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family psychology
final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following is defined as “a balanced steady state of equilibrium?” | Homeostasis |
| What was the phrase Frieda Fromm-Reichmann coined? | Schizophrenogenic mother |
| T/F Contextual therapy is Salvador Munchin’s model that includes relation ethics | False |
| The essence of self-psychology is… | Every human being longs to be appreciated |
| Fairbain’s view of splitting is that the ego is divided into structures that contain | Part of the ego, part of the object, the affect associated with the relationship |
| In Datillo’s types of cognitive distortions, selective abstraction is | Certain details are highlighted while other important information is ignored |
| What is the study of feedback mechanisms, such as how information like positive and negative feedback loops can help self-regulating a system? | Cybernetics |
| What is the type of therapy device that experiential therapists often use to get their clients to recollect past events and consider hope for future developments? | Role playing |
| Who introduced the idea that psychological disorders were the consequence of unsolved problems of childhood? | Freud |
| What are the goals of the first interview for a therapist working with families? | Build an alliance with the family and develop a hypothesis about what’s maintaining the present problem |
| Which one is not a format of the five parts of the Milan Model | Suggestion |
| According to Kernberg, introjections are | Earliest occurrence in the process of separating from mother |
| Which term best describes the model that disregards the internal complexities of individuals and concentrates on their input and output instead: that being communication? | Black box concept |
| The essence of Bowenian Therapy with couples is to | Stay connected with both partners without allowing triangulation to occur |
| Internal objects as they are described by the Kleinian model and object relations theory are characterized as | Mental images of self and others built up from experience and expectation |
| Goals of family therapy include | Altering family structure so that the family can solve its problems and joining family systems in order to promote change within the family structures |
| Systems theory has its origins in | Math, physics and engineering |
| The major influence on the activity of triangulation is________________. The more people are driven by _____________________, the less tolerant they are of one another and the more they are polarized by differences. | anxiety |
| All of the following are cognitive-behavioral family therapy concepts except… | Counter-transference |
| Bertalanffy believed that, unlike machines, living organisms demonstrated___________, or the ability to reach a final goal in a variety of ways. | Equifinality |
| Melanie Klein’s concept of ________________ is a process whereby the subject perceives an object as if it contained unwelcome elements of the subject’s personality and evokes responses from the object that conform to those perceptions. | Projective identification |
| Strategic therapy grew out of the communications theory developed in Bateson’s schizophrenia project, which evolved into three distinct models: MRI’s brief therapy, Haley and Madanes’ strategic therapy and ________________. | Milan systemic model |
| Which on of these is an example of de Shazer's miracle question | If you woke up tomorrow and your problem was gone, what would be different? |
| What is a genogram? | A diagram of the extended family |
| A brother and sister were arguing about who gets to watch their favorite show on TV. The brother grabs the remote from the sister. Instead of automatically responding from her emotions, she took time to think and reflect. The sister demonstrated… | Differentiation of self |
| Who discovered operant conditioning? | B.F. Skinner |
| Salvador Munichin found these tow patterns common to troubled families: | Enmeshed and disengaged |
| When working with minority families, it may be important to develop _______________than to actually share the same background as the clients. | Cultural sensitivity |
| Mirroring ... | Is essential for the development of a secure and cohesive self, according to self psychology, includes understanding from the parent and includes acceptance by the parent |
| Experimental family therapy is like expressive therapy because it emphasized | Immediate, here and now |
| In Pavlov’s classical conditioning, what is involved? | An unconditioned stimulus, an unconditioned response and a conditioned stimulus |
| Who created a model that became known as general systems theory? | Ludwig von Bertalanffy |
| The ¬¬¬¬_______________ is an invisible barrier that stretches to permit obligatory extra familial involvement, such as going to school, but springs back it that involvement goes too far. | Rubber fence |
| Substance abuse is especially common with people who are ________________ and _________________. | Depression and anxious |
| The notion of __________________ is based on the Newtonian model, in which the universe is like a billiard table where the balls act uni-directionally on each other. | Linear causality |
| What are the six prominent techniques in the practice of Bowenian family systems therapy? | Genogram, neutralizing triangles, relationship experiments, coaching, I-position, process questions |
| An alternative strategy for stalemated interactions is the use of _________ to help family members get beneath the surface of their defensive wrangling. | Empathy |
| What are the four main themes Balswick talks about? | Covenant, grace, empowerment and intimacy |
| Symmetrical relationships are ... | About equality and similarity |
| What type of family therapy has its roots with theorists like John B. Watson and theories of classical or operant condition, and focuses on shaping and token economies in behavioral parent training? | Cognitive-behavioral therapy |
| Balswick states that a covenant relationship can be either unilateral or bilateral. What is the ideal for marital and mature parent/child relationships? | Unconditional bilateral commitment |
| The chief cause of childhood psychological problems, according to David Levy, was | Maternal over protectiveness |
| One type of partner violence in families is common couple violence. The other is _____________. | Patriarchal terrorism |
| The three constructs that are essential components to structural family therapy are | Structure, subsystems, and boundaries |
| The goal of psychoanalytic therapy is to free family members from ___________________ constraints so that they’ll be able to interact with one another | Unconscious |
| Which therapy developed by peter Laquere involved treating four to six families together for weekly sessions? | Multiple Family group Therapy |
| What are the two structural requirements for a new union between couples? | Accommodation and boundary making |
| T/F Idealization is the tendency to exaggerate the virtues of someone, part of the normal development process inc children’s relationships to their parents and an intimate partnerships | True |
| The goals of an MRI assessment are all of the following except | Discuss the shift between meaning and actions |
| Family sculpting could be characterized by all of the following except | The whole family is home when dad gets home |
| All of the following are ways of reinforcing change in small steps except: | Using spankings as a way to punish mistakes and hoping for better behavior in the future. |
| What is the distinction of process and content in regards to family therapy? | Process is what a parent says, or what advice the parent gives to a child, and content is the intentions beneath what the parent is saying. |
| What is the primary difference between classical and operant conditioning? | Classical conditioning is when a conditioned stimulus evokes an unconditioned response; operant conditioning is where responses that are positively reinforced will be repeated, while responses that are punished will be extinguished. |
| The basic central premise of behavior therapy is that behavior is mandated by its: | Consequences |
| Who believed that every person is born with an innate tendency toward self-actualization? | Carl Rogers |
| A role-played enactment from the lives of participants, using techniques to stimulate emotional expression and clarify conflicts is called: | Psychodrama |
| What role does a transitional object act as for a child as (s)he develops? | It allows the child to move from the mother to independence |
| What are the four dishonest ways people communicate according to Satir? | Blaming, placating, being irrelevant, and being super reasonable |
| ___________ was an archetypical nurturing therapist whose warmth and genuineness created a loving environment. | Virginia Satir |
| In parenting, these three techniques can be used in a cognitive-behavioral model | Shaping, token economy, and time outs |
| Define first-order change? | Change with a system that itself remains invariant |
| In regards to the attachment theory, who was one of the main pioneers? | Mary Ainsworth |
| Schwartz’s internal family systems approach helps family members come together with more understanding by | Helping individuals sort out their own conflicted experience |
| Mom and dad have been fighting a lot recently, and in an attempt to avoid them getting a divorce, their daughter Jane make an attempted suicide to bring them closer together. This is an example of: | Invisible loyalties |
| The first example of constructivism in family therapy was the technique of ___________, relating to behavior to shift how family members respond to it. | Reframing |
| Attributing the qualities of one person to someone else is called: | Transference |
| This theory explains that people strive to maximize rewards and minimize costs in relationships. | Theory of social exchange |
| Carl Roger’s therapy technique includes listening sympathetically, offering understanding and respect. This part of Roger’s therapy is called: | Unconditional positive regard |
| An organism that continually interacts with its environment is operating in a(n) ___________ system. | Open |
| What term is used to define the reciprocity that is the defining feature of every relationship? | Complementary |
| What type of operant conditioning uses points or starts to reward children for good behavior? | Token economy |
| What person described the process known as separation-individuation? | Mahler |
| When treating a family in which a child has been sexually abused, the primary goals are first to: | Ensure that the abuse does not reoccur |
| The basic central premise of behavior therapy is behavior is maintained by its consequences. Consequences that accelerate behavior are called_____________. Those that decelerate behavior are known as _________________. | Reinforcers; punishers |
| When Bowen brought family members together to discuss their problems, he was struck by their: | Emotional reactivity |
| The personal stance—saying that you feel, instead of what others are doing—is known as the__________________ | “I-position” |
| Projective identification, unlike projection, is___________________. | Interactional |
| All of the following are examples of types of attachment except | Secure confident |
| Emotional cutoff describes: | The way people manage anxiety between generations |
| Who was the guiding genius behind the strategic approach to therapy? | Milton Erickson |
| The chronic failure to accommodate to each other or to achieve role reciprocity is | Marital schism |
| Alienating children from their experiences is considered | Mystification |
| A mom and dad are fighting in the car. Their baby starts crying. Mom says to baby, “it’s okay. You can stop crying.” And the father feels guilty and beings to slow down. The child has recognized their power in the situation. This is and example of: | Aversive control |
| According to Bowen, the underlying factor in the genesis of psychological problems is ____________________, passed down from one generation to the next | Emotional fusion |
| In ______________________ contracts, one partner agrees to make change after a prior change by the other | Quid pro quo |
| According to the Stages of the Family Cycle, the first stage is leaving home as single young adults. What is the emotional process of transition in this instance? | Accepting emotional and financial responsibility for self |
| What is the smallest stable unit of relationship? | Triangle |
| Lack of differentiation in the family of origin produces which type of children? | Emotionally-unstable, unemotional and emotionally reactive |
| What is the term that Bowen used for an excess of emotional reactivity, or fusion, in families? | undifferentiated family ego mass |
| To interrupt problem-maintaining sequences, strategic therapists may try to get family members to do something that runs counter to common sense. Such counterintuitive techniques are called _______. | Paradoxical interventions |
| One of the hallmarks of structural family therapy is _______, a method of modifying interactions by which structural therapists highlight and reinforce the positive ways that families do things. | Shaping competence |
| What does equifinality mean? | No matter where systems change begins, the final result is the same |
| Therapy should focus on the _______ of communication, or how they talk, rather than on its _______, or what they talk about. | Process/content |
| What is the concept of process/content dynamics | Process is how families interact and content is the actual message |
| What are the five things that go along with group dynamics? | Triangulation, Scapegoating, Alignments, Coalitions and Splits |
| According to Michael Johnson (1995) what is true about patriarchal terrorism? | It involves a pattern of power and control, it is frequent and severe and escalates over time, it is not common couple violence |
| What was the name of the decisive technique used in narrative therapy that involved the defined problems not as properties of the persons who suffered them but as alien oppressors? | Externalization |
| What is the name of the schematic diagrams that Professor Lambert would frequently become enthralled in during the first few days of May Term? | Genograms |
| What is Lambert’s favorite way to illustrate the family history/network? | Genograms |
| How can therapists use attachment theory to illuminate current relationships? | A child’s misbehavior reflecting an insecure attachmen, a husband’s avoidance due to ambivalent attachment and a wife’s animosity as an expression of anxious attachment |
| A process whereby the infant begins, at about two months, to draw apart from the symbiotic bond with mother and develop his or her autonomous functioning: | Separation-individuation |
| A genogram covers at least how many generations? | 3 |
| _________________ were used to engage families in a series of actions that ran counter to or exaggerated rigid family rules and myths. | Rituals |
| What type of boundaries result in disengagement? | Rigid |
| Families are differentiated into subsystems, based on __________ | Gender, function and generation |
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