Couple's Counseling
Two ways that couples assessments differ from individual assessments.
1. Focuses on relationships
2. Focuses on interpersonal interactions
3. Can provide direct observations of interpersonal interactions
4. May require assessment of antagonistic partners while maintaining strong alliance.
An immediate risk factor to evaluate in an IPV assessment.
Physical threats, use of weapons, client suicide ideation, fear for safety.
True or False: child abuse assessment is an ongoing process.
True!
Genograms map out this many generations.
3
A popular assessment for evaluating sexual functioning and satisfaction in a couple.
Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory
A potential mental health consequence of intimate partner violence.
Substance use, eating disorders, sexual impulsivity, unplanned pregnancy, depression and suicidality, interpersonal problems, academic and occupational problems, dissociative symptoms.
A mediating factor for child abuse.
Age of onset, duration and intensity, and frequency, guilt and feelings of powerlessness, duration that abuse remained a secret, if/who they told about it, ongoing support, pre-abuse relationships with significant others and parents, resiliency.
Genograms are associated with ______ family system theory.
Bowen's
This premarital counseling assessment takes a strengths-based approach.
Couples Precounseling Inventory
A key limitation of IPV assessments when evaluating types of abuse.
Most of the common assessments (84%) do not assess for covert forms of abuse.
Assessing for mediating factors helps counselors assess child abuse as a(n) __________ rather than a diagnosis.
Experience.
Draw the symbol for male and female.
Square and circle.
The 3 components of Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale.
Intimacy, commitment, and passion.
With IPV survivors, counselors must be sure to evaluate for ________ and _________.
Resources and support systems.
This approach, which examines the client's environment, is especially important with child abuse assessments.
Ecological
Draw the symbol for a female with known drug use.
A circle with a filled bottom half.