Exam 11: Family Therapy Irene Goldenberg and Mark Stanton

Second-order cybernetics focuses primarily on

_____________ is a masking effort to obscure the real nature of family conflict and thus maintain the status quo.

In family therapy, the "client" is the whole family. Describe how family therapy would proceed without relieving individual family members of their responsibility for their own behavior.

Watzlawick, Weakland, and Fisch (1974) distinguished between first-order changes and second-order changes. _________________ can be demonstrated if two parents are concerned with the repeated school absences.

Which of the following focuses on treatment of the family's presenting problem?

The redundancy principle refers to a family's

An alcoholic husband maintains an authoritative manner with his wife and children, while the wife acts as if nothing is wrong. This scenario illustrates

A family argues constantly to avoid intimacy. This illustrates

A family therapist employing a solution-focused approach asks the miracle question. The therapist wants to know what would happen if a miracle occurred and

Rigid boundaries that permit limited emotional contact between members characterize families that are

To deal with their daughter's refusal to eat, previously controlling parents attempt to interact supportively and empower their daughter to make her own decisions. This scenario represents a change that is

To deal with their own sense of loneliness in a marriage, a couple becomes overly involved in the problems of their son. This model of interaction is

A mother tells her child "I know you're not hungry," despite the child's sense that he or she is hungry. This is an example of

A therapist employing paradoxical interventions most likely adheres to which of the following family therapy viewpoints?

Adlerian psychotherapy shares similarities with family therapy in the focus on the family constellation. What differentiates Adlerian psychotherapy from family therapy?

A family is encouraged to tell the "family story" with hope that a new family story can be developed to facilitate change. Which of the following therapy approaches is being used?

____________________ refers to an attempt by researchers to assess the strengths and limitations of the current research data on psychotherapy.

The manner in which a family arranges, organizes, and maintains itself is known as its

Wynne coined the term ________________ to describe a false sense of family closeness in which the family gives the appearance of taking part in a mutual, open, and understanding relationship.

Rather than providing an objective view regarding a conflict, a family therapist asks questions of each family member to obtain their perspective. This approach would be described as