MRI therapists focus solely on resolving the presenting problem, with the therapist imposing no other goals or agendas.
a. True
b. False
Q. 2Which of the following best describes a systemic reframe?
a. Therapists seeing the problem not as an individual problem, but as a relational one.
b. Finding an alternative, yet equally plausible explanation for the same set of facts.
c. Discussing what the client has been doing to solve their problem.
d. The therapist identifying the interactional behavioral sequences that constitutes the problem.
Q. 3In response to a mothers report that her daughter no longer brings her tea in the morning and that it must mean that her daughter does not love her, the therapist says, Your daughter bringing you tea fewer times a week may mean she is building friendships with girls her own age, which could be a sign she is making progress toward her goal of becoming more independent. What is the term to describe this intervention?
a. paradox
b. metacommunication
c. reframe
d. attempted solution
Q. 4MRI systemic therapists conceptualize symptoms of individuals within the larger network of their family and socials systems. MRI systemic therapists take a __________ stance toward all members of the family.
a. nonblaming
b. pathologizing
c. homeostatic
d. logical
Q. 5In ___________________, the primary function of the therapist is to help in the process of constructing new realities with the client because it is understood that there is no reality and that meaning is created through language, relationships, society, and culture.
a. systemic theory
b. humanism
c. postmodernism
d. modernism
Q. 6The philosophical approach which assumes that humans are essentially good and that given a supportive, nurturing environment will naturally tend toward growth and strive for self-actualization is ____________________.
a. modernism
b. postmodernism
c. systemic
d. humanism
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