Couple and Family Therapy: A Case
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Approach – 1st Edition
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TEST BANK
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Nancy L. Murdock
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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
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and Students
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© Nancy L. Murdock
All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
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, Table of Contents
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CHAPTER ONE: TEST BANK 1
CHAPTER TWO: TEST BANK 4
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CHAPTER THREE: TEST BANK 9
CHAPTER FOUR: TEST BANK 14
CHAPTER FIVE: TEST BANK 19
CHAPTER SIX: TEST BANK 23
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CHAPTER SEVEN: TEST BANK 28
CHAPTER EIGHT: TEST BANK 32
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CHAPTER NINE: TEST BANK 37
CHAPTER TEN: TEST BANK 42
CHAPTER ELEVEN: TEST BANK 47
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ANSWER KEY 50
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TEST ITEMS
Short-Answer Questions
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1. Why is it important for therapists to operate from a particular theoretical approach?
Explain.
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2. Briefly explain the author’s purpose for writing this book.
3. Define the term identified patient and briefly explain how this concept relates to the
practice of couple and family therapy.
Multiple-Choice Questions
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1. Theories offer therapists a roadmap for how to help clients get from the presenting
problem to the:
a. desired goal
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b. fastest fix
c. easiest outcome
d. all of the above
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2. Most observers locate the distant beginnings of family therapy in the:
a. 1920s
b. 1930s and 1940s
c. 1940s and 1950s
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d. 1960s
3. In the 1940s and 1950s, the primary leaders of the family therapy movement came
from each of the following backgrounds except:
a. social workers
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b. psychologists
c. psychiatrists
d. pediatricians
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4. Systems theory was developed by:
a. Nathan Ackerman
b. Gregory Bateson
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c. Ludwig von Bertalanffy
d. Murry Bowen
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5. Each of the following individuals were members with the Palo Alto Group except:
a. Jay Haley
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b. Murry Bowen
c. John Weakland
d. Virginia Satir
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6. Gregory Bateson was largely responsible for contributing each of the following
concepts to couples family therapy except:
a. systems thinking
b. cybernetics
c. feedback
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d. social constructionism
7. The best way to approach helping individuals, from a family systems perspective, is
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to view them as:
a. distinct from a particular system
b. part of a larger system
c. unique individuals
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d. a and c
8. A form of communication in which contradictory messages are given to a family
member who is unable to protest or escape the situation is described by the theory
of the:
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a. double bind
b. double speak
c. circular causality
d. relational paradox
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9. Since a system is an interlocking chain of events, the causes of a given behavior or
problem are irrelevant. The term used by systems theorists to describe this view of
interaction is:
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a. double bind
b. causal relationship
c. circular causality
d. cybernetics
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ST
Approach – 1st Edition
UV
TEST BANK
IA
_A
Nancy L. Murdock
PP
RO
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
VE
and Students
D?
© Nancy L. Murdock
All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is prohibited.
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©STUDYSTREAM
, Table of Contents
ST
CHAPTER ONE: TEST BANK 1
CHAPTER TWO: TEST BANK 4
UV
CHAPTER THREE: TEST BANK 9
CHAPTER FOUR: TEST BANK 14
CHAPTER FIVE: TEST BANK 19
CHAPTER SIX: TEST BANK 23
IA
CHAPTER SEVEN: TEST BANK 28
CHAPTER EIGHT: TEST BANK 32
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CHAPTER NINE: TEST BANK 37
CHAPTER TEN: TEST BANK 42
CHAPTER ELEVEN: TEST BANK 47
PP
ANSWER KEY 50
RO
VE
D?
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iii
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, Chapter 1: Test Bank
TEST ITEMS
Short-Answer Questions
ST
1. Why is it important for therapists to operate from a particular theoretical approach?
Explain.
UV
2. Briefly explain the author’s purpose for writing this book.
3. Define the term identified patient and briefly explain how this concept relates to the
practice of couple and family therapy.
Multiple-Choice Questions
IA
1. Theories offer therapists a roadmap for how to help clients get from the presenting
problem to the:
a. desired goal
_A
b. fastest fix
c. easiest outcome
d. all of the above
PP
2. Most observers locate the distant beginnings of family therapy in the:
a. 1920s
b. 1930s and 1940s
c. 1940s and 1950s
RO
d. 1960s
3. In the 1940s and 1950s, the primary leaders of the family therapy movement came
from each of the following backgrounds except:
a. social workers
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b. psychologists
c. psychiatrists
d. pediatricians
D?
4. Systems theory was developed by:
a. Nathan Ackerman
b. Gregory Bateson
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c. Ludwig von Bertalanffy
d. Murry Bowen
1
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5. Each of the following individuals were members with the Palo Alto Group except:
a. Jay Haley
ST
b. Murry Bowen
c. John Weakland
d. Virginia Satir
UV
6. Gregory Bateson was largely responsible for contributing each of the following
concepts to couples family therapy except:
a. systems thinking
b. cybernetics
c. feedback
IA
d. social constructionism
7. The best way to approach helping individuals, from a family systems perspective, is
_A
to view them as:
a. distinct from a particular system
b. part of a larger system
c. unique individuals
PP
d. a and c
8. A form of communication in which contradictory messages are given to a family
member who is unable to protest or escape the situation is described by the theory
of the:
RO
a. double bind
b. double speak
c. circular causality
d. relational paradox
VE
9. Since a system is an interlocking chain of events, the causes of a given behavior or
problem are irrelevant. The term used by systems theorists to describe this view of
interaction is:
D?
a. double bind
b. causal relationship
c. circular causality
d. cybernetics
??
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