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| If one of a couple you are counseling tells you in an individual session they are filing for divorce and the other spouses doesn't know, can you tell the other spouse without the one's consent? |
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| What is the fastest growing clientele for conuselors today? |
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| Those experiencing marriage and family problems |
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| While in individual counseling, ________causality is adopted while in family counseling, a ___________ causality approach is used. |
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| Who launched the concept of circular causality after WWII? |
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True or false?
Group modalities work well with families. |
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| False: families are a special type of group and typical group approaches do not work well with them. |
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| What is linear causality? |
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| you assume "a" causes "b" |
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| What is circular causality? |
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| "A"'s behavior will affect "B"'s behavior. In return, the response of B will influence "A''s next response or behavior. |
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| How does cybernetics relate to families? |
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| In family therapy, a family has feedback loops to self correct a family system. |
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| When a family is in a state of balance, they are said to be in ______________. |
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True or false?
A balanced state within a family is always healthy. |
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| False: being balanced is just that. A fammily may need to be thrown off balance to make positive change. |
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| What is the term to describe when a family is over involved with each other and lose their autonomy? |
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| What is the ability for a family to balance stability? |
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| What is the term for a family's ability to change? |
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| Who was adamant about her view of Experential Conjoint Family Therapy? |
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| What are the 4 basic patterns of interaction between family members that prevent good communication? |
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1. placating
2.blaming
3.being overly reasonable
4. being irrelevant |
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| According to Satir, if a mother of a family you are seeing tries to please everyone out of a fear of rejection, she is demonstrating what pattern of interaction? |
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| What is another term for the overly reasonable person in family therapy from an Experential Conjoint Family Therapy perspective? |
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| How does the person using the communcation pattern of irrelevancy tend to manifest in a family? |
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| They may constantly speak of irrelevant topics to distract from the relevant problem. |
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| Who popularized the notion of the connectedness of living things also referred to as systems theory model of family therapy? |
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| Who's approach to family therapy is called experiential symbolic family therapy and proposes that experience, not education, changes families? |
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True or false?
Whitaker felt a cotherapist was beneficial in family therapy. |
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| Who is associated with psychotherapy of the absurd? |
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| Applied to family counseling, Premack's Principle or Law states that a family member must complete a __________probability behavior before they are allowed to engage in a pleasant task or ___________probability behavior. |
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| low probability behavior (LPB); high probability behavior (HPB |
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| What technique makes use of a behavioral contingency contract between family members? |
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| What is the experiential/ expressive technique use din family counseling that has a family member place other family members in position that symbolize relationships? |
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| With whom is the theory of psychodynamic family counseling primarily associated? |
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| In psychoanalytic family therapy, to what does the term object refer? |
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| A significant other with whom a child wishes to bond |
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| In relation to family therapy, define introjects. |
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| This is when a child internalizes the positive and negative characteristics of the object within themselves. |
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| Why is second order change more desirable than first order change in a family? |
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| First order changes are superficial and changes at the core do not change. Second order changes are actual changes that alters undesirable behavior. |
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| What is the name for a consultant of supervisory team that observes a session from behind a one way mirror and sends messages to the therapist or the family? |
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| What is the term used to describe a low level of depression that occurs more days than not for at least one year in children and teens and for at least two years in adults? |
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| Who are 3 famous psychoanalytic family therapists? |
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1. Nathan Ackerman
2. James Framo
3. Robin Skynner |
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| What psychoanalytic family therpaist believed parents fuel love-hate feelings in kids? |
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| What psychoanalytic family therapist believed that kids who had poor role models as children possess protective systems or harbor unrealistic expectations of people in their current relationships? |
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| What two theorist are associated with strategic family counseling? |
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| Jay Haley and Cloe Mandanes |
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True or false?
Strategic family therapists are directive. |
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| True: They may give explicit directions to families about expected behaviors in response to other behaviors. |
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In strategic family therapy, what is a no-win situation characterized by contradictory messages?
For example, don't eat fried foods again and then eat all the fried foods you want this week. |
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| A double bind technique is very similar to a _____________. |
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| When a therapist helps a client see a situation from a positive light or perspective, what is it called? |
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| What did Jay Haley feel was present in most dysfunctional families? |
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| What is incongruous hierarchy? |
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| The normal hierarchy is reversed (child has power by acting out symptoms to change parent's current state) |
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| What happens with the pretending technique in strategic family therapy? |
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| The family enacts a make-believe scenario of the problem. |
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| What is the technique that helps overcome resistance by suggesting that it might be best if the family does not change? |
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| What is the technique when the therapist accepts the clients problem and then exaggerates the condition? |
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| What happens when a counselor is culturally encapsulated? |
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| The counselor imposes his or her own beliefs from his or her culture on people from another culture. |
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| Who is known for his work in intergenerational family therapy? |
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| What is the extent that one can separate one's intellect from one's emotional self--also one of the primary goals in Bowen's intergenerational Family therapy? |
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| What is it called when structural therapists try to help a family create healthy boundaries? |
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| boundary marking or changing boundaries |
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