Question 1

Modernists tended to assume that a condition called "_______" did exist and could be defined and used as a kind of measure against which experience could be understood.

Accepted Answer

A) subjectivity 
B) solution talk 
C) normality 
D) social therapy

Question 2

Solution-oriented therapy is based on all but one of the following sources.Which one does not fit?

Accepted Answer

A) The ideas of Salvador Minuchin 
B) The ideas of Milton Erickson 
C) The ideas of Steve de Shazer 
D) The ideas of the Mental Research Institute

Question 3

Postmodern therapists are apt to be:

Accepted Answer

A) collaborators. 
B) manipulative. 
C) detached observers 
D) interpretive of family behavior.

Question 4

Postmodern therapists attend particularly to a family's:

Accepted Answer

A) dysfunctional structure. 
B) flawed interactive patterns. 
C) "dirty games." 
D) assumptions regarding their problems.

Question 5

The umpire who insists he "calls 'em as he sees 'em" is taking a:

Accepted Answer

A) modernist view. 
B) constructivist view 
C) essentialist view. 
D) social constructionist view.

Question 6

What is the miracle question? What are the benefits of this technique and what are the possible detractors of it?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What is the miracle question? What are...

Question 7

Which of the following does not characterize the work of Anderson and Goolishian?

Accepted Answer

A) Human systems are meaning-generating systems 
B) Human systems are language-generating systems 
C) In therapeutic conversation 
D) All of the answers are correct.

Question 8

_____________________ These formal interventions or stock prescriptions can be used with many different types of problems.

Accepted Answer

The answer of _____________________ These formal interventions or stock prescriptions...

Question 9

Discuss the differences between modernism and social constructionism in family therapy.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Discuss the differences between modernism and social...

Question 10

In solution-focused brief therapy,"skeleton keys" refer to:

Accepted Answer

A) reconstructing old repressed memories. 
B) paring down problems to their basic elements. 
C) interventions that work for a variety of "locks." 
D) All of the answers are correct.

Question 11

Hudson and O'Hanlon help couples recognize that:

Accepted Answer

A) "the map represents the territory." 
B) they can rewrite the story of their relationship 
C) one partner has a clearer view of reality than the other.​ 
D) solution-oriented therapy can explain their problems

Question 12

According to the text,the postmodern outlook permits the

Accepted Answer

A) therapist to be in charge. 
B) therapist to not be an expert. 
C) family to be programmed for success.​ 
D) None of the answers are correct.

Question 13

Possibility therapy is the invention of:

Accepted Answer

A) Rogers. 
B) O'Hanlon. 
C) de Shazer 
D) White.

Question 14

Social constructionist therapies:

Accepted Answer

A) reject the traditional therapist-client hierarchy. 
B) embrace the traditional therapist-client hierarchy 
C) insist that clients face reality 
D) impose their notions of reality on the divided family.

Question 15

Narrative therapists use reflecting teams to:

Accepted Answer

A) eavesdrop on family conversations. 
B) support the family's development of new narratives about themselves. 
C) solve family problems. 
D) ​develop scaling questions.

Question 16

Exception-finding questions:

Accepted Answer

A) are efforts to manipulate clients. 
B) are rarely used by solution-focused therapists. 
C) build on past successes in dealing with a problem. 
D) are part of reflecting team strategies.

Question 17

Clients who describe their unhappiness but wait for their partner to change first are called what by solution-focused therapists?

Accepted Answer

A) Visitors 
B) Customers 
C) Non-participants 
D) Complainants

Question 18

According to collaborative therapists,problems are created through:

Accepted Answer

A) interpersonal conflict. 
B) behavioral sequences. 
C) language. 
D) None of the answers are correct.

Question 19

The Milwaukee Brief Therapy Center makes use of:

Accepted Answer

A) one-way mirrors and intercom systems. 
B) co-therapy. 
C) multiple impact therapy. 
D) low impact therapy.

Question 20

_____________________ A philosophical outlook rejecting the notion that there exists an objectively knowable universe discoverable by impartial science,and instead arguing that there are multiple views of reality ungoverned by universal laws.

Accepted Answer

The answer of _____________________ A philosophical outlook rejecting the notion...

Exam 13: Social Construction Models I: Solution-Focused and Collaborative Therapies