1. Who was the first person of the modem era to do family therapy? (p. 410) - Answers a. Adler
2. Which family therapist made use of innovative interventions such as metaphor, reframing, rules for
interaction, parts party, family reconstructions, family sculpting, and family maps? - Answers c. Satir
3. Which of the following statements about strategic family therapy is not true? (p. 416) - Answers e.
Presenting problems are viewed as being symptomatic of a dysfunction within the system.
4. Alfred Adler was the first to notice that the development of children within family constellations was
heavily influenced by: (p.414) - Answers e. birth order.
5. Postmodern thought has contributed to family therapy by: (p.417) - Answers b. stimulating the
therapist's view of clients as the experts on their own lives.
6. Who was the person who refined Adler's concepts into a typology of mistaken goals and an organized
approach to family therapy? (p. 414) - Answers e. Rudolf Dreikurs
7. The concept of triangulation is most associated with: (p.415) - Answers b. Murray Bowen.
8. What type of boundaries results in disengagement? (p. 423) - Answers c. rigid boundaries
9. What is the technique in family therapy that casts a new light on a problem and provides a different
interpretation for a problematic situation? (p.421) - Answers d. reframing
10. A major contribution of Bowen's theory is the notion of: (p. 415) - Answers b. differentiation of the
self.
11. They systems perspective implies: (p. 412) - Answers c. individuals are best understood through the
context of their role in their family.
12. Which is(are) a key role (or roles) of most family therapists? (p. 419) - Answers e. all of the above
13. Which of the following techniques is a strategic family therapist least likely to use? (p.419) - Answers
c. family sculpting
14. A tool for collecting and organizing key relationships in a three-generational extended family is a: (p.
436) - Answers c. genogram.
15. Which of the following roles and functions would be least interesting to a structural family therapist?
(p.419) - Answers b. giving voice to the therapist's own impulses and fantasies
16. Which of the following is least associated with Satir's human validation process model? - Answers d.
storied lives and narratives
17. Triangles in family relationships can best be explained as ____ _ - Answers a. reducing anxiety and
emotional tension in relationships.