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Michael P. Nichols and Sean D. Davis
Family Therapy:
Concepts and Methods
Twelfth Edition
Prepared by Michael P. Nichols
College of William and Mary
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,Contents
Chapter 1: The Evolution of Family Therapy 1
Chapter 2: The Fundamental Concepts of Family Therapy 7
Chapter 3: Basic Techniques of Family Therapy 11
Chapter 4: Bowen Family Systems Therapy 13
Chapter 5: Strategic Family Therapy 18
Chapter 6: Structural Family Therapy 23
Chapter 7: Experiential Family Therapy 27
Chapter 8: Psychoanalytic Family Therapy 32
Chapter 9: Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy 36
Chapter 10: Family Therapy in the Twenty-First Century 39
Chapter 11: Tailoring Treatment to Specific Populations and Problems 43
Chapter 12: Solution-Focused Therapy 46
Chapter 13: Narrative Therapy 48
Chapter 14: Comparative Analysis 51
Chapter 15: Research on Family Intervention 59
Answer Keys 60
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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Family Therapy
1.1 Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Lyman Wynne’s term for the facade of family harmony that characterized many
schizophrenic families is
A) pseudocomplementarity
B) pseudomutuality
C) pseudoharmony
D) pseudohostility
2) Hospital clinicians began to acknowledge and include the family in an individual’s
treatment when
A) they noticed when the patient got better, someone in the family got worse
B) they realized the family was footing the bill for treatment
C) they realized the family continued to influence the course of treatment anyway
D) A and C
E) none of these choices
3) Kurt Lewin’s idea of ________ can be seen in action in Minuchin’s promotion of crises in
family lunch sessions, Norman Paul’s use of cross-confrontations, and Peggy Papp’s family
choreography.
A) unfreezing
B) social equilibrium
C) group process
D) field theory
4) The first to apply group concepts to family treatment was
A) Murray Bowen
B) John Elderkin Bell
C) Virginia Satir
D) Carl Whitaker
5) Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s concept, “________ mother,” described a domineering,
aggressive, rejecting, and insecure mother who was thought to provide the pathological
parenting that produced schizophrenia.
A) undifferentiated
B) schizophrenogenic
C) reactive
D) symbiotic
6) Gregory Bateson and his colleagues at Palo Alto introduced this concept to describe the
patterns of disturbed family communication which cause schizophrenia.
A) schizophrenogenesis
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Michael P. Nichols and Sean D. Davis
Family Therapy:
Concepts and Methods
Twelfth Edition
Prepared by Michael P. Nichols
College of William and Mary
,This work is protected by United States copyright laws and is provided solely for
the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student learning.
Dissemination or sale of any part of this work (including on the World Wide Web)
will destroy the integrity of the work and is not permitted. The work and materials
from it should never be made available to students except by instructors using
the accompanying text in their classes. All recipients of this work are expected to
abide by these restrictions and to honor the intended pedagogical purposes and
the needs of other instructors who rely on these materials.
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appropriate contacts within the Pearson Education Global Rights and Permissions department, please visit
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work are the property of their respective owners, and any references to third-party trademarks, logos,
icons, or other trade dress are for demonstrative or descriptive purposes only. Such references are not
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owners of such marks, or any relationship between the owner and Pearson Education, Inc., or its affiliates,
authors, licensees, or distributors.
ISBN-10: 0-13-584275-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-13-584275-1
,Contents
Chapter 1: The Evolution of Family Therapy 1
Chapter 2: The Fundamental Concepts of Family Therapy 7
Chapter 3: Basic Techniques of Family Therapy 11
Chapter 4: Bowen Family Systems Therapy 13
Chapter 5: Strategic Family Therapy 18
Chapter 6: Structural Family Therapy 23
Chapter 7: Experiential Family Therapy 27
Chapter 8: Psychoanalytic Family Therapy 32
Chapter 9: Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy 36
Chapter 10: Family Therapy in the Twenty-First Century 39
Chapter 11: Tailoring Treatment to Specific Populations and Problems 43
Chapter 12: Solution-Focused Therapy 46
Chapter 13: Narrative Therapy 48
Chapter 14: Comparative Analysis 51
Chapter 15: Research on Family Intervention 59
Answer Keys 60
ii
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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Family Therapy
1.1 Multiple-Choice Questions
1) Lyman Wynne’s term for the facade of family harmony that characterized many
schizophrenic families is
A) pseudocomplementarity
B) pseudomutuality
C) pseudoharmony
D) pseudohostility
2) Hospital clinicians began to acknowledge and include the family in an individual’s
treatment when
A) they noticed when the patient got better, someone in the family got worse
B) they realized the family was footing the bill for treatment
C) they realized the family continued to influence the course of treatment anyway
D) A and C
E) none of these choices
3) Kurt Lewin’s idea of ________ can be seen in action in Minuchin’s promotion of crises in
family lunch sessions, Norman Paul’s use of cross-confrontations, and Peggy Papp’s family
choreography.
A) unfreezing
B) social equilibrium
C) group process
D) field theory
4) The first to apply group concepts to family treatment was
A) Murray Bowen
B) John Elderkin Bell
C) Virginia Satir
D) Carl Whitaker
5) Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s concept, “________ mother,” described a domineering,
aggressive, rejecting, and insecure mother who was thought to provide the pathological
parenting that produced schizophrenia.
A) undifferentiated
B) schizophrenogenic
C) reactive
D) symbiotic
6) Gregory Bateson and his colleagues at Palo Alto introduced this concept to describe the
patterns of disturbed family communication which cause schizophrenia.
A) schizophrenogenesis
1
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