COUN 601 EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

COUN 601 EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS • Question 1 In a stereotypical complementary interaction or relationship (best answer) 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: one person is "one-up" and the other "one-down" • Question 2 A counter paradox is essentially a 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: therapeutic double- bind • Question 3 Diffused boundaries are 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: blurre d • Question 4 A primary therapeutic goal for structuralists is 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: organizational change • Question 5 Which of the following terms describes structural therapeutic tactics? 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: all of the above • Question 6 In disengaged families, boundaries are 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: inappropriately rigid • Question 7 Cognitive restructuring is used for 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: modifying automatic thoughts and assumptions • Question 8 Circular questioning may reveal 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: all of the above • Question 9 Cognitive-behavioral family therapists gather data using three forms of clinical assessment: 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: all of the above • Question 10 In the view of MRI family therapists 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: clients need to be restrained from repeating unworkable solutions • Question 11 2 out of 2 points Imitating a family's manner, style, and affective range calls for a therapeutic technique called by structuralists. Selected Answer: mimes is • Question 12 2 out of 2 points According to the textbook authors, behavioral family therapists often adopt an outlook that is too Selected Answer: linea r • Question 13 A major characteristic of strategic therapy is 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: the series of directives given by the therapist • Question 14 2 out of 2 points Adopting the symbols of a family's life and deliberately using them in conversation with the family is the structural technique called Selected Answer: trackin g • Question 15 Haley believes every relationship contains within it an implicit struggle for 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: power and control • Question 16 2 out of 2 points Teaching a couple to touch and explore each other's bodies and learn each other's sensate areas is part of a sex therapy process called Selected Answer: sensate focus • Question 17 2 out of 2 points According to Aponte and Van Deusen, every family transaction makes a statement regarding Selected Answer: all of the above • Question 18 Albert Ellis employs the use of 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: cognitive restructuring • Question 19 2 out of 2 points Uncovering the relationship between behavioral deficits and the client's interpersonal environment is called Selected Answer: functional analysis • Question 20 2 out of 2 points According to the strategic model, quarreling couples who feel justified in responding to what each perceives as an attack from the other are each imposing his or her own on their interactions. Selected Answer: punctuatio ns • Question 21 Family management skills training 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: seeks to change parental responses • Question 22 By neutrality, the Milan therapist attempt to 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: remain connected to the family whole avoiding being allied with any one person • Question 23 Structuralists claim that dysfunctional families require 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: a change in the rules that govern family transactions • Question 24 Reflective questioning 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: all of the above • Question 25 "Prescribing the symptom" is a form of 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: both a and c • Question 26 Members of disengaged families run the risk of over-emphasizing 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: indifference to each other's needs • Question 27 Markman's research on marital distress prevention found 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: couples functioning on a higher level had more positive communication patterns • Question 28 2 out of 2 points Labeling an anorectic's refusal to eat as "stubborn" rather than "sick" is an example of Selected Answer: reframin g • Question 29 Structural therapists emphasize 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: all of the above • Question 30 Family mapping refers to the use of 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: simple pictorial devices to depict family interactive patterns • Question 31 2 out of 2 points For Milan therapeutic intervention, family therapy begins with Selected Answer: the initial telephone inquiry from the family • Question 32 Second-order changes call for 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: none of the above • Question 33 Relabeling is an attempt to 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: therapeutic double- bind • Question 34 Starting to work with a family, the Milan therapist first 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: proposes a tentative hypothesis • Question 35 The major characteristic of strategic family therapy is that the therapist 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: plans a strategy for solving the presenting problems • Question 36 2 out of 2 points Cognitive therapists work at three related levels. Which is not one of these levels? Selected Answer: emotio ns • Question 37 A complementary pattern of communication is based on 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: inequality and the maximization of differences between partners • Question 38 Which of the following statements is true regarding structural family therapy? 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: action precedes understanding • Question 39 2 out of 2 points Donald Meichenbaum’s work to help clients change their assumptions and schemas about the world and their ability to manage stress is called Selected Answer: Narrative repair • Question 40 Therapeutic contracts are 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: written agreements between spouses for specific behavioral changes • Question 41 The person who receives a double-bind message 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: is doomed to failure whatever response he or she makes • Question 42 Relationships are defined by messages. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: comma nd • Question 43 2 out of 2 points Making an effort to create greater psychological distance between enmeshed family members involves Selected Answer: boundary making • Question 44 Attempting to change the hierarchical arrangement between parents calls for 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: unbalanci ng • Question 45 According to Masters and Johnson, a primary reason of sexual dysfunction is 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: performance anxiety • Question 46 2 out of 2 points All communication takes place at two levels-the surface level of content and the level which qualifies what was said on the surface level. The second level is called Selected Answer: metacommunicat ion • Question 47 2 out of 2 points Contingency contracting, based on operant conditioning principles, is a behavioral procedure that has been shown to be useful in treating Selected Answer: all of the above • Question 48 As used by the Milan group, hypotheses are intended to convey 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: a starting point for the therapist and family • Question 49 Communication theorists give greater credence to 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: family rules govern family behavior Paradoxical interventions are especially useful in attempting to change families. Selected Answer: defiant or controlled families