Psychotherapy with Families Practice Questions
Course Introduction
This course explores the theories, techniques, and practical applications of psychotherapy within family systems. Emphasizing a systemic perspective, it examines how family dynamics, communication patterns, and cultural factors influence psychological well-being. Students learn various therapeutic approaches, including structural, strategic, and narrative family therapies, and gain insights into assessment, intervention, and ethical considerations. Through case studies and experiential exercises, the course equips participants with foundational skills to facilitate change and foster healthier family relationships in diverse 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) Before 1940, mental health treatment focused on:
A) families
B) groups
C) individuals
D) interpersonal issues
Answer: C
Q2) 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
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) Life cycle stages are independent of one another and do not require some level of success before proceeding to the next step.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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) Family subsystems include all the following except:
A) parents
B) siblings
C) boys/men
D) spouses
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Types and Functionality of Families
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Q1) A high degree of religious/spiritual orientation is a characteristic of healthy families.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q2) Vertical stressors are related to current events, are developmental and continually unfolding.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
Q3) The three least prevalent types of families in American culture are nuclear, single parent, and blended.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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) Healthy adjustment of children is strongly correlated with A) pre-divorce/death levels of family functioning
B) mental and emotional anguish
C) taking sides
D) premarital counseling
Q2) Parentification of children can occur if families are enmeshed or do not successfully adjust to the new hierarchy following a family break-up.
A)True
B)False
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) 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
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) Ethnicity 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
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Chapter 6: Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Family Therapy
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Q1) The most widely used treatment approach by marriage and family therapists is:
A) Bowen family therapy
B) psychodynamic approaches
C) cognitive-behavioral approaches
D) solution-focused approaches
Q2) 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
Q3) Most marriage and family therapy clients are
A) men
B) women
C) childless couples
D) deviant families
Q4) 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
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Chapter 7: The Process of Family Therapy
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Q1) 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
Q2) Termination from treatment is often premature, with _____ of families dropping out before therapy is finished.
A) 10% to 25%
B) 20% to 40%
C) 40% to 60%
D) 60% to 65%
Q3) While being a family therapist can be stressful, it may also give therapists a greater appreciation of their own families.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Couple and Marriage Therapy and Enrichment
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Because all marriages have some conflict, individual therapy is more effective than conjoint therapy
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 family therapy may not be appropriate for families that are abstract in handling situations.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Psychodynamic family therapy is primarily _____ in nature.
A) short term
B) action oriented
C) linear
D) systemic
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) 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) 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
Q3) 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) Neil Jacobson developed the concept of 'acceptance' or loving your partner as a complete person and not focusing on differences.
A)True
B)False
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) In the assessment stage of functional family therapy, the focus is on clarifying the relationship dynamics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Family observational codes are used by behavioral family therapists to assess dysfunctional behavior.
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) 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 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) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
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Chapter 14: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Narrative
Family Therapy
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Q1) Questions designed to reveal the meaning and importance of exceptions are called:
A) exception questions
B) unique outcomes
C) reauthoring questions
D) significance questions
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Q2) In Solution-focused family therapy, all families are believed to have the resources and strengths to resolve complaints.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Like most other family therapy approaches, Narrative family therapy is based on logico-scientific reasoning (i.e., empiricism and logic).
A)True
B)False
Q4) Unlike Bowen or psychoanalytic theory, in Solution-focused family therapy virtually no attention is paid to history.
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) One of the conditions necessary before selecting conjoint couples therapy is
A) an assessment of safety issues
B) an emphasis on empowerment
C) full disclosure of the violence
D) unilateral responsibility for the violence
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) _____ is the extent to which a measuring instrument measures what it was intended to measure.
A. validity
B. reliability
C. interrater reliability
D. accountability
A)True
B)False
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) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is based on the medical model and is individually oriented.
A)True
B)False
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