What does "acceptance" mean in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy? - ✔✔Acceptance means
allowing one's inner thoughts and feelings to occur without trying to change them or ignore them.
Which of Carl Rogers' therapeutic techniques is similar to reflective listening? - ✔✔Accurate empathic
understanding
You are a gestalt clinician and you client, Christine, is a divorced 47-year-old woman who tells you she is
going through a "mid-life" crisis. Christine keeps talking about how happy she was in her prior
relationship and can't "let go" of the feelings that she had for the man who she states was the "love of
her life". Whenever you bring up how she is feeling in the here and now, she goes back to referencing
the past. As a gestalt clinician, you believe that talking about the past is: - ✔✔a strategy for
understanding the present.
You are a narrative clinician who wants to help a family reauthor their lives. The mother is telling a story
about a problem they've been experiencing. What should the clinician say? - ✔✔"What is your
involvement with the story?"
How would a therapist with an experiential-communications orientation help family members to
identify their feelings and respect their differences? - ✔✔Teach "I" messages
In solution-focused therapy, the appropriate sequence of treatment would be: - ✔✔help the client
externalize the problem, reframe, describe the problem in more positive language.
Diane and Richard have been married for five years and are constantly arguing over household chores. If
you are a strategic clinician treating this couple, you would do which of the following? - ✔✔Get a
detailed, multi-generational history of the couple.
Which of the following communications between Howard and Renee consider a "double-bind?" -
✔✔Renee says to Howard: "I want to be close to you," while sitting in the chair farthest from him during
the session.
,You are seeing a family that continually focuses on the youngest son who has alcohol and substance
abuse issues, as the identified patient. You attempt to disrupt the fusion. Bowen recommended that, in
situations in which the parents continually focus attention on the child who is the identified patient,
what should you do? - ✔✔Direct the parents' attention to the unresolved conflict with their families of
origin.
Mario and Selena come into therapy to discuss issues revolving around their 7-year-old son, Enrique,
who is an only child. Mario states, "Selena babies Enrique, and I am trying to have him grow up and be a
man." Mario often takes Enrique to work with him on weekends, but Selena and Mario argue about this
because she wants her son to stay home and spend time with her. What would a structural clinician say?
- ✔✔"It seems to me that every time you let Enrique come between you, you are getting a temporary
divorce. Is that really the best for him?"
Jake, his wife, Anne, and their 15-year-old daughter, Amanda, are referred to you for family therapy. The
parents report that Amanda has been acting out in the last year or so and refuses to do chores and is
talking back to them. All efforts at discipline have failed and Amanda doesn't even change her behavior
when her cell phone and computer privileges are taken away. This had always worked in the past.
Amanda says she just wants her parents to stay out of her life and let her have more freedom to hang
out with her friends. You observe that the parents are very involved with the details of Amanda's life
and seem reluctant to change the way they've been managing their daughter. What approach to family
therapy would be most useful in this case? - ✔✔Structural
As defined by Murray Bowen, an emotional triangle is LEAST likely to develop in families when family
members: - ✔✔are highly differentiated.
A primary goal of Minuchin's structural family therapy is to: - ✔✔balance separation and togetherness
and increase adaptability.
How might a psychodynamic clinician view Renee and Howard's relationship? - ✔✔Each of them
experienced early loss of a parent, and unsuccessfully sought out each other to fill an emotional void.
The psychodynamic clinician believes that Renee experiences Howard as abandoning and unavailable,
and as a result he pulls away from her. What would she call this process? - ✔✔Projective identification
Which of the following questions would be considered a Socratic question? - ✔✔Who benefits from
Janet having problems?
, What would a humanistic clinician view as the most essential ingredient of a successful therapy with this
family? - ✔✔That the clinician find a way to value each individual fully and unconditionally.
Janet is unwilling to engage in therapy, so the clinician sees her alone for a session. What kinds of
strategies might the clinician use to motivate Janet to participate? - ✔✔Use open questions, affirm her
perceptions, use reflective listening.
The clinician feels that Howard's feelings about his father dying when he was just a teenager may be
influencing his difficulty connecting to his own children. How might a Gestalt oriented clinician best
work with Howard on this issue? - ✔✔Use the Empty Chair technique.
Isabella is a behavioral clinician. How would she view the cause of most psychological disorders? - ✔✔As
a result of learning.
You are a clinician working from a cognitive-behavioral approach. You have been treating a middle-age,
successful corporate executive who is extremely depressed. His wife has left him for a younger man and
he feels if he had given her more time and attention, she would not have left. In the middle stage of
therapy, you would: - ✔✔challenge his irrational beliefs.
You are doing solution-focused therapy with a family who is having difficulty getting the children to
school on time, and the principal often calls looking for the children. The mother appears confused and
bewildered and the father is slumped in his chair and looks away when the clinician talks to him. After
the initial assessment, what would be your FIRST intervention? - ✔✔Ask how things would be if this
problem was already solved.
A young couple has been referred to you by a physician for treatment of a sexual dysfunction. They have
no medical problems. What is your primary responsibility in this case? - ✔✔To be a catalyst for
communication
What belief system replaced family systems theory with the assumption that reality "is inevitably
subjective and that we do indeed dwell in a multiverse that is constructed through the act of
observation"? - ✔✔Postmodernism
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