By constructing a family genogram, you learn that the client's family is intensely close, much more so than might be expected for the family's cultural background. This family would be called:
a. enmeshed. c. estranged.
b. triangulated. d. joined.
Q. 2In a symmetrical relationship, the individuals are:
a. emotionally fused.
b. equal, but can escalate into a one-upsmanship communication pattern.
c. both seeking to establish an emotional triangle.
d. unequal but complementary in their communication.
Q. 3The purpose of a genogram is to:
a. depict the relationships between family members.
b. produce a therapeutic triangle.
c. reverse an undifferentiated ego mass.
d. lower the level of family members' differentiation.
Q. 4If two or more of these patients were present for a given session, the therapist's consciousness raising efforts would LEAST likely involve:
a. constantly questioning patients.
b. encouraging clients to communicate directly.
c. keeping the emotional system sufficiently toned down.
d. teaching clients about how family systems function and dysfunction.
Q. 5If Bowen were working with this family, his first effort would be to increase:
a. Lucinda's differentiation.
b. Tim and Lucinda's differentiation.
c. Tim and Tracy's differentiation.
d. Tracy and Lucinda's differentiation.
Q. 6It is most likely that Lucinda developed her psychopathology through a multigenerational:
a. displacement process. c. schism.
b. indifferentiation process. d. transmission process.
Q. 7Which of the following is LEAST likely responsible for Lucinda becoming the identified patient?
a. She has a symbiotic relationship with her mother.
b. She is the least differentiated.
c. She is the most fused.
d. She is the youngest.
Q. 8Which of the following would NOT be considered a problem with research on the effectiveness of structural therapy?
a. Delineating its effects from those of behavior therapy
b. Lack of an alternative family therapy
c. Lack of controlled outcome research
d. Use of clinical survey studiesThe following four questions refer to the following paragraph.Tracy, her husband Tim, and their 14-year-old daughter Lucinda, the identified patient, are being treated by a Bowenian family systems therapist. Tracy and Lucinda have a symbiotic relationship. Tracy and Tim are less differentiated than either of their parents who, in turn, were less differentiated than either of their parents.
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