A relationship in which a husband maintains a dominant position and a wife maintains a submissive position would be called, according to MRI brief family therapy
a. complementary
b. disengaged
c. maladaptive
d. symmetrical
Q. 2According to existential therapies, meaning in life is characterized by all of the following statements EXCEPT:
a. meaning is found in work and love.
b. the answer is that life is not a question, it is an ongoing process to be experienced.
c. the issue is not to discover meaning in life but rather to create meaning out of our life.
d. the meaning of our existence emerges out of what we choose to stand for.
Q. 3In brief family systems therapy, when a client changes a symptom in therapy and then later makes changes in the family that persist, then ________ order change is said to have taken place.
a. first
b. second
c. third
d. fourth
Q. 4Regarding the issue of adjustment versus transcendence, existential therapy would most likely say which of the following?
a. Alienation is the condition of the mature person as long as society remains insane.
b. Healthy people are committed to helping society transcend its present level of functioning in order to become a more perfect social system.
c. The forces that need to be transcended are not those of society, but rather those of self- destructive life scripts.
d. The only way a life based on adjustment might be healthy is if the society a person is adjusting to is basically honest.
Q. 5In brief family systems therapy, temporary change is called __________ order change.
a. first
b. second
c. third
d. fourth
Q. 6According to existential theory, all of the following statements are characteristic of control EXCEPT:
a. attempting to control another is the most violent thing we can do to another.
b. desire to control others is in part to pretend our basic security comes from being on top of things.
c. struggles over interpersonal control are frequently struggles over whose defenses will dominate the relationship.
d. to control another is to objectify that person.
Q. 7Training parents to change how a child acts in various situations is done by
a. behavior therapists.
b. feminist therapists.
c. existential therapists.
d. reality therapists.
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