1- The textbook advocates for child and adolescent therapeutic interventions that include _____.
a. family members
b. school counselors
c. teachers
d. nutritionists
2- Which therapeutic model recognizes the vicious cycle between relationship dysfunction and
substance use problems and uses interventions such as recovery contracts?
a. functional family therapy
b. brief strategic family therapy
c. behavioral couples therapy
d. multisystemic therapy
3- Psychoeducational therapy with families in which one or more members have a mental illness
focuses on teaching family members problem solving and _____.
a. communication skills
b. reinforcement strategies
c. reframing
d. crisis management
4- When working with individuals with schizophrenia and their families, psychoeducators focus on the
impact of _____.
a. the symptomatic member on family life
b. the family's impact on the life of the patient
c. social and cultural pressures on the patient
d. insight therapy on family functioning
5- What is considered a validated indicator for relapses of schizophrenia?
a. personal countertransference
b. historical enculturation
c. unrealistic expectations
d. expressed emotion
6- Most current research indicates that psychoeducation _____.
a. is the treatment of choice for schizophrenia
b. worsens the symptoms of schizophrenia
c. helps alleviate most symptoms of schizophrenia
d. helps limit relapse rates of schizophrenia
7- Psychoeducational family therapy is concerned with _____.
a. maximizing the financial resources available to families in supporting their symptomatic
family member
b. maximizing effectiveness in coping with mentally or physically disabled family members
c. educating family members about the limiting narratives they tell themselves
d. educating family members about the inner experience of the symptomatic family member
8- The term medical family therapy refers to _____.
a. brief psychotherapy for medical personnel working with challenging patients
b. collaborative treatment of individuals and families dealing with medical problems
c. training of medical personnel by psychotherapists to improve bedside manner
d. psychotherapy for families with a chronically ill member
9- Rolland's psychosocial typology of illness includes four categories for considering how an illness
impacts individuals and families across the life cycle. What are these four categories?
a. denial, anger, bargaining, and grief
b. onset, course, outcome, and incapacitation
c. acute, chronic, long-term planning, and outcome
d. course, incapacitation, outcome, and termination
10- The most common medical family therapy cases relate to ____.
a. acute illness
b. chronic illness
c. sudden accidents
d. post-death grieving
11- Which statement reflects a characteristic of gay and lesbian families?
a. Same-sex couples typically experience more family support than do heterosexual couples.
b. Research has identified significant differences between lesbian and heterosexual mothers for
most parenting variables.
c. Research suggests that same-sex and heterosexual relationships are similar on a number
of relationship quality factors.
d. Most sexual minority couples seek therapy at some point because of issues with sexual
identity
12- Which Relationship Enhancement (RE) core skill helps clients learn to listen and gain an
understanding of the other person's feelings and motives?
a. facilitation
b. empathic responding
c. conflict management
d. discussion-negotiation
13- Which of the following is a relationship education program discussed in the textbook?
a. UPGRADE
b. PREPARE
c. BUILD
d. SUBSCRIBE
14- What is a risk factor, as noted in the textbook, for intimate partner violence (IPV)?
a. proximity to high community violence
b. older-age couples
c. higher socioeconomic status
d. number of children in the family
15- How long does it usually take children of divorce to initially adjust to the changes associated with
divorce?
a. three to four years
b. one to two years
c. four to five years
d. two to three years
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tyler and his wife-colleague Geneva are couples’ therapists who have experimented with a variety of
approaches over the years. Currently, they lead Relationship Enhancement (RE) programs with groups
of couples. They like the empathy-building RE program because it is highly developed and highly
researched, and their clients seem responsive to it as well.
---1- What is one of the characteristics of RE?
a. It is an intensive, long-term form of treatment.
b. It combines theoretical perspectives, such as psychodynamic, behavioral, and
experiential.
c. It is didactic in nature, encouraging couples to practice skills on their own time.
d. It requires the practitioners to take on the role of expert
2- Relationship education programs are a form of _____.
a. psychotherapy
b. medical treatment
c. public service
d. psychoeducation
3- When following a psychoeducational model, practitioners _____.
a. emphasize etiology
b. encourage clients to seek out the knowledge and resources they need
c. diagnosis, treat, and cure conditions
d. focus more on providing treatment rather than facilitating prevention.