Psychotherapy with Families and Couples Question Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the theory and practice of psychotherapy with families and couples, emphasizing systemic perspectives and the dynamics of relationships within family units. Students will examine major models of family and couple therapy, including structural, strategic, systemic, and cognitive-behavioral approaches. Through case studies, role-plays, and critical analysis, the course addresses common challenges such as communication breakdowns, conflict resolution, cultural considerations, and the impacts of life transitions. The course prepares students to understand and facilitate healthy interaction patterns, develop intervention strategies, and work ethically and effectively with diverse family and couple constellations.
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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) Family therapists believe most life difficulties stem from:
A) individual problems
B) family problems
C) societal problems
D) intrapersonal problems
Answer: B
Q3) The systems theory developed by Ludwig Von Bertanlanffy had less reliance on _____ and more emphasis on _____.
A) family therapists; paraprofessionals
B) circular causality; linear causality
C) individual parts; societal influence
D) linear causality; circular causality
Answer: D
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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) "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
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) 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
Q2) Research on families is important because it helps identify healthy family characteristics, not just pathology
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A high degree of religious/spiritual orientation is a characteristic of healthy families.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Working With Single-Parent and Blended Families
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Q1) 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
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) Noncustodial parents do not have the same legal, parental rights as custodial parents.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In working with blended families, therapists should
A) be passive
B) be active
C) be legal advisors
D) be predictable
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Chapter 5: Working With Culturally Diverse Families
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Indirect forms of questioning and open-ended questions work best with which cultural group?
A) African American
B) Asian American
C) Hispanic/Latino
D) American Indians/Alaska Natives
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Chapter 6: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy
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Q1) The responsibility for maintaining confidentiality lies with A) the client
B) the therapist
C) both the client and the therapist
D) none of the above
Q2) Modern practitioners understand that all therapeutic decisions are related to values and therefore therapeutic practice must be ethically neutral.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
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) 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
Q3) In family therapy, establishing a sense of comfort and trust with the family is called:
A) hypothesizing
B) circular questioning
C) joining
D) engendering hope
Q4) Family therapy begins with the first session as opposed to the first few sessions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Therapy and Enrichment
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Q1) A good example of a marriage education program is Smart Marriage.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In premarital counseling, the focus is on
A) prevention
B) enrichment
C) generalization
D) all of the above
Q3) Risk factors for infidelity are higher for
A) European Americans; females
B) African Americans; males
C) older couples; working outside the home
D) low marital satisfaction; frequent church attendance
Q4) Mediation, when compared to divorce proceedings, is _____.
A) quicker
B) less costly
C) less hostile
D) all of the above
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Chapter 9: Transgenerational Theories: Psychodynamic
Family Theory and Bowen Family Systems Theory
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Q1) Differentiation is the opposite of fusion.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Psychodynamic family therapy may not be appropriate for families that are abstract in handling situations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
Q4) A psychodynamic family therapy treatment technique used to understand dominant feelings within a family and identify which emotions are being directed toward what people is called:
A) dream and daydream analysis
B) confrontation
C) transference
D) complementarity
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Chapter 10: Experiential Family Therapy
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Q1) 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
Q2) Filial therapy is a hybrid of child-centered play therapy in which therapists work with children to increase their awareness of who has been important to them in their life.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The following theorist belongs to the group of experiential family therapists who practice with few techniques and a strong emphasis on self, spontaneity, and creativity:
A) Virginia Satir
B) Carl Whitaker
C) Peggy Papp
D) Fred and Bunny Duhl
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Chapter 11: Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Neil Jacobson developed the concept of 'acceptance' or loving your partner as a complete person and not focusing on differences.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In behavioral and cognitive-behavioral family therapy, family action is stressed over insight.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Structural Family Therapy
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Q1) _____ 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
Q2) This approach has a focus on:
A) the present
B) the past
C) the future
D) all of the above
Q3) The structural family therapy approach has been criticized for being too simple and lacking complexity.
A)True
B)False
Q4) If successful, structural family therapy results in more functional boundaries and more positive ways of interacting among family members.
A)True
B)False
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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) A method of interviewing in which questions are asked to highlight differences among family members is known as:
A) a therapeutic double bind
B) circular questioning
C) positive connotation
D) a family ritual
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) 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 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) The worst form of domestic violence is
A) spousal abuse
B) partner abuse
C) marital violence
D) battering
Q3) 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
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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) measures the degree of association or relatedness between two variables; usually conducted after the fact
A)exploratory research
B)descriptive research
C)developmental research
D)experimental research
E)correlational research
Q3) Match the following terms with the numbered definitions:
A) exploratory research
B) descriptive research
C) developmental research
D) experimental research
E) correlational research
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