1.     Which of the following is defined as “a balanced steady state of equilibrium?”

1.     What was the phrase Frieda Fromm-Reichmann coined?

Schizophrenogenic mother

1.     Contextual therapy is Salvador Munchin’s model that includes relation ethics

a.     True

b.     False

1.     The essence of self-psychology is…

c.     Every human being longs to be appreciated

1.     Fairbain’s view of splitting is that the ego is divided into structures that contain:

a.     Part of the ego

b.     Part of the object

c.     The affect associated with the relationship

d.     All of the above

1.     In Datillo’s types of cognitive distortions, selective abstraction is:

1.     What is the study of feedback mechanisms, such as how information like positive and negative feedback loops can help self-regulating a system?

b.     Cybernetics

1.     What is the type of therapy device that experiential therapists often use to get their clients to recollect past events and consider hope for future developments?

a.     Build an alliance with the family

b.     Develop a hypothesis about what’s maintaining the present problem

d.     Both a & b

1.     Which one is not a format of the five parts to the Milan Model?

a.     Session

b.     Oppression

c.     Intervention

d.     Suggestion

1.     According to Kernberg, introjections are?

1.     Which term best describes the model that disregards the internal complexities of individuals and concentrates on their input and output instead: that being communication?

1.     The essence of Bowenian Therapy with couples is to:

1.     Internal objects as they are described by the Kleinian model and object relations theory are characterized as:

  Systems theory has its origins in…

1.     The major influence on the activity of triangulation is ­­­­­­________________. The more people are drive by _____________________, the less tolerant they are of one another and the more they are polarized by differences. 

Anxiety

1.     All of the following are cognitive-behavioral family therapy concepts except…

     Counter-transference

  Bertalanffy believed that, unlike machines, living organisms demonstrated___________, or the ability to reach a final goal in a variety of ways.

 Equifinality

     Melanie Klein’s concept of ________________ is a process whereby the subject perceives an object as if it contained unwelcome elements of the subject’s personality and evokes responses from the object that conform to those perceptions. 

Projective identification

S trategic therapy grew out of the communications theory developed in Bateson’s schizophrenia project, which evolved into three distinct models: MRI’s brief therapy, Haley and Madanes’ strategic therapy and ________________.

     Milan systemic model

1.     Which on of these is an example of de Shazer’s miracle question?

If you woke up tomorrow and your problem was gone, what would be different?

What is a genogram?

a.     A diagram of the extended family

  A brother and sister were arguing about who gets to watch their favorite show on TV. The brother grabs the remote from the sister. Instead of automatically responding from her emotions, she took time to think and reflect. The sister demonstrated…

a.     Differentiation of self

 Who discovered operant conditioning?

Salvador Munichin found these tow patterns common to troubled families

Enmeshed and disengaged

1.     When working with minority families, it may be important to develop _______________than to actually share the same background as the clients.

     Cultural sensitivity

Mirroring…

a.     Is essential for the development of a secure and cohesive self, according to self psychology

b.     Includes understanding from the parent

c.     Includes acceptance by the parent

d.     All of the above

    Experimental family therapy is like expressive therapy because it emphasized: 

The immediate, here and now.

1.     In Pavlov’s classical conditioning, what is involved?

a.     An unconditioned stimulus

b.     An unconditioned response

c.     A conditioned stimulus

d.     All of the above

Who created a model that became known as general systems theory?

d.     Ludwig von Bertalanffy

  The ­­­­_______________ is an invisible barrier that stretches to permit obligatory extra familial involvement, such as going to school, but springs back it that involvement goes too far.

c.     Rubber Fence

1.     Substance abuse is especially common with people who are ________________ and _________________.

1.     The notion of __________________ is based on the Newtonian model, in which the universe is like a billiard table where the balls act uni-directionally on each other.

e.     Linear causality

1.     What are the six prominent techniques in the practice of Bowenian family systems therapy?

1.     An alternative strategy for stalemated interactions is the use of _________ to help family members get beneath the surface of their defensive wrangling.

b.     Empathy

1.     What are the four main themes Balswick talks about?

c.     Covenant, grace, empowerment and intimacy

1.     Symmetrical relationships are…

What type of family therapy has its roots with theorists like John B. Watson and theories of classical or operant condition, and focuses on shaping and token economies in behavioral parent training?

1.     Balswich states that a covenant relationship can be either unilateral or bilateral. What is the ideal for marital and mature parent/child relationships?

a.     Unilateral commitment

b.     Conditional

c.     Unconditional bilateral commitment

The chief cause of childhood psychological problems, according to David Levy, was

a.     Homeostasis

b.     Maternal over protectiveness

c.     The absence of a father figure

d.     Parents working long hours, causing them to neglect the child

1.     One type of partner violence in families is common couple violence. The other is _____________.

a.     Anger

b.     Single person violence

c.     Patriarchal terrorism

d.     Extreme aggression

1.     The three constructs that are essential components to structural family therapy are_________________, ___________________, ___________________.

b.     Structure, subsystems, and boundaries

1.     The goal of psychoanalytic therapy is to free family members from ___________________ constraints so that they’ll be able to interact with one another.

a.     Conscious

b.     Long-term

c.     Short-term

d.     Unconscious

1.     Which therapy developed by peter Laquere involved treating four to six families together for weekly sessions?

b.     Multiple Family group Therapy

1.     Idealization is the tendency to exaggerate the virtues of someone, part of the normal development process inc children’s relationships to their parents and an intimate partnerships

a.     True

      The goals of an MRI assessment are all of the following except:

a.     Understanding clients unique language for describing a problem

b.     Identify attempted solutions that maintain the compliant

c.     Discuss the shift between meaning and actions

d.     Define a resolvable complaint

1.     Family sculpting could be characterized by all of the following except

a.     Mom in the kitchen, kids on the floor when dad gets home

b.     Mom in the laundry room kids in the family room when dad gets home

c.     Kids in the yard mom washing the car when dad gets home

d.     The whole family is home when dad gets home

1.     All of the following are ways of reinforcing change in small steps except:

1.     What is the distinction of process and content in regards to family therapy?

a.     Process is the action of the family attending therapy, and content what the family discusses at therapy.

b.     Process is what a parent says, or what advice the parent gives to a child, and content is the intentions beneath what the parent is saying.

c.     Process is discussing one’s feelings with the therapist, and content is the behavior change the therapist would like the family to work on.

d.     Process is how family members interact with one another, and content is the activities they do with one another on a daily basis.

1.     What is the primary difference between classical and operant conditioning?

d.     Classical conditioning is when a conditioned stimulus evokes an unconditioned response; operant conditioning is where responses that are positively reinforced will be repeated, while responses that are punished will be extinguished.

     The basic central premise of behavior therapy is that behavior is mandated by its:

a.     Reinforcement

b.     Encouragement

c.     Punishment

d.     Consequences

1.     Who believed that every person is born with an innate tendency toward self-actualization?

1.     A role-played enactment from the lives of participants, using techniques to stimulate emotional expression and clarify conflicts is called:

a.     Group process

b.     Process-content therapy

c.     Role playing

d.     Psychodrama

       What role does a transitional object act as for a child as (s)he develops?

a.     It allows the child to move from the mother to independence

b.     It transitions the child from a time of trial to a time of ease.

c.     Children should not have transitional objects

d.     It makes the children think their parents are perfect

1.     What are the four dishonest ways people communicate according to Satir?

a.     Blaming, avoiding, placating, not listening

b.     Blaming, placating, being irrelevant, and being super reasonable

c.     Being super reasonable, not listening, placating, singing

d.     None of the above

    ___________ was an archetypical nurturing therapist whose warmth and genuineness created a loving environment.

a.     Carl Whitaker

b.     Virginia Satir

c.     Sigmund Freud

d.     Alfred Adler

1.     In parenting, these three techniques can be used in a cognitive-behavioral model

a.     Teething, chewing, spanking

b.     Shaping, token economy, and time outs

c.     Play ground, play dough, play time

d.     Modeling, scheduled naps, no school

    Define first-order change?

a.     The first step in overcoming an addiction

b.     The idea of overcoming fears from Lacquer’s

c.     Change with a system that itself remains invariant

d.     A differentiation between the way men and women think

1.     In regards to the attachment theory, who was one of the main pioneers?

a.     Mary Bowen

b.     Alfred Adler

c.     Virginia Satir

d.     Mary Ainsworth

1.     Schwartz’s internal family systems approach helps family members come together with more understanding by:

a.     Helping individuals sort out their own conflicted experience

b.     Keeping the group’s conflict the most important conflict to solve

c.     Sorting through the group’s conflicts to find the most important to focus on together

     Mom and dad have been fighting a lot recently, and in an attempt to avoid them getting a divorce, their daughter Jane make an attempted suicide to bring them closer together. This is an example of:

a.     Invisible loyalties

b.     Family myths

c.     Idealization

d.     Unrealistic tactics

  The first example of constructivism in family therapy was the technique of ___________, relating to behavior to shift how family members respond to it.

1.     Attributing the qualities of one person to someone else is called:

a.     Transference

b.     Projective identification

c.     Regression

d.     Idealization

1.     This theory explains that people strive to maximize rewards and minimize costs in relationships.

a.     Schemas

b.     Theory of social exchange

c.     Theory of transference

d.     Theory of rewards.

     Carl Roger’s therapy technique includes listening sympathetically, offering understanding and respect. This part of Roger’s therapy is called:

a.     Unconditional positive regard

b.     Self-actualization

c.     Sensitivity training

d.     Impersonation

1.     An organism that continually interacts with its environment is operating in a(n) ___________ system.

a.     Open

b.     Corrupt

c.     Closed

d.     Pure

     What term is used to define the reciprocity that is the defining feature of every relationship?

a.     Complementary

b.     Unconditional love

c.     Unilateral

d.     Agape

1.     What type of operant conditioning uses points or starts to reward children for good behavior?

d.     Token economy

       What person described the process known as separation-individuation?

a.     Freud

b.     Mahler

c.      Adler

d.      Lambert

    When treating a family in which a child has been sexually abused, the primary goals are first to:

a.     Assess and diagnose

b.     Reduce anxiety and foster self-focus

c.     Reduce the long-term effects of the trauma

d.     Ensure that the abuse does not reoccur. 

1.     The basic central premise of behavior therapy is behavior is maintained by its consequences. Consequences that accelerate behavior are called_____________. Those that decelerate behavior are known as _________________.

a.     Reinforcers; punishers

b.     Societal exchanges; aversive controllers

c.     Conditioning; quid pro quo

d.     Counter transference, transference

     When Bowen brought family members together to discuss their problems, he was struck by their:

a.     Family homeostasis

b.     Emotional reactivity

c.     Group dynamics

d.     Metacommunication

   The personal stance—saying that you feel, instead of what others are doing—is known as the___________________.

a.     “Me-position”

b.     “I-position”

c.     “Differentiation of self-position”

d.     “I feel-position”

     Projective identification, unlike projection, is___________________.

          a.     Interactional

b.     Homeostatic

c.     Comforting to the client

d.     Disengaged

1.     All of the following are examples of types of attachment except

a.     Secure confident

b.     Secure

c.     Insecure avoidant

d.     Insecure resistant

1.     Emotional cutoff describes:

a.     The way people manage anxiety between generations

b.     Being too emotional to function

c.     Having high anxiety that effects performance

d.     Separating from an attachment figure for the first time

1.     Who was the guiding genius behind the strategic approach to therapy?

a.     Frank Zappa

b.     Milton Erickson

c.     Murray Bowen

d.     Philip Zimbardo

1.     The chronic failure to accommodate to each other or to achieve role reciprocity is

a.     Marital schism

b.     The norm of reciprocity

c.     Marital skew

d.     Pseudomutality

      Alienating children from their experiences is considered

a.     Mystification

b.     Hermeneutics

c.     Arbitrary influence

d.     Dichotomous thinking

1.     A mom and dad are fighting in the car. Their baby starts crying. Mom says to baby, “it’s okay. You can stop crying.” And the father feels guilty and beings to slow down. The child has recognized their power in the situation. This is and example of:

a.     Aversive control

b.     Mystification

c.     Arbitrary inference

d.     Personalization

1.     According to Bowen, the underlying factor in the genesis of psychological problems is ____________________, passed down from one generation to the next.

a.     Emotional fusion

b.     Sexual repression

c.     Object relations

d.     Differentiation

1.     In ______________________ contracts, one partner agrees to make change after a prior change by the other.

a.     Pro bono

b.     Quid pro quid

c.     Quid bon do

d.     Quid pro quo

d.     Quid pro quo

1.     According to the Stages of the Family Cycle, the first stage is leaving home as single young adults. What is the emotional process of transition in this instance?

a.     Accepting emotional and financial responsibility for self

b.     Commitment to the new system

c.     Both a & c

d.     None of the above

    What is the smallest stable unit of relationship?

a.     Triangle

b.     Symmetrical relationships

c.     Complimentary relationships

d.     Family homeostasis