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Quiz: Structural, Strategic, Milan Systemic, and Behavioral/Cognitive Modules
COUC601
Question 12 pts
Structuralists claim that dysfunctional families require
Answer: a change in the rules that govern family transactions
Question 22 pts
Imitating a family's manner, style, and affective range calls for a therapeutic technique
called ________________ by structuralists.
Answer: mimesis
Question 32 pts
In disengaged families, boundaries are
Answer: inappropriately rigid
Question 42 pts
Which of the following is not characteristic of "psychosomatic families"?
Answers: disengagement
Question 52 pts
A primary therapeutic goal for structuralists is
Answer: organizational change
Question 62 pts
Attempting to change the hierarchical arrangement between parents calls for
Answer: unbalancing
Question 72 pts
Making an effort to create greater psychological distance between enmeshed family
members involves
Answer: boundary making
Question 82 pts
One of the primary objectives of structural interventions is for the psychosomatic family
to achieve
Answer: clearer boundaries
Question 92 pts
Diffused boundaries are
Answer: blurred
Question 102 pts
According to Aponte and Van Deusen, every family transaction makes a statement
regarding
Answer: all of the above
Question 112 pts
Family coalitions
Answer: are alliances between specific family members formed against another
Question 122 pts
Members of disengaged families run the risk of over-emphasizing
Answer: NOT family belongingness
Question 132 pts
As used by the Milan group, hypotheses are intended to convey
Answer: a starting point for the therapist and family
Question 142 pts
Communication theorists give greater credence to
Answer: family rules govern family behavior
Question 152 pts
Starting to work with a family, the Milan therapist first
Answer: proposes a tentative hypothesis
Question 162 pts
Relationships are defined by ______________________ messages.
Answer: command
Question 172 pts
Which of the following Milan techniques is a form of reframing?
Answer: positive connotation
Question 182 pts
Second-order changes call for
Answer: none of the above
Question 192 pts
In the view of MRI family therapists
Answer: clients need to be restrained from repeating unworkable solutions
Question 202 pts
In the original Milan format, the point at which the therapist leaves the consultation room
to consult with colleagues is called
Answer: the intersession
Question 212 pts
The major characteristic of strategic family therapy is that the therapist
Answer: plans a strategy for solving the presenting problems
Question 222 pts
In a stereotypical complementary interaction or relationship (best answer)
Answer: one person is "one-up" and the other "one-down"
Question 232 pts
"Prescribing the symptom" is a form of
Answer: NOT therapeutic double-bind
Question 242 pts
A counterparadox is essentially a
Answer: therapeutic double-bind
Question 252 pts
Haley believes every relationship contains within it an implicit struggle for
Answer: power and control
Question 262 pts
Systemicists usually assign rituals in the form of
Answer: ceremonial acts
Question 272 pts
Relabeling is an attempt to
Answer: NOT None of the above
Question 282 pts
By neutrality, the Milan therapist attempt to
Answer: remain connected to the family whole avoiding being allied with any one person
Question 292 pts
Circular questioning may reveal
Answer: NOT observer perspectives
Question 302 pts
Therapeutic double-binds
Answer: NOT usually result in families learning to improve their paradoxical
communications
Question 312 pts
Who took the position that symptoms are strategies for controlling a relationship when
other strategies have failed?
Answer: …
Question 322 pts
Paradoxical interventions are especially useful in attempting to change ______________
families.
Answer: defiant or controlled families
Question 332 pts
All communication takes place at two levels-the surface level of content and the level
which qualifies what was said on the surface level. The second level is called
Answer: metacommunication
Question 342 pts
Circular questioning is likely to
Answer: address differences in how family members perceive problems
Question 352 pts
A problem analysis
Answer: NOT measures therapeutic changes
Question 362 pts
"He says he has to work late tonight. He'd rather be with someone else than me," is an
example of
Answer: NOT a selective abstraction
Question 372 pts
The unique psychotherapeutic contributions of the behavioral approach is:
Answer: insistence on a data-based set of procedures
Question 382 pts
Contingency contracting, based on operant conditioning principles, is a behavioral
procedure that has been shown to be useful in treating
Answer: All of the above
Question 392 pts
Uncovering the relationship between behavioral deficits and the client's interpersonal
environment is called
Answer: functional analysis
Question 402 pts
Albert Ellis employs the use of
Answer: cognitive restructuring
Question 412 pts
Gottman calls four forms of negativity between marital partners the Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Answer: dominance
Question 422 pts
Behavioral couple therapists sometimes have partners list desirable behaviors each wants
from the other, as a demonstration of commitment to the relationship. These are what is
to be exchanged as part of
Answer: caring days
Question 432 pts
Donald Meichenbaum’s work to help clients change their assumptions and schemas about
the world and their ability to manage stress is called
Answer: Narrative repair
Question 442 pts
Cognitive-behavioral family therapists gather data using three forms of clinical
assessment:
Answer: All of the above
Question 452 pts
Integrative couples therapy
Answer: CANT developed from the Milan model
Question 462 pts
Operant interpersonal therapy represents a blend of operant learning principles and
Answer: social exchange theory
Question 472 pts
Markman's research on marital distress prevention found
Answer: couples functioning on a higher level had more positive communication patterns
Question 482 pts
According to the textbook authors, behavioral family therapists often adopt an outlook
that is too ______
Answer: Linear
Question 492 pts
Gottman's research indicates three types of stable couples. Which of the following is not
one of those types?
Answer: conflict-engaging couples
Question 502 pts
Cognitive therapists work at three related levels. Which is not one of these levels?
Answer: NOT underlying assumptions
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