working with couples and families in a therapeutic setting. The course examines foundational models such as systems theory, communication patterns, and structural family therapy, as well as contemporary approaches to relationship dynamics and family functioning. Students will learn assessment techniques, intervention strategies, and the impact of cultural, societal, and life-cycle factors on relationships. Emphasis is placed on developing practical skills for navigating conflicts, fostering healthy relationships, and supporting families experiencing change or crisis.
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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 first family therapy license was granted in Michigan in 1963.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Family therapy is particularly effective with:
A) adult obesity
B) insomnia
C) couple distress
D) A and C
Answer: D
Q3) Family therapists believe most life difficulties stem from:
A) individual problems
B) family problems
C) societal problems
D) intrapersonal problems
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy
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Q1) "The more a parent protects a shy child, the shyer the child becomes." This fact is an example of the concept of 'circular causality."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Family subsystems include all the following except:
A) parents
B) siblings
C) boys/men
D) spouses
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) Centrifugal families are more _____ than centripetal families.
A) healthy
B) disengaged
C) enmeshed
D) none of the above
Answer: B
Q2) Horizontal stressors are:
A) related to historical events
B) related to current events
C) related to previous family history
D) both A and C
Answer: B
Q3) 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) Working with families to arrange predictable and mutually satisfactory visitation arrangements is not an appropriate role for a family therapist.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A major challenge for children in blended families is:
A) identifying common interests among new step siblings
B) establishing a new identity
C) losing one's ordinal position from a previous family experience
D) creativity and innovativeness
Q3) Children of divorce are _____ to divorce than others.
A) less likely
B) more likely
C) six times more likely
D) six times less likely
Q4) In the _____, families created by divorce began to exceed those created by death.
A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s
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Chapter 5: Working With Culturally Diverse Families
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Q1) The model used in most counselor education multicultural courses is
A) intercultural model
B) universal perspective model
C) culture-specific model
D) ESCAPE
Q2) In treating gay and lesbian couples and families, it is important to be aware of
A) internal and external issues
B) extended family involvement
C) local, state, and national laws
D) all of the above
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) 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) What are the two accrediting bodies for marriage and family training programs?
A) COAMFTE and CACREP
B) COAFTA and NCFR
C) CORE and CACREP
D) CAPA and COAMFTE
Q2) In the legal system, attorneys affirm family members and work towards equitable resolution of family issues.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Multicultural competence is necessary to insure therapists do not impose their values on families. One way to avoid serious ethical errors in working with minority culture families is the _____ perspective, which identifies what is culturally significant from the family's perspective rather than from a prescribed cultural perspective that may not be relevant to a family.
A) gender
B) neutrality
C) culturally relevant
D) interactional
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Chapter 7: The Process of Family Therapy
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Q1) 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
Q2) A common problem of beginning family therapists is the tendency to ask more process questions than content questions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Reframing can be used to give a positive and different interpretation to the family's resistance.
A)True
B)False
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) In treating cases of infidelity, three recovery stages have been identified.
A) Stage 1 a moratorium Stage 2 an emotional roller coaster of emotions
Stage 3 trust building
B) Stage 1 an emotional roller coaster of emotions Stage 2 trust building
Stage 3 a moratorium
C) Stage 1 trust building Stage 2 a moratorium
Stage 3 an emotional roller coaster of emotions
D) Stage 1 an emotional roller coaster of emotions Stage 2 a moratorium
Stage 3 trust building
Q3) A good example of a marriage education program is Smart Marriage.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Transgenerational Theories: Psychodynamic
Family Theory and Bowen Family Systems Theory
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Q1) Psychodynamic and Bowen Family Therapy have many similarities, including:
A) both are based on psychoanalysis
B) both are focused on the here and now
C) theory and therapist cannot be separated
D) all of the above
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) A key therapist role shared by psychoanalytic and Bowen family therapy is:
A) good enough mother
B) coach
C) catalyst
D) teacher
Q4) 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) A tool used in family reconstruction is:
A) conjoint family drawing
B) sculpting
C) wheel or circle of influence
D) all of the above
Q2) If successful, using _____ will reduce tension and promote insight. If unsuccessful, it may alienate some or all family members.
A) touch
B) props
C) choreography
D) humor
Q3) _____ is a general term for a variety of therapeutic interventions that use play media as the basis for communicating and working with children.
A) filial therapy
B) experiential therapy
C) child therapy
D) play therapy
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Chapter 11: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies
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Q1) _____ spend more time discussing issues with family members than do _____.
A) behavior parent training therapists; functional family therapists
B) cognitive-behavioral therapists; behavioral therapists
C) behavioral therapists; cognitive-behavioral therapists
D) sex therapists; play therapists
Q2) _____ was the primary therapist to apply behavior theory to family problems in the 1960s.
A) B.F. Skinner
B) Gerald Patterson
C) Joseph LoPiccolo
D) Neil Jacobson
Q3) Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral family therapy are focused on
A) the present
B) the past
C) the future
D) all of the above Questions
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) An alliance between specific family members against a third member is called a(n):
A) rigid boundary
B) alignment
C) coalition
D) dysfunctional set
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Q2) _____ are ways that family members join together or oppose one another in carrying out family activities.
A) enactments
B) dysfunctional sets
C) pragmatic fictions
D) alignments
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) 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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Q2) Strategic family therapy has been criticized for being too 'cookbookish' and 'mechanical.'
A)True
B)False
Q3) The reason that strategic and structural family therapy overlap is due to _______ who worked in both strategic and structural family therapy environments.
A) Paul Watzlawick
B) Selvini Palazzoli
C) Cloe Madanes
D) Jay Haley
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Chapter 14: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative
Family Therapy
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Solution-focused family therapy is based on:
A) psychoanalysis
B) humanistic-existential psychology
C) social constructionism
D) humanistic-existential psychology.
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Chapter 15: Working With Substance-Related Disorders,
Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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"
Q3) The worst form of domestic violence is
A) spousal abuse
B) partner abuse
C) marital violence
D) battering
Q4) Most families with substance abusing members are seen in family therapy. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Research and Assessment in Family Therapy
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Q1) 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
Q2) In the initial development of the field of family therapy, therapy came first and research was secondary.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
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