Exam 12: Systemic Therapies

When communicating with his family,Claude usually omits how he feels about them.In their therapy sessions his wife is unable to reveal how she feels about his behavior.According to communication systems theory,Claude and his wife,respectively,would be examples of:

The following four questions refer to the following paragraph. Tracy,her husband Tim,and their 14-year-old daughter Lucinda,the identified patient,are being treated by a Bowenian family systems therapist.Tracy and Lucinda have a symbiotic relationship.Tracy and Tim are less differentiated than either of their parents who,in turn,were less differentiated than either of their parents. -If two or more of these patients were present for a given session,the therapist's consciousness raising efforts would LEAST likely involve:

Randomized controlled trials of MST have shown:

MST interventions target an adolescent's:

Which of the following would NOT be considered a problem with research on the effectiveness of structural therapy?

The clinical populations that are typically mandated to MST include each of the following EXCEPT:

A meta-analysis of eight controlled trials of family- and couple-based treatments for depression (Barbato & D'Avanzo,2008)showed that,compared to individual therapy,couples therapy:

In family therapy,whenever a father makes a comment,the mother and teenage son criticize what he says and tell him that he should talk less because he doesn't know what he's talking about.A structural family therapist would most likely regard this process as an example of:

The following four questions refer to the following paragraph. Tracy,her husband Tim,and their 14-year-old daughter Lucinda,the identified patient,are being treated by a Bowenian family systems therapist.Tracy and Lucinda have a symbiotic relationship.Tracy and Tim are less differentiated than either of their parents who,in turn,were less differentiated than either of their parents. -If Bowen were working with this family,his first effort would be to increase:

Problem-solving therapy would include all of the following EXCEPT:

Which of the following systems therapies has not been evaluated in controlled studies?

The criticism that systems therapies are out of bounds when they try to construe every problem as a systems problem would be leveled by:

Which of the following therapies would most likely say that the therapist accommodates to the system,then challenges,confronts,and blocks and disrupts the homeostatic system?

Communication systems therapy was originally developed with ___________ families.

In the therapeutic relationship,a Bowenian family systems therapist is LEAST likely to:

By constructing a family genogram,you learn that the client's family is intensely close,much more so than might be expected for the family's cultural background.This family would be called:

Which of the following statements would be LEAST consistent with a Bowenian family therapist's role in the therapeutic relationship?

Of the therapies listed,which would most likely view the therapist's role in catharsis as helping the patient become aware of whether their dysfunctional pattern is a blamer,placater,or irrelevant communicator?

Which of the following statements about research on systems theory would be FALSE?

A recent meta-analysis of 24 studies involving the newer,evidence-based family therapies in the treatment of adolescent substance abuse and delinquency (Baldwin et al.,2012)documented that they: