chapter 16 clinical psy

Which of the following statements about group therapy is TRUE?

. One advantage of having cotherapists is the ability to foster recapitulation of the family group.

In group therapy, the term social microcosm refers to the idea that

. the relationship tendencies that characterize clients' problematic relationships in their personal lives will also characterize the relationships they form with fellow group members.

The notions of family structure, subsystems, and boundaries are important components of the type of family therapy practiced by _____.

A. Salvador Minuchin

A therapist frequently asks clients these questions: "Are your problems present every hour of every day? When they are not so bad, what have you done to make them better?" These questions suggest that this therapist is most likely following which approach to therapy?

A. Solution-focused

The Rothberg family includes parents Mark and Tina and children David and Abigail. Mark and Tina take David to a clinical psychologist because "he is the cause of all problems in our family. If you fix him, everything will be great in our household." If the psychologist takes a family therapy approach to treatment, he will consider the possibility that, in this situation, David is

A. an identified patient.

Group therapists are most likely to encourage clients to examine

A. here-and-now relationships with fellow group members.

Irvin Yalom's approach to group psychotherapy has been labeled _____.

A. interpersonal

Therapy groups may either be ____, allowing individual members to enter or leave at any time, or _____, requiring members to enter and finish therapy together.

A. open-enrollment, closed-enrollment

In group therapy, the group typically and ideally contains _____ members.

B. 7-8

_____ is NOT one of the 11 therapeutic factors for group psychotherapy identified by Irvin Yalom

B. Exposure to anxiety-provoking stimuli

_____, feelings of interconnectedness among group members, plays the same role in group therapy that the therapeutic alliance plays in individual therapy.

B. Group cohesiveness

Consider the developmental stages of therapy groups discussed in the textbook. In a substance abuse group, the members have become comfortable enough to compete with one another and jockey for status within the group. In which developmental stage is this therapy group?

B. Second stage

The Conflict Tactics Scale assesses _____.

B. abuse and violence within families

Irvin Yalom

B. believes an individual's disorder is a by-product of his disturbed way of getting along with other people.

Lisa's family is very, very close. In fact, the degree of emotional closeness they have with each other is so great that no member of the family is particularly independent. They always have to be around each other and do things together. From Minuchin's perspective, this family is demonstrating

B. enmeshment.

More than any other form of therapy, _____ therapy is characterized by a systems approach to understanding psychological problems.

B. family

A _____ is a paper-and-pencil method of creating a family tree that incorporates detailed information about the relationships among family members.

B. genogram

Most group therapies strongly emphasize _____, taking advantage of the fact that the group therapy experience is based on interacting with other people.

B. interpersonal interaction

A basic premise of _____ therapy is that by "editing" the "life stories" clients tell themselves, they can improve their mental health.

B. narrative

According to Irvin Yalom, group therapy is most successful when group therapists

B. take advantage of the fact that clients will display their problematic tendencies toward other group members.

Two parents in conflict with one another each make efforts to recruit their child to support their position in the conflict. According to family therapists, this exemplifies _____.

B. triangulation

Which of the following statements about group therapy is TRUE?

C. Group members should be discouraged from extra-group socializing

Which of the following statements best summarizes how well group therapy works?

C. Group therapy works about as well as individual therapy.

_____ is NOT one of the 11 therapeutic factors for group psychotherapy identified by Irvin Yalom

C. International factors

_____ has emerged as a leading figure in the interpersonal approach to group therapy.

C. Irvin Yalom

Stacy tries to enroll in a therapy group for individuals suffering from depression. However, when she contacts the group's leader, she is informed that she will have to wait several weeks until a new series of group meetings begins. Individuals who wish to participate in the depression group, she learns, must attend from the very first session. This depression group is using

C. closed-enrollment.

Although psychological symptoms may appear maladaptive, they are often in fact adaptive within the family environment of the individual. Family therapists refer to this idea as _____.

C. functionalism

According to Yalom, _____, or learning from in-group interpersonal experiences, is at the heart of group therapy.

C. interpersonal learning

Using solution-focused therapy terms, the question "If your problem disappeared, how would your life be different?" is an example of a(n) _____ question.

C. miracle

Exception questions, such as "When was this not a problem for you?" and "When was this not so bad?" and the formula-first session task, in which clients consider what aspects of their lives they want to remain the same, are important components of _____.

C. solution-focused therapy

When providing psychotherapy services to a family,

C. the ground rules for confidentiality should be established with all family members during the initial consultation.

Which of the following approaches to psychotherapy has NOT been adapted for use with group therapy clients?

D. All of the other listed choices have been adapted for use with groups

Dr. Dobson suspects violence and abuse in the relationship of his newest couples' therapy patients, Hugh and Julie. If he wishes to assess the situation using a method that is more structured and formal than a clinical interview, he is likely to administer the

D. Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS).

_____ is a type of family therapy designed for adolescents with long-term behavioral and emotional problems that have resulted in trouble with the legal system.

D. Multisystemic family therapy

Which of the following is NOT one of the seven stages through which typical intact middle-class American families proceed?

D. Resignation and acceptance of death

The genogram is an assessment technique used most often by _____ therapists.

D. family

As a family therapist, Dr. Langstrom talks to the family he is treating about their family comfort zone or "set point." In family therapy terms, what Dr. Langstrom is really discussing is _____.

D. homeostasis

Regarding the causes of psychological problems, _____ therapists tend to endorse a linear model of causality, whereas _____ therapists tend to endorse a circular model of causality.

D. individual, family

n group therapy, a client's experience that "we're all in the same boat" best describes the therapeutic factor labeled by Irvin Yalom as _____.

D. universality