Family Therapy Final - (quiz questions)
with answers
The goal of a first family therapy session is to: - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Build an alliance with the family and develop a hypothesis about what is
maintaining the presenting problem.
Family therapists have a specific term for the main complaint a couple or
family gives for being in therapy. It is called the _____________________
- ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔presenting problem
According to the text, most families come to therapy because: - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔They've gotten stuck in a life-cycle transition
Cybernetics is the study of: - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Feedback
mechanisms in self-regulating systems
Parker says he's more interested in how his clients say things as opposed to
what they say. In this case Parker is attending to _______________ more than
_______________. - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔process; content
The central premise of Bowen theory is that unresolved _____ must be
resolved before one can differentiate a mature, healthy personality. - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔emotional reactivity to one's family of origin
, According to Bowen, _____ are the smallest stable unit of human relations.
- ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔triangles *
People tend to marry spouses at _____ levels of differentiation. - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔similar
In Bowen theory, the flight from a conflictual emotional attachment to one's
parents is known as - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔emotional cutoff
"Differentiated" individuals - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔can balance
their needs for closeness and autonomy
Relabeling a family's description of behavior to make it more amenable to
therapeutic change is called - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Reframe
Symptom reduction in a family is known in general systems theory as - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔First order change
A method of interviewing developed by the Milan associates in which
questions are asked to highlight differences and define relationships among
family members, is known as - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Circular
questioning
A technique used by the Milan group that prescribes a specific act for family
members to perform--it is designed to change the family system's rules. - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Family ritual
with answers
The goal of a first family therapy session is to: - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Build an alliance with the family and develop a hypothesis about what is
maintaining the presenting problem.
Family therapists have a specific term for the main complaint a couple or
family gives for being in therapy. It is called the _____________________
- ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔presenting problem
According to the text, most families come to therapy because: - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔They've gotten stuck in a life-cycle transition
Cybernetics is the study of: - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Feedback
mechanisms in self-regulating systems
Parker says he's more interested in how his clients say things as opposed to
what they say. In this case Parker is attending to _______________ more than
_______________. - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔process; content
The central premise of Bowen theory is that unresolved _____ must be
resolved before one can differentiate a mature, healthy personality. - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔emotional reactivity to one's family of origin
, According to Bowen, _____ are the smallest stable unit of human relations.
- ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔triangles *
People tend to marry spouses at _____ levels of differentiation. - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔similar
In Bowen theory, the flight from a conflictual emotional attachment to one's
parents is known as - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔emotional cutoff
"Differentiated" individuals - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔can balance
their needs for closeness and autonomy
Relabeling a family's description of behavior to make it more amenable to
therapeutic change is called - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Reframe
Symptom reduction in a family is known in general systems theory as - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔First order change
A method of interviewing developed by the Milan associates in which
questions are asked to highlight differences and define relationships among
family members, is known as - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Circular
questioning
A technique used by the Milan group that prescribes a specific act for family
members to perform--it is designed to change the family system's rules. - ....🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Family ritual
