Each of the following therapies falls into the category of experiential family therapies EXCEPT:
a. the Satir growth model.
b. integrated family systems.
c. symbolic-experiential therapy.
d. emotionally focused therapy.
Q. 2Lesbian families are generally found to have highly egalitarian parenting practices.
a. True
b. False
Q. 3Ecosystemic structural family therapy (ESFT), an empirically supported adaptation of structural family therapy was developed to treat which population?
a. Children and adolescents with severe emotional or behavioral problems and their families within the context of their communities
b. Adolescents with substance problems and their families within the context of their communities
c. Couples with one member who is severely depressed and their extended families within the context of their communities
d. Young adult men and women with severe eating disorders and their families within the context of their communities
Q. 4In brief strategic family therapy, a model that draws on structural and strategic therapies to address drug abuse problems with African American and Hispanic populations, all of the following are principals of intervention EXCEPT:
a. joining to connect with the family system.
b. enactments to assess family functioning.
c. reframing to promote caring and concern in the family.
d. paradox to get family members to do something different.
Q. 5Which of the following statements about using structural family therapy with diverse populations is TRUE?
a. The structural family therapy model was not developed to attend to the dynamics and needs of diverse families, especially those families with children having difficulties.
b. Structural family therapy employs an active and engaged approach with which the therapist often takes an expert stance in relation to the family, an approach that often fits with the values of traditional cultures.
c. Minuchin and his colleagues developed structural family therapy to work with wealthy, rural families.
d. Structural family therapy employs a passive approach in which the therapist often takes a deferential stance in relation to the family.
Q. 6Based on the previous vignette, Harold, the structural family therapist working with Mikayla and Jenna takes into account that all behavior has reciprocal antecedents and describes their pattern of interaction like this: M affects Js response, which then affects Ms response, ad infinitum. Harold is doing what?
a. Reframing the complementary relationship, removing blame from one person and describing how each person contributes to the problem dynamic.
b. Boundary making to help the couple strengthen diffuse boundaries.
c. Challenging the couples assumptions by overtly questioning whether they are actually having the effect the couple anticipated.
d. Using crisis induction by bringing the symptom into the room.
Q. 7Mikayla and Jenna have been married for six years, and have recently decided to try therapy because they find they argue incessantly and are drifting apart emotionally. They are no longer able to spend quality time together without fighting, and both would rather spend time with friends or by themselves than with each other. They state that their arguments tend to follow the same theme time after time, regardless of what they are fighting about. Mikayla sees Jenna as overly emotional and states that she always breaks down during their fights. Jenna states that Mikayla never tries to understand her, that she cant share her emotions and that shed rather be logical all the time. From a structural viewpoint, how might you describe this relationship pattern?
a. The boundaries in their relationship are too diffuse.
b. The boundaries in their relationship are rigid; the couple doesnt want to change.
c. The boundries in their relationship are complementary; their roles have become rigidly polarized.
d. The boundries in their relationship are symmetrical; each partner tries to match the others role.
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