- Description
CCMH 565 Wk 2 – Concept Check
- Question 1
__________develop when two people regularly involve third parties in their conflicts with each other.
Dyads
Relationship triangles
Displacement stories
Genograms
- Question 2
1/1
Which of the following is the primary goal of Bowen family therapy?
To heighten emotional experiencing in family members
To increase the family’s repertoire of problem-solving skills
To increase the level of differentiation of self in family members
To improve communication between family members
- Question 3
From a Bowenian perspective, optimal development in the family occurs when all members are relatively differentiated, anxiety is low, and parents _____________________.
form an executive subsystem
are cut-off from dysfunctional family members
avoid heightened emotionality
remain in emotional contact with family of origin
- Question 4
1/1
According to Bowen, the underlying factor in the genesis of psychological problems is __________, which is passed down from one generation to the next.
triangulation
emotional fusion
emotional cutoff
social influence
- Question 5
Which of the following is true about the “differentiated” individual?
They can extricate themself from all emotional triangles.
They can balance their needs for closeness and autonomy.
They avoid contact with their parents.
They approach life in a purely rational fashion.
- Question 6
1/1
Which of the following is a primary goal of communications family therapy?
To foster insight
To negatively reinforce symptoms
To promote individuation of family members
To interrupt dysfunctional feedback loops
- Question 7
1/1
Relabeling a family’s description of behavior to make it more amenable to therapeutic change is called what?
Reframing
Prescribing the symptom
Reinforcement reciprocity
A double-bind
- Question 8
1/1
Basic change in the structure and functioning of a system is known in general systems theory as which of the following?
First-order change
Second-order change
Quid pro quo change
Paradoxical change
- Question 9
1/1
The method of interviewing developed by the Milan associates in which questions are asked to highlight differences among family members, is known as which of the following?
A therapeutic double-bind
Circular questioning
Positive connotation
A family ritual
- Question 10
1/1
Action and insight are the primary vehicles of change in family therapy. The __________ school emphasizes behavioral change and eschews insight as a medium for change.
structural
strategic
psychodynamic
experiential
- Question 11
1/1
A family therapist who begins a session by greeting individual family members by name and asking for each person’s view of the problem is demonstrating which strategy?
Boundary making
Highlighting the interactions
Accommodating
Joining
- Question 12
What is the primary treatment goal of structural family therapy?
To teach the family problem-solving strategies
To alter the family structure
To strengthen boundaries around rigid family subsystems
To heighten emotional experiencing
- Question 13
1/1
Structural family therapists use _________ to observe and then modify interactions that make up family structure.
genograms
paradoxical directives
double-binds
enactments
- Question 14
Which of the following is the goal when working with enmeshed families in structural family therapy?
To establish reinforcement reciprocity by teaching methods of positive control
To differentiate individuals and subsystems by strengthening the boundaries around them
To increase interaction by making boundaries more permeable
All of the above
- Question 15
1/1
In order to discern a family’s structure, two things are necessary: a theoretical system that explains structure and _____________________.
family members’ self-reports
live observation
a structured assessment interview
none of the above