100 question practice exam

A study of family therapy, rated outcomes as 'improvement' on a scale of 1 - 5, with 5 being most improved. For a research sample where N = 10, the following data points were obtained: 3, 4, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 2.5. The mean of this sample is:

3 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 5 + 5 + 2.5 = 33.5 divided by 10 = 3.35.

A term that Maturana used to describe systems that can be controlled from the outside, such as machines is:

Allopoietic Systems

The Narrative Construction of Reality

Bruner

Which of the following questions is intended to gather information assessing the Adlerian concept of family atmosphere:

Can you tell me a little about your parents parenting style?

Positive feedback loops

Causes a system to change further in the same direction (Variety)

The therapist explore legacies, invisible loyalties, and ledger balances and thus guide family members toward those tasks necessary to restore some balance in the ledger?

Contextual (Nagy's)

Ken Gergen

Developed concept of "saturated family" (postmodernist) - myriad of relationships, responsibilities, and opinions make it difficult for individuals to have a clear sense of their desires and beliefs

people will tend towards self-actualization are primarily working from the

Emotionally Focused Therapy perspective

Family Therapists who believe that, if left alone, people will tend towards self-actualization are primarily working from the:

Emotionally Focused Therapy perspective.

The husband says that he is angry at his wife. The therapist says, "Look at your wife and tell her why you are angry?" What technique would the therapist be using?

Enactment

The therapist least likely to rely on self-report data is:

Haley

Cybernetics

How information controls systems

Positive connotation (Milan Systemic Model)

Identify positive impact of behaviors - how it's protecting the family Presented to family as a hypothesis ... including how behavior is protecting the family Eg., thanking the child for being symptom carrier- a better way might be to thank the child for serving the role rather than carrying/performing the symptom

Rituals (Milan model)

Interventions that enhance a positive connotation or require the family to either exaggerate or violate family rules (i.e. thank the symptomatic member for having the problem) - not used later in the Milan model

Situational crisis

Life events that not everyone will experience (unpredictable)

The belief that the complaint is the problem, not a symptom of an underlying disorder, is a therapeutic distinction made by which approach?

MRI approach

Historically, the theory most associated with brief therapy is:

Milan Systemic.

The family systems approach that has the strongest evidence for successful outcome in managing crises is:

Multi-modal family intervention that uses a team made up of clinicians with differing expertise to work intensively in a coordinated way with one family.

Parentification is a term most closely associated with:

Nagy (contexual)

Normative crisis

Occurs at predictable moments such as during a transition from one family life style stage to the next stage.

Couple therapy has been shown to be effective when:

One member of the couple is depressed and conflict is high.

Emotionally Focused Therapy correlates strongly with lasting therapeutic outcome when there is:

Process Research has shown that Emotionally Focused Therapy is successful when couples show more affiliative responses and experience at more deeper levels in key sessions. (a deep level of emotional processing)

Rational/scientific, approval, worrier, protective all describe parts of:

Schwartz's parts of the therapist (Internal family systems)

A person's experience shapes the way they think about it, this notion is called:

Social Contstructionism

The events that exemplify the clients preferred outcome (resist the effects of the problem)

Sparkling Events

Rituals and ordeals are specific techniques for:

Strategic therapists.

Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, any therapist is liable for her/his entire practice if:

They are a licensed, or unlicensed, mental health clinician who transmits PHI using electronic means for even one client, on one occasion.

Normal families have an evolutionary sense of time with emphasis on the process of becoming." This statement regarding normal family functioning is descriptive of which model of family therapy?

This is a comment by Carl Whitaker on the concept of normality within the Experiential model.

Dreikur's concept of Mistaken Goals

Utilizes several factors including a description of the child's behavior, a parent's feeling about that behavioral, a parent's typical reaction, and the child's subsequent response to hypothesis

Which of the following therapists emphasized the importance of transgenerational themes:

Whitaker.

LoPiccolo is a well-known sex therapist who helped developed:

a sexual growth program for women who have problems in experiencing orgasm.

The main difference between a 'situational' and a 'developmental' crisis is:

a situational crisis can happen at any time, but a developmental crisis is a predictable effect of going through life's psychosocial stages.

A technique developed by the Milan Model that utilizes a third person's perspective on a subsystem or other dyads within the system is known as:

circular questioning.

A behavioral family therapist working with a wife who is having trouble getting her husband's attention when she talks, offers the following instruction: "This time when he turns his head away, I want you to squeeze his hand gently and tell him you really want him to listen." These verbal instructions are called:

coaching

The role of a Strategic therapist is:

conducting a structured initial interview.

linear Crisis perspective

direction of causality is singular and not complex

According to Contextual Family Therapists, the four important dimensions of a family are:

facts, individual psychology, family or systemic interactions, relational ethics

Olsen's Circumplex model, sometimes called 'FACES' identifies:

flexibility and cohesion facilitated by communication as the most important characteristics to assess when families are in crisis.

The DSM-5 diagnostic categories pay special attention to development by

how a diagnosis might present in childhood, adolescence and adulthood.A key shift within the DSM-5 is its focus on earlier diagnoses and prevention.

Therapists are required to keep electronic files of clients

in encrypted electronic form in a secure off site location.

In brief prescriptive therapy, termination is:

initiated when the agreed upon number of sessions is up.

The following are dimensions for conceptualizing a problem brought to Strategic therapy:

involuntary vs. voluntary behavior and helplessness vs. power

Isomorphism

is a structure or pattern that repeats itself from one level of a system to another, in this instance, from one relationship to another.

Intergenerational

means bowen therapy

Systemic concept of causality

multiple causes and is complex

What does "tickling the defenses" mean?

provoking people to open up and say what's really on their mind

Equifinality

states that a similar outcome may result from many different initial events.

Teleology

that behavior has a purpose

In comparing Transgenerational with Experiential models, the one concept that both models have in common is:

the attention to impact of past generations on the present.

When having discovered that a client is HIV positive and has withheld this information from his spouse, the therapist's ethical responsibility is:

to protect client confidentiality unless mandated by state law to do otherwise.

Developmental crisis

triggered by normal events within the lifecycle

Negative feedback loops

when a system responds to change by returning to its original state, or at least by decreasing the rate at which the change is occurring (consistency).