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

Question 1

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

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

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Postmodern views can be linked to:

A)Bowen.
B)Minuchin.
C)Boscolo and Cecchin.
D)Ackerman and Framo.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Possibility therapy is the invention of:

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

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Therapists influenced by postmodern thinking help clients:

A)find new meanings in their life situations.
B)gain insight into their early relationships.
C)engage in self-differentiation.
D)develop clearer boundaries.

Question 5

Solution-focused brief therapy argues that:

A)determining why and how a particular problem arose is the first order of business in working with families.
B)insight provides the basic tool for change.
C)client families have run out of ways of dealing with their problems.
D)functional family therapy is the most practical approach

Question 6

According to the text,the postmodern outlook permits the

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 7

The family therapist most closely identified with solution-focused brief therapy is:

A)Segal.
B)Erickson.
C)de Shazer.
D)White.

Question 8

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

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 9

Social constructionist therapies:

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 10

The "miracle question" allows clients to:

A)speculate on their future once the problem is gone.
B)put their faith in the therapeutic process.
C)seek a religious experience
D)theoretically integrate spirituality within solution-focused therapy

Question 11

The Milwaukee Brief Therapy Center makes use of:

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

Question 12

The notion of client resistance to change:​

A)is challenged by solution-focused therapists.
B)is endorsed by solution-focused therapists.
C)has been abandoned by all family therapists.
D)is championed by de Shazer.

Question 13

According to postmodern thinking,"romantic love" is a:

A)social invention.
B)necessity for couple contentment.
C)part of all relationships.
D)All of the answers are correct

Question 14

Solution-oriented therapists:

A)offer insights through their interpretations.
B)provide families with solutions to their problems.
C)create a collaborative dialogue with families.
D)rely on reflecting teams to offer solutions.

Question 15

Postmodern therapists are apt to be:

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

Question 16

Constructivism emphasizes the:

A)objective construction of reality.
B)subjective construction of reality
C)family's view of reality.
D)therapist's view of reality.

Question 17

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

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

Question 18

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

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

Question 19

Exception-finding questions:

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 20

Postmodern therapists attend particularly to a family's:

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

Question 21

Anderson and Goolishian view therapy as a(n):​

A)linguistic event.
B)self-differentiating event.
C)insight-attaining event.
D)None of the answers are correct.

Question 22

The Houston-Galveston Institute is known for its:

A)reflecting team emphasis.
B)language systems approach.
C)solution-focused therapy.
D)narrative therapy.

Question 23

_____________________ Ask the family how things would be different if change occurred and the problem were solved.This question encourages the family to think about change and exactly what would happen if changes occurred.

Question 24

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.

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

Question 25

Within the therapist-client relationship,clients are categorized as all of the following except:

A)visitors.
B)complainants
C)customers.
D)non-participants.

Question 26

_____________________ The postmodern theory that there is no objective "truth," only versions of "reality" constructed from social interaction,including conversation,with others.

Question 27

In the Goolishian-Anderson approach,therapist and client are:

A)conversational partners.
B)adversarial in describing reality.
C)both resistant to change.
D)All of the answers are correct.

Question 28

Hermeneutics represents an approach to knowledge that emphasizes:

A)home study.
B)individual interpretation of events influenced by the observer's beliefs.
C)groupthink.
D)All of the answers are correct.

Question 29

Reflecting teams make use of:

A)one-way mirrors.
B)two-way mirrors.
C)supervisors entering the consultation room.
D)supervisors telephoning suggestions to the therapist.

Question 30

Reflecting teams demonstrate a:

A)postmodern approach.
B)constructivist outlook
C)view of multiple realities.
D)All of the answers are correct.

Question 31

A major goal of the linguistic approach is:

A)solving the family's problem.
B)dis-solving the family's problem.
C)maintaining the complaint.
D)seeking answers to the miracle question.

Question 32

Problems are stories that people have agreed to tell themselves." This statement is consistent with the viewpoint of all of the following except one.Which one does not fit?

A)Whitaker
B)Goolishian
C)Hoffman
D)Hare-Mustin

Question 33

This is when therapist and clients discuss solutions they want to construct together.

A)subjectivity
B)Solution talk
C)Normality
D)Social therapy

Question 34

_____________________ A process involving two-way mirrors in which team members observe a family and then discuss their thoughts and observations in front of the family and therapist.Later,the therapist and family discuss the team's conversations about them

Question 35

Hudson and O'Hanlon help couples recognize that:

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 36

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

Question 37

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

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 38

_____________________ 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.

Question 39

Narrative therapists use reflecting teams to:

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 40

According to collaborative therapists,problems are created through:

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

Question 41

Give an example of a scaling question. Explain the theoretical purpose of these questions.

Question 42

What does it mean to be "not knowing?" Why do therapists need to go to school and receive years upon years of education if ultimately they declare to their clients that they are not experts?

Question 43

Describe the reflecting team and discuss the impact it can have on clients.

Question 44

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

Question 45

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