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Any behavior that is rewarded is? Correct answer-Repeated
Which concepts would characterize the work of a cognitive-behavioral family therapist? Correct
answer-Teaching communication, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills
According to *early* models of behavioral marital/family therapy, couples and families were thought
to have problems primarily because of? Correct answer-Skill deficits
The early behavioral model had good initial results, but poor long-term results. They made several
changes to the model which significantly improved long-term results. Which was one of these
changes as discussed in class? Correct answer-Directly addressing not just the stimuli, but also the
meaning people applied to various stimuli
Which of the following are commonly used CBT interventions? Correct answer-Downward arrow
and Collaborative Empiricism
You are working with a family to help each of them explore the cognitions underlying each of their
stances in the system, starting with surface-level cognitions, and proceeding to deeper, fundamental
assumptions about self and others. As a CBT therapist, you're most likely using which intervention?
Correct answer-Downward arrow
Sarah and James notice that their son, William, hasn't been eating his vegetables. Sarah wants to let
him eat dessert only if he eats his vegetables. James wants to take away his video games unless he
eats his vegetables. According to principles of operant conditioning, which approach is the most
likely to produce long-term behavioral change? Correct answer-Sarah's
Which of the following is NOT a communication stance described by Virginia Satir? Correct answer-
Fatalistic
This theory explicitly downplays the importance of an elaborate theory, and states that people have
problems primarily when they are emotionally "stuck" or incongruent, and that they will self-heal if
obstructions to congruent emotional experiencing are removed. Correct answer-Experiential
You find yourself hugging clients, crying, moving people (and yourself) around the room a lot, having
clients talk to absent family members in session, and spending the weekends sitting on the beach
with your fellow soul-children at the Esalen Institute in Northern CA. You most likely use which
theory? Correct answer-Experiential
What is the term used in structural family therapy to describe bringing the problematic sequences
into the treatment room by having clients act them out so that the therapist can observe and change
them? Correct answer-Enactment
Early in structural therapy the therapists gets to know the family by essentially becoming a part of it.
This process is known as? Correct answer-Joining
Contemporary CBT downplays the importance of emotions? Correct answer-False
,According to the experiential approach, human beings are essentially? Correct answer-Good and
growth-oriented
According to experiential family therapy, what is the main characteristic of a healthy family
environment? Correct answer-The freedom for each family member to be themselves
In an attempt to help Meg understand how Christina experienced her,the therapist had them take
turns physically arranging themselves in relation to their partner. Christina chose to lay down while
having Meg stand over her with her hands on her hips. Which experiential therapy intervention did
the therapist use? Correct answer-Sculpting
According to structural family therapy, what is the most comprehensive component of a healthy
family? Correct answer-Having a family structure that responds appropriately to the
developmental needs of each family member
Which sequence of interventions describes the overall process of change in structural therapy?
Correct answer-joining, accommodating, restructuring
Meg and Christina sought therapy for help managing the acting out behavior of their son, Mark.
When Mark started to act out in session, their therapist encouraged Meg and Christina to get Mark
to behave. Which structural therapy intervention did their therapist use? Correct answer-
Enactment
Structural family therapy has been shown to be effective when working with which of the following
populations? Correct answer-Children with anorexia nervosa; drug addicts; psychosomatic children
Whenever Maria's husband gets angry, she immediately starts to treat him in a condescending way.
To Maria, all people who get angry are weak and inferior to those who don't. According to object
relations theory, Maria is: Correct answer-Split
Object relations theory of mate selection states that? Correct answer-We are attracted to people
who have "disowned" parts of themselves that we have "disowned," but show it in the opposite way
According to Object Relations theory, most difficulties we encounter are truly difficulties of?
Correct answer-Ourselves
According to Object Relations, the tendency to blame others for possessing attributes that you're not
comfortable with in yourself is? Correct answer-Projective Identification
According to Carl Jung, an early psychodynamic theorist, the foundation(s) of mental illness is/are?
Correct answer-The avoidance of true suffering
"I either have it all together or I'm a complete failure" Correct answer-Black and White Thinking
"I can never do anything right!" in response to a simple mistake (i.e., believing that one event is part
of a never-ending pattern). Correct answer-Overgeneralization
"That's all my fault!" in response to your partner disclosing that he/she failed their exam (and it really
had nothing to do with you). Correct answer-Personalization
,Feeling worried about something, thus being certain it is a bad thing. Correct answer-Emotional
Reasoning
"I know what they *really* meant." Correct answer-Jumping to Conclusions
What are Primary and Secondary Emotions in Attachment Theory? Correct answer-When an
attachment is threatened, a person initially feels primary emotions—"soft" emotions such as
sadness, fear, hurt, and longing. The expression of primary emotions
tends to evoke compassionate responses from people.
But a person who feels unsafe expressing primary emotions will instead express defensive, secondary
emotions such as
anger, contempt, or coldness.
Effect: the expression of secondary emotions tends to provoke
similarly distancing responses from the partner.
What is a system? Correct answer-A relationship system is a boundaried group of interrelated
persons exhibiting coherent behavior as a unit.
What is a subsystem? Correct answer-System within a system. Ex. Generation, gender, function
What is systems theory? Correct answer-Physics, Cybernetics, and Organismic.
The essential properties of a system arise from the relationships among its parts. These properties
are lost when a system is reduced to isolated elements. "The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts."
What are two things that systems theory left out? Correct answer-How family members' beliefs
affect their actions, and how cultural forces shape those beliefs.
What makes a boundary healthy? Correct answer-Adaptability
What are rigid boundaries? Correct answer-Little contact with outside systems, resulting in
disengagement. Disengagement leaves people independent but isolated; it fosters autonomy but
limits affection and nurture.
What are emeshed boundaries? Correct answer-Enmeshed subsystems have diffuse boundaries:
They offer access to support but at the expense of independence. Enmeshed parents are loving and
attentive; however, their children tend to be dependent and may have trouble relating to people
outside their family.
Are boundaries reciprocal? Correct answer-Yes. Boundaries are reciprocal. A mother's
enmeshment with her children is related to the emotional distance between her and her husband.
According to System theory, do families need positive and negative feedback? Correct answer-Yes,
all communication systems—including families—need a balance of negative and positive feedback
What are some examples of positive feedback loops? Correct answer-A self-fulfilling prophecy is
one such positive
, feedback loop; one's apprehensions lead to actions that precipitate the feared situation, which in
turn justifies one's fears, and so on.
Another example of positive feedback is the bandwagon effect—the tendency of a cause to gain
support simply
because of its growing number of adherents. You can probably think of some fads and more than a
few pop music group
What is amplifying in family systems? Correct answer-The family system is reacting to a deviation
in the behavior of
one of its members with feedback designed to dampen that deviation (negative feedback), but it has
the effect of amplifying the deviation (positive feedback)
What is an amplified loop? Correct answer-Any interaction that takes the family AWAY from
homeostasis
Ex: If the family at homeostasis normally gets along and is quiet then all of a sudden Dad just starts
yelling at the kids.
What is attentuating? Correct answer-Any interaction between members of a family that RETURNS
the family back to Homeostasis. Known as negative feedback is responsive information or behavior
within a relationship to maintain system functioning or specific performance.
Ex: If the family at homeostasis normally gets along and is quiet then all of a sudden Dad just starts
yelling at the kids and arguing, then Mom steps in and makes Dad stop yelling, then everything goes
back to Homeostasis with the family returns to getting along and being quiet.
What are feedback mechanisms? Correct answer-This is a response or feeding of information that
influences a reaction with a family member or partner.
Example: a newborn infant cries when it becomes hungry is feedback mechanism in the mother-
infant or father-infant relationship system.
What is punctuation in systems therapy? Correct answer-Refers to the tendency two people have
to view their relationships linearly (A causes B) rather than systemically (A and B are mutually casual
or A causes B and B causes A).
Punctuation says that you can only interpret one person's behavior in the context of the other
person's behavior!
What is Functional Systems Behavior? Correct answer-Single dysfunctional behavior in isolation,
performed by an individual member of a system, or by a subsystem, for the benefit of the system as a
whole.
Example: a young child who always manages to get into mischief when Mother and Father are
fighting, and thus distracts them from their conflicts.
Which of the current contemporary strategic approaches use the most empirical supported
approaches? Correct answer-Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), an intervention for adolescent
substance abuse and behavioral problems.
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Any behavior that is rewarded is? Correct answer-Repeated
Which concepts would characterize the work of a cognitive-behavioral family therapist? Correct
answer-Teaching communication, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills
According to *early* models of behavioral marital/family therapy, couples and families were thought
to have problems primarily because of? Correct answer-Skill deficits
The early behavioral model had good initial results, but poor long-term results. They made several
changes to the model which significantly improved long-term results. Which was one of these
changes as discussed in class? Correct answer-Directly addressing not just the stimuli, but also the
meaning people applied to various stimuli
Which of the following are commonly used CBT interventions? Correct answer-Downward arrow
and Collaborative Empiricism
You are working with a family to help each of them explore the cognitions underlying each of their
stances in the system, starting with surface-level cognitions, and proceeding to deeper, fundamental
assumptions about self and others. As a CBT therapist, you're most likely using which intervention?
Correct answer-Downward arrow
Sarah and James notice that their son, William, hasn't been eating his vegetables. Sarah wants to let
him eat dessert only if he eats his vegetables. James wants to take away his video games unless he
eats his vegetables. According to principles of operant conditioning, which approach is the most
likely to produce long-term behavioral change? Correct answer-Sarah's
Which of the following is NOT a communication stance described by Virginia Satir? Correct answer-
Fatalistic
This theory explicitly downplays the importance of an elaborate theory, and states that people have
problems primarily when they are emotionally "stuck" or incongruent, and that they will self-heal if
obstructions to congruent emotional experiencing are removed. Correct answer-Experiential
You find yourself hugging clients, crying, moving people (and yourself) around the room a lot, having
clients talk to absent family members in session, and spending the weekends sitting on the beach
with your fellow soul-children at the Esalen Institute in Northern CA. You most likely use which
theory? Correct answer-Experiential
What is the term used in structural family therapy to describe bringing the problematic sequences
into the treatment room by having clients act them out so that the therapist can observe and change
them? Correct answer-Enactment
Early in structural therapy the therapists gets to know the family by essentially becoming a part of it.
This process is known as? Correct answer-Joining
Contemporary CBT downplays the importance of emotions? Correct answer-False
,According to the experiential approach, human beings are essentially? Correct answer-Good and
growth-oriented
According to experiential family therapy, what is the main characteristic of a healthy family
environment? Correct answer-The freedom for each family member to be themselves
In an attempt to help Meg understand how Christina experienced her,the therapist had them take
turns physically arranging themselves in relation to their partner. Christina chose to lay down while
having Meg stand over her with her hands on her hips. Which experiential therapy intervention did
the therapist use? Correct answer-Sculpting
According to structural family therapy, what is the most comprehensive component of a healthy
family? Correct answer-Having a family structure that responds appropriately to the
developmental needs of each family member
Which sequence of interventions describes the overall process of change in structural therapy?
Correct answer-joining, accommodating, restructuring
Meg and Christina sought therapy for help managing the acting out behavior of their son, Mark.
When Mark started to act out in session, their therapist encouraged Meg and Christina to get Mark
to behave. Which structural therapy intervention did their therapist use? Correct answer-
Enactment
Structural family therapy has been shown to be effective when working with which of the following
populations? Correct answer-Children with anorexia nervosa; drug addicts; psychosomatic children
Whenever Maria's husband gets angry, she immediately starts to treat him in a condescending way.
To Maria, all people who get angry are weak and inferior to those who don't. According to object
relations theory, Maria is: Correct answer-Split
Object relations theory of mate selection states that? Correct answer-We are attracted to people
who have "disowned" parts of themselves that we have "disowned," but show it in the opposite way
According to Object Relations theory, most difficulties we encounter are truly difficulties of?
Correct answer-Ourselves
According to Object Relations, the tendency to blame others for possessing attributes that you're not
comfortable with in yourself is? Correct answer-Projective Identification
According to Carl Jung, an early psychodynamic theorist, the foundation(s) of mental illness is/are?
Correct answer-The avoidance of true suffering
"I either have it all together or I'm a complete failure" Correct answer-Black and White Thinking
"I can never do anything right!" in response to a simple mistake (i.e., believing that one event is part
of a never-ending pattern). Correct answer-Overgeneralization
"That's all my fault!" in response to your partner disclosing that he/she failed their exam (and it really
had nothing to do with you). Correct answer-Personalization
,Feeling worried about something, thus being certain it is a bad thing. Correct answer-Emotional
Reasoning
"I know what they *really* meant." Correct answer-Jumping to Conclusions
What are Primary and Secondary Emotions in Attachment Theory? Correct answer-When an
attachment is threatened, a person initially feels primary emotions—"soft" emotions such as
sadness, fear, hurt, and longing. The expression of primary emotions
tends to evoke compassionate responses from people.
But a person who feels unsafe expressing primary emotions will instead express defensive, secondary
emotions such as
anger, contempt, or coldness.
Effect: the expression of secondary emotions tends to provoke
similarly distancing responses from the partner.
What is a system? Correct answer-A relationship system is a boundaried group of interrelated
persons exhibiting coherent behavior as a unit.
What is a subsystem? Correct answer-System within a system. Ex. Generation, gender, function
What is systems theory? Correct answer-Physics, Cybernetics, and Organismic.
The essential properties of a system arise from the relationships among its parts. These properties
are lost when a system is reduced to isolated elements. "The whole is greater than the sum of its
parts."
What are two things that systems theory left out? Correct answer-How family members' beliefs
affect their actions, and how cultural forces shape those beliefs.
What makes a boundary healthy? Correct answer-Adaptability
What are rigid boundaries? Correct answer-Little contact with outside systems, resulting in
disengagement. Disengagement leaves people independent but isolated; it fosters autonomy but
limits affection and nurture.
What are emeshed boundaries? Correct answer-Enmeshed subsystems have diffuse boundaries:
They offer access to support but at the expense of independence. Enmeshed parents are loving and
attentive; however, their children tend to be dependent and may have trouble relating to people
outside their family.
Are boundaries reciprocal? Correct answer-Yes. Boundaries are reciprocal. A mother's
enmeshment with her children is related to the emotional distance between her and her husband.
According to System theory, do families need positive and negative feedback? Correct answer-Yes,
all communication systems—including families—need a balance of negative and positive feedback
What are some examples of positive feedback loops? Correct answer-A self-fulfilling prophecy is
one such positive
, feedback loop; one's apprehensions lead to actions that precipitate the feared situation, which in
turn justifies one's fears, and so on.
Another example of positive feedback is the bandwagon effect—the tendency of a cause to gain
support simply
because of its growing number of adherents. You can probably think of some fads and more than a
few pop music group
What is amplifying in family systems? Correct answer-The family system is reacting to a deviation
in the behavior of
one of its members with feedback designed to dampen that deviation (negative feedback), but it has
the effect of amplifying the deviation (positive feedback)
What is an amplified loop? Correct answer-Any interaction that takes the family AWAY from
homeostasis
Ex: If the family at homeostasis normally gets along and is quiet then all of a sudden Dad just starts
yelling at the kids.
What is attentuating? Correct answer-Any interaction between members of a family that RETURNS
the family back to Homeostasis. Known as negative feedback is responsive information or behavior
within a relationship to maintain system functioning or specific performance.
Ex: If the family at homeostasis normally gets along and is quiet then all of a sudden Dad just starts
yelling at the kids and arguing, then Mom steps in and makes Dad stop yelling, then everything goes
back to Homeostasis with the family returns to getting along and being quiet.
What are feedback mechanisms? Correct answer-This is a response or feeding of information that
influences a reaction with a family member or partner.
Example: a newborn infant cries when it becomes hungry is feedback mechanism in the mother-
infant or father-infant relationship system.
What is punctuation in systems therapy? Correct answer-Refers to the tendency two people have
to view their relationships linearly (A causes B) rather than systemically (A and B are mutually casual
or A causes B and B causes A).
Punctuation says that you can only interpret one person's behavior in the context of the other
person's behavior!
What is Functional Systems Behavior? Correct answer-Single dysfunctional behavior in isolation,
performed by an individual member of a system, or by a subsystem, for the benefit of the system as a
whole.
Example: a young child who always manages to get into mischief when Mother and Father are
fighting, and thus distracts them from their conflicts.
Which of the current contemporary strategic approaches use the most empirical supported
approaches? Correct answer-Brief Strategic Family Therapy (BSFT), an intervention for adolescent
substance abuse and behavioral problems.
