The therapist tells a story about her own family, specifically noting a time during
adolescence when a cousin dropped by unannounced and how it threw the family
into a small crisis. This therapist is most likely working from:
Give this one a try later!
Collaborative (co-explorer, offering perspective but not a solution)
A family consisting of a mother, father, two daughters age 13 and age 15, and a son
age 17 enter therapy. The parents are complaining that their 15-year old daughter is
coming in drunk every night and is very abusive to the family.
The therapist takes the side of the daughter. This therapeutic technique is known as:
Give this one a try later!
, unbalancing
Mary, age 27, had sought therapy for unremitting problems with binge eating and
laxative abuse for the past six years. Her therapist, trained from a Symbolic-
Experiential model, saw her alone for two sessions at her insistence and clarified that
no changes were likely without inclusion of her husband. Mary indicated marital
discord and indicated she might soon end the marriage, but that she and her husband
were willing to engage in marital therapy. During the first session, the husband was
unwilling to acknowledge any concern for his wife's symptoms or marital
dissatisfaction.The husband's unwillingness to acknowledge these concerns was seen
by the therapist as:
Give this one a try later!
a struggle for initiative.
Wynne labeled the strangely unreal qualities of both positive and negative emotions
of disturbed families pseudomutuality and pseudohostility, and the nature of the
boundaries around them as:
Give this one a try later!
rubber fences.
An MFT was contacted by the father of a 6 year-old boy requesting that she begin
counseling to help the child adjust to the recent family divorce. Following the HIPAA
Privacy Rule, the therapist should:
Give this one a try later!
, be sure to separate the child's PHI and her therapy notes in her records.
A family comes to therapy because their ten-year old child is stealing money from
them. After three sessions, the stealing stops and the family decides to terminate
therapy.A Strategic therapist would:
Give this one a try later!
agree with the family's decision to terminate because the presenting
problem appears to have been resolved.
One important way that a family systems therapist's crisis management work will differ
from an individually oriented therapist is:
Give this one a try later!
the family therapist will always explore the possibility that other family
members are also in crisis.
Abe comes to therapy because he is depressed and is out of work. Six months later
he has a new job and feels happier. He terminates therapy, but calls his therapist a few
months later saying that although he feels fine his wife is now depressed and won't
leave the house. The therapist would see this as an example of:
Give this one a try later!
, first order change.
A family whose members are constantly struggling while battling over control issues,
would fall into Beavers-Timberlawn's competence dimension of:
Give this one a try later!
mid-range
A tool which Bowenian therapist use in order to reduce the anxiety level in a highly
charged session would be:
Give this one a try later!
genogram
A family consisting of a mother, father, two daughters age 13 and age 15, and a son
age 17 enter therapy. The parents are complaining that there 15-year old daughter is
coming in drunk every night and is very abusive to the family. If this family was
diagnosed as enmeshed, a family therapist's goal would be:
Give this one a try later!
to help each of the family members to differentiate while making the
boundaries less permeable.
adolescence when a cousin dropped by unannounced and how it threw the family
into a small crisis. This therapist is most likely working from:
Give this one a try later!
Collaborative (co-explorer, offering perspective but not a solution)
A family consisting of a mother, father, two daughters age 13 and age 15, and a son
age 17 enter therapy. The parents are complaining that their 15-year old daughter is
coming in drunk every night and is very abusive to the family.
The therapist takes the side of the daughter. This therapeutic technique is known as:
Give this one a try later!
, unbalancing
Mary, age 27, had sought therapy for unremitting problems with binge eating and
laxative abuse for the past six years. Her therapist, trained from a Symbolic-
Experiential model, saw her alone for two sessions at her insistence and clarified that
no changes were likely without inclusion of her husband. Mary indicated marital
discord and indicated she might soon end the marriage, but that she and her husband
were willing to engage in marital therapy. During the first session, the husband was
unwilling to acknowledge any concern for his wife's symptoms or marital
dissatisfaction.The husband's unwillingness to acknowledge these concerns was seen
by the therapist as:
Give this one a try later!
a struggle for initiative.
Wynne labeled the strangely unreal qualities of both positive and negative emotions
of disturbed families pseudomutuality and pseudohostility, and the nature of the
boundaries around them as:
Give this one a try later!
rubber fences.
An MFT was contacted by the father of a 6 year-old boy requesting that she begin
counseling to help the child adjust to the recent family divorce. Following the HIPAA
Privacy Rule, the therapist should:
Give this one a try later!
, be sure to separate the child's PHI and her therapy notes in her records.
A family comes to therapy because their ten-year old child is stealing money from
them. After three sessions, the stealing stops and the family decides to terminate
therapy.A Strategic therapist would:
Give this one a try later!
agree with the family's decision to terminate because the presenting
problem appears to have been resolved.
One important way that a family systems therapist's crisis management work will differ
from an individually oriented therapist is:
Give this one a try later!
the family therapist will always explore the possibility that other family
members are also in crisis.
Abe comes to therapy because he is depressed and is out of work. Six months later
he has a new job and feels happier. He terminates therapy, but calls his therapist a few
months later saying that although he feels fine his wife is now depressed and won't
leave the house. The therapist would see this as an example of:
Give this one a try later!
, first order change.
A family whose members are constantly struggling while battling over control issues,
would fall into Beavers-Timberlawn's competence dimension of:
Give this one a try later!
mid-range
A tool which Bowenian therapist use in order to reduce the anxiety level in a highly
charged session would be:
Give this one a try later!
genogram
A family consisting of a mother, father, two daughters age 13 and age 15, and a son
age 17 enter therapy. The parents are complaining that there 15-year old daughter is
coming in drunk every night and is very abusive to the family. If this family was
diagnosed as enmeshed, a family therapist's goal would be:
Give this one a try later!
to help each of the family members to differentiate while making the
boundaries less permeable.
