Exam 8: Working With Families

For people with substance-abuse problems, an approach to confrontation that has remained popular for several decades is the intervention. What is the purpose of intervention?

With the drinker present, the CRAFT therapist works with the family member to change the drinker's social environment in a way that removes inadvertent reinforcement for drinking and instead reinforces abstinence.

Bowenian therapy is based on the concepts of differentiation, triangulation, and multigenerational transmission processes.

Identify which of the following statements is true of the communication model as an approach to family therapy:

Across the stages of family change as members go through counseling, not all members reach points of readiness at the same time.

Andrea, a member of a dysfunctional family dealing with her substance abuse, tends to avoid the extremes of emotions by thinking that everything happens for a reason and that we must stop resisting life changes. Which one of the dysfunctional communication styles that Virginia Satir has identified does she exhibit?

A family systems therapist tends to view the substance-abusing individual simply as the identified symptom-bearer in the family, rather than as the primary focus of attention.

Caleb and Kathy are two preadolescent children who live with their father, a construction worker, and mother who had to give up her job because of her alcoholism. The family has decided to hide her alcoholism from people outside their home. Which of the following is likely to characterize their situation?

In family counseling, what is generally said to be true as the family is taken through the stages of recovery?

Which of the following is the approach of a counselor applying the systems paradigm to family interactions?

The psychodynamic viewpoint as it is applied to family practice has been strongly affected by analytic therapy as it is applied to individuals and is therefore very different from systems thought.

Have BSFT (brief strategic family therapy) and MFT (multidimensional family therapy) been assessed as an evidence-based program?

Family members of Adam, a cocaine addict going through family therapy, are interrupting rigid patterns of interaction and moving away from accepting responsibility for others' behavior. What stage of therapy are they currently going through?

Explain the Bowenian concept of differentiation of the self and how it may be used as a way of categorizing all people on a single continuum.

Write a short note on CRAFT (community reinforcement and family training) as a viable alternative to either the confrontational intervention or the act of disengagement.

What aspects of recovery does psychodynamic family therapy emphasize?

What characterizes an enmeshed family system?