Exam 5: Structural Family Therapies

Alexis, a structural family therapist, had been working with a volatile couple in family therapy for a few months. During one session, she verbally questioned the assumption of the couple that it "is better for the children if we stayed married" to determine whether that belief was having the effect the couple thought it should. What intervention was Alexis using?

Claudia, a structural family therapist, is working with a family in therapy. At one point in the session, she hears mom tell her son, "Don't tell your dad and step-dad about this." The therapist is observing:

Which of the following best defines a cross-generational coalition?

Which of the following is NOT one of the four fundamental concepts of intensive structural therapy (IST)?

Boundaries are rules for managing physical and psychological distance between family members, and defining the regulation of closeness, distance, hierarchy, and family roles. Which of the following is the best definition for a boundary?

It is not uncommon for an insufficient parental hierarchy to lead to which of the following outcomes?

Structural therapists strive to cultivate therapeutic spontaneity. What is this referring to?

The over/underfunctioner, the good/bad child, the understanding/strict parent, the logical/emotional partner, and so forth are examples of what type of patterns?

Brief strategic family therapy is 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 principles of intervention in brief strategic family therapy EXCEPT:

Giving compliments and shaping competence are used by a structural therapist in order to do which of the following?

Which of the following is the best definition for disengaged or rigid boundaries?

Occasionally, when a structural therapist is having extreme difficulty realigning a hierarchy in a family, or when a particular family member is being scapegoated, the therapist might use which of the following interventions?

Reframing from a structural viewpoint is seen as:

Enactments allow the structural therapist to do each of the following EXCEPT:

Structural family therapists examine the relationship between the symptom and the family system. What does family as ineffectual challenger of the symptom refer to?

Minuchin conceptualized a family as a single system that also had multiple subsystems . Some subsystems can be found in almost every family. Which of the following would NOT be considered a subsystem?

The IST scorecard is designed to enable clinicians to:

What is the typical order of problem solving steps in FFT's mutual problem solving strategy?

According to the author of the text, structural family therapists map:

All of the following are examples of structural goals EXCEPT: