Foundations of Family Counseling Final Exam Questions
Course Introduction
Foundations of Family Counseling introduces students to the core principles, theories, and practices that underpin effective family counseling. The course covers a range of systemic approaches to understanding family dynamics, communication patterns, and life cycle issues, emphasizing both historical and contemporary models. Students will explore assessment techniques, intervention strategies, and ethical considerations specific to working with diverse family structures. Through case studies and role-play, learners develop foundational skills in building therapeutic alliances, facilitating family sessions, and addressing common challenges such as conflict, transitions, and crisis situations.
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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 is particularly effective with:
A) adult obesity
B) insomnia
C) couple distress
D) A and C
Answer: D
Q2) Family therapists believe most life difficulties stem from:
A) individual problems
B) family problems
C) societal problems
D) intrapersonal problems
Answer: B
Q3) 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
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Chapter 2: The Theoretical Context of Family Therapy
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Q1) 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
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) "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
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Chapter 3: Types and Functionality of Families
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Q1) 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
Q2) Cohesion, or emotional bonding, can be measured on four levels from low to high:
A) disengaged, separated, connected, enmeshed
B) separated, disengaged, enmeshed, connected
C) enmeshed, connected, separated, disengaged
D) connected, enmeshed, disengaged, separated
Answer: A
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) Most people who divorce eventually remarry.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Noncustodial parents do not have the same legal, parental rights as custodial parents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A formerly married person's ex-spouse, the ex-spouse's new husband or wife, and his or her blood kin are called ______.
A) kin once removed
B) new kin
C) new relatives
D) quasi kin
Q4) Single-parent families tend to be more _____ than most family types.
A) autocratic
B) democratic
C) rigid
D) formal
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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) Family therapists may be at an initial disadvantage in working with culturally diverse groups because the field of marriage and family therapy reflects a predominant European American bias.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following cultural groups is high context, rather than low context as found in most North American society?
A) African American
B) Asian American
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) Arab American
Q4) Sensitivity, experience, acceptance, ingenuity, specificity, and intervention are appropriate treatment goals for most 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) Internet counseling can be a useful therapeutic medium for many client types, especially for hearing impaired clients and clients in remote areas.
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) Sexual relations between a therapist and a family member are never allowed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most marriage and family therapy clients are
A) men
B) women
C) childless couples
D) deviant families
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Chapter 7: The Process of Family Therapy
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Q1) A common problem of beginning family therapists is the tendency to try too hard to make everyone happy.
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 ask more process questions than content questions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Therapy and Enrichment
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Q1) The overall goal of marriage enrichment, education, and enhancement programs is to
A) settle disputes or dissolve marriage in nonadversarial ways
B) improve the functioning and quality of marriages
C) explore intrapsychi processing
D) resolve family of origin issues
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) Common topics for marriage encounter, enrichment, and education programs include communication skills and conflict resolution.
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) A genogram is a visual representation of a person's family tree, going back at least three generations. It is useful in all the following ways except:
A) tracks relationship changes
B) shifts family members from clear cognitions to emotional reactivity
C) identifies repetitve patterns
D) demonstrates the impact of change and life cycle transitions
Q2) Psychodynamic family therapy is primarily _____ in nature.
A) short term
B) action oriented
C) linear
D) systemic
Q3) In Bowen Family Therapy, the term for patterns and strategies of coping withh stress that are passed down from generation to generation is called:
A) transference
B) family projection process
C) multigenerational transmission process
D) triangulation
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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) The use of _____ is thought to increase the effectiveness of treatment by allowing greater utilization of intuition.
A) humor
B) co-therapists
C) touch
D) education
Q3) Experiential family therapy is interested in exploirng:
A) the past
B) the present
C) the past and the present
D) the future
Q4) In Experiential Family Therapy, the therapist is an active participant.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies
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Q1) 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
Q2) An approach that stresses the rewards and costs of relationships in family life according to a behavioral economy is called:
A) shaping
B) social learning theory
C) social exchange theory
D) schema
Q3) _____ 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
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Chapter 12: Structural Family Therapy
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Q1) Subsystems may include all the following except:
A) spousal
B) sibling
C) cross-generational
D) parental
Q2) 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
Q3) The structural family therapy approach has been criticized for being too simple and lacking complexity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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
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Chapter 13: Strategic Family Therapies
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Q1) In strategic family therapy, the first task is to define a presenting problem in such a way that it can be solved.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Directing parents to go out together for various periods of time without telling their children where they are going and when they will return is an example of what technique?
A) paradox
B) homework
C) variant prescription
D) invariant prescription
Q3) 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
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Chapter 14: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative
Family Therapy
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Q1) This question, used by Solution focused therapists, is intended to direct family members' attention to times in the past or present when they did not have the problem.
A) exception question
B) miracle question
C) scaling question
D) none of the above
Q2) 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
Q3) In Solution-focused therapy, _____ factors are not important.
A) causal
B) social
C) cultural
D) all of the above
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Chapter 15: Working With Substance-Related Disorders,
Domestic Violence, and Child Abuse
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Q1) A spouse or other family member on whom the abuser is most dependent and who allows the problem to continue and become worse is called a(n):
A) enabler
B) family hero
C) scapegoat
D) lost child
Q2) An approach to treating domestic violence that is based on the ethical context of domestic violence in intimate relationships is called
A) Bowen family therapy
B) conjoint couples therapy
C) intimate justice
D) Adlerian therapy
Q3) When families protect the abuser from the consequences of his or her actions and minimize the seriousness of the substance abuser's actions, this is called _____.
A) denial
B) shielding
C) enabling
D) scapegoating
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Chapter 16: Research and Assessment in Family Therapy
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Q1) 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
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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