Exam 7: Intergenerational and Psychoanalytic Family Therapies

What is a genogram?

The Women's Project was developed to promote a greater awareness of women's issues in the field of family therapy. Which of the following is one suggestion for how family therapists can reduce sexism in their work with couples and families?

Minority groups who prefer action and concrete suggestions from therapists may have difficulty with Bowen intergenerational and psychoanalytic therapies. Which one of the following reasons FALSELY reflects the risks?

According to Boszormenyi-Nagy, families use which system to maintain trustworthiness, fairness, and loyalty between family members (its breakdown results in individual and/or relational symptoms)?

When working with a family, an intergenerational therapist can only accurately "see" what is going on in the family or clearly conceptualize family dynamics if they are:

From the perspective of an intergenerational therapist, which of the following is NOT true of a triangle?

Which of the following would NOT be considered a goal in psychoanalytic therapy?

Differentiation is measured along a continuum that ranges from 1 to 100, with lower levels of differentiation represented by lower numbers. Bowen believed that the average person or people rarely reached higher than what on this scale?

Whether working with an individual, couple, or family, most therapists at some point will be "invited" by clients to triangulate with them against a third party who may or may not be present in the room. To be effective, the therapist must maintain therapeutic neutrality in order to interrupt a client's attempt to involve the therapist or someone else in a triangle. This ability to be neutral is also known as:

According to Framo, what are parental interjects?

Which of the following statements is TRUE about the nature of the therapeutic relationship in contextual family therapy?

The father of a family in therapy complains that his wife is so involved with their children-always running them back and forth to school, sports practices, dance recitals, and attending PTA meetings-that he never sees her. When he does see his wife, they fight. According to a Bowen intergenerational therapist, this might be considered a classic example of:

When an intergenerational therapist maintains an emotionally engaged stance that is nonreactive-meaning that the therapist does not react to attacks, "bad" news, and so forth without careful reflection-this is known as:

In the hands of an intergenerational therapist, the genogram is used simultaneously as:

When therapists encourage clients to interact with family members while maintaining a clearer boundary between self and other, this is an example of what therapeutic technique?

When a family lacks sufficient differentiation, it may become emotionally fused. An undifferentiated family may become a(n):

Differentiation is one of the most useful concepts for understanding interpersonal relationships. Which of the following statements is true?

Like any theory with a definition of health, intergenerational therapy has clearly-defined, long-term therapeutic goals that can be used with all clients. Which one of the following fits for this theory?

A Bowenian therapist asks a client, "How do the struggles you are experiencing with your wife now compare to the struggles your own parents had? Are they similar or different?" The therapist is asking which type of questions?

Which of the following statements is true regarding immigration and intergenerational conflict?