Question 1
1 / 1 pts
The person who receives a double-bind message:
is doomed to failure whatever response he or she makes.
may disobey both commands.
may respond positively to both commands.
None of the answers are correct.
Question 2
1 / 1 pts
The major characteristic of strategic family therapy is that the therapist:
plans a strategy for solving the presenting problems.
remains neutral and passive throughout treatment.
follows the family’s leads, since they know what’s best for them.
commands the family to change targeted behaviors.
Question 3
1 / 1 pts
________Circular Questioning_______ A technique of the Milan School that involves asking each family
member questions that address a difference or define a relationship about two other family members.
Question 4
1 / 1 pts
In the view of MRI family therapists:
a depressed person needs to be cheered up and an anxious person taught relaxation techniques.
clients need to be restrained from repeating unworkable solutions.
hypnosis is a useful adjunctive technique.
clients need to be commanded to repeat previously unworkable solutions.
Question 5
1 / 1 pts
Haley believes every relationship contains within it an implicit struggle for:
love.
energy direction.
sexual satisfaction.
power.
Question 6
1 / 1 pts
Symmetrical escalation occurs when:
each participant becomes more and more vicious.
one participant assumes a “one-down” position and the other a “one-up” one.
both persons attempt to reduce the intensity of a disagreement.
one person is weak and the other strong.
Question 7
1 / 1 pts
Suggesting to a bed wetter that he pretend to have wet his bed and that his mother pretend to help is a
strategic technique associated with:
Weakland.
Watzlawick.
Zuk.
Madanes.
Question 8
1 / 1 pts
Quarreling couples who feel justified in responding to what each perceives as an attack from the other are
each imposing his or her own _______________ on their interactions.
punctuation
first-order change
second-order change
directive
Question 9
1 / 1 pts
In a complementary interaction:
one person is strong and the other weak.
one person is “one-up” and the other “one-down.”
both partners are equal.
both partners are competitive.
Question 10
1 / 1 pts
Symptoms are strategies for controlling a relationship when other strategies have failed, according to:
Ackerman.
Haley.
Bowen.
Satir.
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