Alliant Comp Exam (MFT) with
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Any behavior that is rewarded is? - ANSWER-Repeated
Which concepts would characterize the work of a cognitive-behavioral family therapist?
- 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - ANSWER-Sarah's
Which of the following is NOT a communication stance described by Virginia Satir? -
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.
- 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? - 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? - 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? - ANSWER-Joining
Contemporary CBT downplays the importance of emotions? - ANSWER-False
According to the experiential approach, human beings are essentially? - ANSWER-
Good and growth-oriented
According to experiential family therapy, what is the main characteristic of a healthy
family environment? - 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? - ANSWER-Sculpting
According to structural family therapy, what is the most comprehensive component of a
healthy family? - 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? - 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? - ANSWER-Enactment
Structural family therapy has been shown to be effective when working with which of the
following populations? - 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: - ANSWER-Split
Object relations theory of mate selection states that? - 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? - ANSWER-Ourselves
According to Object Relations, the tendency to blame others for possessing attributes
that you're not comfortable with in yourself is? - ANSWER-Projective Identification
According to Carl Jung, an early psychodynamic theorist, the foundation(s) of mental
illness is/are? - ANSWER-The avoidance of true suffering
"I either have it all together or I'm a complete failure" - 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). - 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). - ANSWER-Personalization
Feeling worried about something, thus being certain it is a bad thing. - ANSWER-
Emotional Reasoning
"I know what they *really* meant." - ANSWER-Jumping to Conclusions
What are Primary and Secondary Emotions in Attachment Theory? - 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? - ANSWER-A relationship system is a boundaried group of
interrelated persons exhibiting coherent behavior as a unit.
What is a subsystem? - ANSWER-System within a system. Ex. Generation, gender,
function
What is systems theory? - 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? - ANSWER-How family members'
beliefs affect their actions, and how cultural forces shape those beliefs.
What makes a boundary healthy? - ANSWER-Adaptability
What are rigid boundaries? - 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? - 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? - 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? -
ANSWER-Yes, all communication systems—including families—need a balance of
negative and positive feedback
What are some examples of positive feedback loops? - 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? - 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? - 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.
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Any behavior that is rewarded is? - ANSWER-Repeated
Which concepts would characterize the work of a cognitive-behavioral family therapist?
- 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - 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? - ANSWER-Sarah's
Which of the following is NOT a communication stance described by Virginia Satir? -
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.
- 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? - 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? - 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? - ANSWER-Joining
Contemporary CBT downplays the importance of emotions? - ANSWER-False
According to the experiential approach, human beings are essentially? - ANSWER-
Good and growth-oriented
According to experiential family therapy, what is the main characteristic of a healthy
family environment? - 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? - ANSWER-Sculpting
According to structural family therapy, what is the most comprehensive component of a
healthy family? - 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? - 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? - ANSWER-Enactment
Structural family therapy has been shown to be effective when working with which of the
following populations? - 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: - ANSWER-Split
Object relations theory of mate selection states that? - 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? - ANSWER-Ourselves
According to Object Relations, the tendency to blame others for possessing attributes
that you're not comfortable with in yourself is? - ANSWER-Projective Identification
According to Carl Jung, an early psychodynamic theorist, the foundation(s) of mental
illness is/are? - ANSWER-The avoidance of true suffering
"I either have it all together or I'm a complete failure" - 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). - 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). - ANSWER-Personalization
Feeling worried about something, thus being certain it is a bad thing. - ANSWER-
Emotional Reasoning
"I know what they *really* meant." - ANSWER-Jumping to Conclusions
What are Primary and Secondary Emotions in Attachment Theory? - 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? - ANSWER-A relationship system is a boundaried group of
interrelated persons exhibiting coherent behavior as a unit.
What is a subsystem? - ANSWER-System within a system. Ex. Generation, gender,
function
What is systems theory? - 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? - ANSWER-How family members'
beliefs affect their actions, and how cultural forces shape those beliefs.
What makes a boundary healthy? - ANSWER-Adaptability
What are rigid boundaries? - 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? - 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? - 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? -
ANSWER-Yes, all communication systems—including families—need a balance of
negative and positive feedback
What are some examples of positive feedback loops? - 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? - 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? - 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.
