Experiential Family Therapy
This nonverbal technique has family members physically arrange themselves to represent relationships and emotions.
What is family sculpting?
Object relations theory says our expectations of others are primarily shaped by these experiences.
adolescent experience
middle-age experience
early experience
What is early experience?
________is a cognitive distortion where certain details are highlighted while other important information is ignored.
overgeneralization
personalization
selective abstraction
What is selective abstraction?
_______ suggested that our view of reality is filtered through our own subjective perspectives., is known as:
pluralism
constructivism
feminism
What is constructivism?
Coping questions are designed to:
help clients figure out how to cope better with their problems
help clients figure out how to work together better to cope with their problems
help clients realize that they are more resourceful than they realize
What is help clients realize that they are more resourceful than they realize?
Among experientialists, families are typically conceived of and treated as ___________.
What are groups or individuals?
This process occurs when someone projects parts of themselves onto another person and elicits behaviors that match those projections.
reciprocal introjection
projective identification
separation-individuation
What is projective identification?
Behaviorists view symptoms as _______ that reinforce problem behavior.
learned responses
positive expectancies
schemas
What are learned responses?
Therapists should recognize family strengths, strengthen support systems, and examine their own racial attitudes. This statement is...
In narrative therapy, families are asked about __________, times when they have had some control over the problem that have been obscured by their problem-saturated story.
unique outcomes
examples of self-leadership
exceptions
What are unique outcomes?
Experiential family therapy promotes honest_________ .
interlocking triangles
emotional expression
cross-generational coalitions
What is emotional expression?
According to psychoanalytic theory, marital choice is affected in part by the _____________ phenomenon, in which the insecurely attached child grows up learning to hide their real needs and feelings to win approval.
false self
invisible loyalty
introjective
What is false self?
If a parent responds to a child’s temper tantrum by giving in or by giving the child extra attention, this could lead to a spiral of undesirable behavior that is maintained by:
arbitrary inference
reinforcement (reciprocity)
selective abstraction
What is reinforcement (reciprocity)?
Therapy in which the therapist is not only sensitive to gender inequality but makes it a centerpiece of treatment and takes a position of advocacy is known as:
Collaborative Model
Feminist Family Therapy
Multiculturalism
What is Feminist Family Therapy?
Narrative therapists _____________ problems in order to free the family and individual family members from blame.
re-story
externalize
problems
What is externalize?
The goals of experiential family therapy would not include:
increased emotional expression
greater freedom to be themselves
restructuring of the family system
What is restructuring of the family system?
Psychoanalytic family therapists emphasize that much of what is hidden in family dialogues is not consciously withheld but rather repressed into unconsciousness, thus the approach to this material is often guarded by______.
introjection
resistance
libidinal impulses
What is resistance?
This psychologist is NOT typically considered a founder of cognitive-behavioral therapy.
Adler
Beck
Ellis
Who is Adler?
Psychoeducational and medical family therapy represent a significant trend: a move toward a _______with families.
authoritarian role
feminist critique
collaborative partnership
What is collaborative partnership?
Scaling questions are used to:
clarify vague goals
encourage commitment to change
all of the above
What is all of the above?
Johnson and Greenberg have found that emotionally-focused couples therapy is more successful when the therapist first _____________________ and that intimate self-disclosure leads to more productive sessions.
softens the attacking spouse’s stance
engages the withdrawn spouse
facilitates an enactment
What is softens the attacking spouse’s stance?
Psychoanalytic family therapy consists of four basic techniques: listening, empathy, interpretation, and _________________.
analytic neutrality
facilitating emotional expression
paradoxical directives
What is analytic neutrality?
. ___________________ deconditions anxiety by pairing responses incompatible with anxiety to previously anxiety-arousing stimuli..
reinforcement
systematic desensitization
aversion
What is systematic desensitization?
As opposed to the earlier days of family therapy, when followers of a particular model read little outside what came from that school, the trend toward __________ by content rather than by model has made the field more pluralistic in this postmodern age.
medical models of treatment
specialization
constructivism
What is specialization?
This question, used by solution focused therapists, is intended to circumvent clients' global and unremitting perceptions of the problems and directs their attention to times in the past or present when they didn't have the problem.
scaling question
problem question
exception question
What is exception question?