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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
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Who developed the Multigenerational Family Systems Approach?
✔✔ Murray Bowen
Phillip Guerin renamed Bowen’s concept of the Family Diagram as what?
✔✔ Genogram
Bowen’s Multigenerational Family Systems approach is most recognized for
which two core concepts?
✔✔ Genogram and Self-Differentiation
What was the name of Bateson’s original research team that studied family
communication patterns in relation to schizophrenia?
✔✔ The MRI Group
Where was the MRI Group based?
✔✔ Palo Alto
What did Don Jackson transform the MRI Group into?
✔✔ The Mental Research Institute
Which therapeutic model was developed at the Mental Research Institute?
✔✔ MRI Systemic Approach
,What did Richard Fisch rename the Mental Research Institute?
✔✔ The Brief Therapy Center at MRI
What career did Nagy's father have that influenced the development of Contextual
Family Therapy? - ANSWERS✔✔A Judge
The concept associated with balancing thinking with feeling and togetherness with
belonging is: - ANSWERS✔✔Self Differentiation
The therapist encouraged the emotionally reactive husband to reduce his anxiety
and use an I-statement to help his partner better understand what he is wanting.
Here the therapist is helping the client work toward: - ANSWERS✔✔Self
Differentiation
Much was learned about family dynamics and communication patterns through
which disorder, informing many classical models of family therapy? -
ANSWERS✔✔Schizophrenia
This approach was wildly popular throughout the 1950's and 60's -
ANSWERS✔✔Group Therapy
Psychoanalytical therapists became interested in the current family dynamics that
maintain dysfunctional patterns, leading to pathology. This paved the way to the
establishment of ________________. - ANSWERS✔✔Transgenerational Models
of Family Therapy
,Defined systems within definable systems, within definable systems. Theory of
logical types. Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, and social
critic. - ANSWERS✔✔Bertrand Russell
The main concept of this theory is to define hierarchies based on levels of
abstraction. - ANSWERS✔✔Theory of Logical Types
American mathematician and philosopher. Recognized as a prodigy at a young age.
Professor at MIT. Developed framework of cybernetics. Student of Russell,
influences Bateson. - ANSWERS✔✔Norbert Wiener
A formalization of how feedback operates within mechanical systems. -
ANSWERS✔✔Cybernetics
Who developed General Systems Theory - ANSWERS✔✔Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Parts of systems are interrelated and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
First applied to groups before being applied to family systems. -
ANSWERS✔✔General Systems Theory
Who is the founder of attachment theory? - ANSWERS✔✔John Bowlby
Suggests that children develop a secure or insecure attachment style based upon
the nature of the relationship with their mother or primary mother substitute that
will influence behaviors both throughout childhood and into adulthood. -
ANSWERS✔✔Attachment Theory
, Founded the Marriage Council of Philadelphia which eventually grew into
AAMFT in 1979 - ANSWERS✔✔Emily Mudd
Four different attachment styles (Bowlby 1988) - ANSWERS✔✔Secure
attachment
Insecure attachment - anxious-resistant type
Insecure attachment - anxious-avoidant type
Disorganized/disoriented attachment
Who founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west coast? -
ANSWERS✔✔Paul Popenoe
May have been the first to treat families. Did so in multiple family groups and
called his approach Family Group Therapy. - ANSWERS✔✔John Bell
Three phases of Family Group Therapy - ANSWERS✔✔Child centered phase
Parent centered phase
Family centered phase
Developed Multiple Impact Therapy as a way to have maximum impact on
families who came from all over Texas to spend several days with a team of
professionals. - ANSWERS✔✔Robert MacGregor
Introduced the term Conjoint Therapy, describing marital therapy in which the
spouses were seen together - ANSWERS✔✔Don Jackson
Who was Sigmund Freud's mentor? - ANSWERS✔✔Josef Breuer
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 100%
CORRECT RATED A+
Who developed the Multigenerational Family Systems Approach?
✔✔ Murray Bowen
Phillip Guerin renamed Bowen’s concept of the Family Diagram as what?
✔✔ Genogram
Bowen’s Multigenerational Family Systems approach is most recognized for
which two core concepts?
✔✔ Genogram and Self-Differentiation
What was the name of Bateson’s original research team that studied family
communication patterns in relation to schizophrenia?
✔✔ The MRI Group
Where was the MRI Group based?
✔✔ Palo Alto
What did Don Jackson transform the MRI Group into?
✔✔ The Mental Research Institute
Which therapeutic model was developed at the Mental Research Institute?
✔✔ MRI Systemic Approach
,What did Richard Fisch rename the Mental Research Institute?
✔✔ The Brief Therapy Center at MRI
What career did Nagy's father have that influenced the development of Contextual
Family Therapy? - ANSWERS✔✔A Judge
The concept associated with balancing thinking with feeling and togetherness with
belonging is: - ANSWERS✔✔Self Differentiation
The therapist encouraged the emotionally reactive husband to reduce his anxiety
and use an I-statement to help his partner better understand what he is wanting.
Here the therapist is helping the client work toward: - ANSWERS✔✔Self
Differentiation
Much was learned about family dynamics and communication patterns through
which disorder, informing many classical models of family therapy? -
ANSWERS✔✔Schizophrenia
This approach was wildly popular throughout the 1950's and 60's -
ANSWERS✔✔Group Therapy
Psychoanalytical therapists became interested in the current family dynamics that
maintain dysfunctional patterns, leading to pathology. This paved the way to the
establishment of ________________. - ANSWERS✔✔Transgenerational Models
of Family Therapy
,Defined systems within definable systems, within definable systems. Theory of
logical types. Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, and social
critic. - ANSWERS✔✔Bertrand Russell
The main concept of this theory is to define hierarchies based on levels of
abstraction. - ANSWERS✔✔Theory of Logical Types
American mathematician and philosopher. Recognized as a prodigy at a young age.
Professor at MIT. Developed framework of cybernetics. Student of Russell,
influences Bateson. - ANSWERS✔✔Norbert Wiener
A formalization of how feedback operates within mechanical systems. -
ANSWERS✔✔Cybernetics
Who developed General Systems Theory - ANSWERS✔✔Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Parts of systems are interrelated and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
First applied to groups before being applied to family systems. -
ANSWERS✔✔General Systems Theory
Who is the founder of attachment theory? - ANSWERS✔✔John Bowlby
Suggests that children develop a secure or insecure attachment style based upon
the nature of the relationship with their mother or primary mother substitute that
will influence behaviors both throughout childhood and into adulthood. -
ANSWERS✔✔Attachment Theory
, Founded the Marriage Council of Philadelphia which eventually grew into
AAMFT in 1979 - ANSWERS✔✔Emily Mudd
Four different attachment styles (Bowlby 1988) - ANSWERS✔✔Secure
attachment
Insecure attachment - anxious-resistant type
Insecure attachment - anxious-avoidant type
Disorganized/disoriented attachment
Who founded the American Institute of Family Relations on the west coast? -
ANSWERS✔✔Paul Popenoe
May have been the first to treat families. Did so in multiple family groups and
called his approach Family Group Therapy. - ANSWERS✔✔John Bell
Three phases of Family Group Therapy - ANSWERS✔✔Child centered phase
Parent centered phase
Family centered phase
Developed Multiple Impact Therapy as a way to have maximum impact on
families who came from all over Texas to spend several days with a team of
professionals. - ANSWERS✔✔Robert MacGregor
Introduced the term Conjoint Therapy, describing marital therapy in which the
spouses were seen together - ANSWERS✔✔Don Jackson
Who was Sigmund Freud's mentor? - ANSWERS✔✔Josef Breuer
