Foundations of MCFC Final Review

Asking clients after initial meeting to notice what's going well in their life that they would like not to change

Refers to the battle that Whitaker believed families must win; Refers to the battle therapists must win

A system's dynamic equilibrium

A person who sees a problem and believes they can influence it

Too much closeness/togetherness

The founder(s) of Narrative Therapy

A type of parent-child hierarchy where authority is too loosely held and wielded

Too much closeness/togetherness

The concept that a person's birth order is associated with greater likelihood of certain characteristics and experiences

Which approach is most likely to utilize psychoeducation and homework as part of therapy?

_________________ refers to "communication about communication," which therapy seeks to promote

Giving a reward for desired behavior is an example of

The type of boundary associated with disengagement

A technique whereby the therapist prompts family members to interact directly with one another

The primary developer(s) of Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy

Putting our own unresolved issues onto others, which shapes the other person's functioning

Questions aimed at helping clients to identify how they've been able to withstand a particular problem

A timeline that represents significant events in the inner and outer worlds of a family's life

This model believes problems reflect problem talk, which further entrenches problems

A questioning technique aimed at identifying what people are doing in response to the problem and one another

The double-bind has three components. Which of the following is not one of them?

A stage of the family life cycle where a person is seeking to establish healthy separation from their F of O

_________________ refers to the content of a person's communication: What they literally say or do.

The founder(s) of Solution-Focused Therapy

When tension between two people is temporarily stabilized by bringing in a third person or thing

The founder(s) of Object Relations Family Therapy

An assessment strategy to identify what happens before and after a symptom/problem to identify triggers/reinforcements

This model believes problems reflect monologues (lack of true dialogue)

A type of parent-child hierarchy where authority is too strongly held and wielded

The founder(s) of Structural Family Therapy

Narratives shaped by society/culture at large about the meaning we ought to make about certain aspects of life

Which of the following is not an assumption of the multigenerational transmission process?

When two family members assume roles that are opposite to one another, their roles would be viewed as ____________.

When someone is made to feel like they must choose one family member's side over another's

A technique where parents were asked to go on a secret outing, which was intended to sever parent-child coalitions

When a family member is overly tied to outside relationships, which costs their investments in family of creation

The significant theoretical concept that resulted from the Bateson Group's research on schizophrenia

The founder(s) of Bowen Family Systems Therapy

________ objects refer to actual people; __________ objects refer to the representations of self, other, world

Too much separateness/distance

This model believes problems reflect the projection of unresolved internal conflicts

A response that neither too closely matches or too closely differs from a client's current perspective

When a person does not receive what they are due in a relationship but make someone else "pay" for that debt

A person who sees a problem but does not believe they can influence it

Removing a privilege in response to unwanted behavior

A technique where the symptoms/symptom bearer are noted for the benevolent functions they serve for the system

Narrative therapy's version of exceptions

The interpersonal component of differentiation

A defense mechanism where we characterize self or other as "all good" or "all bad"

What the "A," "B," and "C" stand for in A-B-C theory

This model believes problems reflect inhibited emotional expression and incongruent communication

Others may see a problem, but this person does not

The founder(s) of Contextual Family Therapy

Having the client do something before or after a symptom that makes it easier to give up the symptom than to continue it

"Sneaky Poo" is a classic example of the technique of

This model believes problems reflect distorted thinking and the reinforcement of unwanted behaviors

This model believes problems reflect a family's failed attempted solutions

The founder(s) of Milan Family Therapy

The founder(s) of Collaborative Therapy

Which of the following approaches is most likely to focus on the parent-child hierarchy?

A technique where a therapist affirms but then critiques a given perspective or behavior

Temporarily siding with one family member for the purpose of encouraging a healthier boundary/organization

The founder(s) of Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy

A process whereby an entire community's level of differentiation might be negatively affected by sustained crises

The founder(s) of Strategic Family Therapy

A technique where a family member puts other members in physical positions to represent how they function in family unit

This model believes problems reflect dominant discourses and problem-saturated stories

Which of the following approaches is least likely to focus on the past?

The type of boundary associated with enmeshment

The largely "unspoken" norms that maintain a system's homeostasis

Questions aimed at helping clients to imagine what they'd notice and be doing if the problem magically disappeared

Communication stance: Neglects self, attends to others and context

The intrapersonal component of differentiation

Too much separateness/distance

Questions aimed at identifying actual times when the problems are not as severe or nonexistent

Communication stance: Neglects others, attends to self and context

Removing a restriction in response to desired behavior

Refers to our sense of what others owe us; Refers to our sense of what we owe others

What people do in their best attempts to solve the problem that tend to keep things stuck and/or make things worse

_________________ refers to the meaning of a person's communication: What is implied by what they say/do.

Communication stance: Neglects feelings of self and other, attends to context

Putting our own unresolved issues onto others, which shapes the other person's functioning

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This model believes problems reflect low differentiation

This model believes problems reflect ineffective parent-child hierarchies and poor boundaries between subsystems

The founder(s) of MRI Brief Therapy

Adding something undesirable in response to unwanted behavior

The concept Satir used to refer to the relationship between a child and their caregiver(s)

The founder(s) of Satir Growth Model

A defense mechanism involving avoidance of internal conflicts and experiences that generate anxiety

A technique where an alternative perspective is offered