CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Satir and Whitaker - ANSWER-communications in family therapy; mainly through
experience, communication, and humanistic awareness of here and now leading to
personal accountability, and increasing patterns of interaction
Ackerman - ANSWER-:father of family therapy" - primarily used a psychoanalytic
approach, insight oriented
Pincus & Minahan & Garvin - ANSWER-founders of systems theory
Carl Rogers - ANSWER-founder of client-centered theory
Mahler - ANSWER-founder of objects relation theory (a variation of psychoanalytic
theory that diverges from Sigmund Freud's belief that humans are motivated by
sexual and aggressive drives, suggesting instead that humans are primarily
motivated by the need for contact with others—the need to form relationships)
Fritz Perls - ANSWER-founder of Gestalt theory (the whole of an object is more
important than its individual parts)
Anna Freud - ANSWER-started ego psychology
Jesse Taft and Virginia Robinson - ANSWER-started function theory (mental life and
behavior in terms of active adaptation to the person's environment); influenced work
of Mead, Dewey, and Rank; model was presented in contrast to the diagnostic
school of thought (which was primarily psychoanalytic)
Masters and Johnson - ANSWER-created sensate focus exercises, which focus on
progressive exercises, begins with non-genital touching only, then genital touching...
goal is to achieve pleasure without pressure to perform and/or achieve orgasm
Karen Horney - ANSWER-disputed penis envy, calling it both inaccurate and
demeaning towards women... instead, she proposed that men experience feelings of
inferiority because they can't give birth to children
Erikson - ANSWER-worked in human psychosocial development theory and created
8 stages of life
Piaget - ANSWER-created theory of cognitive development to explain processes by
which humans come to perceive, organize knowledge, solve problems, and
understand the world
equilibrium - ANSWER-state of balance; according to Piaget, the need for balance is
the primary organizing force behind cognitive growth and development
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Satir and Whitaker - ANSWER-communications in family therapy; mainly through
experience, communication, and humanistic awareness of here and now leading to
personal accountability, and increasing patterns of interaction
Ackerman - ANSWER-:father of family therapy" - primarily used a psychoanalytic
approach, insight oriented
Pincus & Minahan & Garvin - ANSWER-founders of systems theory
Carl Rogers - ANSWER-founder of client-centered theory
Mahler - ANSWER-founder of objects relation theory (a variation of psychoanalytic
theory that diverges from Sigmund Freud's belief that humans are motivated by
sexual and aggressive drives, suggesting instead that humans are primarily
motivated by the need for contact with others—the need to form relationships)
Fritz Perls - ANSWER-founder of Gestalt theory (the whole of an object is more
important than its individual parts)
Anna Freud - ANSWER-started ego psychology
Jesse Taft and Virginia Robinson - ANSWER-started function theory (mental life and
behavior in terms of active adaptation to the person's environment); influenced work
of Mead, Dewey, and Rank; model was presented in contrast to the diagnostic
school of thought (which was primarily psychoanalytic)
Masters and Johnson - ANSWER-created sensate focus exercises, which focus on
progressive exercises, begins with non-genital touching only, then genital touching...
goal is to achieve pleasure without pressure to perform and/or achieve orgasm
Karen Horney - ANSWER-disputed penis envy, calling it both inaccurate and
demeaning towards women... instead, she proposed that men experience feelings of
inferiority because they can't give birth to children
Erikson - ANSWER-worked in human psychosocial development theory and created
8 stages of life
Piaget - ANSWER-created theory of cognitive development to explain processes by
which humans come to perceive, organize knowledge, solve problems, and
understand the world
equilibrium - ANSWER-state of balance; according to Piaget, the need for balance is
the primary organizing force behind cognitive growth and development
