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When a Solution-Focused therapist working with a client presenting with issues around alcohol abuse asks "What needs to be different with your drinking?", they are beginning to negotiate the: - Exceptions: Solution-Focused therapists use questions that often center around making distinctions. Here the therapist is beginning to look for when the drinking is or is not a problem and to tease out what is working in the client's life. Drawing from John Bowlby's work, this model emphasizes the importance of healthy attachment at the infant stage of development. It also addresses the need for individuation and differentiation. - Object Relations Family Therapy: These are key constructs of the Object Relations model of Family Therapy. Note the distractor by the use of Bowlby's Attachment Theory and the Emotionally Focused Therapy which also draws upon the Bowlby's work as well as the Object Relations use of differentiation (separating from family of origin) which is different than the Bowenian use of the construct. Mr. Oesco comes to therapy with his son Josh. Mr. Oesco and his wife are divorced. He and Josh live together and Mrs. Oesco and her daughter Jessica live in another state. The presenting problem appears to be Josh's anger at his mother and his refusal to conform to the visitation arrangement set up by the court when the Oesco's divorced. Josh appears to have a good relationship with his sister which at times presents a problem to his father and mother. In assessing this family, a Structural Family Therapist would pay particular attention to the: - organization of the family: Structural therapists will always focus how a family is organized, believing that symptoms occur from improperly organized families. Imbalance in the hierarchy is strategic, transgenerational history of triangles is transgenerational, problem solving skills is strategic (Haley). With regard to MFTs, licensed or certified, HIPAA states: - Nothing specifically: There is no specific reference to MFTs in the HIPAA regulations. However, HIPAA guidelines apply to MFTs just as they do to all mental health and other healthcare providers who transmit PHI via any electronicmeans. Answer B: it's correct to say all individuals must be given full disclosure information, however this is not stated in HIPAA specifically for MFTs, which is what the question is asking. Answer C: The Security Rule is not applied to individuals in treatment. It is applied to the methods used by the clinician to make all clients PHI secure. Answer D: MFTs are not specifically identified in HIPAA. A Solution-focused therapist using the miracle question would start out in which of the following ways? - Suppose one night you were asleep, a miracle happened and your problem was solved. How would you know: Family therapy with young children diagnosed with bi-polar disorder has demonstrated good results compared to control groups using medication or receiving no treatment at all. The most complete list of questions we should ask about this research is: - How was bi-polar defined, how was "good results" defined, how large was the sample size, what was the correlation, what was the statistical significance?: The statement that control groups were used, tells us it is a quantitative study. We don't need to ask this question. Feminists have faulted other family therapist models as: - all of the above: In critiquing the various existing practices of family therapy, the feminist model accuses the other models of favoring masculine values, devaluing nurturance and of being based on male development. In order to alter this imbalance, feminist family therapists advocate that therapists overtly align against this tradition. Sensate focus, a frequently used task in sexual therapy is used to: - reduce performance anxiety: Sensate focus is a procedure originally developed by Masters and Johnson to create an atmosphere whereby performance anxiety and spectatoring can be minimized. The Beavers Model integrates FST with developmen