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Insight-Oriented Approaches
Couples/Families
Grab-Bag
Couples/Family Part 2
Grab-Bag 2
100
What are the three components of the growth promoting climate in PCT?
Congruence, Unconditional positive regard, and Empathy
100
What is the number one reason couples are distressed?
Communication Difficulties
100
Who might be excluded/not benefit from group therapy?
Someone who is deeply depressed or suicidal. Someone who can't make it to regular meetings. Someone with Antisocial Personality Disorder (unless the group is designed for them).
100
What is a genogram?
One technique counselors in Family therapy use. A pictorial display of a person's family relationship.
100
What are the three components or domains of happiness that Seligman (leader of Positive Psychology) proposes?
-Positive emotion (Pleasant Life) -Engagement (The Engaged Life) -Meaning (Meaningful Life)
200
Which therapy discusses the concept of "unfinished business?"
Gestalt therapy
200
Which of the following is a main goal of family therapy? A. To help clients interact with nature and people without losing one’s sense of individuality. B. To Promote spontaneity, creativity and play. C. To help clients take more ownership of their experience. D. To help the client create specific goals for themselves to achieve.
B. To Promote spontaneity, creativity and play.
200
What are exceptions to confidentiality?
The client poses a danger to others or self A client is a child and a victim of abuse, rape, incest, etc. The client needs to be hospitalized. The information is made an issue in a court action (not a subpoena). Illicit substance use while pregnant. Knowledge of abuse or exploitation by another health professional
200
In couples counseling, what is considered the best predictor of a break-up?
Contempt
200
What are the main goals for behavior therapy?
To either replace or unlearn maladaptive behaviors
300
SFBT and Narrative Therapies are what type of therapies?
Postmodern Therapies
300
3. Which of the following is NOT a component of love: A. Friendship. B. Passion. C. Intimacy. D. Commitment.
A. Friendship
300
The major goal of narrative therapy is to: A) Shift from problem-talk to solution-talk B) Assist clients in designing creative solutions to their problems C) Invite clients to describe their experience in new and fresh language, and in doing this opening up new vistas of what is possible D) Uncover a client’s self-defeating cognition
C) Invite clients to describe their experience in new and fresh language, and in doing this opening up new vistas of what is possible
300
True/False: There are many different types of couples and families therapies
True
300
In which stage of Motivational Interviewing would a client exhibit defensiveness and denial?
Precontemplation
400
What does "Gestalt" mean?
"A whole or completion"
400
In Family Therapy, which of the following is not true of the Systematic Perspective? a. The System (whole family) transcends the sum of its separate parts (family members). b. All elements within the system can be understood in isolation since it occasionally functions independently. c. Holds that individuals are best understood through assessing the interactions between and among family members. d. The family is a unique social system with its own structure and patterns of communication.
b. All elements within the system can be understood in isolation since it occasionally functions independently.
400
Cognitive-behavioral therapy is based on the assumption that: A) Our feelings determine our thoughts B) Our feelings determine our actions C) Cognitions are the major determinants of how we feel and act D) The best way to change thinking is to re-experience past emotional traumas in the here-and-now
C) Cognitions are the major determinants of how we feel and act
400
According to a family therapy perspective what are the three ways problems develop?
Dysfunctional patterns passed on to the next generation, over or under-dependence on family members, and overly flexible or rigid family structures.
400
What are two therapies that tend to be cost-effective?
Group, couples, family, behavioral
500
What is a technique-oriented approach? What is not a technique-oriented approach?
Example: Gestalt Example: Existential
500
2. Which of the following are problematic communication strategies when referencing couples? a. Criticism, Defensiveness, Appreciation, Contempt b. Defensiveness, Blaming, Stonewalling, Self-soothing c. Criticism, Contempt, Stonewalling, 5 to 1 ratio d. Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, Stonewalling
d. Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt, Stonewalling
500
Explain the difference between intakes and assessments An intake is only an initial screening that happens right when a client first enters an organization or facility that helps identify the clients needs.
An intake is one specific type of an assessment, but an assessment is more broadly a systematic way of attaining information from clients about their needs, problems, concerns and/or strengths. It could include interviewing the client or having them fill out psychological questionnaires/tests.
500
What's the difference between emotion-focused couples therapy vs. behavioral couples therapy?
1) Emotion-focused therapy: attempting to build secure, emotional attachments among partners 2) Behavioral couples therapies: attempting to change problematic behaviors that the couples engage in
500
What are the 5 unifying themes of counseling Psychologists?
Focus on intact personalities, Attention focused toward strengths, Brief interventions, P-E interactions, and Educational and Career development